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

[midnite]

Yeah, I suppose the more you look into it and think about it. How much if this £60 million will actually benefit clubs? It will line the agents pocket and go I to even higher wage demands for players.

[sonlyme]

Paul e - just as I was beginning to cringe at how unable to understand basic mathematics some of the faithful appear - you have saved the day.

There is no conspiracy folks.

There simply is no more money to pour down the wage drain.

What there is - is a proven manager just six months at a new club - a club who have flirted with relegation for the past two seasons -  a squad packed with overpaid and underfperforming 'stars' from previous incumbents - leavened with our own homegrown but green gilled youngsters.

Lambert is a ball hair away from getting it right - but the margin is very narrow - and results are everything.  Yet I accept Lambert has and will make mistakes. 

Selecting Given against any team that pumps balls into the box is simply stupid.  Given is a world class shot stopper - but as a keeper commanding his area he is shite - wee Jimmy Krankie could do better.  So I ask you - if Guzan had played - and he had simply wallked out and caught Bradford's scoring corner (as I think he would have) - and we scored in the 89th - and the game went to ET - don't you think we would have won?  I do.  And a Wembley Final would be the result.

That is how tight these decisions are.

Yes we are in the shit but throwing more shit at the manager or the players will only end up with everything covered in shit ....

Lambert has walked into a big big challenge here.  He kept telling us when he arrived but we didn't believe him.  He knew he had to get rid of the 60k a week posse.  He knew the model was for young inexpensive talent that may make the grade.  He's picked up a gem in Benteke - and despite some deserved critiscism - Lowton - Vlaar - and Westwood will get stronger.  Bennett needs a kick up the arse (and a haircut) but only El Ahmadi has proven a let down for me - as he is an experienced international - and I had hoped for more from him.

We can play good football - we can also play like drunken chumps.  Lambert needs to address the hole in the middle of the team left by the once derided and now applauded Stan Petrov - and maybe think about another centre half - preferably one who can head the ball and run faster than a steamroller.

Two players could be all it takes to turn this season around.  Could be.

That is the test.  Time for Lambert to prove himself.

Right - South Bermondsey next  - time to hide the pad.

UTV

[villa `cross the mersey]

I am beginning to detest this buffoon more than the last buffoon.

[Apyadg]

I have never hated a Villa manager as much as I hate Lambert.

[MarkM]

Sack him for fucks sake

[PaulWinch again]

I don't hate Lambert, he just clearly doesn't have a clue.

[Apyadg]

I don't hate Lambert, he just clearly doesn't have a clue.

I hate his stupid fucking mumbling
I hate him wearing a tracksuit when the most physical activity he does is stand on the touchline with a helpless expression on his face
I hate his tired repetitive 'we go again' interviews
I hate the fact that his interviews over the last week have been far more negative than anything DO'L and TSM came out with.

Fuck him.

[Drummond]

Are we going to reset the poll yet again? Or shall we leave it for a while.... please.

What is happening on the pitch right now is clearly symptomatic of the whole club. It's not good.

[TonyD]

Lose on Tuesday and he will go one way or the other. 

[rbcuk]

Wanted him gone after bradford and still want him out!

[Drummond]

From Beeb live feed.

We haven't got long left, so it might be a bit naughty of me to pose these questions, but I will anyway. Has anything gone right for Villa since Martin O'Neill put out that weakened team in the Europa League? Secondly, since O'Neill, Villa have tried Houllier, McLeish and now Lambert. Is constantly changing manager the way to go? Are the problems elsewhere?

[Whiney MacWhineface]

Go, and whoever replaces him pray for a dead cat bounce.

[PeterWithesShin]

Not always the best idea to comment after a shit result, but if I waited until after a good one i'd only be able to post a few times a year.

Right now I vote out.

[Phil from the upper holte]

Depressing very depressing, can't wait to see what he's goin to say

[PaulWinch again]

The club has been rotten for a while, there is literally no hope now.