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

[LTA]

Pulis might not play brilliant football, but at least it would be effective.

Not with Villa it wouldn't. I don't think we have the physicality the guy needs to create a core, not at present. Maybe with Hutton, Senderos and (at a pinch) Delph in the side, he could have that muscular stamina thing he relied on at Stoke, but at the moment, he's got Benteke, coming back from injury. With a fit squad, Pulis might be effective, but when do Villa ever have a fully fit squad?

You could have said the same about palace when he went in there.  On paper at least, our squad is better than Palaces was a year ago.

[curiousorange]

I think he'll still be in a job on Monday morning.

[OCD]

Eddie Howe would probably be a better bet than Pulis.

[Deano's Mullet]

No where else could some one potentially  lose six league games in a row - on top of the awful record he has anyway - and still be safe. If we lose tomorrow he HAS to go. No excuses.

[villan from luton]

Is that the Eddie Howe that couldnt cope at mighty Burnley?

[LTA]

Pulis might not play brilliant football, but at least it would be effective.

Effective for a couple of seasons until he got money and spent it on average aging players on high salaries. We may have seen that movie before...

Would make us organised and spirited though. That would be an improvement on Lambert's reign of terror

In fairness, stoke had only 1 crap season under him, and even then they were fairly clear of danger.  I think they're benefiting from the foundations he laid now.  Not saying he would be the ling term answer, but ID be more confident of staying up this season than I would with this man in charge now.

[Monty]

There's no chance he'll be sacked anytime soon. Lerner's sometime described as not given to knee-jerk decisions, or as a ditherer, but that's not true - he's rashly and emotionally loyal to his favourites. Lambert couldn't get sacked after two years of continuous failure and underperformance and embarrassment, but he got his contract extended by an astonishing four years because of four good games - an extraordinary example of impulsive decision-making.

[rob_bridge]

Is that the Eddie Howe that couldnt cope at mighty Burnley?

Yes and very good where he is. It would be another Turner. Leave it alone and, as nearly as important, leave him alone.

[Deano's Mullet]

Pulis League Record

Bournemouth 9 June 1992 5 August 1994 107 31 38 38 28.97
Gillingham 31 July 1995 1 July 1999 216 94 62 60 43.52
Bristol City 5 July 1999 14 January 2000 33 10 14 9 30.30
Portsmouth 13 January 2000 12 October 2000 35 11 10 14 31.43
Stoke City 1 November 2002 28 June 2005 131 47 32 52 35.88
Plymouth Argyle 23 September 2005 14 June 2006 39 12 15 12 30.77
Stoke City 14 June 2006 21 May 2013 333 122 98 113 36.64
Crystal Palace 23 November 2013 14 August 2014 28 12 5 11 42.86

[pauliewalnuts]

There's no chance he'll be sacked anytime soon. Lerner's sometime described as not given to knee-jerk decisions, or as a ditherer, but that's not true - he's rashly and emotionally loyal to his favourites. Lambert couldn't get sacked after two years of continuous failure and underperformance and embarrassment, but he got his contract extended by an astonishing four years because of four good games - an extraordinary example of impulsive decision-making.

I never thought I would see a decision from Lerner that left me as utterly gobsmacked as the McLeish appointment, but that new four year deal for Lambert was just staggering.

Randy genuinely does not have the first clue what he is doing. He's a nice bloke, and has spent some serious money on the club, but he is utterly incompetent, as he keeps on demonstrating.

Lambert is going absolutely nowhere, nowhere. I can not believe people actually think otherwise.

A four year contract, half a dozen games ago. Randy actually thinks the bloke is doing a good job. It beggars belief. He won't face up to reality, not with a 5 game run of defeats without a single goal scored, not with all the statistics which make very clear just how poor we are.

We can't pass the ball, we can't hold on to it, we can't get shots on target, we can't score goals and we can't win games. Meanwhile, we're racking up some truly shocking crowds and people are feeling more and more detached from the club.

That's a club who have now become perennial relegation candidates, a club which is clearly going nowhere and doing nothing other than biding time till it catches up with us and we go down.

That's the sort of "job" Randy has done on us.

[saunders_heroes]

Let's face it no matter what the result tomorrow he's not going to be sacked is he? Lerner couldn't care less what happens at Villa and it's almost like he's washed his hands of us, and that's the most frightening thing about this mess we're in.

[claret and blue blood]

Really hope we can get an unlikely win tomorrow which would mean Lambert not being sacked.The second part of that sentence is exactly what I don't want as I think he's proved he's not upto the job but the points and the lift of actually winning would be so welcome after this horrible run.It's catch 22 really we all know he needs to go and maybe a real twatting tomorrow might get Lerner to chop him but he might still not and if he did how confident are we he could make an appointment to make some progress.Come 5 to six tomorrow I hope he's in a job and we have three precious points .

[Adam B]

I never thought I would see a decision from Lerner that left me as utterly gobsmacked as the McLeish appointment, but that new four year deal for Lambert was just staggering.

Randy genuinely does not have the first clue what he is doing. He's a nice bloke, and has spent some serious money on the club, but he is utterly incompetent, as he keeps on demonstrating.

Indeed. Naive and almost child-like, too, as shown in his gushing over the letter from Ferguson. He has put valuable money into training facilities, but other than that his tenure at Villa has been quite the shambles.

[phantom limb]

Lerner will be there tomorrow I heard? He must be at least mildly bothered to turn up every now and again, and if we continue losing games and playing like a bag of shite I'm sure he'll pull the trigger. Although going on past experience I have no idea who he'd employ next, probably Ric Flair on an eight year contract.

[tomd2103]

Pulis might not play brilliant football, but at least it would be effective.

We have played some of the worst football I've ever seen under Lambert.  It's been turgid, long ball rubbish at times.  Pulis would get us organised and make us hard to beat, and it would be by far the biggest club he's ever been at so you would think he would come with a real desire to do well.