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

[Toronto Villa]

The only thing Roy Keane is good at is looking after Roy Keane. He's had his chances as a football manager and he's been sussed. As a player he was brilliant. As a manager, aside from a couple of decent seasons at Sunderland he's been shit. He needs to be filed along with Robson, Bruce, Ince Hughes etc as ex-Man U who are utterly overrated shit managers.

[Legion]

As a player, he was a thug.

[saunders_heroes]

We could have 5-0 down after 10 minutes.That was worse than anything against Chelsea.

Exactly. Our defence is comical. Lambert has to take his share of the blame. I don't get why some fans are so shocked that other have called for the manager's head. This season so far has been humiliating. If McLeish was still in charge with these performances they'd be a riot.

[Somniloquism]

It was actually just a suggestion of somebody who might organise the team a bit and motivate the players.  Something that Lambert has singularly failed to do.

So who, then, would you bring in as manager?

Who is available and who would take the current squad plus any additions they can get in within the next 30 days and suddenly make us world beaters? Because it appears that nothing else will do for you.

[Mister E]

The only thing Roy Keane is good at is looking after Roy Keane. He's had his chances as a football manager and he's been sussed. As a player he was brilliant. As a manager, aside from a couple of decent seasons at Sunderland he's been shit. He needs to be filed along with Robson, Bruce, Ince Hughes etc as ex-Man U who are utterly overrated shit managers.

Succinctly and accurately put, as is Legion's comment re thug.

[Chris Smith]

Who would we get in to replace him? He hasn't had time to unpack I can't belive 22 people want him sacked!

Quite.

And not one of them has managed to suggest a reasonable replacement, let alone how we'd get said replacement and his backroom team in in time to do something this transfer window.

Everyone is disappointed, everyone is angry at the way things are going. It's as if they don't think we've noticed we've been shit for a big chunk of the season thus far.

We've been shit for almost all of the season, and our defence is appalling and we hardly score any goals.  Lambert's powers of organisation and motivation are clearly lacking.  Why should we retain such an underperforming employee, and what exactly would we lose if we ditched him?  How is that any new manager would be any worse?

We'd lose credibility for a start, we'd also lay down a marker that a manager at Villa Park gets half a season only to prove himself. Then there's the money to pay him off, recruit a replacement and fund his team building.

Credibility?  We're the laughing stock of English football.

No, we're not.

We're inconsistent for sure, but there have been decent performances mixed in with the rubbish and the indifferent. That's only to be expected when you consider the rebuilding job he's been forced into and the injuries we've had to contend with.

[dave.woodhall]

We could have 5-0 down after 10 minutes.That was worse than anything against Chelsea.

Exactly. Our defence is comical. Lambert has to take his share of the blame. I don't get why some fans are so shocked that other have called for the manager's head. This season so far has been humiliating. If McLeish was still in charge with these performances they'd be a riot.

It's amazing how this team of ours can be so bad, yet they can play a team who are much better, not lose, and still be bad.

[Mister E]

We could have 5-0 down after 10 minutes.That was worse than anything against Chelsea.

Exactly. Our defence is comical. Lambert has to take his share of the blame. I don't get why some fans are so shocked that other have called for the manager's head. This season so far has been humiliating. If McLeish was still in charge with these performances they'd be a riot.

Well, except that at Chelsea the score in the second half should have been more than 5!

As I said to someone else's post earlier, we could and should have beaten Arse and Stoke at VP; we didn't. In the same way, Swansea lost out today.

There are no points for unconverted chances (thank God).

[SheffieldVillain]

Who would we get in to replace him? He hasn't had time to unpack I can't belive 22 people want him sacked!

Quite.

And not one of them has managed to suggest a reasonable replacement, let alone how we'd get said replacement and his backroom team in in time to do something this transfer window.

Everyone is disappointed, everyone is angry at the way things are going. It's as if they don't think we've noticed we've been shit for a big chunk of the season thus far.

We've been shit for almost all of the season, and our defence is appalling and we hardly score any goals.  Lambert's powers of organisation and motivation are clearly lacking.  Why should we retain such an underperforming employee, and what exactly would we lose if we ditched him?  How is that any new manager would be any worse?

We'd lose credibility for a start, we'd also lay down a marker that a manager at Villa Park gets half a season only to prove himself. Then there's the money to pay him off, recruit a replacement and fund his team building.

Credibility?  We're the laughing stock of English football.

Says the man who wants Roy Keane as our manager.

It was actually just a suggestion of somebody who might organise the team a bit and motivate the players.  Something that Lambert has singularly failed to do.

It was actually just a suggestion of somebody who might organise the team a bit and motivate the players.  Something that Lambert has singularly failed to do.

Keane organised and motivated his last team so well that they won 28 out of 81 matches, a lower percentage of wins than Lambert so far at Villa.

Edit: To be fair that is only including matches up to Dec 15 so the percentage is probably about the same now or very slightly higher.

[Dave Clark Five]

Couple of rare tweets from mysteryman this afternoon , make of It what you wish-

@AvfcMysteryman: Paul Lambert on thin ice and Randy is ready with the salt #AVFC

@AvfcMysteryman: Randy's eyes are looking towards Switzerland for the next #AVFC manager

That's not the bloke who posts on VT.

That's some teenager on his dad's laptop playing big shot.

If you check out his previous tweets he has been fairly accurate and rarely tweets.

Eastie, I've just looked, and that bloke makes your hero Jim White look accurate. Utter nonsense

Paulie go back 6 months to his tweets, frighteningly detailed and accurate, long before lambert came , also dc5 believes this man is very much the real thing

Anyway as I say , make of it what you will, I was alerted to him by dc5 - if you believe or don't believe it's no skin off my nose either way.

Doesn't mean I believe it either, what goes on behind the scenes at villa is something none of us really know..

DC5 merely said in his PRIVATE message to Eastie that the 'whisper' he had on the 30th Dec was from mystery man on Twitter.

I know who the 'real' mystery man is and couldn't care less if it isn't the one on Twitter or not. I have only ever spoken to the 'real' mystery man once and to none of the other 'unreal' mystery men, as far as I know.

Most of the Twitter rumours are wind ups. Anyone giving confidential info soon clams up if it gets blabbed on Twitter, apart from the 'feelers' that deliberately go out and appear, even on here, occasionally.

[rutski]

We could have 5-0 down after 10 minutes.That was worse than anything against Chelsea.

Exactly. Our defence is comical. Lambert has to take his share of the blame. I don't get why some fans are so shocked that other have called for the manager's head. This season so far has been humiliating. If McLeish was still in charge with these performances they'd be a riot.

we have had a centre midfielder playing at centre back for the last 8 games with baker playing in a massively makeshift defence.
missing vlaar, dunne and now baker would be a kick in the bollock for any team, look at olbeyun without olsen today, all over the shop

[Toronto Villa]

As a player, he was a thug.

Yep, he most certainly was but not in the Lee Cattermole or Karl Henry sense. He lost his mind at times, but when on he was quite inspirational. We could do with a bit of that right about now for our kids to lean on.

[saunders_heroes]

We could have 5-0 down after 10 minutes.That was worse than anything against Chelsea.

Exactly. Our defence is comical. Lambert has to take his share of the blame. I don't get why some fans are so shocked that other have called for the manager's head. This season so far has been humiliating. If McLeish was still in charge with these performances they'd be a riot.

It's amazing how this team of ours can be so bad, yet they can play a team who are much better, not lose, and still be bad.

Stop burying your head in the sand, Dave. We were appalling first half and we got lucky. We can't rely on luck to keep us in the PL this season.

[Mister E]

We could have 5-0 down after 10 minutes.That was worse than anything against Chelsea.

Exactly. Our defence is comical. Lambert has to take his share of the blame. I don't get why some fans are so shocked that other have called for the manager's head. This season so far has been humiliating. If McLeish was still in charge with these performances they'd be a riot.

It's amazing how this team of ours can be so bad, yet they can play a team who are much better, not lose, and still be bad.

Stop burying your head in the sand, Dave. We were appalling first half and we got lucky. We can't rely on luck to keep us in the PL this season.

As I said above, we could and should have beaten Arse and Stoke at VP; we didn't. In the same way, Swansea lost out today.

[ozzjim]

We had 1 fit central defender today, who is arguably the worst of the 4 we have at the club as he is the least dominant. It is not really a shock we are shit at the back, and have been since Baker went off against Spurs. The Chelsea result was woeful, but was a perfect storm for them and a total shambles from us.