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

[pauliewalnuts]

Out! Out! Out!

We should of been at least 4 down before we equalised yesterday for me he's absolutely clueless and got to go. Like 90% of these so called professional players we have. I wouldn't even call them pub players their much worse than that!

Clark is one of the worst Defender in the Prem by a mile. It'a a disgrace that he anywhere near the First Team.

We should have been 4-0 down. You are right about that.
Incidentally, who would you have picked from the available players and where would you have played them?

Look i really want to see Villa doing well like all of us but when one your best mates is a Tesco Bag supporter it really starts to piss you off after a bit. We didn't tell the club to sell all the best players did we. They wanted the money now we have to endure the misery because it's definitely not fun anymore. These players aren't good enough to wear the Claret and Blue, when it comes down to it they aren't very good footballers either. If we were shit at our jobs how long would it be before we get shown the door.

There's nothing else we can do but moan because going down to VP doesn't do much these days four home wins in the whole of 2012 is disgusting. One of them was a goalkeeping error, so three decent wins in a year how anyone finds this acceptable is beyond me we are ASTON VILLA.

So how exactly is any of that Lambert's fault? And how would sacking him fix it?

Also intrigued to hear that games we win through a goalkeeper error aren't proper wins.

There is an element of panic in a lot of posts. By the end of this month it will all have calmed down or we will all be flapping.

I was thinking yesterday, this month is actually quite good for us.

We've just managed to get a point where we expected none, and to have maybe restored a bit of confidence. We now have a home FAC match against a lower league side, then a CC SF away at a League Two side.

Win those two, as we should - even with our weaknesses - and we should have restored a lot of the confidence we lost over xmas in time to play Southampton at home, another eminently winnable match.

Before anyone weighs in with something along the lines of "yeah, Wigan was winnable, and look how that panned out", I know, I know, but there's no point dwelling on the past now.

We potentially don't actually have that many league games over the next few weeks. That, with the window open, and key players nearing a return, all means we're quite lucky with the timings of things at the moment.

[Lee]

Don't see the point in getting rid of him now, there are other factors involved, but he needs to turn things round this month. If we get relegated then his position to me, despite the restrictions he has been put under, would make his position quite untenable  .

[ozzjim]

I was thinking how much a winter break would have helped us over Christmas the other day with all the players out, but then looked at the fixtures and thought, get through Swansea and we will be ok as there is breathing space finally. If we can negotiate Bradford professionally it would be a huge boost to make a final this season and really deserve to be there.

[Fergal]

hasn't Randy consistently got his cheque book out? I can't think of another Chairman/Owner who has sunk more money into the club. If there has been, I apologose. i think RL has many shortcomings as a businessman but I don't think you can ever acuse the guy of not backing the club financially. IMO things would improve dramatically with a CEO who combined PF's obvious commercial acumen and marketing skills with an in depth knowlege of how to run a major football club

Lerner's cheque book has been pretty much closed since MON left.

Last summer 25m spent - money in 2m
Season before 17m spent - money in 38m
Season before 32m spent - money in 27m

There's a few we sold where they don't know the fees like sidwell, but best case scenario is you're looking at a net spend of 7m or 2 and a bit million a season. Add all the wages he's cut dumping the big earners from the MON years and he's comfortably saved more than he's spent.

It's not like Randy is handing the cash over and waving a fond farewell to it, it's a loan that will be repaid.

[damon loves JT]

This is a cracking thread. It's almost worth Villa being so bad to read some of these posts.

[paul_e]

Technically a large percentage of the money is in the form of loan notes that are to be repaid but given that we aren't repaying them currently (and didn't even pay interest on them at least 1 of the seasons) the likelihood is that they will actually just sit as an additional burden that's bundled into the sale price of the club if he decides to walk away.  It's also worth noting that the loan notes only cover around half of the money he's put in, with the rest being money he's given to the club.

[Michel Sibble]

Lambert in.

This season just needs to be written off together, it's now about avoiding getting sucked into 18th place and getting a full-strength squad back in place.

If Lambert doesn't need extra bodies, I trust him- all the way.

[SamTheMouse]

Lamberts transfer dealings have in the main been very encouraging

I agree. The only one he looks to have fluffed is KEA, and even he might end up being OK, given time. There's no arguing that Westwood and Lowton are just the sort of signings the club needs to make for the longer term, Bennett looks like he will take longer to make the grade but you can see the potential, and let's not forget Benteke, whose value has surely doubled in the mere months since he joined. He also brought Guzan back, with stunning results. Vlaar is very solid and has slotted in really well, so much so that we have missed him enormously in recent games. Nope, I trust  this man with Randy's cash, no worries.

Frankly, if we hadn't had such fucking awful luck with injuries, this thread wouldn't even have been started.

[MarkM]

Lamberts transfer dealings have in the main been very encouraging

I agree. The only one he looks to have fluffed is KEA, and even he might end up being OK, given time. There's no arguing that Westwood and Lowton are just the sort of signings the club needs to make for the longer term, Bennett looks like he will take longer to make the grade but you can see the potential, and let's not forget Benteke, whose value has surely doubled in the mere months since he joined. He also brought Guzan back, with stunning results. Vlaar is very solid and has slotted in really well, so much so that we have missed him enormously in recent games. Nope, I trust  this man with Randy's cash, no worries.

Frankly, if we hadn't had such fucking awful luck with injuries, this thread wouldn't even have been started.

Which of the long term injured was he regulary playing?

[Risso]

Lamberts transfer dealings have in the main been very encouraging

I agree. The only one he looks to have fluffed is KEA, and even he might end up being OK, given time. There's no arguing that Westwood and Lowton are just the sort of signings the club needs to make for the longer term, Bennett looks like he will take longer to make the grade but you can see the potential, and let's not forget Benteke, whose value has surely doubled in the mere months since he joined. He also brought Guzan back, with stunning results. Vlaar is very solid and has slotted in really well, so much so that we have missed him enormously in recent games. Nope, I trust  this man with Randy's cash, no worries.

Frankly, if we hadn't had such fucking awful luck with injuries, this thread wouldn't even have been started.

Which of the long term injured was he regulary playing?

And how were we doing before the injuries kicked in?

[saunders_heroes]

Lamberts transfer dealings have in the main been very encouraging

I agree. The only one he looks to have fluffed is KEA, and even he might end up being OK, given time. There's no arguing that Westwood and Lowton are just the sort of signings the club needs to make for the longer term, Bennett looks like he will take longer to make the grade but you can see the potential, and let's not forget Benteke, whose value has surely doubled in the mere months since he joined. He also brought Guzan back, with stunning results. Vlaar is very solid and has slotted in really well, so much so that we have missed him enormously in recent games. Nope, I trust  this man with Randy's cash, no worries.

Frankly, if we hadn't had such fucking awful luck with injuries, this thread wouldn't even have been started.

Which of the long term injured was he regulary playing?

And how were we doing before the inuries kicked in?

We've been shit all season. Lots of delusion on here.

[pedro25]

Lamberts transfer dealings have in the main been very encouraging

I agree. The only one he looks to have fluffed is KEA, and even he might end up being OK, given time. There's no arguing that Westwood and Lowton are just the sort of signings the club needs to make for the longer term, Bennett looks like he will take longer to make the grade but you can see the potential, and let's not forget Benteke, whose value has surely doubled in the mere months since he joined. He also brought Guzan back, with stunning results. Vlaar is very solid and has slotted in really well, so much so that we have missed him enormously in recent games. Nope, I trust  this man with Randy's cash, no worries.

Frankly, if we hadn't had such fucking awful luck with injuries, this thread wouldn't even have been started.

Which of the long term injured was he regulary playing?

Not many, but losing Baker and Vlaar left us with only 1 fit centre half which would stifle any team.  Also to lose both left backs (Bennett and Stevens) at the same time was more than unfortunate, as was losing all 4 of Benteke's possible partners/suppliers/back up in Bent, Gabby, Weimann and N'Zog, leaving Benteke isolated and meaning he wasn't able to be rested at all during a busy festive schedule, despite obviously needing a break.

[Somniloquism]

We've been shit all season. Lots of delusion on here.

Swansea at home, Newcastle away, Arse at home, 60 mins of the Manure match, Liverpool, Norwich and Citeh in the cup. Or were they all delusuions?

[Concrete John]

Lamberts transfer dealings have in the main been very encouraging

I agree. The only one he looks to have fluffed is KEA, and even he might end up being OK, given time. There's no arguing that Westwood and Lowton are just the sort of signings the club needs to make for the longer term, Bennett looks like he will take longer to make the grade but you can see the potential, and let's not forget Benteke, whose value has surely doubled in the mere months since he joined. He also brought Guzan back, with stunning results. Vlaar is very solid and has slotted in really well, so much so that we have missed him enormously in recent games. Nope, I trust  this man with Randy's cash, no worries.

Frankly, if we hadn't had such fucking awful luck with injuries, this thread wouldn't even have been started.

Which of the long term injured was he regulary playing?

And how were we doing before the inuries kicked in?

We've been shit all season. Lots of delusion on here.

No, we haven't, but I very much doubt you will acknowledge any of the games anyone could mention where we've played quite well. 

[MarkM]

Lamberts transfer dealings have in the main been very encouraging

I agree. The only one he looks to have fluffed is KEA, and even he might end up being OK, given time. There's no arguing that Westwood and Lowton are just the sort of signings the club needs to make for the longer term, Bennett looks like he will take longer to make the grade but you can see the potential, and let's not forget Benteke, whose value has surely doubled in the mere months since he joined. He also brought Guzan back, with stunning results. Vlaar is very solid and has slotted in really well, so much so that we have missed him enormously in recent games. Nope, I trust  this man with Randy's cash, no worries.

Frankly, if we hadn't had such fucking awful luck with injuries, this thread wouldn't even have been started.

Which of the long term injured was he regulary playing?

Not many, but losing Baker and Vlaar left us with only 1 fit centre half which would stifle any team.  Also to lose both left backs (Bennett and Stevens) at the same time was more than unfortunate, as was losing all 4 of Benteke's possible partners/suppliers/back up in Bent, Gabby, Weimann and N'Zog, leaving Benteke isolated and meaning he wasn't able to be rested at all during a busy festive schedule, despite obviously needing a break.

Needing a break, Jesus how many games are players these days able to play before they break down and need a break?