Next manager?

[Border villan]

Manure are 2-0 down. We may need to have the managers door widened to fit Jose's head.

[KRS]

Only a matter of time before Mourinho is sacked after losing against Newcastle tonight...the miserable one needs to sort his head out and take some time off before his next gig though.

We need to take our time to get this appointment right, but the sooner the new manager comes in the better with the 2 weeks he'd have to sort things out behind the scenes and work with the players.

[walsall villain]

We could. Albion's defence is nearly as shit as ours but their manager has realised that rattling in goals means you still win most of your games.

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Great to see optimism out there. It’s just hit me again tonight that we still have many overpaid players who aren’t much good and ffp hanging over us. New manager will have his hands tied. Mid table at best I reckon.

[robleflaneur]

Anyone with any sense would be advised to stay well away from Villa Park, the only thing big about us now is our wage bill.

Its going to take a hell of a lot more than just tinkering with this shower to turn it into a team.

I just can't see who of any quality would want it. We're an established Championship team paying premier league wages.

The last sentence is very true.
In this league,there are a lot of sides with the same sort of potential ;Derby,Stoke,WBA,Boro,the Sheffield clubs,Forest and even Blues,who with good management could look to emulate what Bournemouth and Watford are achieving.Then you look at how massive Leeds and Villa could be.And Villa have some of the richest owners in football.
If FFP had realised some of its worst horrors and we had been forced to sell Chester,Grealish and some other experienced players,would our current league position been any worse under a decent manager who had to play some of the youngsters.
A mess of Bruce's making.But we have got rid of a dinosaur.Time to go forward.

[XXVilla]

We could. Albion's defence is nearly as shit as ours but their manager has realised that rattling in goals means you still win most of your games.

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Great to see optimism out there. It’s just hit me again tonight that we still have many overpaid players who aren’t much good and ffp hanging over us. New manager will have his hands tied. Mid table at best I reckon.

I think a couple of wins might change your mind

[PaulWinch again]

We could. Albion's defence is nearly as shit as ours but their manager has realised that rattling in goals means you still win most of your games.

And this is it. If you’re a team with a known weakness in defence, the way to counter that is not try and play defensively to cover it up. It’s to attack, score lots of goals and basically lessen the impact of the inevitable defensive failures.
In spite of some insipid displays I think we’ve still got some excellent attackers, who could score lots of goals if they were given a plan to execute.

[Lastfootstamper]

In the same way that I don't think any particular one of our last four or five results had an individual bearing on Bruce's fate, I don't think today will change the identity of his successor.

Another three points being dropped is a pisser, but I'm still expecting to be delighted with our upcoming news.

[themossman]

That was the ridiculous thing today. I know MacDonald is fatally discredited as a first team manager but to set us up like that in a definition-of-insanity, Bruce esque manner was pathetic.

[Lastfootstamper]

That was the ridiculous thing today. I know MacDonald is fatally discredited as a first team manager but to set us up like that in a definition-of-insanity, Bruce esque manner was pathetic.

Almost every time he's called upon, he's got a free hit. Do it, Kev, go on, twat it, but no.

They might as well let one of us take charge for the day.

[Ads]

What today proves is that more than ever we need a manager we inventive attacking ideas and a sense or organisation.

Today was wank, especially second half, but I'm dumbfounded by the selection and approach as I have been all season.

If you can't defend then fucking attack.

There's plenty to work with.

[Drummond]

That was the ridiculous thing today. I know MacDonald is fatally discredited as a first team manager but to set us up like that in a definition-of-insanity, Bruce esque manner was pathetic.

Almost every time he's called upon, he's got a free hit. Do it, Kev, go on, twat it, but no.

They might as well let one of us take charge for the day.

Exactly. He does nothing at all. Diddly fucking squat.

[PeterWithesShin]

He's only won 2 games as our manager I think? The West Ham game which was a very good performance and Everton at home when iirc they absolutely tonked us but we somehow won 1-0.

[Risso]

That was the ridiculous thing today. I know MacDonald is fatally discredited as a first team manager but to set us up like that in a definition-of-insanity, Bruce esque manner was pathetic.

Almost every time he's called upon, he's got a free hit. Do it, Kev, go on, twat it, but no.

They might as well let one of us take charge for the day.

Exactly. He does nothing at all. Diddly fucking squat.

And to think that pair of chumps Lerner and Krulak were seriously considering giving him the job full time after O'Neill left.  On that basis, thank Christ Newcastle dicked us 6-0 to put paid to that idea.

[wittonwarrior]

Have heard Moyes  has removed his name from the vacancy.

Say what you want about David Moyes but this is an indication of just how difficult the Villa job really is.

[Risso]

Have heard Moyes  has removed his name from the vacancy.

Say what you want about David Moyes

OK then.  David Moyes is really shit and had as much chance of getting the job as me.