Fox says sacking Lambert would be like flicking a coin??

[David_Nab]

On one side of the coin you have Lambert and near certain relegation on the other you have a chance for survival and a share of 5.1bil tv money ....

[OzVilla]

I still believe there's a decent chance he'll be gone by the weekend.

I know Lerner is a fool but to not make a change now, especially as we're in the relegation places, with 5 straight defeats and our goal scoring record, would be quite staggering, even breathtaking in its ineptitude.

They simply must make a change now.  If not, well they fucking deserve to get relegated and lose millions. Not the fans of course but Lerner, Lambert, Fox and the players can quite simply fuck right off. All of them.

[Smirker]

I still believe there's a decent chance he'll be gone by the weekend.

I know Lerner is a fool but to not make a change now, especially as we're in the relegation places, with 5 straight defeats and our goal scoring record, would be quite staggering, even breathtaking in its ineptitude.

They simply must make a change now.  If not, well they fucking deserve to get relegated and lose millions. Not the fans of course but Lerner, Lambert, Fox and the players can quite simply fuck right off. All of them.

Well said and strangely, in the back of my mind I do kind of agree with that first sentence, just because it'd be lunacy to continue like this.

[Reuben]

There would have to be someone in mind to do this as we need someone in quickly.  They have previous in dithering.

A short-term contract gamble with a bumper new contract if he keeps us up would work?  But who?

[PaulWinch again]

I hope Fox has a massive pay cut in his contract for relegation, but I doubt it looking at his current actions.

[mr underhill]

if there was an award at the moment for total management fuckwittery, then we would win it hands down. I think in years to come we will be a major case study in a whole raft of corporate management bibles, outlining how not to run a business. As we post,Tom Peters is rushing out a companion book to  'The Pursuit of Excellence' called 'The Pursuit of Shiteness: Aston Villa FC'. Time to grow a pair Randy.

[Brend'Watkins]

I hope Fox has a massive pay cut in his contract for relegation, but I doubt it looking at his current actions.

If go as far as to say that the only reason Fox is failing to act is that his considerable bonus is based purely on our profits this season. Paying up Lambert's contract would severely dent that. So, Fox gets his bonus, we go down. Fox seeks new employment else where while drooling over his bloated bank account.

[TimTheVillain]

For Fox Sake Flip The Coin

And flick it NOW!

[brian green]

As usual Mr U, you are right on the money.   There are certain PhD topics which are known as tried and trusted, won't get you busted.   I used one, namely WH Auden.   In about twenty years time such a PhD topic will be Aston Villa, The Lerner Years.  The core of the intellectual challenge will be the analysis of the  ruination of a business through executive inertia.   At a more prosaic level what is happening to us will be regarded as the morality lesson of being too soft on failure.

[Lee]

Even if they miraculously woke up and smelt the coffee, would you trust them to pick someone that can keep us up?

No, but watching that tonight, it dawned on me that we really, really are going to go down if we persist with this bloke. And not just go down, we'll do a Sunderland / Derby memorable relegation, scoring 13 goals or something shocking.

Something really significant needs to happen, and really quickly, because otherwise we're building up a real head of steam, heading straight at a cliff.

11 days till the next league match, this is really clearly the last sensible time to get rid of him, it really is.

If it weren't these people running the club, I'd be waking up tomorrow morning and checking the news expecting to see he had gone, but the bloke is untouchable.

Besides, if they keep him and we scrape survival, surely he is a dead man walking all the same? He will have absolute zero credibility and zero support.

Said the same on another thread. Survive or not, he's got to go. he could even win every game from now until the end of the season for me, he's shown us his incompetence and not fit for purpose

Hate to say it, but I'm with you -  anyone but Lambert now

[Walmley_Villa]

Had to laugh at this from the Houston Villains

[Jon Crofts]

We've appointed a new Chief Commercial Officer today I read.  Getting our priorities right then.

[PaulWinch again]

We've appointed a new Chief Commercial Officer today I read.  Getting our priorities right then.

He is going to have a hell of a job on his hands.

[PaulWinch again]

The problem is not just a lack of football knowledge in those who run the club, it's no knowledge at all. Clearly anyone who had even the slightest understanding would realise we are in terminal decline under Lambert. The argument of who else would we get holds no water, because Lambert is doing such a bad job that the players could organise themselves and probably achieve more.

[TopDeck113]

I logged on to BBC Sport as soon my teaching for the day was over fully expecting to see the 'Lambert Axed' headline.  What the fuck have our esteemed Chief Exec and owner been all day?