Paul Lambert Interview from Sky today

[go on the dog]

http://www1.skysports.com/watch/video/9177995/weekend-warm-up-paul-lambert

[Monty]

It's a little disturbing, not that he's inarticulate (that's fine enough), but how unclear any of his thinking he is. He's asked a question about the way we play, and he says how possession isn't everything then gets onto his kids being bored with his career in no time at all. It's like his mind is a skipping stone, skimming over the surface from issue to issue, never really going into the depth of anything. Until, of course, he ends up in a 'The Mighty Reds YNWA'.

[OCD]

Or it's bad editing/interview technique.

On possession, he did say that there has to be an end product and then used Barcelona/Bayern Munich as examples of such teams. Whereas someone like Swansea haven't been finding an end product enough. I agree with that point but I think he's too quick to dismiss possession football too often and that concerns me as I think that should be the starting point.

[silhillvilla]

Not everyone can be Barcelona.

[OCD]

True but not everybody has to be a Stoke either.

[ChicagoLion]

What uninspiring inarticulate crap. He cant string an intelligible sentence together. No vision, he actually said "mid table or a little bit higher"

His team and tactics reflect his personality and character. Not very bright and totally lacking any excitement..

He is safe in the mediocrity bubble with Lerner and Faulkner. If ever there was evidence to show why these people should not be running this club, this interview demonstrated this perfectly.
The modern Aston Villa, no ambition and zero entertainment.

[Dante Lavelli]

He's pretty coy when speaking to the media.  You'd struggle to find the sound bites from that interview to create a written story, in many ways the complete opposite of say Redknapp.  I hope he's more dynamic and forceful when speaking to the team and describing his vision to them.

[olaftab]

I see another "Lambert is shit thread" is emerging.

[Chris Smith]

I see another "Lambert is shit thread" is emerging.

Yep, it's a well honed technique.

[Dave Clark Five]

That interview was entitled 'weekend warm up'. Managers have been called Mogadon for being so sleep inducing. The interview got off to a flying start when it was established that we are never going to win the league and will be trying to come mid table. He may have been referring to this season but I think that it reflects his overall ambition.

[Concrete John]

I don't think it's about ambition as much as the reality of the finances involved.  If he had said "We're going to take a run at the title next season" he'd be rightly laughed at, unless he finds a few hundred million or so down the back of the sofa.

[Dave Clark Five]

I don't think it's about ambition as much as the reality of the finances involved.  If he had said "We're going to take a run at the title next season" he'd be rightly laughed at, unless he finds a few hundred million or so down the back of the sofa.

I agree that he is on a hiding to nothing.  Just a pity he has to drone so much.

[Dante Lavelli]

He's damned if he does, damned if he doesn't.  The way I heard it, was that "we aim to finish mid-table, and then higher" inferring that this season is mid-table and beyond that we aim a little bit higher, a little higher after that etc...

He's be daft to say anything else wouldn't he.

Similarly with the money question, he's hardly going to say, actually this summer we've got shed loads to spend.  It's not in his or the club's interest to do that unless he/the club are looking to falsely sell season tickets or whatever.

[Rigadon]

Agreed, Dante.  But it's pretty difficult to be anything other than massively underwhelmed by our tilt at mid-table wouldn't you agree?

[caster troy]

I'd be fine with mid table if we were middle on points, but sadly we are 4 points from the bottom 3 and 9 points off 9th. Not losing to lower league opposition in the cups every time would be a bonus too.

Back to the interview... dour and incomprehensible, just like his tactics.