Next Villa manager

[Witton Warrior]

I can't bring myself to vote in case it ends up being my fault
What have we become...

[Chris Jameson]

Yep thats how I feel two, watch the clown bring Savage in as his number two

Yeah that's bound to happen, he'll give Paul Tait a coaching role and insist Trevor Francis replaces Brian Little.

And Steve Hodge as Club Ambassador.

The Irish band to write and perform a club anthem.

[berneboy]

Nigel Pearson appears to be officially available now.

[Yossarian]

Yep thats how I feel two, watch the clown bring Savage in as his number two

Yeah that's bound to happen, he'll give Paul Tait a coaching role and insist Trevor Francis replaces Brian Little.

And Steve Hodge as Club Ambassador.

Fabian Delph to serve the half time oranges.

[john e]

We aren't "any club other than Aston Villa" though.  We are Astom Villa.

No, we're definitely Aston Villa.

Seriously though, who is this mystery manager that can turn our clusterfuck into something resembling a decent football team that plays attractive football and guaranteed promotion?

Indeed I'm not sure how we're supposed to attract this amazing manager in our current position.

tell me chaps, how did Huddersfield town appoint there manager who now sees them sitting at the opposite end of the table to us
do you think they had more options than we do, how did Burnley appoint Dyce, how did Southampton appoint Pot, how did Bournmouth end up with Howe, fuck me even the neighbours in there sorry and dismal plight managed to come up trumps,

I don't know the answers to all the above questions but I do know they didn't go for a pair of the dullest safe hands of the most gettable journey man in the business

[sickbeggar]

We aren't "any club other than Aston Villa" though.  We are Astom Villa.

No, we're definitely Aston Villa.

Seriously though, who is this mystery manager that can turn our clusterfuck into something resembling a decent football team that plays attractive football and guaranteed promotion?

Indeed I'm not sure how we're supposed to attract this amazing manager in our current position.

tell me chaps, how did Huddersfield town appoint there manager who now sees them sitting at the opposite end of the table to us
do you think they had more options than we do, how did Burnley appoint Dyce, how did Southampton appoint Pot, how did Bournmouth end up with Howe, fuck me even the neighbours in there sorry and dismal plight managed to come up trumps,

I don't know the answers to all the above questions but I do know they didn't go for a pair of the dullest safe hands of the most gettable journey man in the business

yep.

[saunders_heroes]

We aren't "any club other than Aston Villa" though.  We are Astom Villa.

No, we're definitely Aston Villa.

Seriously though, who is this mystery manager that can turn our clusterfuck into something resembling a decent football team that plays attractive football and guaranteed promotion?

Indeed I'm not sure how we're supposed to attract this amazing manager in our current position.

tell me chaps, how did Huddersfield town appoint there manager who now sees them sitting at the opposite end of the table to us
do you think they had more options than we do, how did Burnley appoint Dyce, how did Southampton appoint Pot, how did Bournmouth end up with Howe, fuck me even the neighbours in there sorry and dismal plight managed to come up trumps,

I don't know the answers to all the above questions but I do know they didn't go for a pair of the dullest safe hands of the most gettable journey man in the business

Spot on.

[PeterWithesShin]

I bumped into Joe in town earlier and we had a chat. My viewpoint is, in a choice between Clarke and Bruce then Bruce gets my vote. But we know what we'll get. Even if we're promoted under him this season it will be back to plodding along in the bottom 6 in the top flight nest season. At least with someone like Wagner there's a chance he could become a top class manager. It may go tits up and he's crap but at least there's the hope. We are in no position to sign a world class manager so i'd prefer to go with someone who may become world class with us.

[nigel]

We aren't "any club other than Aston Villa" though.  We are Astom Villa.

No, we're definitely Aston Villa.

Seriously though, who is this mystery manager that can turn our clusterfuck into something resembling a decent football team that plays attractive football and guaranteed promotion?

Indeed I'm not sure how we're supposed to attract this amazing manager in our current position.

tell me chaps, how did Huddersfield town appoint there manager who now sees them sitting at the opposite end of the table to us
do you think they had more options than we do, how did Burnley appoint Dyce, how did Southampton appoint Pot, how did Bournmouth end up with Howe, fuck me even the neighbours in there sorry and dismal plight managed to come up trumps,

I don't know the answers to all the above questions but I do know they didn't go for a pair of the dullest safe hands of the most gettable journey man in the business

The expectation at these clubs isn't as great as at ours, so they can afford to take this sort of risk.
If we appoint a Wagner or a Dyche and it doesn't work we get 'Should have gone for Pullis' etc. It's a no win situation.

I can only imagine the uproar if we appoint a manager from the back of beyond.

[Mossie Hennebry]

We aren't "any club other than Aston Villa" though.  We are Astom Villa.

No, we're definitely Aston Villa.

Seriously though, who is this mystery manager that can turn our clusterfuck into something resembling a decent football team that plays attractive football and guaranteed promotion?

Indeed I'm not sure how we're supposed to attract this amazing manager in our current position.

tell me chaps, how did Huddersfield town appoint there manager who now sees them sitting at the opposite end of the table to us
do you think they had more options than we do, how did Burnley appoint Dyce, how did Southampton appoint Pot, how did Bournmouth end up with Howe, fuck me even the neighbours in there sorry and dismal plight managed to come up trumps,

I don't know the answers to all the above questions but I do know they didn't go for a pair of the dullest safe hands of the most gettable journey man in the business

Well said.

At the risk of stating the bleedin obvious, the pool of available managers leaves a lot to be desired.

[sickbeggar]

We aren't "any club other than Aston Villa" though.  We are Astom Villa.

No, we're definitely Aston Villa.

Seriously though, who is this mystery manager that can turn our clusterfuck into something resembling a decent football team that plays attractive football and guaranteed promotion?

Indeed I'm not sure how we're supposed to attract this amazing manager in our current position.

tell me chaps, how did Huddersfield town appoint there manager who now sees them sitting at the opposite end of the table to us
do you think they had more options than we do, how did Burnley appoint Dyce, how did Southampton appoint Pot, how did Bournmouth end up with Howe, fuck me even the neighbours in there sorry and dismal plight managed to come up trumps,

I don't know the answers to all the above questions but I do know they didn't go for a pair of the dullest safe hands of the most gettable journey man in the business

The expectation at these clubs isn't as great as at ours, so they can afford to take this sort of risk.
If we appoint a Wagner or a Dyche and it doesn't work we get 'Should have gone for Pullis' etc. It's a no win situation.

I can only imagine the uproar if we appoint a manager from the back of beyond.

I wish people would make their mind up. One minute Bruce is acceptable because we're a basket case and noone good will touch us. The next, appointing an unknown will upset people because they expect to win the Championship

[Chris Jameson]

Just to clarify, Bruce doesn't excite me but in the circumstances he's probably the best that is available. I can only remember us getting two managers I'd never heard of previously (Venglos and Garde) and they were both a disaster but I do wonder why the likes of Southampton, Boro, Swansea, Watford, Huddersfield etc are capable of finding good managers who aren't obvious and we struggle.

[Zouch Villa]

We aren't "any club other than Aston Villa" though.  We are Astom Villa.

ŷ

No, we're definitely Aston Villa.

Seriously though, who is this mystery manager that can turn our clusterfuck into something resembling a decent football team that plays attractive football and guaranteed promotion?

Indeed I'm not sure how we're supposed to attract this amazing manager in our current position.

tell me chaps, how did Huddersfield town appoint there manager who now sees them sitting at the opposite end of the table to us
do you think they had more options than we do, how did Burnley appoint Dyce, how did Southampton appoint Pot, how did Bournmouth end up with Howe, fuck me even the neighbours in there sorry and dismal plight managed to come up trumps,

I don't know the answers to all the above questions but I do know they didn't go for a pair of the dullest safe hands of the most gettable journey man in the business

I get your point John E, but it's always easier to be easier to be wise with hindsight.

Huddersfield picked up Wagner after a stint as Dortmunds reserve coach. Burnley took Dyche after he had been given the elbow by Watford.  Rowett had done great work at Burton Albion, but with all respect to them, would we go knocking on their door now for Nigel Clough?  If we'd made those appointments rather than Sherwood or RDM there would have been plenty on here moaning that we were aiming too low.

Lambert was well regarded as some kind of a footballing brainiac after his schooling in Germany. For all we know, even if we could prise Wagner away, we'd turn him into Lambert mkII.

I'm not enamoured by either option of Bruce or Clarke, and would much prefer we looked to bring in someone without the same baggage, and with fresh ideas, as to who that should be I haven't a clue.

[Clampy]

We aren't "any club other than Aston Villa" though.  We are Astom Villa.

No, we're definitely Aston Villa.

Seriously though, who is this mystery manager that can turn our clusterfuck into something resembling a decent football team that plays attractive football and guaranteed promotion?

Indeed I'm not sure how we're supposed to attract this amazing manager in our current position.

tell me chaps, how did Huddersfield town appoint there manager who now sees them sitting at the opposite end of the table to us
do you think they had more options than we do, how did Burnley appoint Dyce, how did Southampton appoint Pot, how did Bournmouth end up with Howe, fuck me even the neighbours in there sorry and dismal plight managed to come up trumps,

I don't know the answers to all the above questions but I do know they didn't go for a pair of the dullest safe hands of the most gettable journey man in the business

Well said.

At the risk of stating the bleedin obvious, the pool of available managers leaves a lot to be desired.

You're making it sound like the club have chosen these 'pool of managers'.

[eric woolban woolban]

And bring back Eric Black into some capacity, with the ultimate aim for him to be a bumbling caretacker manager when Bruce gets the boot.