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Please not Curbishley.

They wouldn't would they?

Don't even tempt fate

anyone who thinks that the VDV transfer is not dodgy needs there head testing

Dodgy or not he is still a Spurs player now.

And for two thirds of the price of Stewart Downing......who said English players' prices are over-inflated? :shock:

who picks the team? - Kev Mac

who identifies players to buy and sell? - GH

who picks the tactics? - Kev Mac

On point #2 I'd expand it and say KMac identifies gaps in the squad and gives GH the criteria needed, then GH identifies who the solution is.

Isn't that how it works with scouts?

Do we have any scouts?

We have many scouts.

My father lives next door to one in South Wales, he constantly questions what he actually does as he never appears to go anywhere and we haven't 'found' someone from South Wales since Delaney....who apparently this guy was instrumental in signing.....

who picks the team? - Kev Mac

who identifies players to buy and sell? - GH

who picks the tactics? - Kev Mac

In which case it is bad bad bad for me

Not only do I think Macdonald is naive and poor at first team selection and tactics I also think there would be a tendency for interfernec from the DOF.

Of all the faults I could pull up or propose when discussing K Mac, tactics would be the last thing on my mind.

You can't win the Reserve league three years running by being tactically naieve. Unlike the first team he cannot call upon the magic of top quality players, he won't have known 100% at least what his squad will have been from game to game and so you have to imagine that it's tactics that won that Reserve League three years running....would be my opinion anyway.

who picks the team? - Kev Mac

who identifies players to buy and sell? - GH

who picks the tactics? - Kev Mac

On point #2 I'd expand it and say KMac identifies gaps in the squad and gives GH the criteria needed, then GH identifies who the solution is.

I'm not disagreeing but I would expect a Dir of Football to spend enough time in and around the club, particularly on matchdays to be able to fathom for themselves where and when we need players in, that is afterall their primary purpose, so far as I can see anyway.

Oh and FWIW I do not like the idea of a DOF for me they just do not work. We need a manager not a DOF.

The board very much need more football people on it or more football nouse but a DOF is not the way to go for me

Very much my thinking, too.

It needs a David Dein on the board, not a Gerard Houiller.

I agree. Lots of unanswered questions for me if this is the route. I mean

who picks the team?

who identifies players to buy and sell?

who picks the tactics?

who picks the team? - Kev Mac

who identifies players to buy and sell? - GH

who picks the tactics? - Kev Mac

Simples.

Houllier will raise our profile, if nothing else.

Plus he'll earn me £100 if it happens!!

Where do all the Villa boys tend to congregate before a match in Stoke?

I normally go with a load of my Stoke pals but a few of them aren't around that night.....

Great signing for Spurs, particularly if it's at the reported £8M, that I find unbelievable and if true something only ol' Harry could pull off you fancy.

You calling him a wheeler and dealer?

I'm calling him Harry Redknapp......I believe he may soon forge his very own genre of dodgy dealings to be referred to in the dictionary as 'doing a hazza'.....

^^

because we're in the 'other football' section and Spurs constitute other football last time i checked...

^^What?^^

A year ago we were walking round with rods protruding from our crotches at the prospect of signing VDV with some claiming he would transform us over night and be the marquee signing required to kick on and become a top four club.

Now that he's joined Spurs he's become, meh??

Great signing for Spurs, particularly if it's at the reported £8M, that I find unbelievable and if true something only ol' Harry could pull off you fancy.

Banned from H and V = for the first and probably last time

Not sure whether this is a positive or negative riposte.......do I laugh or cry, do we bring in a manager or not...so many questions.....arrghghh

*Villa fans in over-reaction shocker*

For what it's worth I don't honestly care how long the board take to appoint someone so long as it turns out to be the correct decision.

This season was always going to be a tough one even if MoN hadn't walked out on us five days before the season started but, given that fact, it's fair to assume that in terms of seriously challenging for anything this season, well, it's been written off hasn't it?

Hence, I don't care how long we take to get the right person in. The fact that the club is taking their time on the matter says to me that they're making a well informed decision and are looking at all the angles which for me, is the only thing you can ask for.

The attitude of some on here is laughable, quite literally. It'll get sorted one way or another and the club are not obligated to keep us, the fans, up to date with every little happening that goes on, to expect anything like that is a throwback to the 'good ol' days of football' when you could bump in to your star player down the local boozer.....aint gonna happen nowadays so get with the programme.

Also, and just throwing it out there for discussion but, has anyone else noticed a correlation between those who 'over react' or act in a manner which could be deemed as over-reactive to those who don't attend matches?

Not sure this has any relevance at all and I could be a million miles off the mark but just the way it seems to me.....

Sven Goran Erikkson.

He seems driven by money and not ambition. Took jobs with Mexico and the Ivory Coast having been offered large sums of money, subsequently failed with both two in what turned out to be short term appointments.

Did well in Italy yes but only when he had ridiculous amounts of money to play around with, won a few trophies but the sustainability with those clubs was not there (lazio).

What was he doing at notts county for **** sake, that had to have been a purely money driven arrangement??

Man city he did okay...with a lot of money again to play around with - seeing a theme here?

He's a parasite, taking large salaries wherever he can get them and fair play to him, who wouldn't love that? But I do not want to see him at VP. I am convinced he would not do well.

I think we should brace ourselves to be at least a little underwhelmed with the appointment once it's completed.

PS3's are cool tho

this has been randys first big challenging test since he has come and so far he has failed, and failed badly

What a stupid comment.

MoN has not been gone for just over a fortnight, get real mate.

why though?

because he accepted a job he was offered by a club who happen to be close to ours?

I remember him joking with some villa fans when we sang sit down potato head to him..he's a really nice guy. Plus everyone on here seems to think we should get a high profile manager - 12 years ago he was part of one of the best teams in English History..how d'ya like dem apples?

If we did appoint him, he would not get booed and if he did, 1 win would change that

So was Paul Parker, lets just get him in instead

bring back big ron.

Yeah! We're sure to entice the foreigners in then

Well, and believe this or say it is rubbish, but I have a strong feeling that Grayson may just be a front runner.

Is that just a feeling or have you heard something?

Slowly going off football. Depressing summer. No good news to look forward to. Just been trashed 6-0 away from home by Newcastle **** United. Board keep giving us this PR bullshit that they are waiting for the right man, what they really mean is that they are waiting until September 1st to get someone in. The worst thing is some people on this forum actually believe this PR, corporate bullshit. We'll slowly slip down the table, won't get a manager in that everyone will get behind. Fantastic.

What a barrel of laughs you are mate :shock:

It's football, it goes up and down, you enjoy the good times as much as you resent the bad times but you get over it. In six months time Sunday will be a distant memory......I was mortified yesterday but today is a whole new ball game.

hope this offers still on.......will find out shortly

Be absolute chaos. And a no go for me. Whats wrong with just having a manager?

Chill. We're just having a bit of fun.

Not forgetting we've just lost MON & entourage & Kevin Mac was already here.

It's simply 2 appointments & one of them maybe not here all the time.

Im very chilled - ask my boss 8)

Just voicing my opinion. i dont think it would work. Needs 1 man in charge. Not 3 men all on the same level trying to pull together different tasks.

It's only a problem if its a disharmonious (is that even a word??) relationship.

If they're in unison then it could be beautiful.

Wasn't all that impressed to be honest, think the game passed him by, thought Hogg was a disaster too.

I really don't mean to be rude mate but I have to question which game you actually watched last night?

So far we've had:

"I'd say Albrighton is naturally two-footed"

'Heskey was absolutely shit from start to finish'

"Hogg was a disaster"

"the game passed him by" - referring to Bannan

Albrighton is not yet two-footed, he's incredibly right footed.

Heskey was actually pretty good in the first half but faded as the game wore on.

Hogg was not a disaster, he did the simple things well and was disciplined in the centre of midfield - do not forget, this was his first competitive start for the first team, to expect much more in the conditions is crazy.

Bannan, okay he didn't do an awful lot but he scored the frickin goal and looked lively enough in flashes, again, this was his first competitive start for the club.

I'm all for opinions but yours seem wide of the mark I'm sorry to say.

Where's Salifou?

rested for Sunday :shock: