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

[pauliewalnuts]

I have never known a team so dependent on confidence. It seems to effect everyone who plays for us, not just a few but the whole bloomin lot!

Perfect illustration of that today

[Chinchilla Bathhouse]

The crazy thing with our time with Lambert is although for the most part we have been pretty rubbish to watch for long periods we have also scored some of our best goals in that period.

I said that too today.  Our form has been absolutely all over the place for the whole of Lambert's tenure, yet in that time we've scored some of the best goals I can remember from a Villa side.  Some of the team goals have been up there with the ones in Big Ron's era.  What a bizarre and ridiculous team we are at the moment.  Capable of anything.  We're like Barry Chuckle cack-handedly putting a ladder through a pane of glass and then sitting down to perform a tear-jerking rendition of Elgar's Cello Concerto.

[supertom]

The crazy thing with our time with Lambert is although for the most part we have been pretty rubbish to watch for long periods we have also scored some of our best goals in that period.

I said that too today.  Our form has been absolutely all over the place for the whole of Lambert's tenure, yet in that time we've scored some of the best goals I can remember from a Villa side.  Some of the team goals have been up there with the ones in Big Ron's era.  What a bizarre and ridiculous team we are at the moment.  Capable of anything.  We're like Barry Chuckle cack-handedly putting a ladder through a pane of glass and then sitting down to perform a tear-jerking rendition of Elgar's Cello Concerto.

This description might just win the internet. I don't think it could be put any better.

[PeterWithesShin]

I think that's why some of us haven't turned against Lambert, it's certainly one of my reasons. despite all the dross we see, there have been a lot of glimpses of what we can do. There can't be many teams as 'bad' as us who have scored so many superb goals in less than two years. It really is baffling how we go from one extreme to the other, often in the same game.

[Chinchilla Bathhouse]

I've said it before on here many times.  We're incomparably schizophrenic.  I have never seen any other side perform so brilliantly and so woefully in the same match.  There's inconsistency and then there's Lambert's Villa.  And that's also one of my reasons for continuing to support him, however much he tests that: because there's a cracking side in there somewhere.  We've seen it.  I want to see more of it.

[supertom]

I won't Lambert to send us out as motivated, fired up and attack minded as he did against Norwich. There was a lot of extra intent for this game, as you'd expect given the history between the two clubs in the last 2 years, but he's got to get us doing it against everyone else. We're so shit when we're negative, and it makes the players look more nervy too.

Everyone looked a lot more composed today, showed good movement, showed a bit more nous on the ball and we tore Norwich apart at times.

We can play football, Lambert can get us playing football. We've just got to be doing it more consistently, especially at home. Today we won 4-1, dominated possession and saw a game out very efficiently. We beat a team on our own patch that we should expect to beat.  Just as we should be looking to beat any of the bottom 10 sides at Villa Park, especially with the attacking talent we have.

[ChicagoLion]

I think todays result was because of 1 player, not Lambert.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Did you see the third goal?

[PeterWithesShin]

Did you see the third goal?

It was a lucky goal...........

[WestleyArmsAV]

I think todays result was because of 1 player, not Lambert.

The very same player Lambert signed

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Did you see the third goal?

It was a lucky goal...........

Indeed, especially the way Gabby slipped and accidently played that ball to KEA and his misplaced pass found Bacuna who then tried to blast it in the top right corner. Very bloody lucky! Did I mention he was offside?

[PeterWithesShin]

I thought it was a shot by Gabby.....

[WestleyArmsAV]

Did you see the third goal?

It was a lucky goal...........

Indeed, especially the way Gabby slipped and accidently played that ball to KEA and his misplaced pass found Bacuna who then tried to blast it in the top right corner. Very bloody lucky! Did I mention he was offside?

Brilliant

[PeterWithesShin]

It was also a bad mistake by Ruddy. If he'd have saved it we wouldn't have scored.

[Mister E]

I won't Lambert to send us out as motivated, fired up and attack minded as he did against Norwich. There was a lot of extra intent for this game, as you'd expect given the history between the two clubs in the last 2 years, but he's got to get us doing it against everyone else. We're so shit when we're negative, and it makes the players look more nervy too.

Everyone looked a lot more composed today, showed good movement, showed a bit more nous on the ball and we tore Norwich apart at times.

We can play football, Lambert can get us playing football. We've just got to be doing it more consistently, especially at home. Today we won 4-1, dominated possession and saw a game out very efficiently. We beat a team on our own patch that we should expect to beat.  Just as we should be looking to beat any of the bottom 10 sides at Villa Park, especially with the attacking talent we have.

Sent us out 'up' for it? We conceded in the  first 5 minutes!
I agree that for 30 minutes we looked really good - albeit against a side whose CB have about as much confidence as the family pet on bonfire night.  And, we gave Narrich nothing to work with in the second half. But it still contained some of the underlying frailty that's been evident over the last 18 months.
I've been a Lambert backer and hope that we develop into the side I think we all believe is lurking in there somewhere - but I do want to see at least one 90 minute performance this season and a run of games where we control the game more.