Lambert OUT

[john2710]

In all honesty he should have gone when we lost to Bradford, which was without question the most humiliating event in my 40 years as as supporter. 

Like most of his team he is tactically inept & out of his depth.

Lerner won't sack him & he won't back him either.  We will get what we deserve eventually.

[HolteEnder96]

We are a team in real trouble and not only did the crowd turn on Lambert today but I can only imagine the chants if Swansea nick one, which is more than likely at the minute.
Also why on earth do we bring every player back for corners, it is so frustrating, there is no outlet.

[N'Zimidy]

Who would you replace him with if he did go?

There are hundreds of managers in Europe that would dream of managing a club such as ours. I'm sure at least one of them will far outdo whatever Mr Mumbles has done to the Villa.

Be specific please - which of the hundreds are you refering to? I am willing to listen to reason. The Anyone but Lambert is not a practical position.

As an example, Southampton ditched their boring British manager and brought in Pochettino, a virtually unknown manager who was out of a job for a year after being sacked by lowly Espanyol. Look at the job he's done there. Now I haven't followed foreign leagues for years so I can't give names but I'm sure that there would be managers in the other top 5 leagues that can get our side playing good football and be willing to work under our budget requirements. It's just a matter of spending a couple of weeks researching them. There are certainly no British managers around right now that are our short term and long term answers.

[Villafirst]

Never thought I'd say it.....this is actually worse than McLeish's reign!

[Small Rodent]

Hoddle knew how to play football in the mid-nineties,

That would the plan.

Beat these 21st century upstarts by baffling them with 1990s tactics they've all forgotten.

[SoccerHQ]

Please not Hoddle. Too much of a Houllier type for my liking.

Someone who's been out of the game for ages, has the type of personality that would make him fall out with players and imagine if he does o.k people will be pushing him in the press to go back to Spurs. Also ask Wolves fans on his managerial capabilities.

Again the list of domestic candidates is poor, Jol looked out of it at Fulham and Steve Clarke would have a McLeish feel to it.

I think we need to look abroad given how poor our football is. It might end up Dr Jo...but it could end up Pochettino.

My ideal dream appointment would be Marcelo Bielsa. Loved that Bilbao team he created two seasons back that reached the Europa league final and I believe he's not in work currently. A true football maverick, life would not be boring with him in charge.

Reallistically someone like Ralf Ragnick would do for me. He's been linked with prem clubs for a while now and has done well at Schalke and Hoffenheim in the last few years.

[SamTheMouse]

I wish Houllier's heart had held out. We could have been watching Cabaye slotting them in from 25 yards.

I refuse to accept the revisionism about the Houllier period. We may have looked good after three years of experimenting and trial and error, but until Bent came in and reminded us that we're a big club, we were heading down.

Correct - top 6 to bottom 3 in 4 months.

Well this is a discussion that's already been done to death on dedicated threads, but I was always a believer at the time. I saw the Houllier season as a typical transitional one: lots of short term pain for longer term gain, as we moved gradually from one old-fashioned style with old-fashioned players to a more continental approach. I thought the project was just starting to gather pace when he fell ill, so it made the decision to appoint McCleish all the more astonishing in its inconsistency. That summer was the time to appoint a forward-thinking man, but the board went back the stone age. It set us back and we've struggled ever since. Lambert is to some extent a victim of that, although I accept that his signings have been patchy at best and he's failed to strengthen key areas.

[onje_villa]

Who would you replace him with if he did go?

There are hundreds of managers in Europe that would dream of managing a club such as ours. I'm sure at least one of them will far outdo whatever Mr Mumbles has done to the Villa.

Be specific please - which of the hundreds are you refering to? I am willing to listen to reason. The Anyone but Lambert is not a practical position.

As an example, Southampton ditched their boring British manager and brought in Pochettino, a virtually unknown manager who was out of a job for a year after being sacked by lowly Espanyol. Look at the job he's done there. Now I haven't followed foreign leagues for years so I can't give names but I'm sure that there would be managers in the other top 5 leagues that can get our side playing good football and be willing to work under our budget requirements. It's just a matter of spending a couple of weeks researching them. There are certainly no British managers around right now that are our short term and long term answers.

Agreed.

[ez]

Randy took a massive gamble when he left TSM in charge and he got away with it, but only just. Surely he won't roll the dice again.

[Irish villain]

Randy took a massive gamble when he left TSM in charge and he got away with it, but only just. Surely he won't roll the dice again.

He did last January/February.

[russon]

as Alan Partridge once put it " he needs to be put in a car and sent over a cliff, I'd happily be the driver"

[olaftab]

We are a team in real trouble and not only did the crowd turn on Lambert today but I can only imagine the chants if Swansea nick one, which is more than likely at the minute.
Also why on earth do we bring every player back for corners, it is so frustrating, there is no outlet.

Welcome HolteEnder96. Yes there are lots of annoying things about us at the moment but this corner defending with all 11 in the area depresses me behind belief.

[rob_bridge]

Who would you replace him with if he did go?

There are hundreds of managers in Europe that would dream of managing a club such as ours. I'm sure at least one of them will far outdo whatever Mr Mumbles has done to the Villa.

Be specific please - which of the hundreds are you refering to? I am willing to listen to reason. The Anyone but Lambert is not a practical position.

As an example, Southampton ditched their boring British manager and brought in Pochettino, a virtually unknown manager who was out of a job for a year after being sacked by lowly Espanyol. Look at the job he's done there. Now I haven't followed foreign leagues for years so I can't give names but I'm sure that there would be managers in the other top 5 leagues that can get our side playing good football and be willing to work under our budget requirements. It's just a matter of spending a couple of weeks researching them. There are certainly no British managers around right now that are our short term and long term answers.

Agreed.

Not disagreeing with you but I asked for specific or a few practical options.

Also do you for one minute think either Lerner or Faulkner could pick such a successful candidate past on previous selections?

[Small Rodent]

as Alan Partridge once put it " he needs to be put in a car and sent over a cliff, I'd happily be the driver"

Excellent, made me smile.

In a nightclub in Szczecin waiting for friends who are over an hour late. But free wifi means I can pop on here fir a moan.

[midnite]

I haven't been on this site for a while. Not have I been to any games since October due to work commitments. This was my first game back.

I was pretty appalling. There isn't much to get excited about at the moment. But I don't care who you are team wise. If you lose a third of your starting line up to injuries and suspensions you're going to struggle.

It's highlighted we're weak outside the starting 11.

Calling for lamberts head though. Has everyone gone mad?? And on top of that people are saying to appoint hoddle. A man who has all but disappeared from people's memories if it wasn't for throwing his name into the ring for the spurs job.

Lambert is a good manager. He still needs time, he's had one full season. There's lots and lots of work to do. It's not going to change over night.

I know everyone is allowed to do what they want. You pay your money and so you have your voice. But I'm of the opinion of booing a team which is very low in confidence isn't going to help anything. It's not my thing.

For me, he still has time on the board. Not saying I'm bowled over with performances and I'm certainly not excited by what was out in the field this afternoon. But to sack him isn't the answer for me.