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

[kippaxvilla2]

I could scream why do these twaty pundits keep insisting the beef is with just Lerner ffs.

[kippaxvilla2]

Only Sean Custis had anything like a clue.  Putting the troubles back to the Bradford defeat.

[Deano's Mullet]

The last three years under Lambert have been one big torture. Its as if we're on a slide under a microscope and just being picked and hacked at really really slowly by Lambert with a scalpel and theres no one to come whisk us away from his grasp but the whole world is sitting there watching them do it. An open wound that's just getting bigger and more painful yet Dr Lambert thinks theres nothing wrong.

[Leighton]

This is where the 8/82 protest went wrong. The protest should have been firmly aimed at Lambert.

Yes we all know Lerner needs to go, but let's get things into perspective: it's going to be much easier for the fans to get rid of the manager than the owner. Unless some fans know a few multi-billionaires.

[tomd2103]

By sticking with Lambert the club deserve relegation. Even all of those fans still willing to give him more time, they deserve relegation.

We are rotten. We will be relegated. Thanks a lot.

Disagree that fans deserve relegation, but should should we go down with Lambert and Lerner refusing to make any major changes to the status quo then they will both have fully deserved it for sheer incompetence and stubbornness. 

[Deano's Mullet]

By sticking with Lambert the club deserve relegation. Even all of those fans still willing to give him more time, they deserve relegation.

We are rotten. We will be relegated. Thanks a lot.

Disagree that fans deserve relegation, but should should we go down with Lambert and Lerner refusing to make any major changes to the status quo then they will both have fully deserved it for sheer incompetence and stubbornness. 

The fans don't deserve it but the club itself does. I can just see it on the last day if we go down - and I think it looks likely - Lambert will sum up the entire season with "we were excellent" and "we were unlucky." We've been "excellent" every game this season so he's not going to say anything different as we go over the edge is he?

[Leighton]

I'm says that the fans who continue to support Lamber-  the "Lambert Apologists" deserve relegation. I'll stand firm by this.

[KevinGage]

We've been excellent for just about every game during his tenure.

Don't let a little thing like the results and league placings convince you otherwise.

[PaulTheVillan]

We've been excellent for just about every game during his tenure.

Don't let a little thing like the results and league placings convince you otherwise.

Agreed, who needs wins. All we need to do is believe what he says after the game.

[Deano's Mullet]

Jeez I am depressed.

[Jimbo]

In order to get rid of Lambert, the message has to get through to Lerner. I would have thought this was fairly obvious. Only he can wield the axe. He has to wake up, and fast.

The protest was pathetic, but it wasn't the aim that was wrong, it was the execution. Banners and placards have been effective before, and can be effective again. Whatever you do to protest, it has to have minimal impact on people's matchday routine, and a clear message, otherwise they won't participate. Hold up a placard: easy. Then throw it away and support the team.

WAKE UP RANDY: LAMBERT OUT!

How much more simple can it be?

[Leighton]

You've got it Jimbo.

[LeeB]

I'm says that the fans who continue to support Lamber-  the "Lambert Apologists" deserve relegation. I'll stand firm by this.

We're all pissed off, but this is bullshit.

[KevinGage]

In order to get rid of Lambert, the message has to get through to Lerner. I would have thought this was fairly obvious. Only he can wield the axe. He has to wake up, and fast.

The protest was pathetic, but it wasn't the aim that was wrong, it was the execution. Banners and placards have been effective before, and can be effective again. Whatever you do to protest, it has to have minimal impact on people's matchday routine, and a clear message, otherwise they won't participate. Hold up a placard: easy. Then throw it away and support the team.

WAKE UP RANDY: LAMBERT OUT!

How much more simple can it be?

If you judge it purely on how many actually waited behind and came in 8 minutes late, aye, it was a failure.

I wouldn't call it pathetic though, as it generated publicity and had Sky, the Beeb and co actually focusing on Lambert's unpopularity for a change, rather than the scripted 'any manager would struggle there' soundbites that normally suffice.

So job done, in that regard.

[Jimbo]

Of course, the huge, terrifying problem we face is, if Lerner does finally wake up and sack Lambert, we'll have another farcical drawn-out manager search to endure. Are we sufficiently braced for that, because I don't think Lerner is?