Manager suggestions - Now with added poll

[Dave P]

We've tried every possible type of candidate in recent years with no success.

Tried and tested, successful foreigner- Houllier
Up and coming Brit needing a step up - Lambert
Young English "coach" - Sherwood
Unknown foreigner with new ideas - Garde
The left field surprise "that could work" - RDM
Belt and braces, meat and potato, no nonsense Englishman - Bruce

I genuinely don't know what route to go down or who, specifically, we should go for. My head says Karanka but, deep down, it could have the same affect Zola did at Small Heath last season.

To be fair none of those choices seemed that bad at the time. Houiller excepted they all just felt a little below where we should be aiming at.

Agreed. Which just adds to the confusion of who we should go for next.

[wittonwarrior]

Love to see Dean Smith but  we would ruin him within a few months.

To be honest I haven't a stand out name.  Lots of names I would not  want within a million miles. 

The logical choice up to a few months ago would have been Warburton but he's not picking trees out. 

If I said Pullis then people would disown me but again a non starter as we don't have sufficient physicality in our team.

Troubled times

[Matt Collins]

No manager is going to resign from a premier league club to come here

[mr underhill]

no manager from any club is going to resign to come here

[VillaAlways]

No manager is going to resign from a premier league club to come here

In the history of the Premier League Has any manager dropped to manage in a lower league ?

Jokanovic, Rowett or Dean Smith in that order

It will probably be Pardew

[mr underhill]

or the dreaded Mr M

[Hairbandinho]

Nobody of any up and coming repute will want the job. We won't get a current premier league manager, that's just insanity. People like Fat Sam don't need the stress. The job is a career killer and a poison chalice. It terrifies me who would end up coming in when Bruce goes .

[Villan For Life]

I have a horrible feeling that we will become John Terry's first managerial appointment before very much longer.

A really horrible, pit of your stomach kind of feeling.

[QuintonVilla]

Please not Pardew. I can't stand that odious little cretin.

[Axl Rose]

Please not Pardew. I can't stand that odious little cretin.

Me neither. Imagine a partnership of him and Terry. Both for the club, and the players wives.

[PaulWinch again]

Like I said I couldn't care a less who it is, as long as they are tactically astute, can adapt during games and actually get us winning.

[passitsideways]

Someone like Karanka or Puel, or maybe something from out of left field like Guidolin, who IIRC was adjudged by many to have been harshly sacked at Swansea last season.

Can't help but think we're getting Pardew though - so here's hoping the lift he seems to give teams lasts long enough to get us promoted, and then we don't waste too much time binning when it goes sour.

[Uknowthescore]

If he does go got a feeling we will go for someone out of work so we don't have to pay compensation. So pardew or hodgson

[QuintonVilla]

Not bloody Hodgson. Now he is a footballing dinosaur.

I want someone who plays some decent football for a change and has a philosophy in the way his teams play. Bruce thinks the only way to get out of this league is to keep it tight and try to nick 1-0 wins.

[Tom_Mc9?]

I have said Dean Smith for a long time. It would be great if he came to the club and was a success.