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

[PeterWithesShin]

I don't buy that "I asked to be sacked" stuff. Why would he stay if he wanted away so much that he asked twice to be sacked? Personal pride etc would be above the money. And why would the club keep employing someone who is admitting to them he is shit and can't do the job?

[Damo70]

I don't buy that "I asked to be sacked" stuff. Why would he stay if he wanted away so much that he asked twice to be sacked? Personal pride etc would be above the money. And why would the club keep employing someone who is admitting to them he is shit and can't do the job?

That should be our new motto. 'Why?'

[Ian.]

I don't believe he asked for it either but I get the impression the last few weeks he knew it was any game soon he would be gone.

[LeeB]

I don't believe he asked for it either but I get the impression the last few weeks he knew it was any game soon he would be gone.

I don't buy it either. My guess is he was told he'd got to get three points from Hull after the twatting at Arsenal, and he knew once that second goal went in that he'd lost his job.

[villasjf]

His bizarre decisions this season make more sense if you believe the rumour he'd asked to be sacked twice and Lerner refused to pull the trigger.

If it was that bad he could have walked

It reduces your payoff if you walk.

MON Walked and still won at the tribunal.

[Richard E]

His bizarre decisions this season make more sense if you believe the rumour he'd asked to be sacked twice and Lerner refused to pull the trigger.

If it was that bad he could have walked

It reduces your payoff if you walk.

MON Walked and still won at the tribunal.

Let's not start that again...

[Sexual Ealing]

Yeah, but MON has a law degree...

[Richard E]

Yeah, but MON has a law degree...

So do I but sadly it doesn't mean I automatically win every case.

[Sexual Ealing]

It was a poor attempt at a joke. I seem to remember, at the height of the 'MON wars' on here towards the end of his tenure that some people would get extremely irked at the suggestion that he had a law degree when he left the course after the first year (or something). Don't mind me.

[Villa in Denmark]

As poor as Lambert was, I never expected him to relegate us. I found it strange the way he totally gave up this season: failing to recruit a new assistant after Keane left; half-heartedly introduce a completely new style of play in the middle of the season; and so on.

Things were pretty shit they two previous seasons, but at least he someone found a way out of the quagmire on those occasions. This season he was completely clueless and hapless.

That's not quite right though (or my memory is rubbish - a reasonable possibility)

We were doing just enough to keep out of trouble, without ever looking completely secure.

Then came the post Chelsea collapse, which has meant that even after the good start to this season, anyone looking at our form over 19 games would have thought we were a good bet for the drop.  Can't get at the file from my work computer, but I don't think we've been on course for more than 38 points based on the previous 19 games at any point this season.

[not3bad]

Then came the post Chelsea collapse

Yeah, the post Chelsea collapse.  Strange that it came after such a good result and performance against Chelsea. Did the players think "having to be good is really hard work and tiring.  Let's be shit, that's much easier"...

[dekko]

^^^^

When Shay Given was doing one of his occasional punditry gigs on 5Live towards the end of last season he implied that the players knew that result would likely keep them up and so 'subconsciously' (his words) took their foot off the gas.

[Villa in Denmark]

^^^^

When Shay Given was doing one of his occasional punditry gigs on 5Live towards the end of last season he implied that the players knew that result would likely keep them up and so 'subconsciously' (his words) took their foot off the gas.

That's completely unacceptable, and yet another reason why Lambert should have gone in the summer.

I wonder if the same happened after the first 4 games?  10 points in 4, home safe for the seasons target of staying up &  already on the beach.

Either that or they'd absolutely had enough of Lambert and were actively trying to get him sacked.

[Malandro]

On my tablet, so incapable of a link - but the mail has pictures of Lambert's house that's now up for sale. Money definitely can't buy taste.

[LTA]

No wonder he didn't want to go if thats where he was living.