Next Villa manager

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Should have done the money that was spent. We're a magnet for managerial charlatans though. The inexcusable inability to close games out sees us 19th instead of 3rd.

Tell me again how we are not a big club anymore.

[PaulWinch again]

I think Bruce is the right choice for the club in the position that it is at the moment. Wagner, Dyche etc might be brilliant in time, but I think we need an experienced head to turn this club around. It might not be massively exciting, but that can happen once you've got a foundation in place.

[Jimbo]

I'll leave you to work it out, eventually.

[Tony Erdington]

looking at the % at the top of the thread, I am encouraged that us villa fans in the main are positive about BFS (not so fat now though with seeing him Saturday on the tv) and therefore we are intelligent enough to know that with the high profile games weve got this month "if" things don't go "our" way we are not going to start with the shit that some on here seem to be salivating for. UTV

They're not positive though are they? They just prefer Bruce to Clarke which is saying very little. I don't want Clarke but i still voted for him over Bruce.

sorry beggar, it does "wh o do YOU want" so I think it is positive, whats your problem with the proposed appointment.  UTV

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You're done boring us with it then? Good drills.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

There's such a fine line between failure and success.

Very true. Fitness preparation or the lack of it has certainly cost us dear so far. Didn't we have that lean, mean, fighting machine, Italian fitness coach. Is he still with us?

[sickbeggar]

looking at the % at the top of the thread, I am encouraged that us villa fans in the main are positive about BFS (not so fat now though with seeing him Saturday on the tv) and therefore we are intelligent enough to know that with the high profile games weve got this month "if" things don't go "our" way we are not going to start with the shit that some on here seem to be salivating for. UTV

They're not positive though are they? They just prefer Bruce to Clarke which is saying very little. I don't want Clarke but i still voted for him over Bruce.

sorry beggar, it does "wh o do YOU want" so I think it is positive, whats your problem with the proposed appointment.  UTV

He's crap and if he doesn't get us up this season which is the ONLY reason RDM was sacked, then he's pointless.

[Jimbo]

I know you're a bit slow on the uptake, Ads, but I'm satisfied you've got the message now.

[PaulWinch again]

looking at the % at the top of the thread, I am encouraged that us villa fans in the main are positive about BFS (not so fat now though with seeing him Saturday on the tv) and therefore we are intelligent enough to know that with the high profile games weve got this month "if" things don't go "our" way we are not going to start with the shit that some on here seem to be salivating for. UTV

They're not positive though are they? They just prefer Bruce to Clarke which is saying very little. I don't want Clarke but i still voted for him over Bruce.

sorry beggar, it does "wh o do YOU want" so I think it is positive, whats your problem with the proposed appointment.  UTV

He's crap and if he doesn't get us up this season which is the ONLY reason RDM was sacked, then he's pointless.

I mean statistically he is demonstrably not crap.

[mike]

Brian, I agree about Rowett 100%, but do you really think he'd get the backing from fans coming straight from there? Bruce left them ten years ago and he's still viewed as the anti-Christ by many. The 'unproven/club too big' tag would be thrown at both Wagner and Johnson and I'll be honest and confess I don't know which Smith you refer to!  I wanted Warnock, which was obviously not well received but it's all about opinions...

EDIT - Just realised.  Dean Smith.

I really don't think Bruce's previous employer is anything to do with it. It's just underwhelming. And as many have said, stealing something of value from them would be considered a victory. I think Rowett would be an immediate hero just for leaving them in the lurch and coming to us. Sadly, he won't be coming.

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I'm wondering if there is a particular reason why you snidely refer to my hope and prediction that we'd brass the league up? SHQ is another whopper that takes delight in brining it up.

The league is worse than I thought for what it's worth. Absolutely diabolical and devoid of any quality. It highlights RDM incompetence.

But anyway, perhaps I'm just too thick to appreciate why we are no longer a big club, why it's funny that we are not smashing the league. Perhaps you have to like brutalist gential warts for buildings to have that level of insight.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Brian, I agree about Rowett 100%, but do you really think he'd get the backing from fans coming straight from there? Bruce left them ten years ago and he's still viewed as the anti-Christ by many. The 'unproven/club too big' tag would be thrown at both Wagner and Johnson and I'll be honest and confess I don't know which Smith you refer to!  I wanted Warnock, which was obviously not well received but it's all about opinions...

EDIT - Just realised.  Dean Smith.

I really don't think Bruce's previous employer is anything to do with it. It's just underwhelming. And as many have said, stealing something of value from them would be considered a victory. I think Rowett would be an immediate hero just for leaving them in the lurch and coming to us. Sadly, he won't be coming.

He'll be a hero if he takes the Derby job to leave them in the lurch.

[PeterWithesShin]

How about folks keep it civil when debating?

[Clampy]

Brian, I agree about Rowett 100%, but do you really think he'd get the backing from fans coming straight from there? Bruce left them ten years ago and he's still viewed as the anti-Christ by many. The 'unproven/club too big' tag would be thrown at both Wagner and Johnson and I'll be honest and confess I don't know which Smith you refer to!  I wanted Warnock, which was obviously not well received but it's all about opinions...

EDIT - Just realised.  Dean Smith.

I really don't think Bruce's previous employer is anything to do with it. It's just underwhelming. And as many have said, stealing something of value from them would be considered a victory. I think Rowett would be an immediate hero just for leaving them in the lurch and coming to us. Sadly, he won't be coming.

So it's not about Bruce's former employers, but taking their manager off them would be a victory? A slight contradiction there I think.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

The league is worse than I thought for what it's worth. Absolutely diabolical and devoid of any quality. It highlights RDM incompetence.

I think that's something we can all agree on. It's why I don't think it will take a miracle worker to get us moving up the table.