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

[eastie]

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.

The opening 20 minutes were dreadful - it was benteke who turned the game on its head and we grew in confidence from there and played some great stuff - i certainly wouldn't say we started motivated fired up or attack minded .

[supertom]

We certainly started slowly and poorly. Almost typically but there's no way that Lambert didn't want to win this one so badly he could taste it. I think the way we turned things around after Benteke helped flip things on their head, said a lot. As did the fact we didn't just shut up shop at 2-1.

Was it a tactical masterstroke? Certainly not, but having looked unable to hit a barn door in the previous 3 matches, we looked dangerous today.

And cannot disagree that its time to see a good 90 minutes.

[MONCABA]

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And cannot disagree that its time to see a good 90 minutes.

I too would like to see a 90 minute performance. However, as I said in the post match thread, I'll take villa scoring 4 goals in 15 minutes, if it means we take all 3 points.

[Dave Cooper please]

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

Everything bad is Lambert's fault, everything good is despite Lambert?

[eastie]

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And cannot disagree that its time to see a good 90 minutes.

I too would like to see a 90 minute performance. However, as I said in the post match thread, I'll take villa scoring 4 goals in 15 minutes, if it means we take all 3 points.

I'd happily take one goal in 90 minutes as long as it means 3 points.

[peter w]

I'm not sure that Lambert has quite the same buzz in his voice when he's speaking. He's missing the tiny spark that he showed last season. Reading here about personal problems so maybe that's a major contribution but I wonder what he'll think about at the end of the season. We expected to be better this season than we are but we muddling through and we have played some awful stuff. If we finish roughly where we are what will he do if performances stay the same and be sometimes up and too often very down?

If he thinks we may not develop better  then will he want to continue knowing that the catcalls will get louder if things do not improve dramatically. Maybe he thinks it would be easier to walk now using whatever reason he might use.  He could lose Benteke and I do question at the moent whether is his heart is currently really in it?

[Isa]

He won't ever walk out because he won't get another job as big as this one. In fact, it's questionable whether he'd even get another job in this league.

[Ads]

Short of Taylor, how many Aston Villa managers have ever left the club in our entire history and found a bigger job?

[Richard E]

Short of Taylor, how many Aston Villa managers have ever left the club in our entire history and found a bigger job?

There aren't any bigger jobs than Helmsman of the Greatest Football Club In The World.

[Steve67]

Short of Taylor, how many Aston Villa managers have ever left the club in our entire history and found a bigger job?

England, bigger than the Villa?  Wash your mouth out my friend!!! (joke)

[peter w]

You could argue that McNeill did.

[Sexual Ealing]

You could argue that McNeill did.

Very true. Particularly in the late-eighties.

[john e]

just seen the poll on here, 83% of posters want him sacked or are undecided !

I didn't realise there were so many wanting him gone to be honest

[supertom]

just seen the poll on here, 83% of posters want him sacked or are undecided !

I didn't realise there were so many wanting him gone to be honest

That may have been because the poll was from before the Norwich game (I think).

Not that my vote has changed since that game. I'll be re-appraising my vote in May.

[eastie]

just seen the poll on here, 83% of posters want him sacked or are undecided !

I didn't realise there were so many wanting him gone to be honest

That may have been because the poll was from before the Norwich game (I think).

Not that my vote has changed since that game. I'll be re-appraising my vote in May.

No he means at the moment only 17% say he shouldn't be sacked .