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

[brian green]

We shall have our work cut out to finish above them.   Pulisism works.

[frankmosswasmyuncle]

I can see him getting the stripeys organised: therefore better.

Hope I'm wrong.

[rob_bridge]

We shall have our work cut out to finish above them.   Pulisism works.

I can see and hear an earnest, not to mention smarmy, Michael Howard saying to the Baggies Fans - '...make no mistake, Pulisism works...'

[AV82EC]

We shall have our work cut out to finish above them.   Pulisism works.

If you're happy playing for mid table maximum ever 50 points with appalling football gamesmanship and the odd cup run before quarter final defeat (hang on that sounds familiar!) then it could be said to "work". I believe Villa are capable of much much better. Though it has to be said a couple of years of that sounds better than Lambert trying to unpick the lock, but it's a close run thing.

[cheltenhamlion]

They will want Pulls out in 5 minutes flat. Even if they do grind out results, it doesn't gel with their pompously held belief that they are some kind of great footballing artisans.

[phantom limb]

Would be funny if they still got relegated with him at the helm though, doubly so.

[Malandro]

Would be funny if they still got relegated with him at the helm though, doubly so.

it would be, sadly I think with a bit of tinkering they have a fairly solid squad - not unlike ourselves.

[brian green]

The tragedy is that in the context of what I said about Pulisism working it works insofar as it avoids relegation.   I could feel far more superior about them appointing a manager of such inferiority if ours was any better.   Lerner has backed Lambert for four years because he promises faux Pulisism.   One of our wittiest posters (adreno? hilts?) posted that we need a swaggering, gunslinging, high strutting, street fighting man (I paraphrase from memory) for a manager.   I'll drink to that.

[Chico Hamilton III]

Pulis was Premier League Manager of the Year last season? If I was an Albion fan I'd be pretty happy right now.

Mind you, if I was an Albion fan, I'd have drowned myself in the boating lake at West Smerrick Park several decades ago

[dave shelley]

The tragedy is that in the context of what I said about Pulisism working it works insofar as it avoids relegation.   I could feel far more superior about them appointing a manager of such inferiority if ours was any better.   Lerner has backed Lambert for four years because he promises faux Pulisism.   One of our wittiest posters (adreno? hilts?) posted that we need a swaggering, gunslinging, high strutting, street fighting man (I paraphrase from memory) for a manager.   I'll drink to that.

Instead, we get Rambling Syd Rumpo.  Look him up.

[Dave]

Anyone appointing Warnock is admitting that they're already planning for next season's promotion campaign.  Has he ever lasted a full season in the top flight, other than the Tevez/West Ham v Sheffield Utd season?

Never had a Premier League season that didn't result in either his sacking, or relegation or both.

[brian green]

Rambling Syd.   Many is the mouthful of apple pie and custard I have spluttered over Damon at the Sunday lunch table laughing at his ballads.

[Pat McMahon]

Not got any stats to hand but my memory is that Pulis tends to do well against us too, so bye bye derby day victories.

[Ads]

He had a voodoo. The times they beat us weren't born out of organisation or quality, but evil witchcraft and black magic. That is the only reasonable explanation.

[Richard E]

Not got any stats to hand but my memory is that Pulis tends to do well against us too, so bye bye derby day victories.

Stoke had an utterly shite away record under Pulis, so hello derby day victory at Villa Park.