Next Villa manager

[Ads]

I think Bruce is the ideal candidate for a charge at the play offs. We should be doing better than we are, there's few better than him down here too.

[aj2k77]

I seriously wouldn't turn our noses up at a promotion under Steve Bruce right now at any point soon. This is a hard division to get out of, right now as we speak there looks just as much chance of us ''doing a Leeds'' and hovering around this shit hole for years to come as there is of us doing a Burnley and bouncing back. The longer we are here the harder it becomes, the more disadvantaged we become as the Premier league teams drop down with bigger fortunes.

We need to get out and fast. If it's under Bruce then I for one welcome our new Potatoheaded overlord. We need results and soon.

[Neil Hawkes]

At a minimum I would expect Bruce to stop us shipping late goals. Also we have potential good strikers already at the club. We need someone to set our current squad to play to their strengths, he may be pragmatic but if he addresses our immediate problems quickly and satisfactorily then come on down.

[AVH87]

The 10th fence on the racecourse should not be uppermost in your mind, when you are approaching the first.

[ClaretAndBlueBlood]

The 10th fence on the racecourse should not be uppermost in your mind, when you are approaching the first.

confuscious?

[MoetVillan]

The 10th fence on the racecourse should not be uppermost in your mind, when you are approaching the first.

confuscious?

Yes I am rather

[DeKuip]

I've never been a fan of so-called old style British football, big centre-forwards etc and would love to see a Villa team playing with the style Arsenal and Man City fans get spoilt with week in week out - so I'm not getting excited at the prospect of Steve Bruce being appointed.
BUT I've always respected what he has done and always found him a very likeable bloke. I imagine he'd be a good manager to play for - hard working, knows what he's doing, honest with his players, have their respect and be respectful of our club and us. He'll give it everything he's got, that's for sure.
A crucial area as always is who he chooses as his assistant and his coaches. All was going well at Blues until Mark Bowen left to join up with Mark Hughes at Blackburn, and he's not going to be in a position to bring his assistant from Hull with him. This has caught us out in the past with neither Tim Sherwood nor Remi Garde being able to bring their preferred assistants with them.

Good luck Steve if you get the job.

[UK Redsox]

The 10th fence on the racecourse should not be uppermost in your mind, when you are approaching the first.

confuscious?

I thought that it was Cornelius rather than Confucius Lysaght

[chrisw1]

If they get Bruce in, so be it. It is what it is. He'll probably get us promoted next season, if not this. I'd take that, in all honesty, but would prefer someone who could take us forward, if/when we get back. It's unlikely Bruce would get us to kick on in the PL. Reality.

If they bring him in, I'll back him, as I would any new Villa manager. A club of our stature should be thinking more long term though, in my view. Why do we have to restrict ourselves to the same old 'good in the championship' merchants? We're Aston Villa, to coin a phrase.

You mean long term as in appointing an exiting young manager like Guarde or Solskjear?  Romantic as it sounds, another failure and we really could do a Leeds.  It's time to be sensible and pragmatic.

[footyskillz]

I've never been a fan of so-called old style British football, big centre-forwards etc and would love to see a Villa team playing with the style Arsenal and Man City fans get spoilt with week in week out - so I'm not getting excited at the prospect of Steve Bruce being appointed.
BUT I've always respected what he has done and always found him a very likeable bloke. I imagine he'd be a good manager to play for - hard working, knows what he's doing, honest with his players, have their respect and be respectful of our club and us. He'll give it everything he's got, that's for sure.
A crucial area as always is who he chooses as his assistant and his coaches. All was going well at Blues until Mark Bowen left to join up with Mark Hughes at Blackburn, and he's not going to be in a position to bring his assistant from Hull with him. This has caught us out in the past with neither Tim Sherwood nor Remi Garde being able to bring their preferred assistants with them.

Good luck Steve if you get the job.

I like the style of Liverpool Spurs and the attitude of Leicester or stoke of seasons past mixed in with some of their attacking play! Throw in a bit of swansea possesion and palace and even more leicester counter attack then you got a healthy old school and modern mix of British football than can pee over arsenal and man city.

[olaftab]

The 10th fence on the racecourse should not be uppermost in your mind, when you are approaching the first.

But Grasshopper knows you should be conserving energy on first if you know there is a 10th!

[paul_e]

The 10th fence on the racecourse should not be uppermost in your mind, when you are approaching the first.

True but if your goal is to be in first place after the 10th fence then make sure you're not making that more difficult on yourself by only training the horse to jump 1 or 2 fences.

[aj2k77]

Or you employ a trainer specifically suited to the fences you currently face as one's that can train the complete package are so few and far between no one can actually name one to hire.

[john e]

he is the ultimate old boys network candidate

have you seen the media and friends who are coming out for him, Redknap, Savage, Mcliesh etc
and we thought Sherwood had some chums

its just a vicious circle of mates recommending mates they just keep going round getting job after job on the recommendation of other mates

the old boy network at its finest

I hate the fucking lot of them

[LeeB]

And we are allowed to change the trainer and indeed horses before we need to tackle the latter fences.