Indefensible home form.

[rob_bridge]

What gets me is there's no media coverage of our demise. We don't even register anymore. No pressure on lambert. It's as if he gets a pass because he plays the "youth". We're a laughing stock

To be fair Pat Murphy did pin him down about home form yesterday in post match press Conf  and Tim Abraham  from talk sport carried on that theme with his questioning. Lambert squirmed and said something that at best I didn't understand and at worst were feeble and  implausible words.

Do you have a link?

But yes the original point is that our profile is below that of Southampton nowadays

[Richard E]

The post match interview with Pat Murphy was embarrassingly bad.

And Paul Lambert's answers weren't much better either.

[Monty]

It is embarrassing, indefensible, inexcusable, untenable, etc. But there's still no way the board will realise it - they'll think 'how can they complain about the home form when we've beaten City and Chelsea?'.

[saunders_heroes]

Why are we so crap at home though? It's been going on for a sustained period of time, so there must be a reason behind it. If it's down to the manager, what's he doing wrong? As bad as this squad is, they're better than a lot of the teams we've lost to. Baffling.

We've had 4 years of asset stripping where we've sold our best players and replaced them with substandard lower league players, that's why we're so shit at home. It's not rocket science. We've been run on a (relative) shoe string over the last 4 years. You can't run a Premier League club on Championship wages, and that's the main problem at Villa.

[Stu]

We weren't all that great at home under MON either though.

[Deano's Mullet]

We weren't all that great at home under MON either though.

we rarely lost though at home under MON though. its the constant enjoyment had by visiting fans at VP this season that's just so depressing.

[saunders_heroes]

We weren't all that great at home under MON either though.

we rarely lost though at home under MON though. its the constant enjoyment had by visiting fans at VP this season that's just so depressing.

19 league defeats at home under Lambert. A quite disgraceful stat. He should be sacked for that alone.

[Deano's Mullet]

Under MON
06-07 - 4 home defeats 7 wins
07-08 - 6 home defeats  10 wins
08-09 - 3 home defeats    7 wins
09-10 -3 home defeats  8 wins

by far biggest problem at home under MON was too many draws.

[Tom_Mc9?]

We've had 4 years of asset stripping where we've sold our best players and replaced them with substandard lower league players, that's why we're so shit at home. It's not rocket science. We've been run on a (relative) shoe string over the last 4 years. You can't run a Premier League club on Championship wages, and that's the main problem at Villa.

We've generally been better away from home for the last few years though, and worse teams than us have better home records than us. I know Villa are going downhill at the moment, but not winning at home isn't a new thing for us. This isn't an argument for this thread and to be honest I'm boring myself with it, but I don't want Lambert sacked. One thing that really, really frustrates me about him though is his stubbornness with the home tactics when it clearly isn't working.

[Witton Warrior]

Under MON
06-07 - 4 home defeats 7 wins
07-08 - 6 home defeats  10 wins
08-09 - 3 home defeats    7 wins
09-10 -3 home defeats  8 wins

by far biggest problem at home under MON was too many draws.

We used to be difficult to beat though, we could claw back a draw even if we didn't win.
Haven't we had more draw results than any other ever-present Premiership club?

[Deano's Mullet]

Under MON
06-07 - 4 home defeats 7 wins
07-08 - 6 home defeats  10 wins
08-09 - 3 home defeats    7 wins
09-10 -3 home defeats  8 wins

by far biggest problem at home under MON was too many draws.

We used to be difficult to beat though, we could claw back a draw even if we didn't win.
Haven't we had more draw results than any other ever-present Premiership club?

that was always the case pre-O'Neill too. Under Gregory we were a similar type of side but not as good.

[Tom_Mc9?]

Is the problem then that we've always been a bit crap? Eureka!

[Witton Warrior]

We've had 4 years of asset stripping where we've sold our best players and replaced them with substandard lower league players, that's why we're so shit at home. It's not rocket science. We've been run on a (relative) shoe string over the last 4 years. You can't run a Premier League club on Championship wages, and that's the main problem at Villa.

We've generally been better away from home for the last few years though, and worse teams than us have better home records than us. I know Villa are going downhill at the moment, but not winning at home isn't a new thing for us. This isn't an argument for this thread and to be honest I'm boring myself with it, but I don't want Lambert sacked. One thing that really, really frustrates me about him though is his stubbornness with the home tactics when it clearly isn't working.

It's not the fact we aren't winning though Tom - we keep losing - convert half these home losses into draws and we are on 39 points and comfortable if not exciting. The "good away from home" idea is wearing a bit thin now - no win since Jan 1st isn't it?

[Witton Warrior]

Is the problem then that we've always been a bit crap? Eureka!

You may just have spotted the problem there mate

[Tom_Mc9?]

You're right about the good away form. I hesitated before writing it which is why I wrote 'generally.'