Next Villa manager

[PeterWithesShin]

On his way to Birminum as we speak.

[JUAN PABLO]

one thing I know about SB , he cant stand the modern prima donna over protected pop star footballer . so lets hope he bans headphones in the dressing room etc and he doesnt have to talk to the players agent before he can have a word with the player not pulling his weight .

hes actually suppose to be a really decent generous bloke and well liked but yes old school when it comes to these new modern footballers with their bling and fast cars , thats one thing he cant stand

[PaulWinch again]

On the plus side, the club seem to be taking their time this week, possibly as they have seen the fan reaction to the floated two, so hopefully spreading the net to other candidates.

I hope they don't take a blind bit of notice of what a handful of people are saying on the internet.

Agreed I hope their judgement is better than that.

Both completely the wrong men. Bruce is not wrong for where we are.

Well the previous board ignored what people said on the internet when it came to McLeish & Sherwood. I am rather hoping Dr.X & crew are a bit more open minded in their process.

[PeterWithesShin]

Unless Dyche learns to clear his throat I don't want him.

[Chris Jameson]

Unless Dyche learns to clear his throat I don't want him.

Even though he's well known for his exciting football, managing huge clubs and never having been relegated?

[paul_e]

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.

So maybe we shouldn't appoint anyone at all, if any manager not getting us up is pointless.

I said Bruce was pointless because that's it with him - promotion. You know you're not going to challenge for the premiership or build into a good side if you get up. He'll leave us not much better than we left - a lower premiership/upper championship team best case scenario like he left all his teams

Right, so there's no point in getting Bruce because he'll only get us promoted. Hmm.

Seems like you're deliberately misunderstanding there, his point is that if Bruce doesn't get us promoted then he won't have done anything else to give us something to cling to, it's the same point i made earlier about Bruce being a 50/50 gamble.  If he gets us up then great, if not we'll have wasted a season where we could've been grounding in players to a new way of playing with an eye on long term success.

[PaulWinch again]

Interesting well we shall see. I just hope it's not Clarke.

[PeterWithesShin]

Unless Dyche learns to clear his throat I don't want him.

Even though he's well known for his exciting football, managing huge clubs and never having been relegated?

Yep, even though Barcelona are waiting in the wings if we mess around, the throat clearing is more important.

[PeterWithesShin]

Stop the quotathons as well please.

I'll try again.

[paul_e]

Sorry for posting a quotathon, I didn't see the request not to until after I'd posted.

[Clampy]

Paul e, without wanting to add to the already mass quotathon (and at the request of PWS), that's not quite what sick beggar said. He said it would be pointless even if he got us up because we wouldn't progress the season after, so I wasn't deliberately misunderstanding anything.

[exiled on the wirral!]

Wagner may well turn out to be the next Juergen Klopp but I'd wager all those desperate for him now wouldn't have been able to name the Huddersfield manager until very recently.

I wouldn't of had a clue. Saying that I'd never heard of most of our signings. Outside the realms of Villa Park my knowledge is very limited, probably less than our previous owner.

This is so me IanJ...my 9 year old has more knowledge of players/managers than me..I'm totally oblivious to it all!!

[ciggiesnbeer]

Pat Murphy reckons there could be another manager in the frame, one that's slipped under everybody's radar.

I cant believe I am saying this, but I hope Pat Murphy is right.

[exiled on the wirral!]

If it's Sean Dyce I would be a lot more excited. I just can't see him dropping down at this current time though.

[sickbeggar]

Paul e, without wanting to add to the already mass quotathon (and at the request of PWS), that's not quite what sick beggar said. He said it would be pointless even if he got us up because we wouldn't progress the season after, so I wasn't deliberately misunderstanding anything.

well yes in a way. This is a guy who people who actually want him on here are coldy discussing dumping him when we go up. I really don't see the point in going up and come next November being in the bottom three with a team full of Bruce's signings looking for the next guy. If pomotion is the goal in itself then fine, but I don't really fancy another 12 months next season getting hammered of the park before going back down. It's not planning and if you don't think the guy has it in him to do more than get us out of the league then it is pointless imo