Leicester City v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[claret and blue blood]

I think we've all hit our limit today ,what a shambles of a club.

[ciggiesnbeer]

There's a danger here of getting riled up over upsetting people who don't actually exist.

I am the 1 in 10 baby!

I fear you may be a bit lonelier than that ciggies.

Heh true. Give me till the end of January. No transfers, in the relegation spots I am sure I will turn.

Still football pretty much sucks right now. No doubt

[Toronto Villa]

I wonder how long it will be before the Lambert apologists start to show their heads above the parapet?   About Tuesday at a guess.   We deserve Lambert because we have done so little to get rid of him for so long.

Do you really need to come out with "Lambert apologists"? If, for whatever reason, anyone still supports him, then they are fully entitled to that view.

He's entitled to bash the Lambert faithful. If you didn't back Lambore you got months of smarmy bed wetter comments and calm down dear. Anyone with a clue about football could see this coming because it's what it's been since day one under him, almost constant shit.

So who exactly are the Lambert faithful? Or are you suggesting anyone who doesn't smash Lambert for everything is somehow in his camp? It is possible to not want him as manager and actually acknowledge now everything about him is bad.

What's good about him? Please don't say the players he's signed because to a man they look a sack of shit. The results don't lie.

So what is the point of having any kind of debate about him with you, if any point I bring up you'd dismiss? You even brought up something he's done quite well and immediately disregarded it. That's not exactly how discussion or debate works.

Toronto I disagree he's bought well, sorry mate the league positions, goals scored, goals conceded, possession, shots on target .... any stat you want to pull out of the bag we have done poorly at. We've barely played a good 90 minutes of football in 4 years, so how are the players he's bought any good?

Sorry if I've come across as an arsehole or aggressive I've just hit my limit today, so pissed off, no offence is meant to anyone. I think I need a lie down ha.

No problem, apology accepted and I completely understand and share in your frustration. I just think another manager can get a lot more out of these players than Lambert is doing.

[LTA]

Surely if Lerner possesses a grain of inteligence then he will want to protect his investment. He will find the club even harder to sell a Championship club, particuarly for the price he is likely asking for.

I am convinced we will go down, and I don't think that will be the end of it. It could well get worse before it gets better.

I wonder what Doug Ellis thinks of all this. I know he publicly backs the owner, but he must be privately seething at the colossal cock up Lerner has made of Aston Villa.   Ellis would never have put up with this amount of humiliation over this long. Yes he had many faults, but at least he had an affection for us.  Lerner and Fox see it as a business, not a passion.

[Oscar Arce]

This is the tipping point now.
The only way to get him out is to not attend anymore.
We've become a national joke.

[claret and blue blood]

This is the tipping point now.
The only way to get him out is to not attend anymore.
We've become a national joke.

this !

[Steve67]

Potential owners wouldn't mind Villa being in the Championship. Would cost them less to buy. Lerner, however, surely wouldn't want this? Act now. Change the Manager, bring the fans together.

[FatSam]

The 606 staffer who is a Villa fan, and who attended the game today, seems to think that the Villa fans are at fault for not getting behind the team, and fighting each other in the stands. He didn't criticize the manager at all, and put more fault at Lerner's door.

I didn't go today, but in my experience Villa's away support is generally very large and supportive. If the Villa fans were not very supportive today, it is surely as a result of today's performance on top of those that have preceded it. There's a limit to how long you can will a poorly managed team of incompetents to score a goal.

Whilst Lerner is certainly responsible for mismanagement off the pitch, if I was calling 606 my take on today would be 'what was Lambert's plan for how to win the game?' because I don't know what it was, and I don't think he does either.

[Pat McMahon]

A fairly obvious point is that we play without passion or intensity, and surely this stems from Lambert.

I remember being in Dublin in March 2013 for a friend's 50th and her cousin from Glasgow was with me sharing a hangover watching football focus , where they interviewed Lambert before  that crucial 2-1 win at Reading. Glasgow girl watched the interview and said to me " I can see why you are in trouble, how on earth is he meant to motivate people to play football'.

I've been convinced at this time of year for the past 4 years that we would be relegated. I'm convinced again.

[Dan England]

Sat in the City fans today.  Before the game I was worried if I was able to keep a lid on things, I shouldn't have worried, there was nothing to get excited about bar the brawl at the end. Awful performance, awful tactics,  awful manager.

[claret and blue blood]

Sat in the City fans today.  Before the game I was worried if I was able to keep a lid on things, I shouldn't have worried, there was nothing to get excited about bar the brawl at the end. Awful performance, awful tactics,  awful manager.

should have gone with his trusted bullies at the end of last season,still don't understand how he didn't go then.

[Villafirst]

The worrying thing is Lerner doesn't seem to understand how the game works over here. It's a results business Randy - understand? Be good if he actually made a statement on the state we're in now. But I won't hold my breath......

[saunders_heroes]

Lambert should resign, but it's understandable that he won't, because he won't want to turn his back on all that money. After all, he'll never get as high profile a job again, now he's been found out.

Lerner is the problem. His detachment is slowly killing the club.

Indeed.
Lerner has spent the last 5 or so seasons devaluing the club, lowering fans expectations, lowering the profile of the club and humiliating us left right and centre, and all because he couldn't give a damn about Aston Villa. We are now perennial relegation struggling rubbish (something we've never been in my time supporting the club) with the one and only remit to keep us in the Premier League while he tries in vain to flog the club for a ridiculous price. He is nothing short of an absolute disgrace and has got away with it scot free.
He is public enemy number 1 as far as I'm concerned and I don't care how OTT that sounds because it's damn well true.
We're a proud club. One of the great names in English football and we've been reduced to the 3rd rate outfit we see every week on the pitch.
Lerner/Lambert out!

[McRusson]

By my calculations, if we lose v Liverpool  (if? Who am I kidding?), and the 5 teams immediately below us win then Lambert will have finally succeeded in dropping us into the relegation zone. Perhaps then Lerner might act but I ain't holding my breath.

[Ian.]

This team should not be shit, thats my problem, they should be easily good enough to be comfortable. That might bring the odd silly defeat, the odd brilliant win but overall generally ok.
We're not though we are terrible to watch, maybe hard to beat but above all boring and toothless.
This has to be Lambert's fault. He's made us solid at last but that's taken 3 years, I can not wait 3 years for us to to crack the object of scoring.
He has to go now.