Paul Lambert - a retrospective

[passitsideways]

I suppose there were a few what ifs that came up over his tenure - what if we'd gotten Coutinho in January 2013, what if he'd done better business in summer 2013, and so on.

Never had any idea about how to make the next step to build on an initial positive, or to make the right adjustments when things went wrong though.

[Three Spires Villa]

Poor manager, who got in some poor players he didn't need and moaned he didn't have any money, and the media believed him. Wouldn't play Bent. So many of his players left for nothing after going out on loan

[wittonwarrior]

Very overrated manager

[Jimbo]

A stupid manager for a stupid owner.

[ChicagoLion]

There was the glimmer of hope with the end of first season run that kept us up and we played football.
Then he went straight back to boring turgid dour crap.
Wanker.

[dave.woodhall]

There was the glimmer of hope with the end of first season run that kept us up and we played football.
Then he went straight back to boring turgid dour crap.
Wanker.

I'll never understand that. He kept us up playing some of the best football, and with some of the best goals, we've had this century. There was a bit of optimism for the future but from then on it was just shite.

[ChicagoLion]

There was the glimmer of hope with the end of first season run that kept us up and we played football.
Then he went straight back to boring turgid dour crap.
Wanker.

I'll never understand that. He kept us up playing some of the best football, and with some of the best goals, we've had this century. There was a bit of optimism for the future but from then on it was just shite.

It has to go down as a where did it all go wrong period.
If he had approached the next season as he finished the last then I doubt we would be where we are now.

[tomd2103]

Thought he was a good appointment at the time, but was allowed to drift for far too long.  Had a poor start and the December and January of his first season were as poor as I can remember.  We did pick up towards the end of that season and played some good football during that period.  We started the next season off well (the win at Arsenal), but it wasn't to last and we reverted to being poor again.  He should have gone at the end of that season, especially after what happened with Culverhouse and Karsa. 

He was allowed to drift on aimlessly before being eventually sacked, but the damage was done by then.  He would have definitely taken us down if he would have been allowed to continue, whether it be that season or the next.   

[SoccerHQ]

There was the glimmer of hope with the end of first season run that kept us up and we played football.
Then he went straight back to boring turgid dour crap.
Wanker.

I'll never understand that. He kept us up playing some of the best football, and with some of the best goals, we've had this century. There was a bit of optimism for the future but from then on it was just shite.

We didn't sign a playmaker. Well we sort of did but stretching the imagination to class Tonev as a professional footballer.

Benteke also lost a fair bit of form during the middle part of the season.

[DB]

There was the glimmer of hope with the end of first season run that kept us up and we played football.
Then he went straight back to boring turgid dour crap.
Wanker.

I'll never understand that. He kept us up playing some of the best football, and with some of the best goals, we've had this century. There was a bit of optimism for the future but from then on it was just shite.

It has to go down as a where did it all go wrong period.
If he had approached the next season as he finished the last then I doubt we would be where we are now.

I was so excited about that 2nd season, but as you say the way we carried on looked like he was starting all over again and we never looked that good again like we did the end of that 1st season. The end of that first season, I really thought it had all clicked. Disappointing.

That said, I am surprised he last as long as he did under Lerner. I actually think in the end he did well to keep us up.

[chrisw1]

There was the glimmer of hope with the end of first season run that kept us up and we played football.
Then he went straight back to boring turgid dour crap.
Wanker.

I'll never understand that. He kept us up playing some of the best football, and with some of the best goals, we've had this century. There was a bit of optimism for the future but from then on it was just shite.

Exactly.  I was so exited after the end of that season.  I couldn't believe what we served up the following year.

[Canadian Villa]

I had high hopes after what he did at Norwich and felt that with a bigger budget than Norwich, he would do great. No idea why it worked at Norwich with mediocre players and not with us.

What actually did happen with Culverhouse?? never got to the bottom of it.

[XXVilla]

I suppose there were a few what ifs that came up over his tenure - what if we'd gotten Coutinho in January 2013, what if he'd done better business in summer 2013, and so on.

Never had any idea about how to make the next step to build on an initial positive, or to make the right adjustments when things went wrong though.

He'd have turned Coutinho into Carles Gil

[Legion]

I had high hopes after what he did at Norwich and felt that with a bigger budget than Norwich, he would do great. No idea why it worked at Norwich with mediocre players and not with us.

What actually did happen with Culverhouse?? never got to the bottom of it.

Karsa and Culverhouse were summarily dismissed due to allegations of bullying if I remember correctly.

[West Derby Villan]

On his watch, we got worse and worse, every single season. Poor manager, employed by a poor CEO (presumably), employed by a disinterested owner.