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

[supertom]

I've had enough of Lambert. I'm willing to go back to the frightening unknown of better the Devil you don't know. The sad fact is, on numerous matches this season, Lambert has been easily, tactically outwitted by a lot of average managers. Guys like Hughes, Pulis, Pardew and Fat Sam, who under normal circumstances we'd completely scoff at were their names to ever be mentioned in conjunction with the job here. I'm not advocating any of those names, but that Lambert has come of second best in a game of tactical wits against all of them, says a lot. Some games you need more than hit and run football at full pelt. That has been Lamberts one and only successful tactic, when we've been given the freedom to play at full pelt and hit teams quickly on the break. They've grown wise to that and Lambert has been a mixture of shambolic and incredibly fortunate (City, Southampton, Sunderland games). We've pull wins out of our arse on occasion if we're being honest. That only happens 3-4 times a season though. At some juncture you have to be the team that dictates a game and out thinks the opposition.

Sack him. Whether it happens this season or not, there is only one inevitability with Lambert in charge, and that's championship football. He'll never learn. Benteke will be gone in the summer. It might seem on his current form that we wouldn't miss him, but we really would.

[Meanwood Villa]

I've reached the point where I wouldn't be upset if he was sacked. In fact I'd probably be quite pleased.

[DB]

As someone has mentioned, it's strange there hasn't been a bigger reaction to Randy, dodgy managerial appointments, no money to invest and staying up is our goal. Oh yeah, with the guise that it's all part of a long term plan.

[PaulWinch again]

Seems like our display against Liverpool was Lambert luckily stumbling across the correct formula. Unfortunately he's too dense to realise that and try and replicate it.

[pauliewalnuts]

Seems like our display against Liverpool was Lambert luckily stumbling across the correct formula. Unfortunately he's too dense to realise that and try and replicate it.

Strictly speaking, isn't that what he did today? It certainly looked like it, in the first half.

[PaulWinch again]

Seems like our display against Liverpool was Lambert luckily stumbling across the correct formula. Unfortunately he's too dense to realise that and try and replicate it.

Strictly speaking, isn't that what he did today? It certainly looked like it, in the first half.

I didn't  see the game, so I'll take your word for it. I'm just fed up with consistently terrible results that seem to go on and on.

[brian green]

Lambert will not be sacked because he is an integral part of the process of Randy Lerner ring fencing his investment.   He has been Lerner and Faulkner's stooge.   He has delivered on the abandonment of glory at Villa Park and it's replacement with premiership survival on a minimal budget.   Lambert will not go until the owner and Faulkner go.   To be quite honest, that is all I am living for.

The fans will not turn on Lambert because he has the magic bean which has written on it "the bearer of this bean is not, nor ever has been Alex McLeish".

[PaulWinch again]

Norwich are all over Spurs, oh and we're at home next week. Good stuff.

[Steve67]

I wouldn't mind Lambert going.  I do not subscribe to the theory that he has had no money to spend though.  He has wasted a lot of money on poor buys or buys which we didn't need.  He seems to lack any imagination and I would strongly argue that we are any better this season to last.  As to who we get in next,  I just don't trust Lerner or Faulkner to get that right either. We can throw lots of names about but I wouldn't trust them to get it right. That said, that is no excuse to keep Paul Lambert.

[Fergal]

Lambert may well turn out too be shite and we sack him, but lets not rewrite history and pretend the vast majority of fans didn't want Lambert and it was a McLeish like appointment.

I was happy with lambert getting the job but enough is enough- time to admit  it was a mistake.

I thought he was the man for the job but sadly I was wrong.  I think that if he were given the same sort of money to spend as MoN he would have exceeded the achievement of MoN.  I am not sure who will be able to do the job with that fucking clown of an owner we have running the club as badly as it has been run over the last few years.

[UK Redsox]

Laudrup time

[Monty]

I was concerned with his appointment and my opinion of him has actually marginally improved since then. It's not that he wants us to play horrible football where the most commonly played passes are from Guzan to the clouds and the clouds to Benteke - it's just that he doesn't have any idea how to avoid us playing like that. He's well-meaning, just incompetent.

[Malandro]

I only saw the last 20 mins, what was the possession like today?

[PaulWinch again]

I was concerned with his appointment and my opinion of him has actually marginally improved since then. It's not that he wants us to play horrible football where the most commonly played passes are from Guzan to the clouds and the clouds to Benteke - it's just that he doesn't have any idea how to avoid us playing like that. He's well-meaning, just incompetent.

Yeah I'd agree. I am fed up with Villa being a terrible terrible side.

[curiousorange]

The likelihood of Lambert being removed is becoming as remote as a Euromillions win. It may be short-sighted, but I'd genuinely be excited by his sacking.