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

[Legion]

I posted the following on another thread but feel it is valid here: I'm beginning to get a tad perturbed. There are still 18 days left to buy a few experienced, half-decent players to bolster our squad and provide some leadership on the pitch. I sincerely hope he is given financial backing and spends wisely. If this happens, we will hopefully be OK.

[brian green]

Sorry Leeg, it is not going to happen.  Lambert is faced with either saving his career or saving our premiership status.   He will act in self interest and tell the owner that he can do the job without splashing money about or going back on the wage cutting strategy.   That way if he fails, as he most certainly will, his get out of jail card will be that he was not adequately backed.   Our board have form for staying schtumm on every topic and would never contradict him.   Lambert would assume the same status as O'Neill and TSM as a manager who was dumped on by Lerner and the Villa.

If he does what we all know he should do and buy in some backbone, Lambert's credibility as a finder and polisher of cheap talent would be shot and we might not stay up anyway.   He will put his own career before Villa and tell the owner he can do the job with what he has got regardless of whether he believes it or not.

[Legion]

If that is the case then we will probably be relegated and I would want to see the back of Lambert.

[VillaAlways]

That's a depressing read Brian but I think you're spot on

[Toronto Villa]

I posted the following on another thread but feel it is valid here: I'm beginning to get a tad perturbed. There are still 18 days left to buy a few experienced, half-decent players to bolster our squad and provide some leadership on the pitch. I sincerely hope he is given financial backing and spends wisely. If this happens, we will hopefully be OK.

I'm still in the keep camp simply because we won't get anyone in right now to do any better, and it really makes no sense to keep chopping and changing the management team. That said he needs to start to showing that he can both work with what he has, but also along with the board pull of the deals that will save us. That's what he's paid to do.

[PaulWinch again]

Yes alarmingly he seems to not have an idea of how to address this slide.

[Witton Warrior]

I posted the following on another thread but feel it is valid here: I'm beginning to get a tad perturbed. There are still 18 days left to buy a few experienced, half-decent players to bolster our squad and provide some leadership on the pitch. I sincerely hope he is given financial backing and spends wisely. If this happens, we will hopefully be OK.

I'm still in the keep camp simply because we won't get anyone in right now to do any better, and it really makes no sense to keep chopping and changing the management team. That said he needs to start to showing that he can both work with what he has, but also along with the board pull of the deals that will save us. That's what he's paid to do.

Voted he stay IN - If sacked/walks what will change with the playing staff? Nothing I would assume - the team would have to adapt mid-season to a new system and that could make any chance of recovery impossible.

Who would be the world-class man-motivator/genius we could get anyway? RDM? I don't think he is a bad manager but has he ever dragged a club back from the brink with no resources? In fact, who has who is available/willing to come!

We are all in this together - for better or worse

[Ads]

Thats nonsense for me Brian.

If he wants to maintain his reputation, then he has to keep us up.

He has the chance to keep us in the league and enhance his reputation by winning a trophy. He knows, the same as everybody else, the only way he can do the former and have a shot at the later is by purchasing new blood.

[barrysleftfoot]

 Don't agree with that Brian.

 The best way for him to enhance his reputation is to buy 2/3 good players, that fit in to his criteria, and fit into the team instantly, experienced players, who will get us out of relegation.That will prove he can build a team, make it gel, and learn from mistakes.

 Don't forget, of the team that started yday , only 3 were his buys.

[martin o`who??]

We have to give him a full season, with a full squad to pick from, which he hasnt had anything like so far, and judge him then. I do worry about one or two selections and substitutions, but every manager gets those wrong from time to time. We have to remember, he was overwhelmingly the fans choice, nows the time to back our own judgment as well as his.

[eastie]

We have to give him a full season, with a full squad to pick from, which he hasnt had anything like so far, and judge him then. I do worry about one or two selections and substitutions, but every manager gets those wrong from time to time. We have to remember, he was overwhelmingly the fans choice, nows the time to back our own judgment as well as his.

That's fair enough , but if he stays  he still needs to be backed with money if he stays , the squad is too weak at the moment and I think lacks the mental toughness required for a relegation battle.

[pauliewalnuts]

One thing I will say, the support for him shown by this poll is remarkable. He has more goodwill than any other under performing Villa manager for a long time.

[PaulWinch again]

True and I thought the crowd were pretty supportive for the most part yesterday. The team isn't giving hardly anything compared to the support they receive.

[Whiney MacWhineface]

One thing I will say, the support for him shown by this poll is remarkable. He has more goodwill than any other under performing Villa manager for a long time.

I voted keep on the basis of a) it's too late to find anyone decent to replace him, especially with the random Manager selection policy seemingly in place and b) he might be given the monetary means to get us out of the shit.

[TonyD]

One thing I will say, the support for him shown by this poll is remarkable. He has more goodwill than any other under performing Villa manager for a long time.

I think the fans support and goodwill might be edge that keeps us up.