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Chance of the above being fact: 100%. That makes me want to go and take a 'chance' and stick £20 on Moyes being the next Villa manager!!

Sorry, just wanted cheering up with all this negative doom and gloom regarding who our next manager could be!!

Me neither. It would be a little on the underwhelming side. I really can't see us employing or even getting close to unveiling a top class manager as our new manager. Negative, I know, but I really think that our ceiling for employee's is getting aimed at managers that want to make the step 'up' (Grayson, Poyet, OGS, Lambert, KM, Rodgers, Di Canio) rather than proven successful managers that would be willing to make a step that could tarnish their past successes (RDM, Ranieri, AVB, Bilic, Rafa)

It really wouldn't suprise me if Grayson got the job... As it stands, he is our level of aim at the moment...(That hurt even as I typed it)

Martinez would do it for me.... Imagine what he could do if he was backed by the board (zzzzzzzzzz and sleep)

Bookmakers eh? Do they really know anything? Just seen that the odds at william hill, Poyet now at 9/2

Probably a week before the season starts so that he can't spend much of Lerners money?

Total agreement with this ^ We really could miss and opportunity, despite it being a risk, I think it would be a worthy one.

I think the fact that OGS seems quite happy to risk everything to take the Villa job sums it up for me. I know we have not heard much from PL, but with OGS, you can already sense that he has the desire to do well with us.

Surely the managers that are in the running will have it in the back of their mind just how vicious us Villa fans can be? Would any of them, (esp Mick McCarthy) be stupid enough to volunteer themselves to go through the hatred that was directed at AM? It would certainly put me off the job if my footballing management career wasn't too good or I was already an unpopular choice for the fans.

i think ALL interviews for the Villa Manager job should be done on the half way line at Villa Park in front of 30k + fans. Just like the days of gladiator, fans vote with a thumbs up, thumbs down approach. Randy Lerner then stands up to rapturous applause and delivers his approval/disapproval. Failing managers then get wrapped in bubble wrap, have their heads cut off and stuck on a stick, which is planted on the centre circle to remind the next candidate of just how big a job this is and how demanding us fans are.

You know what? All these names being banded about really mean nothing to me... I know I might get slated for this, but I just want a manager, (regardless of where he has been before, what he has/hasn't achieved or what is name is) who will progress the club. I am not after overnight success or top class players (just yet). I am after someone that can get the players playing football again, someone that can consolidate our club and someone that the fans can relate to. We are in the unfortunate position, I feel, of having to 'start from scratch' again and this feels like the days when DOL was sacked. Ok we got a very good manager (at the time) in the shape of MON. I want someone to come in that 'cares' about the club, 'cares' about the fans and who is not just after another payday.

The yank rags are reporting before our own.. http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/05/14/alex-mcleish-sacked-by-aston-villa_n_1513964.html

I really hope so Rich, Where did you hear this delightful news?

The suspense is killing me, please don't let this drag on for days, getting no work done at all today and my desk is piling up with paperwork!

I wasn't on VT during the DOL days, would DOL have caused 1000 pages of hatred?

So true mate, Isn't it horrible though that us fans are actually hoping we get a point (at home) to a team low in the form table (Spuds). This is a game that a year or so ago, we would be quite easily looking to grab 3 points as a given... It is all AM's fault!! I'm sorry but what?! Maybe not last year but pretty much every year before that. And hopefully soon again. Err it seems the red mist of hatred towards AM sometimes turns our sunglasses into a healthy shade of rose. We have only beaten the spuds twice (2007/2008 home game, 2008/2009 away) in 12 games. Spuds have won 5 of those.... I would still have said that, despite your stats above, that we would go into a game against Spurs, at home, playing for and confident that we could get 3 points out of it and that the game was winnable.. Nowadays, that is not the case..

I think i mentioned it earlier in this thread. There is so much in the way of false information/rumours that come out of our fans in various forms that it is often extremely hard to filter out what is true and what is make-believe. Even more frustrating is the fact that the club itself is extremely slow to release most information (Not just about AM) to any of us fans, this in turn makes people 'clutch at straws'

Looking at those odds on Paul Lambert and with Norwich now mathematically safe, would he jump ship at this stage to come and manage us? I doubt it as we still have a slim chance of going down.. After the Spurs game (if we are safe), then it may be worth a punt?

Ok that clears that up then This is his twitter profile https://twitter.com/#!/AVFCMysteryMan

So true mate, Isn't it horrible though that us fans are actually hoping we get a point (at home) to a team low in the form table (Spuds). This is a game that a year or so ago, we would be quite easily looking to grab 3 points as a given... It is all AM's fault!!

For the first time this season, I am actually looking forward to a Home game....

There seems to be a lot of buzz around twitter at the moment, But as we all know, there seems to be so much crap that gets turned into a solid rumour...

As seen on Twitter.... AVFCMysteryMan There will be NO further delay if he is not out Monday I am talking shit and unfollow me but he is sacked Monday #avfc