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

[Nev]

I've just seen his post match interview.

I know we'd just lost but heavens above, he comes across as a beaten man, so dour, so negative. I don't expect a laugh a minute but how about a bit of bravado in the face of adversity?

God knows how that comes across to the players.

[eastie]

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

The problem is lerner loves him and thinks hes great - two fools together!

[Meanwood Villa]

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.

What is it about ex-Celtic European Cup winners?

[VillaAlways]

Anyone still think we need continuity with this joker in charge?

[Can Gana Be Bettered!?!?]

I've just seen his post match interview.

I know we'd just lost but heavens above, he comes across as a beaten man, so dour, so negative. I don't expect a laugh a minute but how about a bit of bravado in the face of adversity?

God knows how that comes across to the players.

He's Scottish, that's how they are.

Take a look at Alex 'laugh a minute' Ferguson.

[myf]

"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.

Agreed.  Another ranting mumbling interview which puts the blame firmly on the players after previously backing them as good enough to see us safe.  He's lost it.

Just cannot see the downward spiral stopping with him in charge

[VillaAlways]

You can get away with being dour when you're a good manager

[MarkM]

"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

He said it during the post match interview on 5 Live, I was just getting on the Aston Expressway on my way home from the match when I heard it, I was so angry I almost crashed the car!

[rob_bridge]

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 would be a bad appointment. Platt is never a Number 1. Not that he would leave anyway.

[Californian Villain]

"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.

Yep, because if it wasn't the system, why change it? PL may or may not be a complete moron, but he definitely seems to think everyone else is.

[Greg N'Ash]

It's come to the point where i don't want to hear what he has to say post match. - it just compounds the pain. I realise even a manager with great communication skills would struggle to win people round on the back of this run, but his recent gibberish is just embarrassing.

[Jimbo]

When the manager knows he is safe, there's no incentive to up his game. Likewise with the players, who know they won't be losing their places - even if some of them would love to be taken out of the firing line. And when it comes to the senior players whose places aren't guaranteed (Ireland, Bent etc), they are earning so much money they couldn't give a shit - a few more weeks of this and they'll be off the books and sucking the lifeblood out of another Premier League team.

By making awful managerial appointments time after time, we've backed ourselves into a corner where we can't afford to sack a poor manager. And by sleepwalking through the transfer window, we've taken the pressure off our existing players because they know they'll be safe. The mismanagement of the club is multi-layered, each one as rotten as the last.

[PaulWinch again]

It's quite depressing everytime I go on the bbc website there's a picture of Lambert looking hopeless at the top of the page. It sums up the fact he doesn't know what he's doing.

[PaulWinch again]

Also Lambert's, 'experience doesn't guarantee anything' no Paul it doesn't but it gives us a much better chance. Surely you can see that your's and Randy's youth plan has been an utter disaster and you have to address it.

[VillaZogmariner]

Paul Lambert is another Owen Coyle.