Aston Villa v Crystal Palace post match thread

[SoccerHQ]

I would take Sherwood.

People seem to cast him as this no nothing thick british coach because of some excitable interviews at Spurs but his record there was comparable to most of the managers they've had down there.

He's the sort who'd liven the place up again I reckon.

[Malandro]

I would take Sherwood.

People seem to cast him as this no nothing thick british coach because of some excitable interviews at Spurs but his record there was comparable to most of the managers they've had down there.

He's the sort who'd liven the place up again I reckon.

Wasn't he there about 6 months?!

[Toronto Villa]

He'd want to play attractive football. Mind you, we were saying the same thing at the end of TSM hoping for Lambert to rescue us from our misery.

[JUAN PABLO]

We want to see our team score Paul

We have been patient enough

[PeterWithesShin]

With Sherwood as manager they were PL28 W14 D4 L10. 50.00% win rate.

[Goldie.7]

We really are rubbish aren't we?

I asked a question elsewhere of how many goals we scored in the McLeish season, 37 in the league apparently. Well we need 27 in 17 games to better that so looks unlikely.

We have 18 games left and we probably won't score 18 more goals this season let alone 27. In fact I can't see us scoring more than 14 more from now till May 24th.

[KevinGage]

Doubt we'd be looking at him as manager.

But seeing as most of the managerial vacancies that would have interested him have now been taken, coming to us as a coach might be another short-term fix.

[JUAN PABLO]

The thing is we're 12th, but I don't think anyone watching us thinks we're playing to an acceptable level. Also the games against weaker sides are starting to run out now.

Lets see where we are after Leicester Chelsea arsenal Liverpool. All hard games with Liverpool probably the easiest

[ozzjim]

If he was, I could see him being looked at as number 2 in a kind of you are having him like West Ham have with Sheringham

[Goldie.7]

Any change would be a welcome one.

[pauliewalnuts]

Hmmm pics of Tim Sherwood with seemingly Tom Fox at today's match popping up on twitter .

Jesus Fucking Christ.

On the bright side, mind, if we were chatting up a successor to Lambert (and I fucking hope we are), even our leadership aren't dim enough to do it at one of our games with the current boss still in charge.

[JUAN PABLO]

Maybe Sherwood is the new no.2

[john2710]

Lambert's going nowhere until Lerner goes. He's keeping us in the PL, whilst spending stays restricted, as per Randy's remit.

Fox has been appointed to increase revenue. Quite how he's going to manage that, whilst we continue to confirm our status as the dullest team on the planet, I have no idea. Only mugs like me will their invest time or money in watching the shite being sold as entertainment.

We've had nearly 3 years of Lambert & suddenly, mis-season he has an epiphany to play possession football. That confirms to me that he is nothing more than a chancer, simply making it up as he goes along. In truth it doesn't matter how we play, we have no creativity, width or goal threat (other than Benteke) & until that is addressed nothing will change.

[pauliewalnuts]

We've had nearly 3 years of Lambert & suddenly, mis-season he has an epiphany to play possession football. That confirms to me that he is nothing more than a chancer, simply making it up as he goes along.

I can't remember the last time I agreed with someone on something as much as I do with that. Absolutely spot on.

The bloke is a total fucking chancer. We're now playing this "new" possession game, and every time I look at the OS there is a player talking about it, our "new style", it looks like someone has told him he has at least got to try.

What annoys me is that this, our "new" way of playing, basically confirms that the "old" way of playing - hardly ever having the ball, lumping it brainlessly at the space where either Benteke should be, or would be if he wasn't injured - was actually something that he wanted us to do.

That is utterly shocking.

Until about three weeks ago when we started having loads of possession (mostly in our own half and on the halfway line), Lambert kept saying "I don't believe in stats, I don't pay attention to them", only now we're not registering 25% - 30% possession against pretty much any team who can muster up 11 able bodied men, he can't fucking stop talking about it.

I honestly think the bloke is a shyster, a total chancer, just fucking winging it, telling the owner exactly what he wants to hear.

[Toronto Villa]

It's probably also why he doesn't feel the need to appoint an Assistant Manager who will want to point out his flaws and reveal him for what he is.

This is a fucking Premier League football club and we don't have an Assistant Manager. Not a club in League 2 who maybe can't afford one and makes do with a bunch of coaches. We are meant to be playing as one of the elite few and are being operated as any but. There are people in the game that could help him if he wanted it. Not only has he chosen not to accept help he steadfastly believes everything is fine and it is us who are the ones that need help.

Is there not a talk show we can get him on so the host can call him out, or an intervention we can hold for him?