Lambert OUT

[pooligan]

Palace,Sunderland and Fulham have all sacked their managers recently and the connection is ? They have all picked up enough to win a few games and  move closer to us. What's to say it would not work for Villa

[ozzjim]

The tide turned with that goal hitting the net I reckon. If the local press get after him and we lose the next 2/3, he won't make the middle of Jan as it will be an impossible situation. But whoever is in charge, they need money and a change of view in the market this window.

And as much as I loathe Franksy, if we had 15 million last jan and chose not to spend it, to save it for what we bought in the summer, it is worrying as hell for this January.

[AlexAlexCropley]

Palace,Sunderland and Fulham have all sacked their managers recently and the connection is ? They have all picked up enough to win a few games and  move closer to us. What's to say it would not work for Villa

yeah but Fulham's is a Fergie accolyte(sic) and evidently that's a no  no  at B6

[Clampy]

Palace,Sunderland and Fulham have all sacked their managers recently and the connection is ? They have all picked up enough to win a few games and  move closer to us. What's to say it would not work for Villa

You could also argue Sunderland are on their second manager since they sacked O'Neil and they're bottom of the league.

[ez]

It's all about the results and they say he's one of our worst managers.  I'm gutted it hasn't worked.

[pooligan]

I agree Clampy, but under their new manager they have also beat Chelsea and Everton in the last week or so .

[olaftab]

Has the c*** resigned yet ?

I need some Christmas cheer

Non of us are happy but there is no need for c word directed at Lambert.

[Eigentor]

Lambert in. He got the thankless job of tidying up the mess after MON, GH and McLeish. It hasn't always been pretty - most of the time it hasn't been pretty, but there have been signs (final part of last season) that he tries to make Villa a decent side playing decent football. Though I'm far from certain that he's capable to achieve what he's trying to do.

Among the three managerial appointments the board has made, he's the best (or least worst). He is not old, sick and aloof like Houllier, and he's not as bad as McLeish. I'm not saying that we'll have a good chance of success if we keep Lambert for five years, but, given their record so far, I don't think our chances will improve if the board keeps picking a new manager every 12 to 18 months for the next five years. Even if Lambert gets the boot, I believe we will continue to be quite bad at our worst.

[aj2k77]

p 56
w 14
d 16
l 26
pts 58
gd -30

His win ratio is only higher than Venglos and Mcneil and his average points per game is only higher than Mcneil. Goal difference is also appalling.

Home record
p28
w 7
d 6
l 15
pts 27

[Gareth]

7 wins in 28 at home, be lucky if we have any season ticket holders left next summer....

[pauliewalnuts]

Among the three managerial appointments the board has made, he's the best (or least worst). He is not old, sick and aloof like Houllier, and he's not as bad as McLeish.

That's the faintest of praise.

[cdward]

It's all about the results and they say he's one of our worst managers.  I'm gutted it hasn't worked.

No, Jessie J says it right. Its all about the money, money, money.
Last season Man u won the PL and got £100m, this season with the latest tv deals,  the lowest placed team in the PL will make an estimated £60M. Randy has lowered our spending and outgoings and our expectations, we don't need to have a successful team, to be a successful business. AVFC the franchise is doing fine.

[Small Rodent]

As an aside:

We should focus our frustrations on the important stuff in hand over what another poster has said ironically or forcefully about us.

The club is more important than our dismissed comments, irony laden, aggressive attacks we deliver each other.

Stop being rude to each other.

Is your comment really worth defending, or being attacked, considering Villa's position?

XXX

[Damo70]

There must be quite a few managers who have lost their jobs this season who look at his record over a season and a half and wish they had been treated as kindly as him. I'm not sure the purse strings have been that tight either. How many players and at what cost has Pardew bought compared to Lambert in the same period? I also don't believe he had to get rid of ALL of the big earners, I believe that was his choice. I can live with being beaten by Palace. I can live with playing rubbish against Palace. The trouble is it was far from a blip or a one off. It was typical of us at home under Lambert for one and a half seasons.

[Hairbandinho]

I can't see how sacking the manager on the 27th of December is a good idea. Far too close to the transfer window.. Whoever would come in would still be working with the same dross we have, no time to evaluate players and sign them.

Ultimately if you buy all your goods at Poundland, eventually your house ends up full of cheap useless tat. Which is what we have in effect.

We have to just hope there are 3 worse teams than us again