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

[PaulWinch again]

There is genuinely no one who could do a worse job. That is why it should be such an easy decision.

[Toronto Villa]

I'd love to know across our entire history has there ever been a manager that started life as popular as Lambert did to be as despised (as Villa Manager) as he is? Surely there can't be any who in such a short time has seen their stock fall as dramatically as him.

[curiousorange]

There is genuinely no one who could do a worse job. That is why it should be such an easy decision.

That's the thing - we're on a downward trajectory, with the manager working to a skinflint (for this league) budget, not knowing where the next goal, let alone point, is coming from. Even if we had somebody reprehensible as a manager, it would be on trend. We aspire for better, but change is imperative. Lambert's set the lowest benchmark we'll probably ever have in this league, so why not take the chance we could see better under somebody new?

[Sexual Ealing]

I voted to keep him. Things are obviously awful but I think he's doing the job he's been asked to do. Lerner will be asking a new guy to do exactly the same thing so what's the point changing it? I know there's a chance that things could get a bit better, but they could also get worse. We're set up to bore along largely where we are.

We have better players than stoke . He has

He's not getting the best out of what's available to him but it'll take a much better manager than whoever would come to us under the current regime to succeed where he's failing. In my opinion, obviously.

I don't think we'll go down and, if we don't, he'll have hit the target set to him by his boss.

McLaren, moyes and even Hughes would do better with our squad.

I think our players and Stoke's are broadly on a par.

None of the managers you mention would come here at the moment, in my opinion.

[silhillvilla]

It's an absolute shambles , the karsa and culverhouse bullying and sackings , the Keane appointment and subsequent walk out ! It's just a fucking laughing stock now. I dread to think what next . We are going down and doing it in style

[Tom_Mc9?]

Well, what will happen next is we'll lose two or three nil to Chelsea and then draw with Hull City.

[BarryT]

I wonder if the thing that plays on Lamberts mind is that his career as a football manager will be finished once he leaves Villa - can't be a good feeling for somebody who once regarded as "promising". I can't imagine a future Chair reading Lamberts CV and thinking I'll give him a go!!

[Toronto Villa]

You'd give him a go at a lower division club because he has a good record. No PL chairman would touch him I'm sure

[curiousorange]

I wonder if the thing that plays on Lamberts mind is that his career as a football manager will be finished once he leaves Villa - can't be a good feeling for somebody who once regarded as "promising". I can't imagine a future Chair reading Lamberts CV and thinking I'll give him a go!!

I can only imagine he'll go abroad. He won't manage in the Premier League for a good long time, if ever.

[brontebilly]

I'd love to know across our entire history has there ever been a manager that started life as popular as Lambert did to be as despised (as Villa Manager) as he is? Surely there can't be any who in such a short time has seen their stock fall as dramatically as him.

David O'Leary?

Paul Lambert's back to back promotions at Norwich seemed great but like Nigel Adkins he has been found out badly in the top division

Villa Park has destroyed many a manager unfortunately

[peter w]

I'd just ask the 4 what do you think a new manager, whoever he is, couldn't do better than what lambert is right now?

[Malandro]

I wonder if the thing that plays on Lamberts mind is that his career as a football manager will be finished once he leaves Villa - can't be a good feeling for somebody who once regarded as "promising". I can't imagine a future Chair reading Lamberts CV and thinking I'll give him a go!!

I disagree. One smarmy interview where he praises the club but explains the tight restraints he had to work under and then how he wants to get back into the game - citing his Norwich days.

He won't have a problem but it would probably be a championship team.

[silhillvilla]

I wonder if the thing that plays on Lamberts mind is that his career as a football manager will be finished once he leaves Villa - can't be a good feeling for somebody who once regarded as "promising". I can't imagine a future Chair reading Lamberts CV and thinking I'll give him a go!!

I can only imagine he'll go abroad. He won't manage in the Premier League for a good long time, if ever.

He will end up north of the border where he belongs

[OzVilla]

Sack him now. Looking at the records, this really is the most obvious decision you can get in football.

The fact that they haven't just shows how utterly clueless Lerner/Fox are.

[brian green]

The only hero to zero comparison I can recall is not quite the same.   Vic Crowe was idolized as a player but ultimately reviled as a manager.   Stuart Pearce's demise at Forest is more accurate.