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

[aj2k77]

as someone who has always supported Lambert the last 30 minuets last night make it difficult to build a case

If you read his comments on the OS, they weren't playing to instruction they just lost their discipline and to a certain extent their bottle. It's down to leadership on the pitch. Of course, it's his responsibility to ensure that leadership is in place in the long term but during the course of a game there's not a lot a manager can do about it. 

Not taking off the midfield to add more forwards could have helped the situation.

[Colhint]

whats Kev Mac doing, give him till the end of the season

[Toronto Villa]

whats Kev Mac doing, give him till the end of the season

please tell me you're joking. He inspired us to a 6-0 kicking at Newcastle where we looked every bit as shit as we do now with significantly better players

[eastie]

Bitterly disappointed that he hasnt been sacked this morning - i have virtually given up on survival with lambert in charge.

I agree. I know it is difficult to select a replacement that would suit everyone but I think it has got to the point where the act of just removing Lambert itself may stop the decline.

Yes , get rid of him and a new man may give us some kind of lift and impetus - the last month has been utterly dreadful and im amazed how he is still in a job .

[eastie]

whats Kev Mac doing, give him till the end of the season

please tell me you're joking. He inspired us to a 6-0 kicking at Newcastle where we looked every bit as shit as we do now with significantly better players

I dont rate kmac at all but i dont think even he could be as bad as this idiot.

[Chris Smith]

Bitterly disappointed that he hasnt been sacked this morning - i have virtually given up on survival with lambert in charge.

I agree. I know it is difficult to select a replacement that would suit everyone but I think it has got to the point where the act of just removing Lambert itself may stop the decline.

We're on our fourth manager in four years, which suggests that sacking managers is not necessarily the answer.

[eastie]

Bitterly disappointed that he hasnt been sacked this morning - i have virtually given up on survival with lambert in charge.

I agree. I know it is difficult to select a replacement that would suit everyone but I think it has got to the point where the act of just removing Lambert itself may stop the decline.

We're on our fourth manager in four years, which suggests that sacking managers is not necessarily the answer.

The answer is getting the right manager and keeping him - lambert is not the  right manager - i do like the cut of gus poyet but i doubt he would want to leave brighton for villa which says a lot about where we are right now.

Lerner cant be blamed for choosing lambert as many us wanted him too- but time to admit it was a mistake and cut our losses asap.

[VillaAlways]

We've only sacked one manager. The other two were out of our control

[saunders_heroes]

Bitterly disappointed that he hasnt been sacked this morning - i have virtually given up on survival with lambert in charge.

I agree. I know it is difficult to select a replacement that would suit everyone but I think it has got to the point where the act of just removing Lambert itself may stop the decline.

We're on our fourth manager in four years, which suggests that sacking managers is not necessarily the answer.

It is when this one is about to take us down. Get rid now.

[john e]

as someone who has always supported Lambert the last 30 minuets last night make it difficult to build a case

If you read his comments on the OS, they weren't playing to instruction they just lost their discipline and to a certain extent their bottle. It's down to leadership on the pitch. Of course, it's his responsibility to ensure that leadership is in place in the long term but during the course of a game there's not a lot a manager can do about it. 

i've not completly lost it with Lambert,
 i actually admire his attacking philosophy, when we were 5 down at Chelsea and still piling forward it was a bit different than playing for the 2 nill defeat when we visited Spurs the season before.

but he was the one who put 5 strikers on,
 all in a line waiting for the ball to be pinged toward them, one of the most rediculous things i've ever seen,
 if they were not acting to orders then i'l give him that, but he's the manager he has to be able to do something about it during the game when something as ludicrous as what we saw last night going on

thought the first half we were fantastic, Delph was superb, but in the end it was Billy Smarts Lambert has to take some blame for that

[SamTheMouse]

Bitterly disappointed that he hasnt been sacked this morning - i have virtually given up on survival with lambert in charge.

I agree. I know it is difficult to select a replacement that would suit everyone but I think it has got to the point where the act of just removing Lambert itself may stop the decline.

I'm not so sure. Lambert's tactics or coaching ability may be lacking, but it's the calibre of player on the pitch that's the real problem. Any new manager who came in now would still have to play Bennett, Lowton or Lichaj at full-back, Delph, Bannan or Ireland in the middle, Clark at centre-half. Our problems are all coming from the lack of quality and experience in the defence and midfield. Having one or two of these players in a more experienced and talented side would be ok, but we are relying on all these lads, game in game out, and they're just not good enough. We constantly get murdered down the flanks, and we have no screen in front of the back four/five.

In the short-term, we need to sign at least two, and preferably four pros with quality and experience to sort the midfield, central defensive and full-back positions. If we don't, we are heading for the Championship, it's as simple as that.

[itbrvilla]

He's a very lucky man at the moment. There's no other club in the country producing such appalling results that haven't pulled the trigger.

If Mcleish hadn't of happened then Lambert would already be on his bike. I don't think Lerner can afford to sack another manager and the upheaval again.

Cheaper than being relegated.

[Dave]

He's a very lucky man at the moment. There's no other club in the country producing such appalling results that haven't pulled the trigger.

Well the likes of Norwich and Newcastle are below us in the form table. And both of them have been knocked out of cups by pretty rubbish teams.

So there's a couple.

[KevinGage]

It's not a like for like, to compare the weird world of football management with real-life scenarios.

But we can probably all recall situations when we've worked under managers we've liked. 

That makes the job easier (though not necessarily easy). They have to be competent too, of course.  No point being good blokes but inept. 

Then -and this might be more common- there are situations where we've worked for managers we're unsure about.  They might have given us instructions we question initially, but -when we follow those instructions and get results- our faith in them grows.

Equally, if he/she keeps on asking us to do something and the same abject failure occurs time and again, we lose faith in them -and their ability to make key decisions. 

That's where this squad of players (who are by no means brilliant) are with Lambert, if the last 8/9 results and performances are anything to go by.

Even when we start a game well (as we did against the Olbiyun and Bradford) if the opposition step it up, we seem to have no response.

[Chris Smith]

We've only sacked one manager. The other two were out of our control

That's just nit picking, we have changed manager and it hasn't improved us.