Paul Lambert Interview from Sky today

[villan from luton]

These posts sound like a VT one, what a shame. Just talk football and no hissy fits

[pauliewalnuts]

What uninspiring inarticulate crap. He cant string an intelligible sentence together. No vision, he actually said "mid table or a little bit higher"

His team and tactics reflect his personality and character. Not very bright and totally lacking any excitement..

He is safe in the mediocrity bubble with Lerner and Faulkner. If ever there was evidence to show why these people should not be running this club, this interview demonstrated this perfectly.
The modern Aston Villa, no ambition and zero entertainment.

Do you really take that much offence at it, though? The interview, I mean? I just watched it through, and to be honest, I don't see the big deal.

He was talking about possession but said you also need a cutting edge. That's surely one of the most obvious statements anyone could make about football? I don't really see how we can draw much from that other than just take it at face value.

The fact is, we're never, ever going to get any real insight of any true value from a standard interview with Sky Sports like that.

As for inarticulate, he sounded relatively cogent to me.

Not offence as such, it just confirmed what a lot of us have suspected. The ambition of the Club is not to get relegated, that is it. So are Everton a club with similar resources giving up on trying to get into the top 6 or even higher? Most of it was incoherent mumbling, rarely do we get to hear anything from the club in terms of plans or strategy so when the Manager gets the opportunity to communicate with the outside world you would just hope that it was a bit more inspiring than we have thrown in the towel. The bloke is a dud.

I didn't think it was incoherent mumbling. That's just the way he is. That's the way he sounded in his Norwich press interviews, too.

Honestly, I am as disappointed with him this season as anyone is, I hate this shit he has us playing, but I really do think that we're at the point where if he went on Desert Island Discs and picked 8 Villa songs, one of Woodhall's books and an Aston Villa bath towel as his luxury item, some people would be moaning he sounded a bit too Scottish, or wasn't perky enough or sounded like he didn't "get" the club.
 
I don't understand why moaning about the ample supply of utter dog shit on the pitch, or the lack of ambition shown by our actual transfer dealings isn't enough, and people feel they have to start to have a pop at him because he's a bit too mumbly for their liking, or he's got a funny Scottish accent or something.

It just sounds - and I'm sure you really believe this stuff, so forgive me if this sounds condescending, it's not meant to - like some people have an absolute determination to find something to complain about in every single thing that he does.

Like I said, to me, it sounded like every single other utterly unremarkable press junket I've seen him do in the last 18 months, including the ones when we were playing well.

[Tom_Mc9?]

I've repeated this several times, so forgive me. The reason that our ambition this season are to survive is because for the last three seasons we've been absolutely bobbins. Next season the aim will be higher. I hardly think that we'll be aiming at 17th place forever more.

[Dave]

Not offence as such, it just confirmed what a lot of us have suspected. The ambition of the Club is not to get relegated, that is it. So are Everton a club with similar resources giving up on trying to get into the top 6 or even higher? Most of it was incoherent mumbling, rarely do we get to hear anything from the club in terms of plans or strategy so when the Manager gets the opportunity to communicate with the outside world you would just hope that it was a bit more inspiring than we have thrown in the towel. The bloke is a dud.

For something that was just 'incoherent mumbling', you seem to have understood it well enough to comment on what he said.

You are being cantankerous as usual. Chicago Lion has it spot on.

However what I'm not doing is resorting to personal insults. Perhaps you could show the same courtesy?

My point being that saying Lambert 'can't string an intelligible sentence together', then going on to disassemble everything he said seems to me to be a contradiction.

Sorry, Chicago Lion obviously just speaks as he finds. I can't fault him. You made no point, other than preaching the views of the little group who are getting very boring.

I did make a point, it's in the post above.

I have no intention of carrying this on any further. If you want to start throwing insults and labeling groups of people who happen to disagree with you, play by yourself. I'm not biting.

I'm not biting, just saying that you are cantankerous.

If you disagree with him then say so, but leave the personal stuff out of it.

[brian green]

The unanswered question for me is why was he so much better at Norwich than he has been with us.  ALL of the personal criticism of him apart he has been a poor Villa manager.

I have some quite good connections at Norwich and it has been suggested that his divorce hit him very hard.   Perhaps he is an unhappy man.

I see no point in replacing him because our malaise is higher up the pecking order and I don't trust them to find anybody better.   Sad state of affairs.

[olaftab]

I'm not biting, just saying that you are cantankerous.

If you disagree with him then say so, but leave the personal stuff out of it.

I don't see how saying "being cantankerous" is a personal insult? It's just saying being argumentative and as it is a debate it's a valid disagreeable state.

[Dave Cooper please]

Did I click on the right link? seemed perfectly understandable to me and spoke a lot of sense. Finish as high as we can, mid table or higher what is wrong with that? After last season refreshing the league table every five minutes on a weekend and looking at other teams fixture lists I would be happy with midtable and keeping above the line from now untill the end of this season.

No no no, don't you understand that everything is shit at The Villa at the moment, therefore everything that Lambert days is shit, even when it isn't.

[not3bad]

He's pretty coy when speaking to the media.  You'd struggle to find the sound bites from that interview to create a written story, in many ways the complete opposite of say Redknapp.  I hope he's more dynamic and forceful when speaking to the team and describing his vision to them.

I think this is it.
Lambert is not an inarticulate numpty IMO; rather, I think he treats the media exposure with great caution and is not prepared to be 'caught out' by them. He probably is not prepared to say things that may come back to haunt either him or RL.

Am I being too charitable to him?

No.  Lambert already had this reputation when he came to Villa and he's simply being what we already knew he would be like.

[peter w]

So, hands up anyone who didn't say to friends/mates/ colleagues at the start of this season that we'd 'like' be 'aiming for' mid-table. Because I'd probably be on safe ground to say just about everybody. So why now criticise Lambert for saying it? We know and he knows exactly where we were and what we now need to achieve as a minimum this season.

But were we expecting a Newcastle/Southampton style 'worst of the best' and fall into 9th or 10th or that we would be scrapping for points and finishing as best of the worst? It would be nicer if we were 5 or 6 points better off but as poor as we have been we're still looking up more than down. Although clearly down is getting closer. But a win somewhere soon changes all that again. We've got ourselves into a position of needing to find about 4 more wins. We should manage that however poor we've been.

Get there and we will have progressed as a team from last season. Then, we'll look to consolidate and move forward the next season. mess it up spectacularly then Lambert goes anyway. As it is let's see how it plays out. When I begin to panic you know that the doom and gloom will pour out.

[brian green]

How would you define "spectacularly" Peter?   Escape relegation by goal difference on the last day? Relegation? Relegation and still losing games in the Championship? What do you regard as the level to which we have to sink before we should doubt Lambert's ability?   Not being sarcastic, just a one-fan-to -another question.

[richard moore]

Thick as you know what as ever. He really is such a thick individual

[martin o`who??]

Right now, the only interview with Lambert i want to see is the one after his dismissal.

[Irish villain]

Sack him now.

Newcastle were there for the taking. It was so obvious we could win that and he just killed our momentum.

[richard moore]

Did I click on the right link? seemed perfectly understandable to me and spoke a lot of sense. Finish as high as we can, mid table or higher what is wrong with that? After last season refreshing the league table every five minutes on a weekend and looking at other teams fixture lists I would be happy with midtable and keeping above the line from now untill the end of this season.

No no no, don't you understand that everything is shit at The Villa at the moment, therefore everything that Lambert days is shit, even when it isn't.

You're absolutely spot on! Actually, it's worse than shit. The man is a colossal twat as far as I'm concerned

[ChicagoLion]

What uninspiring inarticulate crap. He cant string an intelligible sentence together. No vision, he actually said "mid table or a little bit higher"

His team and tactics reflect his personality and character. Not very bright and totally lacking any excitement..

He is safe in the mediocrity bubble with Lerner and Faulkner. If ever there was evidence to show why these people should not be running this club, this interview demonstrated this perfectly.
The modern Aston Villa, no ambition and zero entertainment.

Do you really take that much offence at it, though? The interview, I mean? I just watched it through, and to be honest, I don't see the big deal.

He was talking about possession but said you also need a cutting edge. That's surely one of the most obvious statements anyone could make about football? I don't really see how we can draw much from that other than just take it at face value.

The fact is, we're never, ever going to get any real insight of any true value from a standard interview with Sky Sports like that.

As for inarticulate, he sounded relatively cogent to me.

Not offence as such, it just confirmed what a lot of us have suspected. The ambition of the Club is not to get relegated, that is it. So are Everton a club with similar resources giving up on trying to get into the top 6 or even higher? Most of it was incoherent mumbling, rarely do we get to hear anything from the club in terms of plans or strategy so when the Manager gets the opportunity to communicate with the outside world you would just hope that it was a bit more inspiring than we have thrown in the towel. The bloke is a dud.

I didn't think it was incoherent mumbling. That's just the way he is. That's the way he sounded in his Norwich press interviews, too.

Honestly, I am as disappointed with him this season as anyone is, I hate this shit he has us playing, but I really do think that we're at the point where if he went on Desert Island Discs and picked 8 Villa songs, one of Woodhall's books and an Aston Villa bath towel as his luxury item, some people would be moaning he sounded a bit too Scottish, or wasn't perky enough or sounded like he didn't "get" the club.
 
I don't understand why moaning about the ample supply of utter dog shit on the pitch, or the lack of ambition shown by our actual transfer dealings isn't enough, and people feel they have to start to have a pop at him because he's a bit too mumbly for their liking, or he's got a funny Scottish accent or something.

It just sounds - and I'm sure you really believe this stuff, so forgive me if this sounds condescending, it's not meant to - like some people have an absolute determination to find something to complain about in every single thing that he does.

Like I said, to me, it sounded like every single other utterly unremarkable press junket I've seen him do in the last 18 months, including the ones when we were playing well.

You might be right, maybe  its just his way of communicating, for me the whole demeanour and poor use of language just confirms my view, in that he is not very bright and is like lots of other ex footballers that become managers. The more I hear and see him the more I want him out of our club.