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

[silhillvilla]

100% wind up merchant .

[olaftab]

Indeed. It's season to be trolling...lalalalalalala

[olaftab]

That 4 year contract suggests to me that Randy either believes there's no way we can go down under Lambert or he's now prepared to take relegation rather than look for a new manager.

If you were to judge him purely in terms of maintaining Premier League status for struggling teams than he has no equals. Norwich one season, us 2 seasons. In that he is unassailable.

[edgysatsuma89]

PL at Leicester today according to the Daily Heil. 

From Sportsmail's Laurie Whitwell at the King Power Stadium

'Paul Lambert is using his Saturday off to scout Leicester and Sunderland here at the King Power Stadium, even though it's a while before Aston Villa face either. Good atmosphere to begin at this packed ground.'

Notepad:

This Leicester team look tasty. We should soak up the pressure and hit on the counter.

This Sunderland team look tasty. We should soak up the pressure and hit on the counter.

Haha look a giraffe playing ping pong.

[Steve67]

100th game in charge of Villa come Monday's game. How many of them have we really enjoyed? Probably around 10% of them. Progress? Not a fecking chance. This is Lambert's squad now and we are every bit as poor as anything I've seen in my 40 years of watching the Villa.

[Sleeuwenhoek]

It is bad but probably 1967-70 was worse, never ending head tennis in the centre circle.....

[pauliewalnuts]

100th game in charge of Villa come Monday's game. How many of them have we really enjoyed? Probably around 10% of them. Progress? Not a fecking chance. This is Lambert's squad now and we are every bit as poor as anything I've seen in my 40 years of watching the Villa.

I can remember plenty of shit Villa sides, but it isn't the fact that we're so awful that bothers me most at the moment.

It is the fact that I just can't see it changing. I am no Ellis revisionist, but really, at least under Doug you felt that if the manager did badly enough, he'd get the bullet. With this chairman and this manager, it seems like there is no pride, there's no point at which the chairman will decide he's had enough.

He has made it pretty clear he's not really that arsed about the club these days, the fact he awarded a new four year contract so easily a couple of months ago says it all. It doesn't matter what we think of Lambert, Lerner thinks he is doing a wonderful job.

So we're stuck with a chairman who either doesn't give a fuck, or just doesn't understand the game, and a manager who has proved himself to be utterly incompetent over an extended period of time.

For me it isn't the fact we're so awful, it is the fact that it seems like there is no likely way out of it, it will just go on and on, and as it does, more and more people - like me - will just lose patience or interest with it all, and drift away. While that happens, the rest of the league will start wondering why we're even in it, we offer so little, as we go along breaking records for shitness.

Between them, the people running us, what they're doing at the moment is gradually suffocating this club. I can think of many ways in which Randy has been good for this club, and shown he has his heart in the right place, but the current lack of concern, the degree to which he has accepted our decline, means I'll never forgive him.

He has reduced the club to an absolute shambles. I just wish he'd start to care enough to do something about it before we complete our emulation of Wigan Athletic and get relegated.

[Comrade Blitz]

He's like a fucking Civil Servant just trying to protect his pension until he can retire on service years. He must've pissed away all the money (and bonuses?) that Norwich paid him.....that must be the only reason why he won't resign. Get tae fuck yeh ******!!!

[ChicagoLion]

I see the Troll is alive and well, I wonder who he really supports.

There is no other club that would have tolerated this clowns record breaking antics let alone reward his abject failure with a new contract.

I hope that if we lose on Monday that the crowd give him hell, it is the only way that something might get done.

[Comrade Blitz]

Maybe he only understands Scottish:

Get Tae Fuck Yeh ******

[Steve67]

Good post Paulie, nail on head. I wish I understood the finer workings of Lerner's thinking around this new contract. I can't help feeling that Lambert was so loyal to Villa/Lerner in some way that Lerner feels compelled to keeping him, no matter what.  I'm as pissed off as the rest. Lambert, under Ellis would not have survived this.

[Witton Warrior]

I find it amazing that there are people who still defend Lambert's record.
He is in fact a negative record-breaker of such magnitude that I find it incredible there are those who still purport to support him.
I don't give a toss if he is a decent bloke or the Devil incarnate his record is the worst for one Villa manager I can recall.
Is it all bad luck with injuries now then?

The fact that Lerner now longer gives a toss other than for his bank account is a powerful factor but a massive element of this is the choices, decisions and tactics of the incumbent manager. The inability to secure an effective play-maker/No 10 in two and a quarter seasons has to be questioned surely?

[adrenachrome]

It is bad but probably 1967-70 was worse, never ending head tennis in the centre circle.....

True,  Slogger.
 
Often after around the hour mark you would hear:

If you're going up the Witton
Clap your hands

and then making our own entertainment.

Also, I used to get in for  1/6 (7.5P).

Even adjusting for inflation, something has gone seriously wrong with the admission price/ entertainment ratio. Very poor bang for our buck, as they say.   

[adrenachrome]

Warm congrats to Lambo for reaching his ton on a very sticky wicket.

Say what you like about man management,  tactics, formations, coaching and all that other ephemeral guff - the man is a stayer. In for a penny in for a (squillion) pound(s).  Like Saint Sir Thomas More under threat from Fat Fucker Henry, he is a Man For All Seasons. Character is destiny. Destination unknown. Hold on your balls and tighten your sphincters.

We go again once more unto the breach ...

For there is none of you so mean and base,
That hath not noble lustre in your eyes.
I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,
Straining upon the start. The game's afoot:
Follow your spirit, and upon this charge
Cry 'Line up the drugs and booze, let's do it large!'

     

Mat Kendrick ‏@MatKendrick 5h5 hours ago

100 not out. Paul Lambert reaches a century of matches in charge of Villa #avfc on Monday.

[WestleyArmsAV]

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