People saying experience will help, have a valid point. Hopefully Dunne, Vlaar, Agbonlahor, Ireland and Given can help with that.
Lambert needs Randy to back him in January. As far as I'm concerned he is still the right man for the job.He quickly identified the problem players and his bigish signing have impressed.
Last time I looked, Villa Park had the biggest pitch in the Premiership.The big pitch just allows teams who play football to exploit the space and make it difficult for Villa's chasers to compress the play enough to stifle the better teams.So the pitch needs to be reduced in size to give Villa's journeymen a chance.
Chris even after Anfield I don't think many people didn't think we needed some experienced players.
Quote from: PaulWinch again on December 27, 2012, 03:27:14 PMChris even after Anfield I don't think many people didn't think we needed some experienced players.We probably do and we also need the injury list to clear up, I'm making a more general point about doing it as his way. I just think he needs to stay true to himself. As an example we've seen the problem spending for the short term can have, you end up stuck with players on long term contracts eating up the wage bill and contributing little. He needs to continue to buy the players he sees as doing a job for 2-3 years, not just 2-3 months.
Quote from: Chris Smith on December 27, 2012, 03:39:43 PMQuote from: PaulWinch again on December 27, 2012, 03:27:14 PMChris even after Anfield I don't think many people didn't think we needed some experienced players.We probably do and we also need the injury list to clear up, I'm making a more general point about doing it as his way. I just think he needs to stay true to himself. As an example we've seen the problem spending for the short term can have, you end up stuck with players on long term contracts eating up the wage bill and contributing little. He needs to continue to buy the players he sees as doing a job for 2-3 years, not just 2-3 months.Are you in favour of the club's austerity approach, Chris?
He needs to plan things better.Both games we've unraveleld because things haven't turned out how we expected them to and the players haven't had the experience to change things on the pitch. If we're going with youth we need to tell them explicitly how to react to things.