The Paul Lambert thread - poll reset after our capitulation to Hull

[supertom]

Lambert made the right noises when he took over. He wanted us playing good football. However he's not bought the right players to even come close to implementing that. There's no excuse for buying KEA, Tonev, Luna etc. You can't excuse the fact he buys players who can't trap or pass a ball. Even one of his better signings, Bacuna, has a horrible first touch and looks uncomfortable with the ball at his feet. He's a player who is suited to kick and run football. Many of the other players are similar. I' do like Bacuna but as a player in a passing football side, he doesn't fit. That's down to Lambert, and it's not purely down to the budget he's working on.
It's all well and good wanting to build a footballing side, to try and build from the ground up like Swansea did over a number of years for example, started by Martinez and supplemented by Rodgers. But Lambert has wasted 18 months at Villa and taken us essentially, to no where different to where McLeish had us. As proved by Swansea, it doesn't take expensive players to play good football. They've been playing it since League 1. Good football doesn't come hand in hand with success of course, and they may go down, but that's not the point. If you promise something, you have to deliver. Lambert promised football in the right way, and hasn't delivered.

Houllier was making some progress. You could see something happening. It wasn't fantastic by any stretch, but his second season might have been very interesting indeed.

Lamberts tactical ineptitude is dragging us down. He's got to go in the summer. Unfortunately it's passed the point of getting a new man who'll come in and be able to do much. Lambert's still at square 1. Come the summer, fuck him off, get a new man who then starts at sqaure one. At some point we have to get a competent manager again.

[Malandro]

I sat and went through all the sky match stats and wrote the possession down for each games, he should be sacked on that basis. Frightening.

I think it has only been the w.ham games and a few others where we have had most of the ball.

Counter attacking only works if you have a strong defensive team,  you fool.

[Phil from the upper holte]

We scored first against Swansea as well

[Des Little]

I think our best bet of things changing is a takeover and a new CEO that wants his own man in, because for as long as Lerner is in charge, we'll have to suffer the worst football any of us can remember. Hold on to your seats folks!

[claret and blue blood]

I think our best bet of things changing is a takeover and a new CEO that wants his own man in, because for as long as Lerner is in charge, we'll have to suffer the worst football any of us can remember. Hold on to your seats folks!

no mate,some one else can have mine and experiencetrue suffering! ;-)

[PaulWinch again]

The next three games are now massively important, we lose them and we are in big trouble.

[olaftab]

Just seen this..


"A lot of teams would like to be where we are."

Which teams exactly?

About 7 or 8 who are below us?

[Monty]

This unseen, behind-the-scenes work appears not to involve much football training.

[Legion]

I think it's interior decoration. A lovely shade of pastel pink there, Mr Lambert.

[olaftab]

This unseen, behind-the-scenes work appears not to involve much football training.

I heard Faulkner has prepared a 50 slide powerpoint presentation to update us all at the annual awards dinner!

[SoccerHQ]

It's ironic but at his first press conference Lambert actually referenced the poor home form under McLeish and how he wanted to get VP rocking. Well the only rocking is the en mass seats going up as people leave with 10 minutes left.

[Villa in Denmark]

The truly worrying aspect in all of this is, how much did that last match under McLeish influence the decision to appoint Lambert?

I've said before that I think people outside of the club underestimate how big the job is. I'm starting to think a couple within the club do too.

That we've lurched from one crisis to another since MON left, without apparently ever considering getting someone with some footballing knowledge involved at board level is hubris on a gobsmacking level.

Faulkner seems perfectly competent at the commercial / business aspects, but leaving all footballing matters to Lambert with Faulkner providing oversight suggests nothing has been learned from the MON years apart from don't spend too much on wages, which wasn't even the real lesson.

[Rudy65]

I know I will hate the answer, whatever it is, but how much does PL earn?

[Toronto Villa]

It's ironic but at his first press conference Lambert actually referenced the poor home form under McLeish and how he wanted to get VP rocking. Well the only rocking is the en mass seats going up as people leave with 10 minutes left.

I still think he believes that just that it hasn't gone to plan (understatement alert). I am going to hope that the summer transfer window addresses that as the number 1 priority. Difference is that TSM would never actually consider it any kind of goal.

[Fergal]

I still think Lambert can do a good job for us.  he just needs to sign premiership quality players on premiership wages.