Next Villa manager

[olaftab]

His main success at Everton was keeping them in the top division. Something every Everton manager has achieved as far as I know since Elvis was King!

[pauliewalnuts]

Fuck Moyes. If we want to appoint a manager on the basis they were good six years ago, we may as well just get Lambert back.

Moyes has failed horrifically at every job since Everton (and he wasn't hugely popular there with many of their fans towards the end).

Amen to that.

Any manager who goes to Sunderland at that point in their career has effectively given up.

[Bad English]

The next Aston Villa manager should have a fairly-thick skin and an eye for a bargain. He needs to develop a solid formation as is essential that we don't leap from the frying pan into the fire. That said, he will need to be able to mash it up against teams when the chips are down. In addition, he will display the attitude of a champ and will not coddle our pampered squad. Indeed he will give them a roasting when necessary. Solid communication skills are also required: waffle has no place in the dressing room or at press conferences.

Fucking top set of requirements. Send a copy to Wyness please.

a spud-based job spec.
Quite brilliant and a tad subtle BE!
Have a house point!

CVs to Charlotte and Anya in the office.

[Villa in Denmark]

Whoever does the job needs to have something at stake. Too many being linked with the appointment wouldn't be that arsed if they failed. If they made a go of it they'd look brilliant; if they failed they'd just shrug and walk away and say 'hey, it was an impossible job, what could I have done?'

But only somebody who is utterly desperate to succeed, somebody with their back to the wall, somebody with nowhere else to go, can make a success of Villa from here. That's the top and bottom of it.

Rowett for me. It would be shit or bust.

I agree about shit or bust for whomever being a good thing, but please can we have someone who's actually the first fucking clue about what they're trying to achieve over and above "just win the bloody game"

Houllier was the last one who seemed to have a clear idea of what he wanted that didn't involve 10 men in the penalty area for 85 minutes of a game.

Random ramblings from walking the dog, but I ended up likening it to a lot of music in some way being hung of the basic tennet of 12 bar blues.  Once you've got that down you can go to (proper) R&B, rock'n'roll, metal and any other number of genres, as long as you've got the basic foundation off the bass and drums to hang it off. Too many of our recent incumbents either can't play or haven't "found their style"

After McLeish's dirge everything else has
Lambert poorly executed progression exercises
Sheerluck freeform jazz that goes to shit without it's bandleaders,
Garde the Billy Connolly's overtaken the teacher in the learn to play banjo book (Billy & Albert still has me in stiches 20 odd years later)
Black I'm only the relief teacher so you can you just watch videos
RdM I'm actually a painter have you seen my Jackson Pollock impersonation

[themossman]

Admit I wanted Moyes in the summer. I don't this time because 1. He's pissed us around twice, and 2. He's proved at Sunderland he's a busted flush.

[Dave]

The next Aston Villa manager should have a fairly-thick skin and an eye for a bargain. He needs to develop a solid formation as is essential that we don't leap from the frying pan into the fire. That said, he will need to be able to mash it up against teams when the chips are down. In addition, he will display the attitude of a champ and will not coddle our pampered squad. Indeed he will give them a roasting when necessary. Solid communication skills are also required: waffle has no place in the dressing room or at press conferences.

Fucking top set of requirements. Send a copy to Wyness please.

a spud-based job spec.
Quite brilliant and a tad subtle BE!
Have a house point!

CVs to Charlotte and Anya in the office.

Is Maris off ill at the moment?

[KevinGage]

Whoever does the job needs to have something at stake. Too many being linked with the appointment wouldn't be that arsed if they failed. If they made a go of it they'd look brilliant; if they failed they'd just shrug and walk away and say 'hey, it was an impossible job, what could I have done?'

But only somebody who is utterly desperate to succeed, somebody with their back to the wall, somebody with nowhere else to go, can make a success of Villa from here. That's the top and bottom of it.

Rowett for me. It would be shit or bust.

He has the instant Get Out of Jail card of Villa fans not giving him a chance because of where he came from. The media -most of the wrongheaded, non thinking sort- would buy it too.

Just like how Villa fans never gave McLeish a chance. Nowt to do with him delivering the lowest amount of home wins in our history up to that point.

[Steve67]

Admit I wanted Moyes in the summer. I don't this time because 1. He's pissed us around twice, and 2. He's proved at Sunderland he's a busted flush.

Echo' s my thoughts from the summer and now. He will be sacked by Sunderland in due course and then become a pundit.

[frankmosswasmyuncle]

The next Aston Villa manager should have a fairly-thick skin and an eye for a bargain. He needs to develop a solid formation as is essential that we don't leap from the frying pan into the fire. That said, he will need to be able to mash it up against teams when the chips are down. In addition, he will display the attitude of a champ and will not coddle our pampered squad. Indeed he will give them a roasting when necessary. Solid communication skills are also required: waffle has no place in the dressing room or at press conferences.

Fucking top set of requirements. Send a copy to Wyness please.

a spud-based job spec.
Quite brilliant and a tad subtle BE!
Have a house point!

CVs to Charlotte and Anya in the office.

Is Maris off ill at the moment?

Just recovering from a long session in The King Edward!

[Duncan Shaw]

Admit I wanted Moyes in the summer. I don't this time because 1. He's pissed us around twice, and 2. He's proved at Sunderland he's a busted flush.

Echo' s my thoughts from the summer and now. He will be sacked by Sunderland in due course and then become a pundit.

Mine too, was quite gutted we didn't get him him in the summer, and was very meh about RDM, but I'm glad we didn't get Moyes now.  I really don't know, I think I'd get Sam in if he wasn't such soiled goods.

[sickbeggar]

Moyes, Bruce, Mclaren...... Please make it stop.

[The Left Side]

Sky are tweeting that Neil Warnock is becoming the next manager of...







Cardiff City, dodged that bullet.

[Toronto Villa]

Moyes, Bruce, Mclaren...... Please make it stop.

Yes, this coming from someone who was shouting from the rooftops for Neil Warnock yesterday. And we were pleading with you to make it stop. But you didn't.

[tomd2103]

Whoever does the job needs to have something at stake. Too many being linked with the appointment wouldn't be that arsed if they failed. If they made a go of it they'd look brilliant; if they failed they'd just shrug and walk away and say 'hey, it was an impossible job, what could I have done?'

But only somebody who is utterly desperate to succeed, somebody with their back to the wall, somebody with nowhere else to go, can make a success of Villa from here. That's the top and bottom of it.

Rowett for me. It would be shit or bust.

I agree about shit or bust for whomever being a good thing, but please can we have someone who's actually the first fucking clue about what they're trying to achieve over and above "just win the bloody game"

Houllier was the last one who seemed to have a clear idea of what he wanted that didn't involve 10 men in the penalty area for 85 minutes of a game.

Random ramblings from walking the dog, but I ended up likening it to a lot of music in some way being hung of the basic tennet of 12 bar blues.  Once you've got that down you can go to (proper) R&B, rock'n'roll, metal and any other number of genres, as long as you've got the basic foundation off the bass and drums to hang it off.

Mentioned it earlier, but I was impressed listening to the call-in with Rowett on WM last night.  He pretty much said what you have said there, in that he has put a back four and midfield three in place, which are the foundations on which the side are built.  It was also interesting to hear him say that he believed in consistency and would ideally only have 18 senior players in a squad.  He seems to have a really clear vision and plan of how he wants things done. 

[sickbeggar]

Moyes, Bruce, Mclaren...... Please make it stop.

Yes, this coming from someone who was shouting from the rooftops for Neil Warnock yesterday. And we were pleading with you to make it stop. But you didn't.

 nope i only shouted for redknapp. never mentioned warnock