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Author Topic: Managing the club was like being on death row says Paul Lambert  (Read 23253 times)

Offline KRS

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Re: Managing the club was like being on death row says Paul Lambert
« Reply #15 on: August 15, 2015, 03:37:25 PM »
Please don't remind me of the series of worst ever records...its about the only thing he successfully managed.

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Re: Managing the club was like being on death row says Paul Lambert
« Reply #16 on: August 15, 2015, 03:42:15 PM »
It just didn't work. We now seem to have someone who knows what he's doing. Time to move on.

We have.  He hasn't.

And to continue the analogy Paul, we really should have flicked the switch sooner.  We'd all have got a buzz out of that.

Let's get this straight.

1.) You took over from McLeish, which instantly guaranteed you almost infinite goodwill.
2.) You signed the contract knowing the financial situation.
3.) You had free reign to shape the squad how you wanted within the financial constraints you'd already accepted.
4.) You repeatedly talked about how good a relationship you had with Lerner.

With that backdrop
1.) Over  2˝ years, you delivered almost a full house of negative records (I know there are 2 you didn't manage but I really don't want to look up which) not to mention humiliation on humiliation, yet still retained unbelievable levels of support from the crowd.
2.) Regressed the football on the pitch to a point where you'd made McLeish's side look like Brazil of 1982.
3.) Signed a new contract for 4 more years of this purgatory.
4.) When you saw which way the wind was blowing started with the digs at the crowd.
5.) Were either party to, or allowed a bullying culture at Bodymore Heath, that was so bad your two mates achieved the impossible and were actually sacked.
6.) Were so lost without them that you first recruited Keane as your assistant and then when he couldn't be arsed any more/had finished promoting his book went through the rest of your tenure with no assistant and no obvious signs of coaching in the team.

Then when the inevitable finally happened you

1.) Stood by as your successor beat your record for the season to date in 50% fewer games using the same players.
Jealous much?

2.) Started gobbing off to your mates in the press about how hard it had all been.
You could always have resigned if it was that shit.  You'd probably have a got a couple of million out of a tribunal.  Ask you mate, the manager that's the expert in litigation.

3.) Now your talking about it being like living on Death Row.
Before we get on to anything else, that's f¤¤king distasteful.
You must have been the only person that lived thinking that you were going to get the bullet, because to the rest of the footballing world you looked bullet proof and it was a genuine shock when you went.  And again you can't complain. You were given chance after chance to prove that the odd high point was something to build on and not a fluke.  Every time you threw it away.

Now be a good boy, crawl back under your rock and shut the f##k up.

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Re: Managing the club was like being on death row says Paul Lambert
« Reply #17 on: August 15, 2015, 03:46:41 PM »
I wanted to hang myself after watching the Bradford, orient ,millwall and sheff utd games , don't start me on the rest.

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Re: Managing the club was like being on death row says Paul Lambert
« Reply #18 on: August 15, 2015, 04:08:57 PM »
Excellent summation VID. Only one thing you missed. The making of a public demand for credit due to lowering the expectations of the Villa fans. Of all the black and noisesome things that man inflicted on the club the claim that he should be congratulated for devaluing the club in the eyes of its fans was the most blackguardly.

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Re: Managing the club was like being on death row says Paul Lambert
« Reply #19 on: August 15, 2015, 04:58:27 PM »
Having framed pictures in his office of the night we beat..... Sunderland at home in the league. Embarrassing.

Offline mr underhill

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Re: Managing the club was like being on death row says Paul Lambert
« Reply #20 on: August 15, 2015, 04:58:47 PM »
Lambert was so bad, I almost felt sorry for TSM1.

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Re: Managing the club was like being on death row says Paul Lambert
« Reply #21 on: August 15, 2015, 05:01:53 PM »
Very well put, ViD.

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Re: Managing the club was like being on death row says Paul Lambert
« Reply #22 on: August 15, 2015, 05:11:21 PM »
Most of this interview is fine but if he is looking for sympathy then no. Sorry Paul but you came, you stayed  and you extended your stay so you were part of the problem along with Randy and Faulkner.

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Re: Managing the club was like being on death row says Paul Lambert
« Reply #23 on: August 15, 2015, 05:18:00 PM »
Spot on VID.

Be nice to send that in a letter to the negative weasel.

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Re: Managing the club was like being on death row says Paul Lambert
« Reply #24 on: August 15, 2015, 05:24:30 PM »
I thought the accounts exposed Lambert as blatantly lying about how much money he spent on players? Also didnt the General come out and contradict Lambert about the spending offered to him after he got axed as well? Which was rather borne out by Lerner's spending afterwards.

Honestly if Lambert wants a new job (and good luck too him, we had some good times) he is best served by being more discrete about behind the scenes tittle tattle about his previous employer, that never looks good to clubs looking to hire him.

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Re: Managing the club was like being on death row says Paul Lambert
« Reply #25 on: August 15, 2015, 05:37:07 PM »
Watching Aston Villa under Paul Lambert was as an enjoyable as getting electrocuted slowly, so we're even. 

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Re: Managing the club was like being on death row says Paul Lambert
« Reply #26 on: August 15, 2015, 06:16:37 PM »
Football under Lambert was the worst I can recall for villa. Far worse than McNeill and that's some achievement.

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Re: Managing the club was like being on death row says Paul Lambert
« Reply #27 on: August 15, 2015, 06:19:05 PM »
He honestly just needs to Shut The Fuck Up. Nobody fucking cares Paul. Nobody fucking cares.

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Re: Managing the club was like being on death row says Paul Lambert
« Reply #28 on: August 15, 2015, 06:28:02 PM »
C**t interviewed by two other c***s, ends up talking like a c**t.

He's in the club now. Soft interviews by golf club pals, presenting an opportunity for monumental revisionism in grave attempts to garner favour in the media or to get another job. It's a huge self serving circle jerk that ends up with some other set of fans being subjected to the "talents" of another fuckin' shit manager.

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Re: Managing the club was like being on death row says Paul Lambert
« Reply #29 on: August 15, 2015, 06:42:16 PM »
Thing is no one is denying that he had to work within excessively stringent restraints. But there are two things that stand up badly against that. Firstly that he not only took the job in the first place, but signed a contract extension knowing the extent of those restrictions. Secondly that even taking those restrictions into account he did a terrible job. This was a team that didn't score a goal for a month for fuck's sake. He needs to accept his obvious failings if he's ever going to have a chance of rectifying them.

 


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