Crystal Palace v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[Taylor]

I hope we get relegated. I really do.
Hear me out.
If we don't, Lambert will be manager next season, no doubt about it and I can't watch and support another season if this shite. I just can't.
If Lambert's in charge next year nothing will change. If we don't get relegated he will be in charge next year. What an effin quandary.

Our future is bleak.
Rotten from top to bottom.

I'm not entirely sure he would be sacked even if we are relegated.

[ciggiesnbeer]

Nothing good comes from relegation. Nothing.

We will get a worse manager (good ones do not want to manage in the Championship)
Worse players (see above)
Less investment (you dont need to spend 20 million a year in the Championship)
Less revenues (less people want to go and watch games in the Championship)
Less likely buyers.

The only positive is Faulkner would lose his pompous little FA position he is always blathering about.

[olaftab]

I hope we get relegated. I really do.

I should be swearing at you now but somehow I can't.

[levico]

I hope we get relegated. I really do.
Hear me out.
If we don't, Lambert will be manager next season, no doubt about it and I can't watch and support another season if this shite. I just can't.
If Lambert's in charge next year nothing will change. If we don't get relegated he will be in charge next year. What an effin quandary.
Our future is bleak.
Rotten from top to bottom.

Imagine a worse scenario - we get relegated (a distinct possibility) but Lambert stays in charge (not impossible given Lerner's lack of interest).

[villan from luton]

It has gone beyond a joke now, the owner, manager and players are making us a bloody laughing stock. I wonder where the next goal is going to come from?

[villan from luton]

I hope we get relegated. I really do.

I should be swearing at you now but somehow I can't.

Relegation is really going to do us good though isnt it?

[Nelly]

I'm not a Lambert fan, I'm a Villa fan. Personally I'd rather Lambert as manager in the Premier League - that we helped form - than someone else in the second tier of English football. Villa do not belong in the second tier of English football.

He'll get sacked or walk if this carries on. At least we can say that Lerner knew when McLeish's time was up and pulled the trigger. If it's just not working he probably will do the same.

Edit:

That is if he ever hears about Villa's plight from his skyscraper in some American city.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

The most powerful word in that post Paulie is "arrogance".   It is supremely arrogant to assume that everybody else in football cannot see what you can see.   I don't like to pick on any particular player but to buy a young cheap player believing that nobody else has looked at him and seen his shortcomings is arrogant.   That is why he is cheap.   That is why he will accept low wages.  It is the manifestation of the self deception driven by the mind set of "I think it is so, so it must be so", or as you put it, I want it to be so, so it will be so.

I don't see it quite like that, Brian. There's only a couple of things missing from the 'plan' that's failed to make it work. One or two experienced players would no doubt have improved the balance and saved the kids (or as you call them "cheap players") from the responsibilities they've had to endure week in, week out. Too many, too young and all at the same time was never going to work.

The other factor and the most important one is the need for a manager that can develop these players. If I was to compile a list of managers that have the capacity to bring through young players, develop them and still get the club progressing up the table, Lambert's name would be near the bottom, just below 'Pulis'.

Lambert may have his strengths but organisation, tactics and younth development are certainly not them. If we wanted to buy cheap and develop we were always going to need an expert or at least somebody with far more experience than Lambert. It's little surprise we find ourselves where we are, it's been obvious for so long Lambert's out of his depth and still learning his trade.

[olaftab]

It has gone beyond a joke now, the owner, manager and players are making us a bloody laughing stock. I wonder where the next goal is going to come from?

Yes a laughing stock. A great club reduced to common trash.

[andyh]

I get what you are saying, but please never, ever wish relegation on our club, not even to serve a purpose.
The only one who would suffer would be us ( not that we are not already).

[ACVilla]

I get what you are saying, but please never, ever wish relegation on our club, not even to serve a purpose.
The only one who would suffer would be us ( not that we are not already).

But if we don't it will be another year of this rubbish.

Relegation for the greater good. Or something like that.
I truly, strongly, totally, wholly believe that we will get relegated within two years if the current regime is still in charge. Nailed on. You can't keep flirting with it.

[eric woolban woolban]

Lambert and Lerner need to fuck off as far and as quickly as possible. And when they get there, fuck off a some more.

A whole change of the club from top to bottom is needed.

[Richard E]

Lambert and Lerner need to fuck off as far and as quickly as possible. And when they get there, fuck off a some more.

A whole change of the club from top to bottom is needed.

How can you be so ungrateful to Lerner? He renovated the Holte pub you know!

[kippaxvilla2]

Anyone who wishes relegation on us obviously hasn't experienced the sheer shitness of it.  They also must want the club to enter a long period of financial ruin and no one giving a blind fcuk about us for a few years.

How about something novel like getting a manager who has a clue tacticalły and can build a half decent Premier League side we can at least feel proud of again.

[Ian.]

We don't want relegation, we need to stay up and Randy needs to take stock and shake things up. I don't believe Lambert will be here next season after the run of results we've had since beating Chelsea. It's nuts, we was pretty damn safe in my head after that result. What a right royal cock up its been.