Manager suggestions - Now with added poll

[Matt Collins]

Sam gave up a job in the prem - if he wants to work again he could have another one - possibly at the same club!

We may have to wait until someone good gets sacked, unless we go for karanka (good record at this level, pragmatic, bit defensive likes 4411 - bound to succeed!)

[Stan Drew 01]

It WILL be John Terry.  As for not having badges. He's got an advanced Boy Scouts badge in banging team mates wives!

[ciggiesnbeer]

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.

Aye. if it was me I would spin the wheel from the "Tried and tested foreigner" bucket again. But I admit unless you go and get a genuinely proven high quality manager (Like Newcastle managed to luck into) then you are rolling the dice regardless. Either way I think our football quality will improve with the next manager. It has to really.

[chrisw1]

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.

Aye. if it was me I would spin the wheel from the "Tried and tested foreigner" bucket again. But I admit unless you go and get a genuinely proven high quality manager (Like Newcastle managed to luck into) then you are rolling the dice regardless. Either way I think our football quality will improve with the next manager. It has to really.

Yep, just like it has with the last 6.

I wonder what Palace fans think of Frank de Boer?  Yet I imagine a lot would have creamed themselves on here if we had attracted him.

I'm not saying Bruce is right, far from it it seem, but it isn't easy getting it right and a wrong appointment could easily leave us relegated.

[Dinas_Caerdydd]

for the 5 that voted for our Neil Warnock forget it !

get sam alydyce in he'll sort out your money bags team out

[Matt Collins]

I'm sure there are foreign-based candidates who could do a great job, but I've no idea who they are and I doubt our board does either

I remember thinking that there was massive downside risk when lambert went and I was right in the medium term

Should be more upside risk here, but there's obviously something fundamental that's still wrong with the club. I really think it could swallow up the likes of dean smith

[paul_e]

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.

Aye. if it was me I would spin the wheel from the "Tried and tested foreigner" bucket again. But I admit unless you go and get a genuinely proven high quality manager (Like Newcastle managed to luck into) then you are rolling the dice regardless. Either way I think our football quality will improve with the next manager. It has to really.

Yep, just like it has with the last 6.

I wonder what Palace fans think of Frank de Boer?  Yet I imagine a lot would have creamed themselves on here if we had attracted him.

I'm not saying Bruce is right, far from it it seem, but it isn't easy getting it right and a wrong appointment could easily leave us relegated.

Frank De Boer would've been top of my list in the summer before he went to them, he's had a tough start and it might leave him looking like damaged goods but I'd suggest that's because he's a bad fit for the type of club Palace are, I reckon both us and them would improve from a manager swap.

[ozzjim]

Reading Smith talking about dominating the ball and using their movement to get their higher midfielders in behind makes me very jealous.

[Damo70]

I have wanted Big Sam a few times in the last few seasons. I reckon with the size of the club and the challenge of getting us back up he would go for it. His alternative would probably be yet another PL relegation firefighting job. I suspect he has had enough of them.

[cdbearsfan]

Reading Smith talking about dominating the ball and using their movement to get their higher midfielders in behind makes me very jealous.

Talking about it is all well and good. If they actually did it, they'd be higher than twenty-third.

[Des Little]

I think our whole coaching policy needs looking at, not just the manager. Colin Calderwood and Steven Clemence don't fill me with much confidence I must say. I'd love to hear what this Villa Engine is all about because from what I've seen of late they don't seem to have a fookin clue what they're trying to do.

[Damo70]

I think our whole coaching policy needs looking at, not just the manager. Colin Calderwood and Steven Clemence don't fill me with much confidence I must say. I'd love to hear what this Villa Engine is all about because from what I've seen of late they don't seem to have a fookin clue what they're trying to do.

I was watching SKY covering a greyhound meeting at Hall Green years ago and they interviewed Ray Clemence.

"Are you still involved in football in any way Ray"?

Ray looked a bit pissed off and replied "I'm the England goalkeeping coach".

[ozzjim]

Reading Smith talking about dominating the ball and using their movement to get their higher midfielders in behind makes me very jealous.

Talking about it is all well and good. If they actually did it, they'd be higher than twenty-third.

They would be had they taken their chances this season.  Last season they had a striker doing that. 23rd and played us off the park.

[Matt Collins]

It's still a bit of a risk tho isn't it!

[ozzjim]

 Without doubt it is.  But Bruce is a bigger one at the moment.  Even in 2 seasons the championship seems to have evolved somewhat.  Bruce seems to have completely lost whatever he had at this level.  Either that or Phelan did all the tactics.