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

[Greg N'Ash]

Just a question Paulie but where do you see this ending? Say we go down and Lambert isn't sacked you want him to give it a go in the championship? So next season we go with Lambert with the likes of Benteke, Wiemann and Westwood sold and you want him to try to get us up with  Hutton and Co? We'll be going the other way.

Yes, I would stick with him.

It's one of those emotive questions, based on the suggestion we should be looking for revenge on the bloke who put us down, but let me ask you this, if we did go down, what sort of names do you think we'd be looking at as manager to replace him?

And, let's not forget, go down and the players you mentioned who'd be offski, would still be offski no matter who the new manager was.

hmmm. So you want a guy in charge who's got no record of motivating or even getting organised the sorry collection of players still remaining and with no money to buy new ones. Isn't that where we are now?

I would stick with a guy who has proven pedigree of getting teams promoted.

I will ask you again - who would you look to replace him with, if we got relegated?

Anyone with a record of promotion to the PL and not taking Aston Villa down in the process. It's not a very exclusive club frankly.

So, go on then, who?

You're the chairman. We get relegated. You need a manager who can get us back up, with a squad someone else put together, and not much money to spend

Who do you approach?

There's literally loads Paulie. Just look at the clubs who've got promoted to the PL in the last 10 years for starters. That's the point - you seem to think Lambert has this ace record and it isn't.

Name somebody who would be good enough and would want to join a club that possibly won't give them any money?

*sigh*
Current managers who've got promoted to the premiership on a shoestring but haven't taken down the Behemoth that is Aston Villa after spending 20m on players?


there's fucking loads and i'm not going through every team that's come up to prove it. The point remains that there's plenty of names on that list you'd say "no-way" to, and why? Because in many cases they got relegated from the Premier League  which is exactly how anyone neutral would view Lambert if we went down. But far far worse, because he didn't take down a struggling blackpool or bolton or blackburn, he took a big club down after spending a fortune. Thats the point - his record would be shitter than 90% of the possible candidates

[saunders_heroes]

Serious question - what is Lambert good at? I have heard some fairly specific criticisms but all the support seems a bit generalised. As a fence sitter who's losing faith, why should I believe?

He's certainly not good at substitutions.

Ok. Now back to your slagging off of Ron Vlaar....

Chocolate concrete is harder than Vlaar.

[hilts_coolerking]

That sounds a bit barrel-scrapey, to be honest.

Perhaps, but true.  Nothing to lose by asking though.

[Percy McCarthy]

Serious question - what is Lambert good at? I have heard some fairly specific criticisms but all the support seems a bit generalised. As a fence sitter who's losing faith, why should I believe?

He's certainly not good at substitutions.

Ok. Now back to your slagging off of Ron Vlaar....

Chocolate concrete is harder than Vlaar.

Maybe so but chocolate concrete is really, really hard. Hence 'concrete'.

[pauliewalnuts]

*sigh*
Current managers who've got promoted to the premiership on a shoestring but haven't taken down the Behemoth that is Aston Villa after spending 20m on players?


there's fucking loads and i'm not going through every team that's come up to prove it. The point remains that there's plenty of names on that list you'd say "no-way" to, and why? Because in many cases they got relegated from the Premier League  which is exactly how anyone neutral would view Lambert if we went down. But far far worse, because he didn't take down a struggling blackpool or bolton or blackburn, he took a big club down after spending a fortune. Thats the point - his record would be shitter than 90% of the possible candidates

There's loads of them.

So many, you can't name one of them. Let alone a range, in case we don't get choice number one.

That says it all.

This football club management shit is piss easy.

"We've sacked them manager! Yay!"
"Hang on, who are we going to get in to replace him?"
"Errr, there's loads"
"Like who?"
"Errrr...."

[pauliewalnuts]

That sounds a bit barrel-scrapey, to be honest.

Perhaps, but true.  Nothing to lose by asking though.

And what if he says no, again?

[pauliewalnuts]

One last try.

Those who'd sack the manager if we went down.

Who would we replace him with? What kind of manager would we be looking at? Someone who'd come in from a standing start and get us promoted?

[VillaAlways]

That sounds a bit barrel-scrapey, to be honest.

Perhaps, but true.  Nothing to lose by asking though.

The Premier would have been a massive step up from Molde.The Championship would be a more natural progression for him. He was clearly interested and I doubt he refused because of financial reasons as Lambert was backed

[PeterWithesShin]

One last try.

Those who'd sack the manager if we went down.

Who would we replace him with? What kind of manager would we be looking at? Someone who'd come in from a standing start and get us promoted?

ooh ooh I know this one *waves hand in air*

Roy Keane.

Do I get a gold star?

[saunders_heroes]

Serious question - what is Lambert good at? I have heard some fairly specific criticisms but all the support seems a bit generalised. As a fence sitter who's losing faith, why should I believe?

He's certainly not good at substitutions.

Ok. Now back to your slagging off of Ron Vlaar....

Chocolate concrete is harder than Vlaar.

Maybe so but chocolate concrete is really, really hard. Hence 'concrete'.

But it mainly comprises of butter, cocoa powder and flour. Which is probably what Vlaar is made from as well.

[Percy McCarthy]

Serious question - what is Lambert good at? I have heard some fairly specific criticisms but all the support seems a bit generalised. As a fence sitter who's losing faith, why should I believe?

He's certainly not good at substitutions.

Ok. Now back to your slagging off of Ron Vlaar....

Chocolate concrete is harder than Vlaar.

Maybe so but chocolate concrete is really, really hard. Hence 'concrete'.

But it mainly comprises of butter, cocoa powder and flour. Which is probably what Vlaar is made from as well.

Cheers. Ratios/quantities?

[Greg N'Ash]

*sigh*
Current managers who've got promoted to the premiership on a shoestring but haven't taken down the Behemoth that is Aston Villa after spending 20m on players?


there's fucking loads and i'm not going through every team that's come up to prove it. The point remains that there's plenty of names on that list you'd say "no-way" to, and why? Because in many cases they got relegated from the Premier League  which is exactly how anyone neutral would view Lambert if we went down. But far far worse, because he didn't take down a struggling blackpool or bolton or blackburn, he took a big club down after spending a fortune. Thats the point - his record would be shitter than 90% of the possible candidates

There's loads of them.

So many, you can't name one of them. Let alone a range, in case we don't get choice number one.

That says it all.

This football club management shit is piss easy.

"We've sacked them manager! Yay!"
"Hang on, who are we going to get in to replace him?"
"Errr, there's loads"
"Like who?"
"Errrr...."

you know the names paulie. The recent ones are on the other thread. Adkins, RDM for instance would both have a far far better record than Lambert if he took us down. You seem to saying there's no-one better than lambert when his record would be wretched.

[saunders_heroes]

Serious question - what is Lambert good at? I have heard some fairly specific criticisms but all the support seems a bit generalised. As a fence sitter who's losing faith, why should I believe?

He's certainly not good at substitutions.

Ok. Now back to your slagging off of Ron Vlaar....

Chocolate concrete is harder than Vlaar.

Maybe so but chocolate concrete is really, really hard. Hence 'concrete'.

But it mainly comprises of butter, cocoa powder and flour. Which is probably what Vlaar is made from as well.

Cheers. Ratios/quantities?

Actually I have got a recipe somewhere. It was in the Mercury a few years ago.

[Dave Clark Five]

Serious question - what is Lambert good at? I have heard some fairly specific criticisms but all the support seems a bit generalised. As a fence sitter who's losing faith, why should I believe?

He's certainly not good at substitutions.

Ok. Now back to your slagging off of Ron Vlaar....

Chocolate concrete is harder than Vlaar.

Maybe so but chocolate concrete is really, really hard. Hence 'concrete'.

But it mainly comprises of butter, cocoa powder and flour. Which is probably what Vlaar is made from as well.

Don't we go to some lengths to start a disagreement when everyone is fucked off about the same thing.

[hilts_coolerking]

And what if he says no, again?

We look elsewhere, like we did last time.