Next manager?

[b23]

Whoever it is will need to have skin like a rhino and a magic wand

Half a brain would be an improvement.

Sooty it is then. With Sweep and Soo assisting.

[DB]

Rather not have a failure from another club. We need a manager who doing well either in their last job or we can poach from another club.

[London Villan]

Rowett will be available Monday morning by the looks of things....

O.K maybe not.

So might Jose at this rate.

[QuintonVilla]

Chris Wilder for me

[brian green]

Gene Wilder for me.

[brian green]

The Waco Kid.

[Sexual Ealing]

The thing that seems to weigh against Smith seems to be a worry that the scouting system behind him is the real power behind the throne at Brentford - if that's the case, couldn't we nick the whole lot, Smith included?

[brian green]

You are right of course Paddy, but the biggest strike against Dean is that he is a Villa fan.  We have to be kosher his critics claim.  We don't want him because he is a Villa fan.  It has no more relevance to his worth than Bruce being a Nose did.

[Monty]

Some people care about the 'one of us' stuff - tends to be the same mindset that wants Mellberg to come in.

[Ads]

I don't care whether he's a Villa fan or not. I care about his ability to cope with the job and I don't think he could.

[sirlordbaltimore]

I don't care whether he's a Villa fan or not. I care about his ability to cope with the job and I don't think he could.

also a big worry for me. i think we need someone who's already managed a club with the same expectation levels as ours

i do think it's a huge weight on anyone's shoulders and you need to be a special sort of person to be able to handle it

[Whiney MacWhineface]

The thing that seems to weigh against Smith seems to be a worry that the scouting system behind him is the real power behind the throne at Brentford - if that's the case, couldn't we nick the whole lot, Smith included?

I’m not totally convinced by Smith, but the fact that he has to take half a new team each season and make something decent of it would argue that he’d be equipped to do that with our lot, where Bruce seemingly is in panic/blinkered mode.

And to underline your point, we don’t have any scouts now, so why not!

[SoccerHQ]

The thing that seems to weigh against Smith seems to be a worry that the scouting system behind him is the real power behind the throne at Brentford - if that's the case, couldn't we nick the whole lot, Smith included?

They don't solely use that, he also signed Sawyers and Rico Henry from Walsall.

Edit: I don't really have a favourite for our next manager. I happen to think the new owners will get someone from abroad as they'll have seen the impact likes of Nuno and Bielsa have made and concluded "championship experience" line isn't as relevant as it was two years ago when we appointed Bruce.

What I want however from the new manager is to improve players on the training ground, build a reliable system and get us playing on the front foot. I want him to get the maximum from our attacking players given how poor our defence is and even coax things out of forgotten ones like Davis and Hogan.

If we were doing a ticklist for that, Dean Smith would be pretty high up on any shortlist from realistic candidates given the last 3-4 years.

[Risso]

I don't care whether he's a Villa fan or not. I care about his ability to cope with the job and I don't think he could.

also a big worry for me. i think we need someone who's already managed a club with the same expectation levels as ours

i do think it's a huge weight on anyone's shoulders and you need to be a special sort of person to be able to handle it

I think he's a good manager and would get the team playing well and winning lots of games.    Are we saying that we wouldn't like Howe from Bournemouth either then?

[cdbearsfan]

Howe has achieved something. Getting Bournemouth to the Premier League and keeping them there is better than Smith keeping a club in the division they were in when he took over. I'm not saying Smith has done badly, by any stretch, but he would still be a gamble. He's achieved less than Graham Turner had when we appointed him.