Next Villa manager

[Boz]

Christ the BBC are still dumping Pat Murphy on us? Havent we suffered enough?

With all due respect to your opinion, Pat Murphy has reported on us for years and is a well respected reporter who I like a lot. Despite his obvious annoyance at being pretty much cut out of the loop by Lerner (along with everyone else) I have found him respectful and informative since Dr X took over. But hey, it is all about opinions.

I like him too. He calls it as he sees it.

Only if it's anti Villa, he always been negative towards Villa, even before Lerner. With a leaning towards being a Stripey supporter, I'd prefer he stop with the cricket.

[A Northern Soul]

See we've been linked with Nathan Jones of Luton this morning (??!). At least we'd have a ready made song

[dave.woodhall]

Christ the BBC are still dumping Pat Murphy on us? Havent we suffered enough?

With all due respect to your opinion, Pat Murphy has reported on us for years and is a well respected reporter who I like a lot. Despite his obvious annoyance at being pretty much cut out of the loop by Lerner (along with everyone else) I have found him respectful and informative since Dr X took over. But hey, it is all about opinions.

I like him too. He calls it as he sees it.

Only if it's anti Villa, he always been negative towards Villa, even before Lerner. With a leaning towards being a Stripey supporter, I'd prefer he stop with the cricket.

He isn't anti-Villa and he supports Chelsea.

[MoetVillan]

for someone who isn't anti villa, it does come across that he doesn't like us one jot

[Jimbo]

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.

Which is why I think he'd turn us down. He's probably good enough to get a job of similar status as Villa elsewhere, and I think he knows it.

Why put himself in a corner when at the moment his career is an open room?

Having said that, I agree he would be a good choice, but he's probably a bit too measured to take the risk at Villa.

[Boz]

Christ the BBC are still dumping Pat Murphy on us? Havent we suffered enough?

With all due respect to your opinion, Pat Murphy has reported on us for years and is a well respected reporter who I like a lot. Despite his obvious annoyance at being pretty much cut out of the loop by Lerner (along with everyone else) I have found him respectful and informative since Dr X took over. But hey, it is all about opinions.

I like him too. He calls it as he sees it.

Only if it's anti Villa, he always been negative towards Villa, even before Lerner. With a leaning towards being a Stripey supporter, I'd prefer he stop with the cricket.

He isn't anti-Villa and he supports Chelsea.

He doesn't come across as Villa friendly

[ozzjim]

I think he is objectively critical which I guess is the role of the press to an extent. We jist don't much like hearing it. He never goes in for the sensational crap the amateur hour at WM do, and is so much better than Evans from the local rag. 

[Witton Warrior]

I think he is objectively critical which I guess is the role of the press to an extent. We jist don't much like hearing it. He never goes in for the sensational crap the amateur hour at WM do, and is so much better than Evans from the local rag. 

I didn't like Murphy about 4 years ago when he went all Baggie-loving because they let him in the ground and talked to him when Lerner didn't (but then Lerner never spoke to anyone!). Then he started asking McMumbles interesting questions in post-match interviews and wouldn't let him off the hook which somewhat enamoured him. When he took on the shambling passive-aggressive behemoth that is Nigel Pearson he went right up in my estimation.

Murphy is a decent enough journalist who recognises a car-crash of a club and the potential for stories. Glad he's Chelsea and not a poe-faced Baggie ;-)

[Witton Warrior]

Reported this morning that Dr T will not be appointing anyone this week :-(

[Chico Hamilton III]

Christ the BBC are still dumping Pat Murphy on us? Havent we suffered enough?

With all due respect to your opinion, Pat Murphy has reported on us for years and is a well respected reporter who I like a lot. Despite his obvious annoyance at being pretty much cut out of the loop by Lerner (along with everyone else) I have found him respectful and informative since Dr X took over. But hey, it is all about opinions.

I like him too. He calls it as he sees it.

Only if it's anti Villa, he always been negative towards Villa, even before Lerner. With a leaning towards being a Stripey supporter, I'd prefer he stop with the cricket.

He isn't anti-Villa and he supports Chelsea.

He doesn't come across as Villa friendly

There's hardly been much positive Villa news for Murphy to report in the last 5 years or so.
Strange this morning - Radio 4 were discussing Villa's plight at 7am. A bit of an idiots' guide to our downfall (a club who were European Champions in 1982, now languishing in 19th place in the Championship after sacking all their managers.....) They had a West Midlands sport correspondent on ( can't remember who it was but I was surprised it wasn't Murphy), who compared Xia's twitter communication with Lerner's wall of silence. He was also asked to pinpoint the start of our decline and he said it was down to O'Neill walking out a few days before the start of the season. His money was on Bruce to be our new manager and commented on his Blues "baggage". Then they went straight to an interview with Brian Wilson who was discussing how mind-bending drugs brought on his mental health problems, prior to penning Pet Sounds.   

[mike]

Christ the BBC are still dumping Pat Murphy on us? Havent we suffered enough?

With all due respect to your opinion, Pat Murphy has reported on us for years and is a well respected reporter who I like a lot. Despite his obvious annoyance at being pretty much cut out of the loop by Lerner (along with everyone else) I have found him respectful and informative since Dr X took over. But hey, it is all about opinions.

I like him too. He calls it as he sees it.

Only if it's anti Villa, he always been negative towards Villa, even before Lerner. With a leaning towards being a Stripey supporter, I'd prefer he stop with the cricket.

He isn't anti-Villa and he supports Chelsea.

He doesn't come across as Villa friendly

Unless he abandons journalistic objectivity and credibility, he has not really been in a strong position to say anything very nice about us for quite a few years.

[dave.woodhall]

As he said to me back in the Ellis days, "I don't support them, I comment on what they're doing."

[mike]

I mean, we are in a position now where 15% of people want Fat Sam and 25% want Bruce. Imagine that even a couple of years ago. I'm presuming the vote for Schteev is a nose with a sense of humour (I think they DO exist).

[ozzjim]

More likely a newcastle fan hoping we appoint him. 

Re not appointing this week, good. We have time to get this right, a capable caretaker in place. Interview, speak to people, make sure it's the right fit. 

[oldtimernow]

Like a vulture picking over the bones?