I'm wondering, for discussion sake, how people would be with Lambert say he were to win / undefeated in the next 4 to 5 matches. Its often believed there are turning points in seasons and form can change .
Footyskillz, I can't decide if your hopelessly optimistic, completely naive, just blind to what's going on, or maybe Lambert's agent?
You're not the first person to compare Lambert to Newcastle and Pardew, but there are some important differences.
To plagiarize a previous post-
The toon army have been after Pardew from the minute he got through the door as he's not "one of them"
Unlike Lambert he can actually point to several periods of good form with them, as well as actually having turned around ailing sides, both inherited and self created.
Lambert had only known success since he started as a manager and apparently has no idea how to progress from the current shambles.
We, on the over hand, are in a downward spiral and have been for 3 1/2 seasons, 2 1/2 of which Lambert has overseen.
It's his squad now. He's already discarded all bar Bacuna and Kozak from last year's signings. In all of that time we've seen 1 run of decent results, at the end of his first season, that have come from a team that looked like they knew what they were doing.
Everything else has been pretty much downhill.
A chimpanzee in space could see that our players are devoid of confidence and self-belief at the moment. The last 2 games I've seen they also looked like they had no belief in what they were bring asked to do.
Pauliewalnuts said in the West Ham post match thread that in the first half that they looked like a team trying to get the manager sacked.
I wonder how close to the truth that was, and it was an almighty bollocking from our favourite Irish psychopath that got them working a bit harder second half.
Do you really think that Lambert will keep us up? Because nothing, absolutely nothing suggests that.
It's not just about 6 defeats without scoring, or 1 goal and 1 point in 7 and you don't even need to bring up all the negative records that would have got anyone at another club sacked for just 1 or 2 of them
What it is about is:
30 points from 31 games so far in 2014.
15 points in the last 1/2 seasons worth of games. (so our points per game is actually falling over the course of the year.)
5 goals in 11 games.
Barely averaging a goal per game during his time here, despite having Benteke available for most of that period.
Tactics that make a Sunday pub team look like Barcelona or Bayern München.
Where in all of that is there an indication that he can identify where we're struggling and that he knows what to do to sort it out.
In that awful run-in last year, people were talking about Baker looking shellshocked and that he needed taking out of the firing line for his own good.
I think the same can be said of Lambert. The last 2 1/2 seasons might well be the making of Lambert as a manager if he can take the time to look at what's gone on and reflect on how to do it better next time. But it won't be with us.
He needs to go for our sake and his.
