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

[Greg N'Ash]

I'm not pro Lambert, I am pro not sacking another manager now, as it'd extinguish any chance we have of survival.

It's not that complicated.

ANYONE is better than a Lerner yes-man. I rather go down fighting than have some complacent twat who'd knows his job is safe whatever he does.

But you don't know any of that.  PL could be a fucked off as the rest of us wishing he'd never considered the job.  I wouldn't blame him.  Lerner may have moved the goal posts, I reckon he did on MON leading to his walk out and subsequent litigation.

The constant issue here is Lerner/Faulkner, each year our playing resources are being depleted and each year there is less and less investment in the squad - stands to reason we are where we are.

Get Mourihnio in if you like and I'd suspect the outcome would be much the same.

Well he should get some balls and quit then. No-one would blame him if he came out and said Lerner had gone back on his promises. The fact he's sitting there coming out with how nice Randy is, harks back to TSM's reign. What possible incentive have you got if you can't be sacked? And we spent 20m nett this summer which is a darn sight more than last summer

[OzVilla]

Yeah maybe but then by quitting he'd be kissing good by to a fair bit of compo and hindering any chances he has of another job by openly and publicly criticising the current owner.

Managers don't quit these days and in all honesty I'd do the same in his shoes.

Very depressing all round.

[Greg N'Ash]

Final straw for me that press conference. I wanted him out but i hoped he'd turn it around, but after that he's so obviously on Team-Lerner and who could blame him when he's unsackable? I though we'd be lucky to stay up anyway, now i know we're down when there's a stooge in the manager's seat prepared to do anything to keep his job.

At least he'll go the way of Kean when he can't cut it in the championship. Disgusted so i'm off to bed.

[Ross]

Lerners cunning plan, as with McLeish. Always better to have someone who will be more unpopular than you.

[Nev]

If the manager has any balls he'd walk and expose the owner and his slow strangulation of our club.

But he hasn't got any balls, he trots out the same shit, hangdog experession and defeatist body language week after week.

At least TSM had the courage of his convictions, believed his methods were correct and thought he was doing the best for the club even though no-one else did.

The Other Scottish Manager is a fuckin' spineless mouse who will be complicit in a deliberate policy to relegate us that will follow him like an albatross for the rest of his days. And I hope it does.

Fuck him, if he stays and takes us back up? fuck him, if we win the FA Cup? fuck him. Paul Lambert?

Fuck him.

[robbo1874]

Hang on Nev, are you saying you think Lambert is trying to get us relegated on purpose? Do you really believe that, or have you still not got over Tuesday?

[Nev]

Hang on Nev, are you saying you think Lambert is trying to get us relegated on purpose? Do you really believe that, or have you still not got over Tuesday?

No I think the owner is and Lambert is complicit. Anyone can see that without additions we will go down. Not big name, big money players but some short term experienced level heads, thats all the team needs to have a fighting chance. If we try and still go down than so be it, but we must try. I believe the manager has known this for some time such is his body language and attitiude.
He appears to be accepting of our plight and I don't want anyone at Villa to have that outlook. The owner has obviously made his mind up but the manager could show a little principle and side with the real heart of the club. The fans.

[Legion]

I just don't understand why he would wish us to get relegated and miss out on over £60 million.

[silhillvilla]

Don't understand why he doesn't just walk and take the club to a tribunal

[Jarpie]

I just don't understand why he would wish us to get relegated and miss out on over £60 million.

Because he doesn't think we can stay up regardles of any money spent, even on loans so he tries to save as much money as possible and if we stay up by some miracle, we would've bought new players in for little effect since we stayed up without their help and we saved the money we would've spent on them.

[Rigadon]

I just don't understand why he would wish us to get relegated and miss out on over £60 million.

WOuld Vila be a more saleable asset if we were in the championship?  There'd certainly be more buyers I'd imagine as we wouldn't cost as much. 

[Nev]

I just don't understand why he would wish us to get relegated and miss out on over £60 million.

WOuld Vila be a more saleable asset if we were in the championship?  There'd certainly be more buyers I'd imagine as we wouldn't cost as much. 

That was in my thinking, cheaper to run all round and how about a play off victory at Wembley to raise our profile? The re-birth of Villa, the club are back! Might bump up the asking price.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

It seems I owe Lambert an apology, it's not him that now picks the team, it's Lerner:

"As I’ve said before he’s been great with me. Listen, nobody wants to go down at all. None whatsoever. We have to get through this season and win some games.

“There will be a few other clubs in the exact same position as us thinking we could be in trouble here.

“But that’s the relationship I have with the manager. I get on really well with him.
“It’s his club and we are trying to do our best for it, trying to get it rebuilt down the path we want to go down.

“He has been really good.”

[robbo1874]

I don't think he wants to sell or has given up, I just don't think there's any money available to the manager now. I don't think it means we haven't got any, just that there's none available now. You've had your 23m (or whatever it was) now do your job. If you do a half decent one, you'll get some more in the summer. If we go down, you'll have to sell a lot of players and will get a lot less than if we stay up. So keep us up, I think is the message from randy.

[nick harper]

I don't think he wants to sell or has given up, I just don't think there's any money available to the manager now. I don't think it means we haven't got any, just that there's none available now. You've had your 23m (or whatever it was) now do your job. If you do a half decent one, you'll get some more in the summer. If we go down, you'll have to sell a lot of players and will get a lot less than if we stay up. So keep us up, I think is the message from randy.

Fifth highest spenders in the league last summer and he chose not to replace Petrov. Can't blame Lerner for that.