You don't want O'Neill, too much drama attached to him. Of the one's in the list I would want Di Matteo or O'Driscoll.

What is the financial position there now? Seems there were a lot of loan players, will there be money to replace them?

I hear Avram Grant has been sounded out.

All depends on the Malaysians who're being pretty quiet at the moment. Their business plan relies on getting us promoted by 2013 (and seems tied in in ways I won't pretend to understand with VT's planned gaming license application) so hopefully they'll be prepared to throw some more money in. Of course how much will be made available to any new manager will have a hell of a lot of bearing on what managers will be interested. There's a bloke on one of the Cardiff forums that seems to get inside info well in advance but even he reckons we'll only know the budget when we see who they announce as Jones' replacement. Di Matteo would be my pick from the list and most other Cardiff fans I reckon.

What odds is Gordon Strachan?

16/1 on Skybet this morning but I hope the Malaysians aren't that stupid!

Here's the latest list:

Next Permanent Cardiff City Manager

Martin O'Neill 6/4 Billy Davies 5/1
Craig Bellamy 7/1 Roberto Di Matteo 9/1
Chris Hughton 9/1 Peter Reid 14/1
Alan Curbishley 14/1 Paul Ince 14/1
Mark Robins 14/1 Sean O'Driscoll 16/1
Malky Mackay 16/1 Gareth Southgate 16/1
Iain Dowie 16/1 Neil Warnock 16/1
Alan Irvine 16/1 Aidy Bothroyd 16/1
Gordon Strachan 16/1 Phil Brown 20/1
Lee Clark 20/1 Ian Holloway 20/1
Sam Allardyce 20/1 Gary Megson 20/1
John Toshack 20/1 Roy Keane 20/1
Ryan Giggs 33/1 Guy Poyet 33/1