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

[Damo70]

I had to do a lot of catching up on this thread since Saturday night. A few things confuse me. Why the clamour for Gregory to return but not Brian Little? I would class Guzan as a Lambert signing but does it matter? Since when has OGS become the new Brian Clough and into the bargain a Championship side become more of an attractive proposition than a Premier League side as far as he's concerned? My opinion is that the players aren't as bad as they are looking at the moment. A total lack of confidence is the problem. How did a side that nearly went down in '89 and looked like going down early in the next season finish second? Was it totally down to SGT playing three central defenders and sticking 'stix' on the wing? I think it was down to a team going on a run and gaining a huge amount of belief and confidence. What we do need is a couple of experienced players to help us till the end of the season at least. I seem to remember when Ferguson's policy of replacing BFR's old guard with youngsters started going wrong he brought in Mal Donaghy just for some short term experience. Just as when Jim Leighton's form and confidence was going down the pan he brought in the Luton reserve keeper who was experienced/gobby/'bit of a character'. We need a couple like that and it's Lambert's job to get them. Reo-Coker would be a start.

[Nev]

I had to do a lot of catching up on this thread since Saturday night. A few things confuse me. Why the clamour for Gregory to return but not Brian Little? I would class Guzan as a Lambert signing but does it matter? Since when has OGS become the new Brian Clough and into the bargain a Championship side become more of an attractive proposition than a Premier League side as far as he's concerned? My opinion is that the players aren't as bad as they are looking at the moment. A total lack of confidence is the problem. How did a side that nearly went down in '89 and looked like going down early in the next season finish second? Was it totally down to SGT playing three central defenders and sticking 'stix' on the wing? I think it was down to a team going on a run and gaining a huge amount of belief and confidence. What we do need is a couple of experienced players to help us till the end of the season at least. I seem to remember when Ferguson's policy of replacing BFR's old guard with youngsters started going wrong he brought in Mal Donaghy just for some short term experience. Just as when Jim Leighton's form and confidence was going down the pan he brought in the Luton reserve keeper who was experienced/gobby/'bit of a character'. We need a couple like that and it's Lambert's job to get them. Reo-Coker would be a start.

So little needs doing but so little is being done.

It's the shoulder shrugging acceptance and perceived abdication of responsibility that has got everyone so heated.

[Damo70]

I had to do a lot of catching up on this thread since Saturday night. A few things confuse me. Why the clamour for Gregory to return but not Brian Little? I would class Guzan as a Lambert signing but does it matter? Since when has OGS become the new Brian Clough and into the bargain a Championship side become more of an attractive proposition than a Premier League side as far as he's concerned? My opinion is that the players aren't as bad as they are looking at the moment. A total lack of confidence is the problem. How did a side that nearly went down in '89 and looked like going down early in the next season finish second? Was it totally down to SGT playing three central defenders and sticking 'stix' on the wing? I think it was down to a team going on a run and gaining a huge amount of belief and confidence. What we do need is a couple of experienced players to help us till the end of the season at least. I seem to remember when Ferguson's policy of replacing BFR's old guard with youngsters started going wrong he brought in Mal Donaghy just for some short term experience. Just as when Jim Leighton's form and confidence was going down the pan he brought in the Luton reserve keeper who was experienced/gobby/'bit of a character'. We need a couple like that and it's Lambert's job to get them. Reo-Coker would be a start.

So little needs doing but so little is being done.

It's the shoulder shrugging acceptance and perceived abdication of responsibility that has got everyone so heated.

I agree but I'm reserving final judgement until the window shuts.

[dave.woodhall]

I had to do a lot of catching up on this thread since Saturday night. A few things confuse me. Why the clamour for Gregory to return but not Brian Little? I would class Guzan as a Lambert signing but does it matter? Since when has OGS become the new Brian Clough and into the bargain a Championship side become more of an attractive proposition than a Premier League side as far as he's concerned? My opinion is that the players aren't as bad as they are looking at the moment. A total lack of confidence is the problem. How did a side that nearly went down in '89 and looked like going down early in the next season finish second? Was it totally down to SGT playing three central defenders and sticking 'stix' on the wing? I think it was down to a team going on a run and gaining a huge amount of belief and confidence. What we do need is a couple of experienced players to help us till the end of the season at least. I seem to remember when Ferguson's policy of replacing BFR's old guard with youngsters started going wrong he brought in Mal Donaghy just for some short term experience. Just as when Jim Leighton's form and confidence was going down the pan he brought in the Luton reserve keeper who was experienced/gobby/'bit of a character'. We need a couple like that and it's Lambert's job to get them. Reo-Coker would be a start.

So little needs doing but so little is being done.

It's the shoulder shrugging acceptance and perceived abdication of responsibility that has got everyone so heated.

This is what infuriates me so much. For all that we're crap, and for all the moans that this is the worst team to ever play football and Barnstonworth would beat us, there's not really much needs doing to improve them. One solid defender making one decent challenge in every game since the start of the month would have seen us five points better off, in one cup final and a non-league team away from the quarters of another.

[pauliewalnuts]

I had to do a lot of catching up on this thread since Saturday night. A few things confuse me. Why the clamour for Gregory to return but not Brian Little? I would class Guzan as a Lambert signing but does it matter? Since when has OGS become the new Brian Clough and into the bargain a Championship side become more of an attractive proposition than a Premier League side as far as he's concerned? My opinion is that the players aren't as bad as they are looking at the moment. A total lack of confidence is the problem. How did a side that nearly went down in '89 and looked like going down early in the next season finish second? Was it totally down to SGT playing three central defenders and sticking 'stix' on the wing? I think it was down to a team going on a run and gaining a huge amount of belief and confidence. What we do need is a couple of experienced players to help us till the end of the season at least. I seem to remember when Ferguson's policy of replacing BFR's old guard with youngsters started going wrong he brought in Mal Donaghy just for some short term experience. Just as when Jim Leighton's form and confidence was going down the pan he brought in the Luton reserve keeper who was experienced/gobby/'bit of a character'. We need a couple like that and it's Lambert's job to get them. Reo-Coker would be a start.

So little needs doing but so little is being done.

It's the shoulder shrugging acceptance and perceived abdication of responsibility that has got everyone so heated.

This is what infuriates me so much. For all that we're crap, and for all the moans that this is the worst team to ever play football and Barnstonworth would beat us, there's not really much needs doing to improve them. One solid defender making one decent challenge in every game since the start of the month would have seen us five points better off, in one cup final and a non-league team away from the quarters of another.

Entirely agree, Dave, and Nev.

If the team needed really major surgery, it'd be more understandable, but it doesn't. A decent judge of players could probably go and get in the two players we need for considerably less than 10m.

We don't need any more untried youngsters, but we also don't necessarily need hugely paid internationals. It is the fact that the people running the club seemingly either can't spot this, or just don't care enough, that sticks in the craw.

[Concrete John]

I had to do a lot of catching up on this thread since Saturday night. A few things confuse me. Why the clamour for Gregory to return but not Brian Little? I would class Guzan as a Lambert signing but does it matter? Since when has OGS become the new Brian Clough and into the bargain a Championship side become more of an attractive proposition than a Premier League side as far as he's concerned? My opinion is that the players aren't as bad as they are looking at the moment. A total lack of confidence is the problem. How did a side that nearly went down in '89 and looked like going down early in the next season finish second? Was it totally down to SGT playing three central defenders and sticking 'stix' on the wing? I think it was down to a team going on a run and gaining a huge amount of belief and confidence. What we do need is a couple of experienced players to help us till the end of the season at least. I seem to remember when Ferguson's policy of replacing BFR's old guard with youngsters started going wrong he brought in Mal Donaghy just for some short term experience. Just as when Jim Leighton's form and confidence was going down the pan he brought in the Luton reserve keeper who was experienced/gobby/'bit of a character'. We need a couple like that and it's Lambert's job to get them. Reo-Coker would be a start.

So little needs doing but so little is being done.

It's the shoulder shrugging acceptance and perceived abdication of responsibility that has got everyone so heated.

This is what infuriates me so much. For all that we're crap, and for all the moans that this is the worst team to ever play football and Barnstonworth would beat us, there's not really much needs doing to improve them. One solid defender making one decent challenge in every game since the start of the month would have seen us five points better off, in one cup final and a non-league team away from the quarters of another.

Entirely agree, Dave, and Nev.

If the team needed really major surgery, it'd be more understandable, but it doesn't. A decent judge of players could probably go and get in the two players we need for considerably less than 10m.

We don't need any more untried youngsters, but we also don't necessarily need hugely paid internationals. It is the fact that the people running the club seemingly either can't spot this, or just don't care enough, that sticks in the craw.

I can only think it's a money issue.  Which flies in the face of what Randy did two years ago and the return of the extra PL cash next season.  I'm yet to get angry about it, but I am mightily confused!

[Nev]

Well Laughing Boy answered Kendrick's questions at the presser. Don't what he said yet though.....

[Irish villain]

I had to do a lot of catching up on this thread since Saturday night. A few things confuse me. Why the clamour for Gregory to return but not Brian Little? I would class Guzan as a Lambert signing but does it matter? Since when has OGS become the new Brian Clough and into the bargain a Championship side become more of an attractive proposition than a Premier League side as far as he's concerned? My opinion is that the players aren't as bad as they are looking at the moment. A total lack of confidence is the problem. How did a side that nearly went down in '89 and looked like going down early in the next season finish second? Was it totally down to SGT playing three central defenders and sticking 'stix' on the wing? I think it was down to a team going on a run and gaining a huge amount of belief and confidence. What we do need is a couple of experienced players to help us till the end of the season at least. I seem to remember when Ferguson's policy of replacing BFR's old guard with youngsters started going wrong he brought in Mal Donaghy just for some short term experience. Just as when Jim Leighton's form and confidence was going down the pan he brought in the Luton reserve keeper who was experienced/gobby/'bit of a character'. We need a couple like that and it's Lambert's job to get them. Reo-Coker would be a start.

So little needs doing but so little is being done.

It's the shoulder shrugging acceptance and perceived abdication of responsibility that has got everyone so heated.

This is what infuriates me so much. For all that we're crap, and for all the moans that this is the worst team to ever play football and Barnstonworth would beat us, there's not really much needs doing to improve them. One solid defender making one decent challenge in every game since the start of the month would have seen us five points better off, in one cup final and a non-league team away from the quarters of another.

Which is what makes it so inexcusable. I would say a tall, experienced defender and a strong, experienced central midfielder would have made a difference in so many games this season. We could be three or four points better off by now and as we learned last year, every single point is crucial when a strugglign team gets to May.

[garyellis]

I guess all we can do now is wait to see what happens on Thursday. This can be the only defendable reason that the CEO has not made a statement to the fans.

[rob_bridge]

I guess all we can do now is wait to see what happens on Thursday. This can be the only defendable reason that the CEO has not made a statement to the fans.

I'd like the CEO to say 'I'm off' Keep it short and sweet

[garyellis]

If we go down then he should be the first to leave he has been overseeing some 3 years of decline.

[Rip Van We Go Again]

Well Laughing Boy answered Kendrick's questions at the presser. Don't what he said yet though.....

Here it is

[Risso]

Could we all stop saying "presser" like we're all seasoned newspaper hacks of 40 years.  Thank you.

[Dave Clark Five]

I am still with keeping him after initially voting out but am very much on the fence with the inaction of the owner keeping me on Lambert's side. Just. I am hoping that his poor tactics, particularly mid-game changes are down to his inexperience and getting flustered in front of a baying crowd. If he can learn from that it will help unless his stubborness convinces him to continue in this manner.

[andyh]

Thinking about it, I wonder if one of the reasons that Lambert is not under threat from Lerner, is because Lerner just cannot be arsed to have the hassle of looking for another manager.
We like to think that the Villa job is a privileged one, but if there is genuinely no money available, and if other managers have turned down the job because of this (even laughingly, or so we are told), then is Lambert safe because he is the only bugger prepared to work under those conditions and Lerner knows it ?