Next Villa manager

[kippaxvilla2]

Back to misnomer's or whatever they are called.

Yes Hull had the joint 2nd best defensive record in the Championship last season with the fourth best scoring record - so it isn't that bad really is it.

[Axl Rose]

Neither. Both fucking garbage. How uninspiring.

[Whiney MacWhineface]

Let's face it, whoever Dr Tony puts is, it'll piss somebody off!

I'm hearing Bruce is a done deal.

It may be bullshit but the ITK seems to have reliable source.

Perhaps they'll keep Clarke around for when Bruce leaves us for England?

Um...

[villadelph]

I am perfectly fine with Bruce.

Can't be any worse than Remi and RDMs combined three wins.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Let's face it, whoever Dr Tony puts is, it'll piss somebody off!

I'm hearing Bruce is a done deal.

It may be bullshit but the ITK seems to have reliable source.

Perhaps they'll keep Clarke around for when Bruce leaves us for England?

Um...

Indeed. There are those that keep trying to put us down, kill our dreams, suffocate our ambition, tell us we're no longer a big club yet the future England manager wants to join us.

Mike Bassett Steve Bruce.. Come on down!

[Monty]

Well, I hope he becomes a big hero and promotes us so we can get rid of him soon. Can't have him as manager when we're challenging for the PL title.

[Toronto Villa]

Back to misnomer's or whatever they are called.

Yes Hull had the joint 2nd best defensive record in the Championship last season with the fourth best scoring record - so it isn't that bad really is it.

Now the only caveat to that was that it was the club he managed for a while so there was built in stability that he wouldn't get at a new place immediately. But for me right now, all I care about is winning games and climbing the table. I want to have a legitimate chance of being promoted this season. I'll worry about next season, next season. And if we are stabilized in the PL and Bruce has taken us so far we do what Southampton did, fire Adkins and get in Pochettino. Where they had time to truly identify his successor.

[Monty]

Back to misnomer's or whatever they are called.

Yes Hull had the joint 2nd best defensive record in the Championship last season with the fourth best scoring record - so it isn't that bad really is it.

Now the only caveat to that was that it was the club he managed for a while so there was built in stability that he wouldn't get at a new place immediately. But for me right now, all I care about is winning games and climbing the table. I want to have a legitimate chance of being promoted this season. I'll worry about next season, next season. And if we are stabilized in the PL and Bruce has taken us so far we do what Southampton did, fire Adkins and get in Pochettino. Where they had time to truly identify his successor.

The difference is that Adkins helped build that identity - he just couldn't take it to the levels that Pochettino did.

[cdbearsfan]

I am perfectly fine with Bruce.

Can't be any worse than Remi and RDMs combined three wins.

Well no, he probably won't be.

But we need to set the bar a bit higher than that.

[itbrvilla]

I am perfectly fine with Bruce.

Can't be any worse than Remi and RDMs combined three wins.

Well no, he probably won't be.

But we need to set the bar a bit higher than that.

Perhaps we're not as big as we think we are?

[eamonn]

Murphy is saying Clarke is not getting any blame for the poor start from the club.

[Toronto Villa]

Back to misnomer's or whatever they are called.

Yes Hull had the joint 2nd best defensive record in the Championship last season with the fourth best scoring record - so it isn't that bad really is it.

Now the only caveat to that was that it was the club he managed for a while so there was built in stability that he wouldn't get at a new place immediately. But for me right now, all I care about is winning games and climbing the table. I want to have a legitimate chance of being promoted this season. I'll worry about next season, next season. And if we are stabilized in the PL and Bruce has taken us so far we do what Southampton did, fire Adkins and get in Pochettino. Where they had time to truly identify his successor.

The difference is that Adkins helped build that identity - he just couldn't take it to the levels that Pochettino did.

He did but he joined them in League One. The club had just started come out of its lowest ebb almost folding. I think the pressure at Southampton would have been a lot less and the urgency to achieve success wasn't as great. Plus returning to the Championship and returning to the PL bring very different demands. I'm not tickled in my loins at the thought of Bruce. I said that in the very first post of this thread. But given the immediate criteria we need to start to win games again, and it's one thing Bruce has proven that he can do with clubs with significantly less resources than us. What happens beyond promotion remains to be seen. But hopefully he has made a contribution to the club in line with all the work Wyness and Round are doing behind the scenes so that when we move on from Bruce the overall philosophy of his successor isn't a massive jump or change in direction.

[Toronto Villa]

Murphy is saying Clarke is not getting any blame for the poor start from the club.

Maybe that explains why Clarke couldn't be arsed to get off his arse during games. I do wonder if Bruce is employed it will include Clarke because the club doesn't want to have backroom upheaval all over again.

[in exile]

Clarke or Bruce?
I just can't bring myself to get excited enough to vote for either of them

[aj2k77]

So what do the club define Clarke's role as if he is nothing to do with the fuck up of a season so far?