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

[aev]

I think there is also the potential language issues - look at the problems we have had with Mcleish and now Lambert.

[Legion]

It's very little to do with language as such as he speaks English. Accent or dialect perhaps.

[aev]

whoosh

[Legion]

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D'OH! Just scrolled back a few posts.

[supertom]

without meaning to sound like an apologist for Lambert here, but as much as Bruce looks like Mourinho by comparison have a look back at his managerial record and see what he's gone through to get to this point. Bruce had a really volatile managerial career. But he's done really well at Hull to get them up, the FA Cup final and will probably keep them up too. I realize Lambert has done overall very poorly in his two years with us, but making out Bruce is any sort of managerial genius requires closer scrutiny.

I think the point I was trying to make is just that, Bruce is a very, very average manager. Who Lambert is making look a genius at the moment.

Yeah, Brucie isn't great but whatever one might think he's had years of Premier League management experience. Whilst he might be average, you have to be at least average, as Bruce is, Pulis is, Hughes is, to keep up being a Premiership manager.

I see Lambert as being in the Paul Jewell camp. He'll have his time in the Premiership but eventually will find his place down in L1/the Championship and probably struggle to ever get back to the big time. He's too limited. He's regularly been outwitted by the likes of Pulis and Hughes this season. Sometimes a tight game comes down to a battle of wits and it's games like this that Lambert really struggles in.

We need at least, an average manager. For a year or two, we could probably do worse than Curbishley to stabalise us. He can work on a low budget too.
That said I'd like to see us be ambitious and dangle a big carrot in front of a decent manager. Someone who could really turn things around. That all depends on how much ambition we have left.

[not3bad]

we could probably do worse than Curbishley to stabalise us.

I'm going for a walk. I may be some time.

[Des Little]

The very minute we secure the required points to keep us up, whichever game it may be, Lambert and Culverhouse should return to the dressing room to find a P45 sitting on top of their stuff in a bin bag.

[supertom]

we could probably do worse than Curbishley to stabalise us.

I'm going for a walk. I may be some time.

I've just had my walk. Ha ha.

That's what we've come to though, where that would be a significant upgrade on what we have. I felt dirty typing it. At this point though I'd take an average manager.

[brian green]

Des, I think all the cloak and dagger stuff and "I've got a secret" comments over the weekend are because they have already got them.   They are on their bikes but it is essential to preserve the loyalty of the fans by treating them as idiots and keeping them in the dark.

[SoccerHQ]

With respect though Curbs has been out of the game bar a brief stint at Fulham for nearly 6 years now. Capable manager in his time but doesn't seem to want to manage again as I'm sure he's had offers in that period.

As I said a few pages ago, if a relegation threatened team like Fulham can get in a double winning Bundesliga manager like McGath surely it's possible for us to find someone similar. And I don't mean someone in semi retirement like Houllier.

[richard moore]

It's very little to do with language as such as he speaks English. Accent or dialect perhaps.

It's more that he's just plain thick - you can almost see the cogs in his pea sized brain moving as he talks and each word he utters seems to have taken him ages to form in his head

[brian green]

Boring old fart alert.   My mate sold his house to Curbishley.   In order to doll the property up he "borrowed" a load of my best carp to put in the pond in the garden.   He sold the house, Curbs moved in but I never got my fish back.   If he does come to VP the first letter he gets on his desk is a bill for my koi carp.

[steffo]

What we are crave for it creative football.

Both Bruce and Houlier signed Darren Bent. A natural goalscorer. But to feed him you needed width.

Loath that i am to Bruce, he is miles ahead of Lambert in tactical terms.

It is beyond comprehension that when Houlier was asked what he needed to keep Villa in the Premiership he said D. Bent at £20 million pounds. How on earth have we appointed two managers since without asking how will they service our goal machine? Yet we spend millions on Kozak and Hellainus and he play Holt.

 

[supertom]

With respect though Curbs has been out of the game bar a brief stint at Fulham for nearly 6 years now. Capable manager in his time but doesn't seem to want to manage again as I'm sure he's had offers in that period.

As I said a few pages ago, if a relegation threatened team like Fulham can get in a double winning Bundesliga manager like McGath surely it's possible for us to find someone similar. And I don't mean someone in semi retirement like Houllier.

Lambert and McLeish have certainly been well paid. We could probably offer good money to a number of good managers overseas. I think McGath himself had been out the game for 2-3 years as well, but Fulham offered him enough money.

I'd honestly forgotten it's been that long since Curbishley was in the game. Strange really. He actually did alright at West Ham so it's surprising he's not worked since then.

[walsall villain]

we could probably do worse than Curbishley to stabalise us.

I'm going for a walk. I may be some time.

I will come and join you. Curbishley for crying out loud.