Lerner backs Villa boss Lambert

[Legion]

"We pick ourselves up and carry on regardless."

[ROBBO]

One thing Nursey said which i think is bang on and our biggest weakness is that we have no Characters in the side,no hard men to keep the team focused when things go wrong, go through the team and you be hard pressed to come up with a player you could deem to be a fighter, the nearest i can get is Weiman.

[Legion]

A fighter? Hutton. Oh...

[eastie]

One thing Nursey said which i think is bang on and our biggest weakness is that we have no Characters in the side,no hard men to keep the team focused when things go wrong, go through the team and you be hard pressed to come up with a player you could deem to be a fighter, the nearest i can get is Weiman.

Very true - no leadership .

[walsall villain]

One thing Nursey said which i think is bang on and our biggest weakness is that we have no Characters in the side,no hard men to keep the team focused when things go wrong, go through the team and you be hard pressed to come up with a player you could deem to be a fighter, the nearest i can get is Weiman.

Very true - no leadership .

Don't need fighters, need leaders. Players who can react to what they see happening on the pitch without waiting for instructions from the bench. Still can't believe the 5 up front debacle last week but couldn't the infamous 5 see it wasn't likely to work and react?

[Witton Warrior]

Why do I get this sneaking feeling that if we go down the fans will be blamed for this because we didn't support the manager enough?

[Apyadg]

They can give it a try, but for the fans to change anything this season, we'd all need to run on to the pitch and line up on the goal line for every corner.

[Clampy]

One thing Nursey said which i think is bang on and our biggest weakness is that we have no Characters in the side,no hard men to keep the team focused when things go wrong

I think that's been obvious for a while to be honest.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

But Phil, what you're saying there is that the quality of the squad is the problem, as evidenced in the link, the quantity is there.

This is the point I was trying to make, the numbers are there but the experienced guys on the list are either shit, out of form or injured, meaning we're relying on the ones who should've been playing the odd game here and there, not starting regularly.

It comes back to the same mistakes being made repeatedly.  Every experienced player we've signed since Milner has been a disappointment in the long run, be it due to injuries, loss of form or general shitness; that's a spectacular run of poor choices and bad luck.  Most of those senior players have ended up hanging around taking wages out of the club whilst offering very little back, no club could sustain it and it's only because of Lerner paying our running costs that we've coped to the extent we have.

The problem for me, Paul, is that we've all seen the potential at some stage or other of the players, they're not all bad. What's happening though is instead of one or two players having a bad run, it's almost every single one of them at the same time, week in, week out and Lambert has done nothing to address the problem.

I'm more than aware Lambert is still learning his trade as a manager but it's bloody frustrating he' fails to see the elephant in the room. Tactically, he just picks himself up and goes again with the same system that isn't right for now.

[Phil from the upper holte]

Why do I get this sneaking feeling that if we go down the fans will be blamed for this because we didn't support the manager enough?

I think up until now he's had tremendous support

[dave.woodhall]

Lerner a fucking fool and makes Doug look like Steve Jobs

Erm..Steve Jobs is dead.

When he was a live!

When he was a live what?

[ez]

Why do I get this sneaking feeling that if we go down the fans will be blamed for this because we didn't support the manager enough?

And if we stay up it will be a successful season.

[adam#1]

Words are lovely. Deeds are better. Do or Do not. There is no try.

He can say what he likes to try and placate the fans and media. Ultimately he should be judged on outcomes. And he's taken our club down to 1 spot from the relegation spots with the worse goal difference in the league. It may be the manager and players who are delivering that, buts its Lerner who's taken us there.

[neo_Villan]

Why do I get this sneaking feeling that if we go down the fans will be blamed for this because we didn't support the manager enough?

They won't be able to peddle that one this time. Never seen a managers name being chanted by our lot after being battered by the likes of Wigan at home.

[Witton Warrior]

Why do I get this sneaking feeling that if we go down the fans will be blamed for this because we didn't support the manager enough?

And if we stay up it will be a successful season.

Yes - the "plan" will have worked...