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

[Fergal]

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.

What is amazing is how we can spend so much money over five or six years and still end up worse off than Swansea.

Haven't we taken four points off them this season?

Yep. And they're still 10 points ahead of us.

Funny old world ain't it....

[WALTERS WARRIORS]

We as fans and Lerner as owner have got to back PL. It is going to be hard work but a couple of quality signings and players coming back in the next two weeks should keep us up. Seen a link which i could not paste from Tribalfootball.com that the Real Betis coach Pepe Mele had been linked to AVFC ......

[hilts_coolerking]

That's hysterical coming from you. A team that you reckon is the worst ever and doomed to relegation get a decent away point, against a supposed better team and all you can say is how lucky they are - yet again. When this is pointed out you talk about the rest of the season. That's changing the subject. Please tell me why I need to grow up for pointing that out. I'd love to know.

We were lucky Dave, especially in the first half.  To be so bad and come in at 1-1 was very fortunate indeed.

[SoccerHQ]

I think it's far to say right now is exactly not the situation where we should be sacking Lambert and replacing him with an untried foreign manager!!

[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.

I'm not burying anything, anywhere. It's getting a bit tedious to read that whenever we lose we're bad yet when we don't lose we're 'lucky'.

So what's the reason we've been so appalling this season, Dave, bad luck?

We've not been good enough - nobody's said any different and that's not what I was talking about so why change the subject?

We were lucky not to go in at halftime by at least 3 goals down, that's what I mean.
And what's all this nonsense about "changing the subject"? Grow up.

That's hysterical coming from you. A team that you reckon is the worst ever and doomed to relegation get a decent away point, against a supposed better team and all you can say is how lucky they are - yet again. When this is pointed out you talk about the rest of the season. That's changing the subject. Please tell me why I need to grow up for pointing that out. I'd love to know.

You're deluded, Dave. This season has been utterly shambolic right from the off, with record defeats, worst season starts and goals conceded, yet according to you you're "waiting for things to get better".
Well good luck with that!

[Dave Clark Five]

Were we really that bad again today ?

For a large part of the first half.
We rode our luck massively but got stuck in later on.

We have finally reached January. Do we want to waste at least a week of the transfer window by sacking the manager? Bringing in the best manager in the world will make no difference to a wafer thin,  inexperienced, injury riddled squad.

Agree fully, this is not a time to change manager and totally confuse the squad. It's about sticking together now. What was the Swansea ground like ? Good pubs , parking etc ? I hear they were very respectful to the 19th minute ?

The ground is good. Unlike most modern grounds it does have some atmosphere. They did a draw on the pitch at half time. Ten people. One by one they drew numbers out and gave the owner £100. It ended with the last one drawn winning £10000. They were from the 1912 Club or something. It was a good bit of half time entertainment.
We went by car, parked about half a mile from the ground. If you get there early enough, you don't need the park and ride. If you park the right side of the ground, you can make a quick getaway as the road from the ground heading our way is blocked until the coaches have gone. You have to park further away than the big island north of the ground to avoid the hold up. There is a pub there that a few Villa fans seemed to be having quite a relaxed time in. This was about 1245. We were meeting Frank in the Grand Hotel so headed off there in a taxi. Beer is nothing special there but, considering it is right outside the station, was not very busy and they cooked us good meals. On the way from where we parked to the town, I saw loads of pubs along the way in the taxi. These looked like straight forward boozers where anyone could go in unless bedecked in away colours and acting the prat.

I thought they had ignored the 19th minute at first but a nice ripple of applause gradually developed into the whole ground joining in. I just don't think they twigged it at first.

[dave.woodhall]

What are you waiting for?

[rutski]

That's hysterical coming from you. A team that you reckon is the worst ever and doomed to relegation get a decent away point, against a supposed better team and all you can say is how lucky they are - yet again. When this is pointed out you talk about the rest of the season. That's changing the subject. Please tell me why I need to grow up for pointing that out. I'd love to know.

We were lucky Dave, especially in the first half.  To be so bad and come in at 1-1 was very fortunate indeed.

it works both ways though, what about the first 60 minutes against manure? they were very very fortunate but had the experience to come through. we are getting there!

[villajk]

Were we really that bad again today ?

For a large part of the first half.
We rode our luck massively but got stuck in later on.

We have finally reached January. Do we want to waste at least a week of the transfer window by sacking the manager? Bringing in the best manager in the world will make no difference to a wafer thin,  inexperienced, injury riddled squad.

Agree fully, this is not a time to change manager and totally confuse the squad. It's about sticking together now. What was the Swansea ground like ? Good pubs , parking etc ? I hear they were very respectful to the 19th minute ?

The ground is good. Unlike most modern grounds it does have some atmosphere. They did a draw on the pitch at half time. Ten people. One by one they drew numbers out and gave the owner £100. It ended with the last one drawn winning £10000. They were from the 1912 Club or something. It was a good bit of half time entertainment.
We went by car, parked about half a mile from the ground. If you get there early enough, you don't need the park and ride. If you park the right side of the ground, you can make a quick getaway as the road from the ground heading our way is blocked until the coaches have gone. You have to park further away than the big island north of the ground to avoid the hold up. There is a pub there that a few Villa fans seemed to be having quite a relaxed time in. This was about 1245. We were meeting Frank in the Grand Hotel so headed off there in a taxi. Beer is nothing special there but, considering it is right outside the station, was not very busy and they cooked us good meals. On the way from where we parked to the town, I saw loads of pubs along the way in the taxi. These looked like straight forward boozers where anyone could go in unless bedecked in away colours and acting the prat.

I thought they had ignored the 19th minute at first but a nice ripple of applause gradually developed into the whole ground joining in. I just don't think they twigged it at first.

And yes, the Swansea fans were very respectful during the 19th minute applause.

[lovejoy]

Two legs vs Bradford away from Wembley, chin up.

[saunders_heroes]

What are you waiting for?

Waiting for Lerner to pull his damn finger out and back the manager. And that doesn't mean anymore lower league players. That experiment has failed miserably.

[Shrek]

This season we have played the 'kids' which is what everyone was clanging for.

What can Lambert do? He knew they weren't good enough, tried 3 at the back to compensate, which worked at first then changed it back today.

Lambert IMO cannot be judged on our reserves not being good enough while half the first are out injured.

[dave.woodhall]

What are you waiting for?

Waiting for Lerner to pull his damn finger out and back the manager. And that doesn't mean anymore lower league players. That experiment has failed miserably.

If only he'd put £200 million in, and if only everyone had the ability to know an experiment has failed after half a season.

[hilts_coolerking]

it works both ways though, what about the first 60 minutes against manure? they were very very fortunate but had the experience to come through. we are getting there!

That may well be true but it doesn't alter the fact that we got very very lucky in the first half today.  I don't think anyone (with the exception of dave w) would argue that.

[silhillvilla]

We must stick with Paul Lambert and back him fully
I believe he went 442 today which is a good sign
A sign he realises he's made mistakes and is not too stubborn to admit it