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Re: Paul Lambert gets a new job.
« Reply #766 on: May 08, 2018, 10:47:44 AM »
Along with Graham Turner the worst Villa manager I have known. You could add McNeill and Garde but they both took on a poisoned chalice.
McNeill, TSM and Lambert - all utterly shite.

The fact that Turner is probably no longer in the 3 worst is saying something

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Re: Paul Lambert gets a new job.
« Reply #767 on: May 08, 2018, 07:48:15 PM »
Major overhaul on its way at Stoke.  Cue the I never stood a chance comments, plus the renewed four year contract.

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Re: Paul Lambert gets a new job.
« Reply #768 on: May 08, 2018, 08:01:17 PM »
Great image from Stoke on Saturday

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/may/07/paul-lambert-stoke-manager-future-contract-clause#img-1

Remember the 8-0 at Chelsea, mate? I'll never forgive him for that. He should have been fired the next day.

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Re: Paul Lambert gets a new job.
« Reply #769 on: May 08, 2018, 08:03:05 PM »
He must have had more ‘should have been sacked just for that result’ moments than any other Manager in our history.

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Re: Paul Lambert gets a new job.
« Reply #770 on: May 08, 2018, 08:22:05 PM »
What is it with these London media types?  I just caught a bit of Jon Cross on Talkshite saying he’s been unlucky and they’ve definitely improved under him.  Ffs they managed to get themselves relegated before Albion!

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Re: Paul Lambert gets a new job.
« Reply #771 on: May 08, 2018, 08:42:25 PM »
What is it with these London media types?  I just caught a bit of Jon Cross on Talkshite saying he’s been unlucky and they’ve definitely improved under him.

13 games without a win!!! That's more than a 3rd of a season!!! How does he do it?!

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Re: Paul Lambert gets a new job.
« Reply #772 on: May 08, 2018, 08:46:25 PM »
Great image from Stoke on Saturday

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/may/07/paul-lambert-stoke-manager-future-contract-clause#img-1

Remember the 8-0 at Chelsea, mate? I'll never forgive him for that. He should have been fired the next day.

He should’ve been sacked at half time.

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Re: Paul Lambert gets a new job.
« Reply #773 on: May 08, 2018, 09:31:19 PM »
Christmas 2012 v Chelsea/Spuds/Wigan. Lost 15-0. Followed up by January Cup humiliations v Millwall and Bradford. Throw in yet more league defeats v Saints and Newcastle in the same month. Utterly inexcusable and unforgivable.

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Re: Paul Lambert gets a new job.
« Reply #774 on: May 08, 2018, 09:56:42 PM »
Great image from Stoke on Saturday

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/may/07/paul-lambert-stoke-manager-future-contract-clause#img-1

Remember the 8-0 at Chelsea, mate? I'll never forgive him for that. He should have been fired the next day.

Should MON have been fired for the 7-1 defeat there with a much better side?

Hindsight is great but at the time it was our first defeat in 7, we'd just smashed Liverpool at Anfield, and were in a cup semi final with a near bye to the final.

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Re: Paul Lambert gets a new job.
« Reply #775 on: May 08, 2018, 10:49:53 PM »
Yeah, he shouldn't have been sacked then, we should have got rid after Millwall.

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Re: Paul Lambert gets a new job.
« Reply #776 on: May 08, 2018, 10:56:14 PM »
I don't actively dislike many people. but Lambert's one of them. How can anyone be so utterly useless and  become a multi millionaire?

He's doing it again now. Jack Butland is in the press defending him, saying the squad was crap and he should be given the chance to manage them next year.

1 win in 14 matches!!!

He must be a better hypnotist than Derren Brown to convince this many people he's not utterly useless!

Get the feeling he's probably quite good with the players off the pitch so they make excuses for his poor records. Shaqiri running to him after scoring would be indication of this and while he was here likes of Benteke, D*lph and Vlaar seemed to have good respect for him.

Even got the bomb squad onside as after he left Hutton came out and said it was a Lerner decision.

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Re: Paul Lambert gets a new job.
« Reply #777 on: May 08, 2018, 10:58:17 PM »
Christmas 2012 v Chelsea/Spuds/Wigan. Lost 15-0. Followed up by January Cup humiliations v Millwall and Bradford. Throw in yet more league defeats v Saints and Newcastle in the same month. Utterly inexcusable and unforgivable.

We did actually improve in the last two months of that season, maybe by more luck than judgement but we started getting results and were good to watch.

The next season though showed how limited he was as a manager at the top level and we weren't destined for greatness under him.

No different to Sherwood really. Once plan A was nulified there was no other method attempted apart from that bizarre possession based game we attempted when we went 7 games without scoring.

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Re: Paul Lambert gets a new job.
« Reply #778 on: May 08, 2018, 11:21:34 PM »
The reverse Guzan goalkick. Lambert learned it on one of his brainstorming trips to Dortmund. Yet to be superceded.

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Re: Paul Lambert gets a new job.
« Reply #779 on: May 08, 2018, 11:31:38 PM »
Christmas 2012 v Chelsea/Spuds/Wigan. Lost 15-0. Followed up by January Cup humiliations v Millwall and Bradford. Throw in yet more league defeats v Saints and Newcastle in the same month. Utterly inexcusable and unforgivable.

We did actually improve in the last two months of that season, maybe by more luck than judgement but we started getting results and were good to watch.

The next season though showed how limited he was as a manager at the top level and we weren't destined for greatness under him.

No different to Sherwood really. Once plan A was nulified there was no other method attempted apart from that bizarre possession based game we attempted when we went 7 games without scoring.

This is the key thing, we can look back at that christmas as a point when he should've gone but the truth is February to May that season we looked like he'd eventually worked it out.  The following summer we needed to add 2-3 quality players (a wide attacking player to compete with Gabby and Weimann, an upgrade on Westwood and a better Left back), instead he went on a European spree of gambles for about 7-8 players, seemingly on the basis that Benteke had worked out well so he could do it again.  When we were still in the shit that Christmas was the time to bin him because he'd shown he didn't have it in him by then.

 


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