Albrighton Going to Leicester

[silhillvilla]

I reckon lambert had a pay rise to stay on. That's the level of incompetence we are dealing with at the club now.

[brian green]

I do blame him though Lee because he is their stool pigeon.   He is just a gaffer's man without the pride or the dignity to do anything but speak the lines they give him.   It is made worse by his own lack of articulation and the ability to speak in anything but sound bites.

[Rolta]

All day long I have been fuming about the way the club in general and Lambert in particular have been congratulating themselves on the reduced expectations of the fans as though it is something to be proud of.   They should be deeply ashamed not crowing about it as though it is part of some grand plan.   They are such bunglers and cock up artists that they are peddling this self congratulation for bringing the fan base to a position of resigned defeatism while at the same time playing up the only real asset the club has to appeal to a buyer, namely the dedicated and loyal fans.   With one breath Lambert is saying the pressure is off because the fans really don't care any more and with the next breath he is saying how vital we are to the future of the club.   And just how small time is it to say you hope the fans will still keep buying the club merchandise.   Pathetic.

I think you're a bit harsh sticking it on Lambert though Brian. It not him setting the budgets, but he's the twat that's got to stand out there all tell everyone what they don't want to hear.

What LeeB said.

[Steve67]

Lambert can't really lose now can he? Poor job is down to the lack of spending and restrictions placed on him. Loyalty shown by sticking with the club. Good on him for not wanting to walk away when other jobs are up for grabs. Of course, he might be waiting for the pay out if he gets dumped by new owners as Randy told him he won't sack him because of not wanting to pay compo and start the search for shit Manager number 4!!

[silhillvilla]

Every week now he will have a list of ready-mix excuses to roll out. Best job in the PL , no pressure , no expectations

[mike]

We're fucked.

[pauliewalnuts]

Every week now he will have a list of ready-mix excuses to roll out. Best job in the PL , no pressure , no expectations

That's unbelievably harsh.

I can see plenty of things he deserves stick for, but at the moment he is in a very difficult situation and I'm sure a lot of managers wouldn't put up with it.

He's holding the fort whilst we try to get sold, an action that will almost certainly end in his own dismissal.

[olaftab]

Lets get this straight: they're fucking footballers and all they have to do is play football, which as an aside has also made them millionaires – a lot of it coming from our club.

But they do need their cake!

[olaftab]

I do blame him though Lee because he is their stool pigeon.   He is just a gaffer's man without the pride or the dignity to do anything but speak the lines they give him.   It is made worse by his own lack of articulation and the ability to speak in anything but sound bites.

I had a view that he was not like that however number of things this season have made me change my mind and agree here. Those being the FA cup v 17th, Culverhouse/Karsa affair and now resorting to restoring the so called bomb squad.

[Des Little]

We're fucked.

Is the right answer. Well and truly.

[UK Redsox]

I do blame him though Lee because he is their stool pigeon.   

We can make a deal, make it worth your while

[UK Redsox]

We're fucked.

Is the right answer. Well and truly.

Maybe it would have been better to have gone down this season rather than face another year of the garbage we've just dealt with ?

[Chris Smith]

Every week now he will have a list of ready-mix excuses to roll out. Best job in the PL , no pressure , no expectations

Nonsense. He could walk away now, pointing at the circumstances he was working under with a reputation tarnished but not ruined. Instead he's doing the decent thing and saving an owner who wants out the distraction and expense of having to find a new owner.

I get the impression that for some whatever he did they would knock him, so if he had packed it in he would have been accused of abandoning ship when the club was in trouble.

You don't have to think he has done a good job to date to recognise that he is doing right by the club given the current circumstances.

[brian green]

Thank you olaftab.  I am not happy to be so critical of Lambert but as this sorry mess is revealed layer by layer I am more than ever convinced that Paul Lambert has had a very large part to play in the position in which he finds himself.   He has a shocking record.   His results have been appalling and some of the things which have happened like the two legged semi final defeat by Bradford are among the worst things ever to happen to the club in its entire history.   Now that Randy Lerner has quite clearly revealed himself as having no intention of ever spending more money of the club Lambert willingly and of his own volition steps forward to spin the state of limbo like it was caused by some sort of act of God or natural phenomenon.
In all walks of life, in all businesses or undertakings there occur instances of the people at the top not caring sufficiently or being too stupid for the responsibilities they carry.   In those situations it is the duty of those charged with the day to day running of that enterprise to resist and make known the problems.   Lambert has never done that proactively, only retrospectively.   He has bought into the ethos at Villa Park that all the fans will ever know is what the PR machine says they can know. That is how we have finished up in this dire mess of having to piece together tiny fragments of truths and half truths to get some idea what is really happening at our club.   A culture of secrecy has grown up at Villa Park in recent years and because Paul Lambert has been a willing enthusiast for that culture I can feel no sympathy for him attempting to shore up his own future in the game by telling how it was as though he was a mere bystander.

[andrew08]

We're fucked.

Is the right answer. Well and truly.

Maybe it would have been better to have gone down this season rather than face another year of the garbage we've just dealt with ?

Wow.

Nothing has happened yet, either way. We've released one squad player and one MON over rated mistake and resigned one of our (allegedly) better prospects. That's all. It happens every summer.

Play to get relegated ? Why