OutByEaster? Posted December 27, 2016 Moderator Share Posted December 27, 2016 So, we've had 11 permanent managers thus far in this century. Some have fared better than others, some have worked under difficult circumstances, some under difficult chairmen and it's fair to say some have been better than others. Which leaves it to you fine people of VT to judge. What I'm looking for from you is these eleven managers, in order, by your opinion of who did best for us through to who did worst. John Gregory 2000 - Jan 2002 Graham Taylor 2002 - May 2003 David O'Leary 2003 - July 2006 Martin O'Neill 2006 - Aug 2010 Gerard Houllier 2010 - June 2011 Alex McLeish 2011 - May 2012 Paul Lambert 2012 - Feb 2015 Tim Sherwood 2015 - Oct 2015 Remi Garde 2015 - March 2016 Roberto DiMatteo 2016- Oct 2016 Steve Bruce 2016 - present Enjoy! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OutByEaster? Posted December 27, 2016 Author Moderator Share Posted December 27, 2016 And to answer my own question: John Gregory Martin O'Neill Paul Lambert Steve Bruce David O'Leary Gerard Houllier Graham Taylor Alex McLeish Remi Garde Tim Sherwood Roberto Di Matteo 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Designer1 Posted December 27, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted December 27, 2016 (edited) John Gregory 2000 - Jan 2002 Martin O'Neill 2006 - Aug 2010 Steve Bruce 2016 - present Paul Lambert 2012 - Feb 2015 David O'Leary 2003 - July 2006 Gerard Houllier 2010 - June 2011 Graham Taylor 2002 - May 2003 Alex McLeish 2011 - May 2012 Roberto DiMatteo 2016- Oct 2016 Tim Sherwood 2015 - Oct 2015 Remi Garde 2015 - March 2016 **Have to say I don't think Bruce should be included, but i've based my choice on what he's done so far. Edited December 27, 2016 by Designer1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest av1 Posted December 27, 2016 Share Posted December 27, 2016 2 minutes ago, OutByEaster? said: And to answer my own question: John Gregory Martin O'Neill Paul Lambert Steve Bruce David O'Leary Gerard Houllier Graham Taylor Alex McLeish Remi Garde Tim Sherwood Roberto Di Matteo I'd go with that i think. What an absolute sh#t shower of a list though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Xela Posted December 27, 2016 Popular Post Share Posted December 27, 2016 (edited) John Gregory Martin O'Neill Steve Bruce Gerard Houllier David O'Leary Graham Taylor Tim Sherwood Paul Lambert Roberto Di Matteo Alex McLeish Remi Garde Lets be honest 7-11 are just variants of shit. Edited December 27, 2016 by Xela 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sexbelowsound Posted December 27, 2016 Share Posted December 27, 2016 Pretty much the same as OBE but i've switched Garde and Sherwood around. John Gregory Martin O'Neill Paul Lambert Steve Bruce David O'Leary Gerard Houllier Graham Taylor Alex McLeish Tim Sherwood Remi Garde Roberto Di Matteo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjw63 Posted December 27, 2016 Share Posted December 27, 2016 Lambert was shit, he helped ruin us. I'd have mcLeish above him anytime. Gregory and O'Neill top two Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alreadyexists Posted December 27, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted December 27, 2016 Hmm, I'd probably go for this: John Gregory Martin O'Neil Paul Lambert David O'Leary Steve Bruce Graham Taylor Gerard Houllier Alex McLeish Remi Garde Roberto Di Mondeo Tim Sherwood I feel bad for putting Tim Sherwood last, as that Liverpool semi-final in the FA Cup was the best game we'd played for years and he did help keep us up that year... but he was a disaster for the club really given that summer transfer window. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Albrighton Posted December 27, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted December 27, 2016 (edited) As Edmund Blackadder said, ah the agony of choice. 1. John Gregory 2. Martin O'Neill 3. Steve Bruce 4. David O'Leary 5. Gerard Houllier 6. Graham Taylor 7. Paul Lambert 8. Alex McLeish 9. Remi Garde 10. Tim Sherwood 11. Roberto DiMatteo Incidentally, that eleven would have been a preferable line up to last season's team sheets. Edited December 27, 2016 by Shropshire Lad 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted December 27, 2016 Share Posted December 27, 2016 dont like reviewing shit so I just give a one line or so on each manager 1. Gregory - brought us some good times and had ambition but honestly think he reached his ceiling in last season in charge 2. Taylor - uninspiring and a cheap option by Doug at time. lucky to stay up 3. O'Leary - one good season and very good in transfer market. Laursen, Bouma, Solano. pity he an absoltue word removed 4. MON - we did well under him but just like Gregory probably reached his ceiling with squad. his exit and transfers left a bad taste in mouth 5 - Houllier - meh appointment. didnt really see the potential he was bringing. granted he inherited an injury crisis but only stayed up as splashed out on Bent 6. McLeish - wrong man at the wrong club. terrible appointment all around though he did leave us with Nzogbia and Hutton 7. Lambert - shambles of a manager, one good signing out of about 20 and in 3 years couldnt organise a defence. provided us numerous embarrassments and should have been sacked after the 8-0 or the Bradford game 8. Sherwood - made watching Villa fun again for a few weeks including some brilliant results and performance but he lost the plot and became a broken man soon after 9. Garde - just like Houllier though he never got a transfer window though saw nothing that he would make us better. came as an organiser and offered nothing 10. RDM - just pips Garde as worst manager we ever had. shit tactics, shit transfers and shit results. so all in all we hired a load of crap 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grasshopper Posted December 27, 2016 Share Posted December 27, 2016 Martin O'Neill 2006 - Aug 2010 John Gregory 2000 - Jan 2002 Steve Bruce 2016 - present Graham Taylor 2002 - May 2003 David O'Leary 2003 - July 2006 Gerard Houllier 2010 - June 2011 Alex McLeish 2011 - May 2012 Paul Lambert 2012 - Feb 2015 Tim Sherwood 2015 - Oct 2015 Remi Garde 2015 - March 2016 Roberto DiMatteo 2016- Oct 2016 Basically a downward spiral since MoN left we got closer and closer to the drop once dropped we had a NoCluer in charge of 50+mill shocking appointments all eccept Mon JG & SB GT mkii was past it DoL was always putting us down GH nearly died on us AMcL kept us drawing PL nearly took us down TS ensured we couldnt stay up RG left out to dry RDM Couldnt even get it up footballwise let alone us with 50+mill looking forward to the HDE Bendall HDE RL TX Thread 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dont_do_it_doug. Posted December 28, 2016 Share Posted December 28, 2016 5 hours ago, OutByEaster? said: So, we've had 11 permanent managers thus far in this century. Some have fared better than others, some have worked under difficult circumstances, some under difficult chairmen and it's fair to say some have been better than others. Which leaves it to you fine people of VT to judge. What I'm looking for from you is these eleven managers, in order, by your opinion of who did best for us through to who did worst. John Gregory 2000 - Jan 2002 Graham Taylor 2002 - May 2003 David O'Leary 2003 - July 2006 Martin O'Neill 2006 - Aug 2010 Gerard Houllier 2010 - June 2011 Alex McLeish 2011 - May 2012 Paul Lambert 2012 - Feb 2015 Tim Sherwood 2015 - Oct 2015 Remi Garde 2015 - March 2016 Roberto DiMatteo 2016- Oct 2016 Steve Bruce 2016 - present Enjoy! I guess it's all relative, but in terms of the excitement they've bought to me; 1. O'Neill 2. Gregory 3. Bruce 4. O'Leary 5. Houllier 6. Taylor 7. Lambert 8. Sherwood =9. Di Matteo =9. Garde 11. McLeish After number 6 they were all pretty much trash and that's being kind on Taylor. Sherwood delivered 3 of the most exciting months I've had as a fan, but in an ideal world I'd want him bottom of the list. Goes to show just how bad that last 5 are that he's not the worst. McLeish made pissing blood seem like an interesting alternative past time to football as did Lambert towards the end, but he did OK for a couple of years under difficult circumstances. Di Matteo and Garde may well be the same bloke for all I know or care. Probably ridiculous that I've had to put Bruce 3rd after just 12 games, but at least he gives me hope and at least I like the guy. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoof hearted Posted December 28, 2016 Share Posted December 28, 2016 John Gregory and MON, the rest are confined to the part of the brain that deals with anxiety and depression and thusly forgotten. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozvillafan Posted December 28, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted December 28, 2016 John Gregory Martin O'Neill Steve Bruce Gerard Houllier David O'Leary Paul Lambert Graham Taylor Remi Garde Alex McLeish Tim Sherwood Roberto DiMatteo Bruce is high because, unlike those who came immediately before him, he is getting results out of the squad he has at his disposal. Houllier gets higher since he tried to play positive possession-based football and treated the players like the professionals they should have been. Taylor survives on this reputation, not his second stint. Garde only goes up the list because he had NOTHING to work with (both players and board) The last 3 are absolute chancers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Villaphan04 Posted December 28, 2016 Share Posted December 28, 2016 Martin O'Neill John Gregory Steve Bruce David O'Leary Gerard Houllier Paul Lambert Graham Taylor Remi Garde Alex McLeish Tim Sherwood Roberto DiMatteo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted December 28, 2016 Share Posted December 28, 2016 When MON was good it was the best footballing moments I've ever experienced, there was an awful lot bad that went along with it too though, heskey, beye, refusal to play a RB at RB, some shocking home defeats when the counter attack didn't work, every March...I'd started to have enough of him, he'd got us as far as he could, his own stubbornness and lack of plan b meant we'd go no further, whats happened to us since with our rapid decline means he's got away with a lot then he threw his toys out the pram... i can't stand the bloke and he'd still be 2nd on my list 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dont_do_it_doug. Posted December 29, 2016 Share Posted December 29, 2016 I think putting Houllier above O'Leary is **** nuts, by the way. O'Leary might be an absolute cockwomble but he did a good job for a couple of years before we couldn't even afford the loan fee for Erik Bakke. He lost the dressing room yes, but it's hardly a shock. The club was a mess, even more so than it was 6 months ago. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyh29 Posted December 29, 2016 Share Posted December 29, 2016 Martin O'Neill John Gregory David O'Leary Paul Lambert Gerard Houllier Alex Mcleish Graham Taylor Steve Bruce Tim Sherwood Roberto Di Matteo RemI Garde all things considered Lambert kept us up under difficult circumstances ( though he most likely would have taken us down if we hadn't had fired him )and has probably been harshly treated as a result of Lerner Bruce will almost certainly end up taking 3rd spot ( or higher ) but no way can he be rated any higher than 8th based on so few games Garde has to be the worst managerial appointment in history , even worse than Billy McNeil and Doctor Jo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Posted December 29, 2016 Share Posted December 29, 2016 Steve Bruce Martin O'Neill John Gregory Tim Sherwood David O'Leary Gerard Houllier Graham Taylor Paul Lambert Alex McLeish Roberto Di Matteo Remi Garde Its a bit early to call for Brucie but so far that is where I would put him in anticipation of our promotion this season although that is clearly subject to change. I have based my list on how I felt about the club with these bosses at the helm along with results and the backing or lack of it that they were given. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OutByEaster? Posted December 29, 2016 Author Moderator Share Posted December 29, 2016 Blimey John - Sherwood fourth! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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