Leicester City v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[DB]

If we sacked him now, would anyone be surprised?

I would, just because it might show that Lerner isn't totally, completely and irredeemably incompetent.

More from a performance, results perspective. With his record he should be sacked. But as you say the surprise would be if it actually happened.

[Ads]

The poorest performance in years. We created nothing against the worst side in the league who didn't have a premiership player in them. A premiership side today would have beaten us 4 or 5.

I have never seen so much fighting amongst ourselves either. First half and then three or four times in the second and after the game. Proper brawls too between different groups.

[Loxton01]

I hate to admit it but look at Rowett he replaces a dour unmotivating manager in Clark and then they win 7 games in 11

He hasn't had any money but he has motivated he had made football fun again! Players want to play again express themselves!

We need a change we need the players to want to play again! This team of players is better than relegation

He has to resign

[frank black]

that's the worst performance of the season by a long way, we were utterly pathetic.  The only positives were Guzan and Clark so it's no surprise that one of them got a shocker of a red card to miss the next 3 games.

Straight red or second yellow? SSN said second yellow

Second yellow and he didn't deserve it.

He certainly did IMO. You don't do the big confrontation thing when you are on a yellow card, he gave the ref a decision to make. Complete idiot ( that's Clark not you)

[Meanwood Villa]

Beeb said second yellow as well. I haven't seen any of the match but it sounds like the usual. I really thought we'd win today, it's a very poor result and I dread to think what the gap will be to the bottom 3, if any, by  the time we play Hull.

There is no justification in keeping him employed. Difficulty or doubt or cost of a successor are not excuses for tolerating abysmal performance. Let's see if Lerner is paying attention. Sadly I think we all know the answer to that.

[Toronto Villa]

if there is any kind of message Lambert is trying to convey to his players it either isn't getting through or they have simply stopped listening.

We are a ship that is floating along in rough waters, engine broken, rudder and propellers gone a while back. At some point the sea will just consume us. Just a matter of when.

[frank black]

Beeb said second yellow as well. I haven't seen any of the match but it sounds like the usual. I really thought we'd win today, it's a very poor result and I dread to think what the gap will be to the bottom 3, if any, by  the time we play Hull.

There is no justification in keeping him employed. Difficulty or doubt or cost of a successor are not excuses for tolerating abysmal performance. Let's see if Lerner is paying attention. Sadly I think we all know the answer to that.

He probably takes as much interest in the Villa as I have in tuning into the live national lottery draw.

[kippaxvilla2]

Lambert 'we didn't do enough in the last third.'  Then banging on about possession again.  No fcukin shit.

[claret and blue blood]

Fucking fuming ! The only course of action we as fans have left is to boycott the games until both Lerner and Lambert fuck off.I ain't going against Liverpool what's the point ?

[Oscar Arce]

I hate to admit it but look at Rowett he replaces a dour unmotivating manager in Clark and then they win 7 games in 11

He hasn't had any money but he has motivated he had made football fun again! Players want to play again express themselves!

We need a change we need the players to want to play again! This team of players is better than relegation

He has to resign

100% correct. There has to be a change now, another manager would save us, whoever it is.

[andyh]

The only positive might be it could shake the complacency out of the club this transfer window. We can go down, we are not safe, there are not 3 teams worse than us and we do need to spend to stay up.

Now is the time to open up that chequebook Randy.

See, IMO, it's really not.
That would mean lambert was being backed, I don't want him backed, I want him sacked.

[CJ]

Lerner's doing to us exactly what he did to the Cleveland Browns. The only difference is that when he decided to sell up there he had a buyer lined up and completed the deal quickly. With us he's just leaving us dangling in the hope a rich benefactor turns up some time soon. In the meantime we're stuck with a manager who, disappointingly, has turned out to be tactically and motivationally inept, with no assistant, and seemingly no real plan. He had Norwich playing decent football - how has he been so bad with us?

And I don't think anything's going to change during this transfer window. Even if Lerner did give Lambert money for new players -  how much money and how many players would he need to get us out of the mire, and - more importantly - who would want to come here anyway?  I don't thing he's getting anywhere near the potential out of the existing players - if anything he's making them worse (see Agbonlahor G, and Benteke C), and any decent potential transfer target would run a mile.

Every season there's one team that plummets from seemingly mid-table comfort to deep in the relegation mire. We are that team. We've had the 'easy' run of games, now we get the 'tough' ones, and by mid-February we could be deep in the shit, and given our goal scoring record (the second worse in any professional team in Europe apparently) that's exactly where we deserve to be.

[Dominic22]

It was awful... It is actually the first game I have missed this year (my daughters birthday party.) but was watching via the internet, which I must say is a terrible way to see a game....

No doubt he is in trouble now,  I actually think he will be gone very soon.  We have been awful for a long while and although a change is needed, I am not sure what too. What I really find disappointing is the attitude of our club captain, someone who i think has a sick sense when I manager is in trouble and realises that he can do bugger all and get away with it.

He was a disgrace during the Mcleish time as he knew no matter how bad he was  and how little effort he put in it was never going to be his fault, as we had our hate figure, I got told by a club official Gabby booked a break in dubai after his sending off, could you imagine how annoyed he was when it was rescinded, who knows if true but I could well believe it. Playing on a Saturday is just a chore for him, being made to work by various assistants in training, well the cheek of it, don't they realise who he is.   

We then go through other managers and multiple assistants back room staff etc and on the strength of a decent 15 minutes every 6 or 8 games he gets a new contract.

I am not sure what is the answer, change of owner I suspect is really needed. Not that I think he is a bad person but he is just not interested and anyone that runs a business will know how that filters down.  Having watched and followed Villa for many years home and away you get a sniff of when the end is near and I really think we are nearing it. What next, I have no idea but the senior leadership on the pitch needs to be changed very quickly.

[hilts_coolerking]

It's intended as a derogatory term. The fact that virtually none of us has any faith in Lambert any more doesn't mean that anyone who does shouldn't be allowed to say it without being called an "apologist". Same as on any subject.

I have to disagree with you on this PWS.  Apologist is the appropriate term used for people who defend something unpopular.  There's nothing derogatory about it, it's factual.

[steffo]

2 yellows = 1 match ban