Aston Villa v Bradford City Post-Match Thread

[*shellac*]

Depressing.ﹰ

[Billy Walker]

To keep on appointing managers and firing them after a season can not be the way forward, TSM should never have been appointed.
As for Lambert, he was never going to be fergiescum or Pepe in his first season.
Fergiescum was almost one game away from being fired at the start of his tenure, The Red Scum had also gone through a period of changing managers regulaly after Busby and they were going no where.
I hurt as much as anyone but sack Lambert and then what !!
Some dreadful second half performances and to give ratings per player is cringeworthy.
If we do not buy what is a patently clear requirement to every supporter, Centre half, midfielder and fullback then we should understand, is it Lerner not wanting to spend or Lambert being stubborn.
Lerner needs to get involved or employ a football man better than Faulkner.
Dark days but we are Aston Villa and need to keep the painful faith.
I fucking hate the minnows, but well done to Bradford, with our conivance you deserved over two legs to win.

I agree, Steamer.  Lambert's the guy who motivated that team to get to the semis in the first place.   He's been at the club for a handful of months, we've got to give him time.

[Nev]

To go shit or bust with almost half an hour left is only going to end in shit.

Terrible subs.

[Can Gana Be Bettered!?!?]

This my 6th ST in a row and I don't think I've ever been as low as this.

[maigrait]

Years of selling our best players and replacing them with utter dung has not helped our cause... Is Lambert telling the players to do one thing and they do another? Either way he has to take some if not all of the blame as he manages them!!

Its been coming lads for several years - we've had glimmers of hope top 6 finishes, etc but then it went down the pan.

ON the upside benteke is a great buy, he's a monster!! (in a good way)... erm thats about it.

[Matt C]

Ashamed. Deeply dissapointed. Not good enough.

I'm off to avoid football for a while.

[wombat]

That was utter utter shit.

That's it. I give up. I can't watch that shit anymore. I might trundle along for a couple of games the remain on the season ticket if I can be arsed. No more will I pay to put myself through the utter tedium that is Aston Villa.

[steamer]

Sorry, I forgot. Who was the captain ? apart from the positions that need filling where is our " come on lads, get the fuck into them" player ?

[Oscar Arce]

Lambert is fucking clueless. I have never been embarassed to be a Villa fan until now.
Tactically inept (let's play four centre orwards and lump the ball through the middle) The players didn't know what they were doing after the substitutions and he is so stubborn we have no width in the team verything through a congested middle.
A parks team could score from a corner against us, what do they do all week at Bodymoor for fuck sake, how many times does it have to happen ?
Time's up Lambert.
Go now, tonight preferrably.

[Kent Villian]

At these desperate times we need people who actually give a fuck about our club - as a short term fix how about Little & Gregory as a double act, we may still go down but at least we will go down fighting and not with a pathetic wimper!!!

[PaulWinch again]

Years of selling our best players and replacing them with utter dung has not helped our cause... Is Lambert telling the players to do one thing and they do another? Either way he has to take some if not all of the blame as he manages them!!

Its been coming lads for several years - we've had glimmers of hope top 6 finishes, etc but then it went down the pan.

ON the upside benteke is a great buy, he's a monster!! (in a good way)... erm thats about it.

Don't get me wrong most of our academy prospects are shite like Clark and Bannan. However our manager is also tactically clueless and chronically stubborn.

[sidcowans10]

I can't believe that some people on here can still think Lambert is the man to guide us through this. I was ecstatic when we got him, but it has gone dreadfully, dreadfully wrong, and he is clearly not the man for the task.

He has GOT to go - you can't blame funding. Has Moyes ever had £23 million to spend in a window? Did Rodgers/Laudrup spend anything CLOSE to that at Swansea?

He is to blame. It's his job to train the players, his job to instil them with confidence, his job to give them clear instructions of their roles on the pitch, his job to change tactics to adapt to match circumstances. He is clearly inept at ALL of the above.

We've given him a lot of space to get things right, but it just isn't going to happen. Time to go NOW, before it's too late.

This. This is his team. He spent a lot of money on mainly championship players. That is where we are heading. Something has to be done now before it's too late

[Nev]

This team needs a bit of experience and a leader.

The only person who can arrest this is the manager. If he isn't being allowed to so he should say so but if not and it is his decision then he needs to be removed.

[VinnieChase84]

2219:
 Aston Villa 2-1 Bradford (Agg 3-4)
Aston Villa manager Paul Lambert: "That is the worst day of the season. We had two chances to do it and haven't done it.

"We've lost four goals from set-pieces over two games which is not good enough.

"I am embarrassed. We will never have a better chance to reach the final."

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/21148092

fuck off then you clueless prick

This!!
 Tonight is the final straw! Just fuck off! And before anyone asks 'who would come in'!? I don't actually care! I'm sure adolf fucking hitler could sort a defence out better than this shit!
These lot had a chance of a cup against a league four side! They should not be beaten over two legs! Period! Oh well, they will all grab there 40k this week and 'go again'
What a load of shite!
I have never been sooooooo embarrassed!
Not embarrassed by going out but sooooooo embarrassed that we DID NOT DESERVE it over two legs!!!! 

[Nii Lamptey]

To keep on appointing managers and firing them after a season can not be the way forward, TSM should never have been appointed.
As for Lambert, he was never going to be fergiescum or Pepe in his first season.
Fergiescum was almost one game away from being fired at the start of his tenure, The Red Scum had also gone through a period of changing managers regulaly after Busby and they were going no where.
I hurt as much as anyone but sack Lambert and then what !!
Some dreadful second half performances and to give ratings per player is cringeworthy.
If we do not buy what is a patently clear requirement to every supporter, Centre half, midfielder and fullback then we should understand, is it Lerner not wanting to spend or Lambert being stubborn.
Lerner needs to get involved or employ a football man better than Faulkner.
Dark days but we are Aston Villa and need to keep the painful faith.
I fucking hate the minnows, but well done to Bradford, with our conivance you deserved over two legs to win.

I agree, Steamer.  Lambert's the guy who motivated that team to get to the semis in the first place.   He's been at the club for a handful of months, we've got to give him time.

He's also the man who's unable to give the team the confidence/desire/tactical nouse to get us to avoid relegation this season. Premier League safety and the promise of a TV cash windfall next season or a hammering in the final of the milk cup - I know which I'd go for.

The results do not lie..... Blips in the season such as the win at Man City, Norwich, Liverpool, do not hide the fact that we have been THE WORST side in the league all season. Look at the spirit in the current QPR, Reading, Southampton and Wigan sides. Do you honestly think we're going to better their results between now and the end of the season?