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

[Clark W Griswold]

Fact-ing hell!

[Greg N'Ash]

We've already said.....

[danlanza]

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?

Erm....Yes, i think.

[myf]

looks like he's going to beat the TSM record of 4 home wins and 8 home defeats from last year

[Lee]

I want him to go, won't happen now, but when we are relegated  he has to be sacked. We are by a country mile the worst team in this League, and whilst the underlying factor is the mismanagement of the Board, Lambert has been a huge failure and his tactics are just mind boggling to say the least

And to think  that I too thought that he was the man for us.

[Lee]

"It wasn't the system"

Is that right Paul? your a fucking idiot if you can't see that your system in the first half was shit

Is that what he said? If he did, he's a dead man walking

[VillaAlways]

I just can't believe he is going to continue as manager.Does anybody think there is any hope of him turning thing around? He has got to go,I actually don't care who takes over.Nobody could do any worse

[SoccerHQ]

The board have made their bed now with the statement.

He's here till the end of the season and will probably be the first villa manager to take us down since McNeil so in esteemed company.

[VillaAlways]

Yes they've backed themselves into a corner once again. Idiots

[Detroit Villan]

This time last week, I posted that we should stick with him.
Then I re-considered after Millwall, but concluded that we should still stick with him due to the lack of a feasible alternative. DiMatteo would never take the job, etc..
Tonight.... enough is enough.
Frankly, I would rather us take a chance on David Platt to manage us to stay up. He would leave man City for the job, I'm sure......

If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got.

We need a change.

Something has to change to change our fortunes.

[LeeB]

"It wasn't the system"

Is that right Paul? your a fucking idiot if you can't see that your system in the first half was shit

Something about football managers, especially Villa managers, they are always the last ones to see what is blindingly obvious to everyone else on the planet.

Oh Jesus, isn't that the truth.

[Fergal]

This time last week, I posted that we should stick with him.
Then I re-considered after Millwall, but concluded that we should still stick with him due to the lack of a feasible alternative. DiMatteo would never take the job, etc..
Tonight.... enough is enough.
Frankly, I would rather us take a chance on David Platt to manage us to stay up. He would leave man City for the job, I'm sure......

If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got.

We need a change.

Something has to change to change our fortunes.

That's how I feel.

[David_Nab]

Worst manager in league.

Can't beat a 4th divison team over 2 legs
Plays 5 in defence against Milwall giving us no midfield ..another loss
Conceded 6 scored 1 in 3 games against relegation rivals in league
4 wins in 24

Lerner is the big problem and his shoddy running of club but Lambert is useless and I'd bet any other manager in league could get more from these players.

[peter w]

No to david Platt. but who else. I wouldn't touch di matteo as it was teh Chelsea players that won the Cup and not him. So basically we're going back to mangers with potential rather than a proven track record.

here's one for you - Pulis. Crap teams that he has yes, but he's never been relegated in his managerial career. I'd just like someone who could stabilise us and keep us up. i can't be bothered getting arguments about his teams and crap football because we are shit and are going down. Stoke aren't.

[VillaAlways]

Why on earth would Pulis leave a well run club like Stoke to join this complete and utter shambles. With a chairman who is practically non existent