How would you feel....

[eastie]

BoskoDjembaSalifou and his now daily whinge of all things crap. We're 11th.

I take it you're satisfied with our recent performances?

No, not really but coming on here whinging about it every day is not going to help.

Isn't a forum a place where you're meant to discuss things?

Indeed it is mate!

[Clampy]

BoskoDjembaSalifou and his now daily whinge of all things crap. We're 11th.

I take it you're satisfied with our recent performances?

No, not really but coming on here whinging about it every day is not going to help.

Isn't a forum a place where you're meant to discuss things?

Yeah course it is, but it's the easiest thing in the world to come on here day after day and say everything's shit. It's not as if we're in the bottom three.

I slaughtered Lambert for the defence he picked against Fulham and I thought the midfield last week was bloody woeful. I'm just looking to tomorrow's game now though because those games have gone.

[not3bad]

BoskoDjembaSalifou and his now daily whinge of all things crap. We're 11th.

I take it you're satisfied with our recent performances?

No, not really but coming on here whinging about it every day is not going to help.

Isn't a forum a place where you're meant to discuss things?

Yeah course it is, but it's the easiest thing in the world to come on here day after day and say everything's shit. It's not as if we're in the bottom three.

I slaughtered Lambert for the defence he picked against Fulham and I thought the midfield last week was bloody woeful. I'm just looking to tomorrow's game now though because those games have gone.

We've got to pick ourselves up and go again haven't we? *winky thing*

[NeilH]

It seems like forever since I posted here.

I get the sense that because we as fans believed in this new approach that Lambert was taking, it makes it just that much harder to accept that it is not working. In any other circumstance now, the quality of football on display would have prompted a far greater fan response and pitchfork and burning torch protests on the Witton Lane. But somehow, because we all bought into the notion of ‘young and hungry, it makes it so damn hard to admit that it not exactly going as we planned it too.

Lambert strikes me as a man of real conviction and I just cannot see him changing his approach for one single moment, which means that we as the fans are just going to have to keep on believing in this chemistry experiment.

I just wish that there was some glimmer of hope that things are truly turning a corner at Villa Park, as were I still to be living in the UK and holder of  a season ticket, my patience would be being tested to the very limits of human endurance.

[paul_e]

We have 4-5 defenders injured? Vlaar and Okore are the main two. Bennett is injured too but he's not a huge loss compared to Vlaar/Okore. Can't think of anyone else.

A few weeks ago - we had luna, bennett, okore and baker all out and clark carrying a knock.  We've had 3 defenders out pretty much every game since the window closed.

[supertom]

Come on gents it's Christmas time...


...it's the perfect time to have a bloody good moan.

Lambert out!

 

[ktvillan]

In answer to the OP it would depend on who we could get instead, and that's impossible to say in advance.   I wouldn't be devastated if he went but it's very easy to do the frying pan to fire trick with managers. 

Last season he was rightly cut a lot of slack, especially as he had a small budget and seemed to want to develop a footballing, passing, pressing style, which sometimes showed through and sometimes not. 

This year the expectation should have been to sign players a notch or two up from last year's signings and to kick on a little.  I suppose we have done in terms of points and results but in just about every other aspect - tactics, possession, hard work, quality of signings, confidence, style of play -  we seem to have gone backwards.  It certainly doesn't feel as if we are moving forwards or even moving towards some kind of coherent ideal.

Many managers have been sacked for the same or less (Clarke and AVB?), so he's probably already relying on the owner's patience.  But having said all that I still somehow have a gut feeling there is a good manager in there somewhere.   

I would say points and results is the bottom line he should be judged on.

Indeed it's what counts the most and it was the main argument in defence of MON.  And with greatly reduced resources maybe we should be satisfied if we can grind our way up the table little by little to start with.  But I still think it would be nice to see a positive bigger picture underlying that, such as signs of an emerging style of play that isn't based only around "hoof" at home and counter attack away, some evidence of tactical nous and flexibility, and indication that the players might be able to take us further in the longer term and so on.   I felt I could see some of that last season, this one I'm not so sure.

 

[eastie]

Once we get to new year everyone will have played each other once so we will have a level playing field to judge how we are doing - 4 games ahead on paper are all winnable but we are unpredictable so who knows what they will bring .

In an ideal world we will get Vlaar fit and benteke scoring again and kick on from there .

[Mister E]

BoskoDjembaSalifou and his now daily whinge of all things crap. We're 11th.

I take it you're satisfied with our recent performances?

No, not really but coming on here whinging about it every day is not going to help.

Isn't a forum a place where you're meant to discuss things?

And the key word you use there is "discuss".

[VillaAlways]

Ecstatic. He deserves the sack far more than any of the managers that have had the bullet so far.

[Monty]

I think the scariest thing would be who Lerner would appoint next. Honestly, I think Lambert's the best he could ever appoint.

[VillaAlways]

I think the scariest thing would be who Lerner would appoint next. Honestly, I think Lambert's the best he could ever appoint.

Anyone would be better than Lambert

[Monty]

I think the scariest thing would be who Lerner would appoint next. Honestly, I think Lambert's the best he could ever appoint.

Anyone would be better than Lambert

Really. They wouldn't. Look at his predecessor for a start.

[villa `cross the mersey]

Who is available?
Who would want the job?
Who would work under such tight financial constraint?

I think there are three worse teams than us - but its all so very depressing

[Herman]

Taxi for Mr Lambert