We need someone to get us out of this mess. First priority. Not (at the moment) thinking about next season. When appointing previous managers we were thinking about trying to be successful but at this moment we are thinking about surviving.
And for this, we need an experienced manager, not necessarily how successful they have been anywhere else, although that would be nice, that's i would like Dowie or Brown as they are experienced in the manager position. Sammy Lee would be an awful appointment as he is only experienced in the no. 2 position, this means nothing. As can be seen when he was manager for Bolton, he was a disaster and only managed to last a matter of months.