Aston Villa v West Ham United Post-Match Thread

[Legion]

Saturday 8.2.14 @4.50pm.

[PaulWinch again]

I'm hoping this is tempting fate, but I've got to go out. Absolutely awful performance with the exception of Albrighton. It highlighted what every fan knew though, we can't defend if Vlaar doesn't play and we have zero creativity to break teams down. Those things could have been addressed in January but they weren't due to this belief that we were safely midtable. Make no mistake any team who is as insipid and awful as we are at home is not safe. Rubbish and Lambert shouldn't be anywhere near a new contract, he should be lucky to see out this one based on our home displays in his reign.

[Deano's Mullet]

I'm hoping this is tempting fate, but I've got to go out. Absolutely awful performance with the exception of Albrighton. It highlighted what every fan knew though, we can't defend if Vlaar doesn't play and we have zero creativity to break teams down. Those things could have been addressed in January but they weren't due to this belief that we were safely midtable. Make no mistake any team who is as insipid and awful as we are at home is not safe. Rubbish and Lambert shouldn't be anywhere near a new contract, he should be lucky to see out this one based on our home displays in his reign.

You could have wrote this at 2.45pm.

[lovejoy]

As soon as I saw Baker and Clark at CB I feared the worst.

[danno]

I hate football

[Deano's Mullet]

Lambert out! Fuck the new contract, Lambert out.

[eric woolban woolban]

Ten letters:

L______ O__

And they want to give him a new contract?

What a joke. This club is a complete shambles.

[David_Nab]

The mere mention of a new contract for Lambert is slap on the face of us.The home record is not acceptable the performances are not acceptable.

The only person to come out of that with any credit was Albrighton

[pauliewalnuts]

New levels of pathetic.

I hope Bertrand is ok for the next game, or it could be a back four of Lowton Baker Clark Bennett which doesn't bear thinking about.

I can't believe we're talking to him about a new contract.

[hilts_coolerking]

I watch that game (or indeed 90% of our home games) and I see no reason whatsoever that Paul Lambert is the manager we should be sticking with.

[eastie]

Utter garbage again at home with albrighton the only shining light - we are stuck with lambert it seems and sadly he is taking us only one way - a very depressing outlook for villa and dire time to be a supporter .

Things will  Only get worse and only lambert knows why he chose not to spend the money available to him in January - depressing times

[Matt Collins]

The thing is, was playing 4312 ever likely to be a good idea against a Fat Sam team, whose main strength is their defensive organisation? I just can't see it.

All of our weaknesses were exposed today - the club's and the team's.

Alby and Westwood played well. Two players who looked to create.

I'm gonna ignore villa now till the Cardiff game. There's literally nothing to say that's not been said before is there?

[usav]

The problem is, there was enough effort and chances in the second half for some people to forget we were absolutely abysmal in the first half and came out asleep in the second half.

Not good enough.

[Tuco Salamanca]

The manager is clueless, the team is technically deficient and the supporters are having the piss taken out of them.

The club's becoming a joke to be quite frank.

[eric woolban woolban]

I hope my sky dish packs up in time for Tuesday.