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[Risso]

My wife's family are all from Bolton and are Bolton supporters.  Allardyce is a hero in the town.

[Dave P]

That was about 15 years ago and football has moved on massively. Even Pulis is more up to date and relevant then BS.

[Allan C]

My wife's family are all from Bolton and are Bolton supporters.  Allardyce is a hero in the town.

Each to their own I suppose. I guess there are people in Small Heath who deem Bruce a hero

[PeterWithesShin]

He did wonders at Bolton and i'm not surprised they love him up there, but it was all built around the tactic of using the 2 Kevins. There may have been the flair of Okocha, but it was still mainly using Davies and Nolan.

[hilts_coolerking]

I'd be more inclined to rubbish Allardyce and his style of football if we were wowing everyone with our modern, aesthetically pleasing and progressive style.  Or winning.

[ChicagoLion]

He did wonders at Bolton and i'm not surprised they love him up there, but it was all built around the tactic of using the 2 Kevins. There may have been the flair of Okocha, but it was still mainly using Davies and Nolan.

Davies was an excellent Centre forward

[eamonn]

He did wonders at Bolton and i'm not surprised they love him up there, but it was all built around the tactic of using the 2 Kevins. There may have been the flair of Okocha, but it was still mainly using Davies and Nolan.

Do we really need to talk about Kevins?

[nigel]

I certainly don’t want DS to go. He’s learning, too, and think he’ll come back stronger.
However, if they did decide to look elsewhere I’d expect a Poccetino(?) type announcement

[villabear]

He did wonders at Bolton and i'm not surprised they love him up there, but it was all built around the tactic of using the 2 Kevins. There may have been the flair of Okocha, but it was still mainly using Davies and Nolan.
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Do we really need to talk about Kevins?

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[Richard E]

Given how long it might be before there is any competitive football, we should probably be discussing which 15 year olds look like they might have the future potential to be great Villa managers.

[PaulTheVillan]

Rafa Benitez

[Steve67]

Rafa Benitez

Seconded. If he will work for Purslow.

[Brassneck]

Be ironic if we ended up with Rafa while Newcastle have Bruce.

If they continue with Bruce then there’s a good chance they’ll end up relegated again.

[Ozzjim]

If it looks this week like the season will resume, we should be shaking Smiths hand, patting him on the back and replacing him with a manager that can actually organise a back 4 and team shape to not be walked through 20 times a game. If we were playing Arsenal 2003 football along with it fine, but we are playing fucking awfully. Rafa is the ideal either way, if he is a no, then I would give it to Sam for 10 games. Hate the man, but he would do the job. Trouble is, no one knows anything, and if the season is over, then our manager choice would be wider, but never more pivotal.

[Damo70]

Given how long it might be before there is any competitive football, we should probably be discussing which 15 year olds look like they might have the future potential to be great Villa managers.

A fifteen year old who is good at playing FIFA on the Playstation would probably do better then several of our former managers did.