Confidence In The Manager

[dekko]

I think the Jury is still out on the Manager, I am not convinced by many of the players he has bought in as either the right players or good enough.

I think that we have to wait and see if his scatter gun approach to signing players will play off or we end up with a squad like ARRY left behind at West Ham.

Given what we know about Lambert's transfer policy (eg the much mentioned 30 game dossier on Westwood, the fact that he was chasing Kozak for months) I think scattergun is the absolute last thing our transfer policy is.  Plus Redknapp paid big fees and big wages, our lads were generally cheap, and being paid peanuts - even if they all turn out to be terrible (they won't) it wont bankrupt us.

[oldtimernow]

He's the best we might hope to get, I'm still right behind him and think he'll avoid relegation.

Avoiding relegation shouldn't be the aim for a club like villa , we must be looking towards mid table at least.

Come on Eastie....is that the best we can do?

At the moment I'm afraid it is but it all might change with a good result today

[eastie]

He's the best we might hope to get, I'm still right behind him and think he'll avoid relegation.

Avoiding relegation shouldn't be the aim for a club like villa , we must be looking towards mid table at least.

Come on Eastie....is that the best we can do?

At the moment I'm afraid it is but it all might change with a good result today

I think realistically we should be looking at top 8 being achievable as the likes of west brom and Swansea did last season - the top 6 have too much for us to compete with at the moment and the gap is getting wider.

Certainly the posters comment that lambert will keep us up should not be something to aim for , we should be looking far higher than that.

[oldtimernow]

Agreed, I used to think that we should be top 6 material at the very least for a club of our stature but we have had to tread water for so long that others have gone past us, leaving us floundering.

[Malandro]

[supertom]

How long term our plan is I don't know, but it does appear that the way we're going about things wouldn't stretch much further than mid-table. We still might be a year or two away from that as well. It doesn't exactly warm the cockles.

[sirlordbaltimore]

My confidence in Lambert is currently 29%. I've just worked that out on a graph and everything

[eastie]

My confidence in Lambert is currently 29%. I've just worked that out on a graph and everything

You are not related to villadawg are you ?

[sirlordbaltimore]

Dunno, whats his/her surname ?

[Monty]

Dunno, whats his/her surname ?

'Dawg'.

[eastie]

Dunno, whats his/her surname ?

There was a character here a few years ago who was called villadawg and used charts and graphs to back up his nearly every post - i don't think he ever recovered from mon walking out .

[cheltenhamlion]

I haven't bothered with here since the Spurs match but am reading this on the way to the game and am astounded at some of the stick Lambert is copping for, particularly the team selection in midweek.

We have nigh on half a first team out injured and niggly knocks to several others. What team did you think he was going top pick?

And as for not taking the cup seriously, if that were the case then why did we start the entire first team against Rotherham?

[olaftab]

My confidence in Lambert is currently 29%. I've just worked that out on a graph and everything

Ermmm...29%? I would like to see the graph alongside  a spider diagram and a hazard plot to first fully understand the risk and then implement the improvement initiatives to widen his spider and increase  hazard fail time span.

[eastie]

I haven't bothered with here since the Spurs match but am reading this on the way to the game and am astounded at some of the stick Lambert is copping for, particularly the team selection in midweek.

We have nigh on half a first team out injured and niggly knocks to several others. What team did you think he was going top pick?

And as for not taking the cup seriously, if that were the case then why did we start the entire first team against Rotherham?

In answer to the Rotherham question , probably because we hadn't got another game for almost 3 weeks.

Lambert made it pretty clear on Monday that he saw the city game as of more importance this week.

[olaftab]

I haven't bothered with here since the Spurs match but am reading this on the way to the game and am astounded at some of the stick Lambert is copping for, particularly the team selection in midweek.

We have nigh on half a first team out injured and niggly knocks to several others. What team did you think he was going top pick?

And as for not taking the cup seriously, if that were the case then why did we start the entire first team against Rotherham?

May be because there were none of those precious league games coming up for about a month?