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

[VillaAlways]

Lambert is our very own Steve Keane.He won't get the boot until we're in the arse end of the Championship

[Ross]

I've a terrible bout of Lambert diarrhoea.  I've only just gone and I've got to go again.

[Des Little]

Apparently it's not about systems, it's about players. What on earth is he fucking on about? That's just stupid talk from a desperate man.

[Somniloquism]

Lambert is our very own Steve Keane.He won't get the boot until we're in the arse end of the Championship

And the next manager will do even worse until he is booted 10 games in.

[Leighton]

"It wasn't the system it was the players"

Confirmation, if needed, that he's lost the bloody plot. When will he take some of the responsibility. Hopeless.

[Ross]

There isn't many managers in all 4 divisions that I wouldn't rather be in charge right now.

[john e]

is there a saying about rather having a lucky manager than a good one, well Lambert is certainly not a lucky one

i wouldnt be supprised if he's gone by the weekend,
 as much as the side did well in the second half tonight, it still didnt stop the rot, and no matter how much you try and support someone if it aint gona happen then you might as well try another way

i thought if we lost against Newcastle he would be a gonner, i think he could get sacked this week
i know people will say he's not going anywhere, and Lerner believes in him, but that was all said about TSM and he went when lots thought he was here for the long term

i dont think Lerner is an idiot, and he must be able to see that no matter what Lambert does, its not working, i reckon he'l be on his way soon enough

i'm not saying i want this to happen i just think it will

[danlanza]

is there a saying about rather having a lucky manager than a good one, well Lambert is certainly not a lucky one

i wouldnt be supprised if he's gone by the weekend,
 as much as the side did well in the second half tonight, it still didnt stop the rot, and no matter how much you try and support someone if it aint gona happen then you might as well try another way

i thought if we lost against Newcastle he would be a gonner, i think he could get sacked this week
i know people will say he's not going anywhere, and Lerner believes in him, but that was all said about TSM and he went when lots thought he was here for the long term

i dont think Lerner is an idiot, and he must be able to see that no matter what Lambert does, its not working, i reckon he'l be on his way soon enough

I think i agree with you. Enough is enough and i think somebody looking in from outside could change things very quickly. Who though, is the question. Who is out there to become the next Villa manager ?

[David_Nab]

"It wasn't the system it was the players"

Confirmation, if needed, that he's lost the bloody plot. When will he take some of the responsibility. Hopeless.

What utter shite.

In the 2nd half we had more people in midfield and hence were able to get the ball.

But hey this is a manager who sticks 4 strikers on in a match with no midfield ...quite simply out of his depth

[Somniloquism]

i thought if we lost against Newcastle he would be a gonner, i think he could get sacked this week
i know people will say he's not going anywhere, and Lerner believes in him, but that was all said about TSM and he went when lots thought he was here for the long term

TSM was got rid off due to the season ticket sales being so low and so many saying they weren't coming back to watch those turgid displays. Without that impromptu phone survey, I doubt he would have gone.

But I can see Lerner/Faulkner making the decision now/in the next few days so no money is spent in the transfer window. They did the same to some extent when MON walked. We still had three weeks of a transfer window left but appointments were delayed until after it closed.

[curiousorange]

What concerns me is that if he doesn't go before we're relegated, we'll be stuck with the same endless cycle of Championship managers that do six months at a club then are sacked because of mediocre form...Billy Davies, Sean O'Driscoll, Mick McCarthy et al. We'll be talking about Steve Bruce as a mastermind because the coaches that know slight things about tactics won't look at us twice.

[Jockey Randall]

Are the players good enough to have us higher up the table than we currently are? Other than the strikers, I don't think so personally.

[Clark W Griswold]

Yep. Final nail in the coffin for me,he's got to go. Defending absolutely shocking for the first goal, and we lost it in the first half despite a decent second half performance, similar to how we lost the semi final in the first game. The balance of the squad is shocking, Weimann and Gabby can't start because of the players in front of them in the pecking order yet the continually shit Bannan, Clark, Baker and Bennett all start because we have no one else. Tactically he hasn't got a clue what to do for the best and he doesn't know his best team. I'm both bitterly disappointed and amazed at how shit he's been, as i admit he was my first choice for the job last summer.

[Des Little]

Who'd have thunk it last season away at Norwich when Eck was getting dogs abuse that we'd get the man most of us wanted and he'd do a worse job? It's a funny old world as they say.

[pestria]

I've tried to be positive about Lambert.  He inherited a difficult situation and made worthy but risky signings (as someone aptly phrased it earlier on this thread).

But tonight was beyond the pale in tactical ineptness.

Fact - we haven't got the players for 3-5-2 (full backs get pushed back leaving the midfield pair totally fucked)
Fact - he can't get Bent and Benteke to play together

Then we switched to 4-4-2.  Gabby and Weiman started to turn the game.  But then Gabby drifted into the the middle and we then tried to lay everything down the middle.  WTF didn't Lambert sort this out?

Fact - the squad is poor and confidence is shot, but could scrape through by the skin of its teeth if we played Gabby out on the left, N'Zog on the right and Weimann off Benteke down the centre.

A definition of madness is repeatedly doing the same thing but expecting different results.  Persisting with 3-5-2 by this definition is madness.  Allowing Gabby to drift inside is madness.  Not playing Weimann from the start is madness.

Gentlemen - I suspect we have a madman in charge.   Hopefully I'm wrong and he sorts this out. 

 Is hope triumphing over expectations another sign of madness?