Lambert's replacement

[dave.woodhall]

Strange - we reckon every other club has a new manager bounce but with us there's no honeymoon period.

[PaulWinch again]

It does slightly annoy me to hear that the Villa job 'wouldn't faze him'. If he gets the Villa job he should realise how unbelievably lucky he is.

[SoccerHQ]

Strange - we reckon every other club has a new manager bounce but with us there's no honeymoon period.

Whisper it quietly but even someone as awful as McLeish had a honeymoon period, he took 8 points in his first 6 games as dull as it was.

That's what we need really, to be on 30 points with 9 or 10 games left to play as then we'd need roughly a point a game to stay up which should be very achievable if the players pull their fingers out.

[KevinGage]

Strange - we reckon every other club has a new manager bounce but with us there's no honeymoon period.

More the sense that we won't have five to six games to say, 'yep, can see what he's trying to do' and the manager getting breathing space even if results go against him initially. We don't have that luxury.  Would have thought that's fairly obvious.

[FrankyH]

Put me down for a No vote.
on the matter
That was  a reponse to the OP Thread , not anyone opinions on the matter.

[Rotterdam Vetran]

Totally agree .As I said he is not my choice,it Sould have been Pulis ,Lerner has totally fucked us over.If it is Sherwood and looking ever like it.For the sake of our club staying up we need to get behind him cause it's the last throw of the dice

[passport1]

Chill guys .It will be a piece of piss once the ego has landed.

[dave.woodhall]

Strange - we reckon every other club has a new manager bounce but with us there's no honeymoon period.

More the sense that we won't have five to six games to say, 'yep, can see what he's trying to do' and the manager getting breathing space even if results go against him initially. We don't have that luxury.  Would have thought that's fairly obvious.

What about the new manager bounce?

[Sexual Ealing]

I've never given a fuck what a Spurs fan thinks and I don't intend to start now.

Two of my best mates are spurs fans. They live in Goulders Green. Two of the nicest blokes you could meet. They hated Sherwood when they had him. Now they are worried on our behalf.

That's gracious of them. Don't get me wrong, I don't think Tim Sherwood is the answer to anything except a particularly strange question, but you are never going to get an objective opinion about any manager from his former supporters, particularly when the club involved see themselves as somewhere between Bayern Munich and Real Madrid in the natural order.   

O'Neill/Villa?

[Chris Smith]

Strange - we reckon every other club has a new manager bounce but with us there's no honeymoon period.

For every new manager bounce there is another new manager splat and being in the relegation zone with two thirds of the season gone and with all sorts of lowest scoring stats means that he hasn't got much time to sort things out.

[dave.woodhall]

I've never given a fuck what a Spurs fan thinks and I don't intend to start now.

Two of my best mates are spurs fans. They live in Goulders Green. Two of the nicest blokes you could meet. They hated Sherwood when they had him. Now they are worried on our behalf.

That's gracious of them. Don't get me wrong, I don't think Tim Sherwood is the answer to anything except a particularly strange question, but you are never going to get an objective opinion about any manager from his former supporters, particularly when the club involved see themselves as somewhere between Bayern Munich and Real Madrid in the natural order.   

O'Neill/Villa?

I'm certainly not objective about the bastard, and there are still many Villa supporters who think he's Mr Wonderful.

[Louzie0]

Capello

[dave.woodhall]

Strange - we reckon every other club has a new manager bounce but with us there's no honeymoon period.

For every new manager bounce there is another new manager splat and being in the relegation zone with two thirds of the season gone and with all sorts of lowest scoring stats means that he hasn't got much time to sort things out.

That's what I reckon; just pointing out the irony.

[KevinGage]

Strange - we reckon every other club has a new manager bounce but with us there's no honeymoon period.

More the sense that we won't have five to six games to say, 'yep, can see what he's trying to do' and the manager getting breathing space even if results go against him initially. We don't have that luxury.  Would have thought that's fairly obvious.

What about the new manager bounce?

None of us can say with absolute certainty that won't occur.

The sheer relief of not playing under Lambert might result in champagne football. 

As we witnessed with Houllier though, a manager with a more progressive style of play might find resistance from the playing staff.  It's also harder to create than destroy, so I struggle to see us going from a shot-shy outfit to a fluid attacking unit overnight. There would need to be a period of transition for that.

All that takes time, and we don't have a whole pile of that to play with.

[Sexual Ealing]

I've never given a fuck what a Spurs fan thinks and I don't intend to start now.

Two of my best mates are spurs fans. They live in Goulders Green. Two of the nicest blokes you could meet. They hated Sherwood when they had him. Now they are worried on our behalf.

That's gracious of them. Don't get me wrong, I don't think Tim Sherwood is the answer to anything except a particularly strange question, but you are never going to get an objective opinion about any manager from his former supporters, particularly when the club involved see themselves as somewhere between Bayern Munich and Real Madrid in the natural order.   

O'Neill/Villa?

I'm certainly not objective about the bastard, and there are still many Villa supporters who think he's Mr Wonderful.

I don't think he's wonderful. And I don't think Lambert is/was, but what's the point in shedding these dicks unless it actually benefits us? I know MON left, so that's different, but why sack Lambert if we don't actually have a plan to replace him?

I know that you didn't actually sack him, DW, but the whole fucking thing seems to be a shambles. Again.