Lambert meeting supporters at Villa Park tonight

[silhillvilla]

Strikes me it's clearly a 1 out, 1 in policy

[stubbsyandy]

I can't think that Lambert would have even begun to consider the Villa job if the level of funding/backing and terms of reference of the "project" were not to his liking.  He will be backed, I'm sure of that.

Are you shaw about that Duncan..?

[Mister E]

I thought Delph did look dangerous breaking forward, it was the only time we really looked like we could fashion something, as the full backs weren't gett forward much (well, Lowton did a bit, but Baker not at all).

I would imagine Lambert would have wanted him to get forward more often than he did, though

I've thought for a while that Delph may well end up at left-back. He and Lowton - whern both fully confident - as FB would make the role much more offensive; it may even allow for Vlaar, Baker and Clark to play as as a back three when appropriate, since I think all 3 have the footballing nous and technique to play it well.

[robbo1874]

We would give a lot of free kicks away in dangerous areas with Delph at left back. If he could learn to not dive in then it could work. Think we'd be looking at losing at least one goal per game from set pieces from our left flank to start with though.