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

[rob_bridge]

Lambert is clearly not going anywhere, and we haven't strengthened the defence which most thought was essential. So all he can do now is draft in an expert defensive coach because the bloke doing it now is clearly a load of shit. It's our only hope.

Any ideas who that could be?

[LeeB]

I just remember how you lot were criticising O'Neill's style of football and now you're calling for Allardyce. It becomes increasingly difficult to take it seriously in the face of such obviously contradictory positions.

I've read the last few pages, and that last sentence says everything.

I will say though, given our current predicament, a short term return to O'Neill tactics might suit us given the players we have.

Stick Baker in at left back, tell the back four to do fuck all else but defend and then spring the counter with some quality forwards.

[Risso]

I just remember how you lot were criticising O'Neill's style of football and now you're calling for Allardyce. It becomes increasingly difficult to take it seriously in the face of such obviously contradictory positions.

It's hard to take somebody seriously who doesn't realise that the situation now compared to three years ago is entirely different.

[eric woolban woolban]

Lambert is clearly not going anywhere, and we haven't strengthened the defence which most thought was essential. So all he can do now is draft in an expert defensive coach because the bloke doing it now is clearly a load of shit. It's our only hope.

Any ideas who that could be?

Martin Laursen please.

[Des Little]

Lambert is clearly not going anywhere, and we haven't strengthened the defence which most thought was essential. So all he can do now is draft in an expert defensive coach because the bloke doing it now is clearly a load of shit. It's our only hope.

Any ideas who that could be?

Martin Laursen please.

Nail.on.head.

[LeeB]

I just remember how you lot were criticising O'Neill's style of football and now you're calling for Allardyce. It becomes increasingly difficult to take it seriously in the face of such obviously contradictory positions.

It's hard to take somebody seriously who doesn't realise that the situation now compared to three years ago is entirely different.

So when we stay up under Allardyce, do we then sack him because his football is a fucking abomination?

[old man villa fan]

If we do stay up, will Lambert can any credit for it?

[LeeB]

If we do stay up, will Lambert can any credit for it?

I think he'd have to, as every fucker has us down as it stands.

[exiled on the wirral!]

If we do stay up, will Lambert can any credit for it?

I think he'd have to, as every fucker has us down as it stands.

To right he will get the credit if we do stop up, after the January we have had, it will be a minor mirracle if we manage to do it!

[mike]

If we do stay up, will Lambert can any credit for it?

I think he'd have to, as every fucker has us down as it stands.

That doesn't make sense. Him being very slightly less shit than we thought doesn't make him any good. Only nearly getting us relegated, as opposed to actually getting us relegated would not be a mark of any kind of success. If you can tell me we stay up because of his tactics, team selection, motivational skills, organisation, or any other attribute, fine, but the mere fact he keeps us up when a lot of people thought he wouldn't puts him in the esteemed company of Mr A McLeish.

[LeeB]

If we do stay up, will Lambert can any credit for it?

I think he'd have to, as every fucker has us down as it stands.

That doesn't make sense. Him being very slightly less shit than we thought doesn't make him any good. Only nearly getting us relegated, as opposed to actually getting us relegated would not be a mark of any kind of success. If you can tell me we stay up because of his tactics, team selection, motivational skills, organisation, or any other attribute, fine, but the mere fact he keeps us up when a lot of people thought he wouldn't puts him in the esteemed company of Mr A McLeish.

If he keeps us up, I'm sure along the way those skills you mention would be utillised.

[KevinGage]

Lambert is clearly not going anywhere,

I dunno.

Publically the powers at be will say he has their full support.  They'll be saying that right up until the time they sack him (if they do). 

I felt he should have been potted after the Bradford farce, but I understand why they didn't.  If he was responsible for that catastrafuck (and he was)  he was also responsible for our run to the SF, where -with draws against Man Citeh and Norwich away- we did, in all honesty, exceed expectations to get that far in the first place.

Having lost 'must win' games against the likes of Wigan, Southampton and Newcastle is a different matter.   Lose another (to West Ham) and the trigger finger might get itchy. 

I''ll only start to think he's here for the foreseeable if he's still around with less than 10 games to go.  Any prospective new manager needs at least that to even attempt to affect some sort of turnaround.

[Toronto Villa]

Allardyce would be very short term thinking. Might seem good on paper given Lambert hasn't exactly given us what we had hoped to date, but we'd all be hating Allardyce eventually. And if are to mental and plump for him, we may as well go all in and get Pulis.

[saunders_heroes]

If we do stay up, will Lambert can any credit for it?

We sacked McLeish for not nearly being as shit as Lambert so why should he take any credit for keeping us up? We're hardly a yo yo club after all.

[villan from luton]

He has made mistakes, but tonight I think he should stay. Who else do we suggest? The bloke has been let down by the owner, not his fault. He wanted Sissoko, seems a class act, but we couldnt pay the wages. Not his fault who we did get