Aston Villa v Swansea City Post-Match Thread

[eamonn]

What big or bigger teams are below us?

[Villa in Denmark]

Lambert's just been on 5Live with Pat Murphy:

Villa has a great fanbase based on past success, but this is modern football, things have changed.

That sounds worryingly O'Leary-esque.

So it wasn't just me who thought it

[Stu]

I would like posters to say something other than "same old shit". Swansea are a good team and in context of where we are now this is a good result. We just need to get some confidence back into out team.

Sorry me old mate, but Sunderland last year aside, I can't remember a single dominant home performance since he came here. Even when we win we are generally outposessed and win by a solitary goal desperately clinging on by our fingernails for the last ten minutes.

Cardiff at home this season; after we scored their arses fell out of it.

[Nev]

If he can't handle being manager of a club our size, I suggest he step aside.

[eastie]

I'm sorry, if he's in some way saying we have to put up with fannying about, tentative horrible football he can fuck off. Modern day or not, we are Aston Villa and we expect and demand better than letting every other fucking team in the league keep the ball more than we do because we don't want it and don't know what to do with it when we do have it.
Do better, much better, or fuck off.

This.

[Jimbo]

Lambert's just been on 5Live with Pat Murphy:

Villa has a great fanbase based on past success, but this is modern football, things have changed.

That sounds worryingly O'Leary-esque.

I think he means: you're not a big club any more, deal with it.

[eastie]

I would like posters to say something other than "same old shit". Swansea are a good team and in context of where we are now this is a good result. We just need to get some confidence back into out team.

Sorry me old mate, but Sunderland last year aside, I can't remember a single dominant home performance since he came here. Even when we win we are generally outposessed and win by a solitary goal desperately clinging on by our fingernails for the last ten minutes.

Cardiff at home this season; after we scored their arses fell out of it.

For the last 20 minutes maybe but the rest of the game was dire turgid stuff.

[PeterWithesShin]

Apologies Mr Lambert. I'll stop expecting Aston Villa to score goals, win at home now and again, string a few passes together and have more than 27% possession at home. No idea why I set my expectations so high.

[London Villan]

He's right, football has changed, pity his hoof-ball tactics aren't part of the new world.

[eastie]

What big or bigger teams are below us?

Crystal palace and  Fulham

[curlytailavfc]

first ten minutes ok then the plan died

[Jon Crofts]

'but this is modern football, things have changed'

Well if this is modern football or your version of it you can take it somewhere else.

[VinnieChase84]

Lamberk is all well and good saying were 18 months into a project if we were showing any signs what so ever that were 'developing' and 'progressing'
*Our style of football is atrocious and shows no sign of change
*His signings on a whole are nowhere near good enough for us let alone the PL
*Our players can't manage 3 passes between them
*His coaching is clearly not developing anyone in our squad
*We needed a number 10, centre midfielder, wide player and centre half yet he spent £7m on a totum pole
And now he's saying stats don't mean anything and basically us fans are living on past successes. Give me a break. PL is unravelling and out his depth.
Up next, Sunderland away with a makeshift back4
Liverpool, arsenal and west brom

[Villa in Denmark]

If he can't handle being manager of a club our size, I suggest he step aside.

I've voiced that concern on other threads. I think he underestimated the job. He might have been the right man in 2-3 years time, but right now he looks like a rabbit caught in the headlights.

Same reason I don't want OGS. Too big a jump to soon.

[Stu]

Lambert's just been on 5Live with Pat Murphy:

Villa has a great fanbase based on past success, but this is modern football, things have changed.

That sounds worryingly O'Leary-esque.

So it wasn't just me who thought it

You beat me to it!

The past may well be the past, but the reason our average attendance this season is over 36,000 for watching this current dross Paul, is because we are a big club. If he can't handle it, he needs to have a think about how to make performances better.