Manager suggestions - Now with added poll

[Tuscans]

Some eager assistant from somewhere around Europe seems to be the new fad.

[XXVilla]

Dean Smith. Good at this level. Potential to get better. Good interpersonal skills. Plus a dream job for him. We should have grabbed Rowett or Houghton when we had the chance

[boozey182]

I'd like us to find the next Poch.

Totally agree. Let's go for it and get someone that could be the one to build something to last. None of this three separate teams rubbish.

I'd be quite happy if I've never heard of our next manager. At least it means the board have put some effort and creativity into it. Two attributes that are missing throughout the whole club.

[Walmley_Villa]

Are we talking about the likes of Smith and Little because they are 'Villa men'? Maybe we need someone with no connection to the club, but a dispassionate and incisive view of what the club really is, and why it's really failing again and again. I doubt any of us can see its true place in the world, and what it really needs to function properly, through our claret and blue spectacles.

My fears, as ever, are that long-term our problems go beyond formations, selections, tactics, etc. We need a manager that understands all aspects of the game, both the club and the team. It's going to be a tough task finding him.

I'm basing Dean Smith on a team that outplayed us twice last season, score goals and are pleasing on the eye. They are also massively overachieving.

[Damo70]

I'd like us to find the next Poch.

Why would we want a little boy made out of wood?

[KRS]

Houghton wouldn't be an option but Rowett may be as per my previous post...and I guess we'd see if those Villa fan rumours about him were true despite his comments about us last season.

[Walmley_Villa]

Houghton wouldn't be an option but Rowett may be as per my previous post...and I guess we'd see if those Villa fan rumours about him were true despite his comments about us last season.

Why would he leave Derby??

[Neil Hawkes]

Olof Melberg and new coaches, would Terry be a good choice as a coach?

Mellberg was a great player but he's done nothing to suggest he could manage a football club to success.

I thought his record to date is quite impressive

In which division?

I have no idea, you tell me

[XXVilla]

Houghton wouldn't be an option but Rowett may be as per my previous post...and I guess we'd see if those Villa fan rumours about him were true despite his comments about us last season.

Why would he leave Derby??

I guess he wouldn't. Both ships have sailed

[in exile]

Houghton wouldn't be an option but Rowett may be as per my previous post...and I guess we'd see if those Villa fan rumours about him were true despite his comments about us last season.

Why would he leave Derby??

Exactly

[AV5nobs]

Dean Smith for me.

Sick of French coaches with potential, dinosaur managers who have been there and done it I want a fucking Manager that can the best out of whatever he has, good or bad.

I want a manager who goes in that dressing room and gets their fucking veins on their necks pumping.

We are Aston Fucking Villa.

[RussellC]

Are we talking about the likes of Smith and Little because they are 'Villa men'? Maybe we need someone with no connection to the club, but a dispassionate and incisive view of what the club really is, and why it's really failing again and again. I doubt any of us can see its true place in the world, and what it really needs to function properly, through our claret and blue spectacles.

My fears, as ever, are that long-term our problems go beyond formations, selections, tactics, etc. We need a manager that understands all aspects of the game, both the club and the team. It's going to be a tough task finding him.

I really don't think we need to think that deeply. We just need someone who can coach some players to play in an effective system. Benitez didn't need to change the culture of the club at Newcastle to get them promoted. Just need to get them conceding fewer goals and scoring more. By the looks of it Grayson is making a decent fist of doing the same at Sunderland. Bruce's ineptitude shouldn't be blamed on anything other than him.

[KRS]

Houghton wouldn't be an option but Rowett may be as per my previous post...and I guess we'd see if those Villa fan rumours about him were true despite his comments about us last season.

Why would he leave Derby??

Oh that old chestnut...why would any employed manager leave their position to come to Villa? If we don't go headhunting an employed manager and only go for someone out of work then we're going to be looking at a very limited number of disappointing options. We may as well stick with Bruce and accept our fate if that is also the defeatist attitude of the club.

[in exile]

Houghton wouldn't be an option but Rowett may be as per my previous post...and I guess we'd see if those Villa fan rumours about him were true despite his comments about us last season.

Why would he leave Derby??

Oh that old chestnut...why would any employed manager leave their position to come to Villa? If we don't go headhunting an employed manager and only go for someone out of work then we're going to be looking at a very limited number of disappointing options. We may as well stick with Bruce and accept our fate if that is also the defeatist attitude of the club.

So why would he leave Derby?

[tomd2103]

You know it's bad when you have the thought "Neil Warnock might sort this lot out". Colin fecking Wanker popped into my head as a possible manager of Aston Villa.

The problem with suggestions like Warnock and Allardyce is that Bruce is from that very same school and it was thought at time that he would bring the same attributes that they possess (get us organised, get us fit, wouldn't stand any nonsense, would sort the dressing room out, would sort out the likes of Agbonlahor and Richards etc.).  The fact that he has failed to do pretty much any of those things might suggest it is time to look at another way.