Lambert in or out? Poll reset with majority 'in', 7th May

[PaulMcGrathsNo5Shirt]

On the pitch there is absolutely no leadership, from the top of the club there is absolutely no leadership. The only place there seems to be any leadership (albeit sometimes misguided) is with the manager. Getting rid of Lambert would be beyond stupid, especially as Lerner and Faulkner would be clueless in finding a replacement.

[OzVilla]

I genuinely don't believe that Lambert is the problem, it's Lerner.

That's why i think we're probably going down tonight.

[hawkeye]

One would hope that the groundwork for transfer targets is allready done, we need to move fast.

[Rigadon]

Lambert has fielded a freakishly poor team 3 times on the bounce.  Yes, some of that is down to circumstance,  but some of it is down to naivety or ineptitude.  A successful team relies on confidence,  in the style of play and in it's leader.  That's why I'm doubting ours. 

Then again, who should he have fielded that he didn't?

I appreciate there were other options, but they were hardly stellar, were they?

Nope.  But he bought the likes of KEA who has been benched for good reason.

I don't doubt Lamber is a talented manager.  I doubt whether he's out of his current depth at Villa right now.

[pauliewalnuts]

So, the uncertainty of approaching managers and persuading them to come is what we need two days before the window opens?

It's, what, two weeks since we won at Liverpool and almost every one on here plus most of the media were salivating over us.

We just need to keep calm and hope the chairman puts his hand in his pocket, because, frankly, that's all we can do.

[Rigadon]

One would hope that the groundwork for transfer targets is allready done, we need to move fast.

Please let that be true. 

[Rip Van We Go Again]

We just need to keep calm and hope the chairman puts his hand in his pocket, because, frankly, that's all we can do.

I agree.
Fucking Lambert off on the edge of a transfer window would be madness.

We need to hope that Lambert has identified quality targets and that Terry Fuckwitt will be willing to finance them.

[OzVilla]

So, the uncertainty of approaching managers and persuading them to come is what we need two days before the window opens?

It's, what, two weeks since we won at Liverpool and almost every one on here plus most of the media were salivating over us.

We just need to keep calm and hope the chairman puts his hand in his pocket, because, frankly, that's all we can do.

This, crazy to even speculate about Lambert as that really would the a nail in the coffin.  Lerner aint going anywhere in the near future so we need to pray that he invests and that Lambert spends it wisely - no other choice than that.

Atleast if Lerner doesn't invest we'll have plenty of time to come to terms with relegation.

[pauliewalnuts]

Lambert has fielded a freakishly poor team 3 times on the bounce.  Yes, some of that is down to circumstance,  but some of it is down to naivety or ineptitude.  A successful team relies on confidence,  in the style of play and in it's leader.  That's why I'm doubting ours. 

Then again, who should he have fielded that he didn't?

I appreciate there were other options, but they were hardly stellar, were they?

Nope.  But he bought the likes of KEA who has been benched for good reason.

I don't doubt Lamber is a talented manager.  I doubt whether he's out of his current depth at Villa right now.

Of his purchases, in my opinion

Very good - Westwood, Benteke (despite the last few games)
Good - Lowton, Vlaar
Poor - Bennett, KEA

Others we haven't really seen enough of.

The problem is that we bought too many "young and hungry" players, and the most important of all the players he bought was KEA, and he has flopped the worst.

[Rip Van We Go Again]

I'd put Holman in the poor category, although to be fair, McCatpiss bought him.

[hawkeye]

Lambert has fielded a freakishly poor team 3 times on the bounce.  Yes, some of that is down to circumstance,  but some of it is down to naivety or ineptitude.  A successful team relies on confidence,  in the style of play and in it's leader.  That's why I'm doubting ours. 

Then again, who should he have fielded that he didn't?

I appreciate there were other options, but they were hardly stellar, were they?

Nope.  But he bought the likes of KEA who has been benched for good reason.

I don't doubt Lamber is a talented manager.  I doubt whether he's out of his current depth at Villa right now.

Of his purchases, in my opinion

Very good - Westwood, Benteke (despite the last few games)
Good - Lowton, Vlaar
Poor - Bennett, KEA

Others we haven't really seen enough of.

The problem is that we bought too many "young and hungry" players, and the most important of all the players he bought was KEA, and he has flopped the worst.

And KEA was the pivotal one.

[Rigadon]

Lambert has fielded a freakishly poor team 3 times on the bounce.  Yes, some of that is down to circumstance,  but some of it is down to naivety or ineptitude.  A successful team relies on confidence,  in the style of play and in it's leader.  That's why I'm doubting ours. 

Then again, who should he have fielded that he didn't?

I appreciate there were other options, but they were hardly stellar, were they?

Nope.  But he bought the likes of KEA who has been benched for good reason.

I don't doubt Lamber is a talented manager.  I doubt whether he's out of his current depth at Villa right now.

Of his purchases, in my opinion

Very good - Westwood, Benteke (despite the last few games)
Good - Lowton, Vlaar
Poor - Bennett, KEA

Others we haven't really seen enough of.

The problem is that we bought too many "young and hungry" players, and the most important of all the players he bought was KEA, and he has flopped the worst.

Would agree wholeheartedly with all of this and add Guzan to the mix as a good 'signing'. 

I don't know, I've probably just had enough of watching god awful football. 

[BegbieAV]

This is the worst Villa team in my 44 years of supporting them, but there is still hope because even though we can't get any worse ( surely?) there are still 3 teams below us.

[pauliewalnuts]

This is the worst Villa team in my 44 years of supporting them, but there is still hope because even though we can't get any worse ( surely?) there are still 3 teams below us.

I can remember the 87-7 season relatively well, but I can't remember too many good performances that year. I can recall a few this season so far.

My worry isn't how poor we've been thus far (and much of it has been poor), it is how much poorer we're going to get if we don't get several players in during this window.

[sirlordbaltimore]

We have two supposed leaders at the club Lerner & Lambert. And neither are doing the jobs they're paid handsomely to do very well at all.