Lambert gone

[Deano's Mullet]

Thank fuck!  I've been watching H&V/Twitter/Sky/BBC all day - I pop out for 15 minutes and he's gone!

Haha ditto I went for a run.

I had done my run earlier luckily. Lovely mild evening for it down here, caught that bit of the evening when dusk falls and all the birds are singing. They must have known!

Its a happy night in Horsham for sure, richard

[London Villan]

Good riddance.

He has killed my passion for football with his embarrassing results, performances and records over the past two and a half years. I used to look forward to a match day more than anything else in the world but he managed to knock that feeling out of me and thousands of other Villa fans.

Now we have a chance, we might not do it with the damage that has been done, but I know whoever comes in will get our 110% backing for the next 14 (or more, fingers crossed) games.

UP THE VILLA!!!

[Ron Manager]

Sir Alex to the end of the season....and his black coat...and his watch!

He needs something to do...and he knows what to do.

[john e]

Pat Murphy. What an incredible twat.

I think you are being far too generous

I think he's alright

[passitsideways]

I think Tom Fox will be looking for next Arsene Wenger for a manager.  I reckon he will ring Arsene for his recommendation.

The fucker owes us for the 8-0 and 6 points we've handed him this season.

[nigel]

Gareth Southgate - come on a lot recently and he knows the club being a former captain (I'm excluding from my memory how he left)

Actually, that's not a bad shout

[Richard E]

Pat Murphy. What an incredible twat.

I think you are being far too generous

I think he's alright

He was very arsey with me on Twitter once over nothing very important. Doesn't appear to have much sense of humour.

[Jon Crofts]

He got off way too lightly, if we do still go down he'll always be able to say it wasn't me, I'd have turned it around.

Anyway, onwards and upwards, Lerner needs to sit back and let Fox do his thing, no stupid hair brained McLeish type ideas.

[onje_villa]

It would be ironic if this is the appointment when we pick a progressive coach and we may for once actually need an experienced been-there-seen it type manager.

[kippaxvilla2]

Southgate appointed apparently.

[ktvillan]

Just seen this - thank feck for that, we may have a slim chance of saving ourselves now.  I suspected it would take a drop into the relegation zone before the American idiot woke up and smelled the shit, and so it has proven, and maybe the defeat last night was worth it in the long run.

I have no idea who we should get in except I hope we go foreign - British, and especially Scottish, managers are almost universally shite.  Bollocks to former players, people "with a feeling for the club", and an insistence on PL experience - other clubs have shown it's far more important just to get someone who know his arse from his elbow tactically and who can motivate players to go out and perform.

Failing that, at least we have the consolation that even Lerner would struggle to unearth someone who could make us play worse than Lambert has had us playing recently.

[mr-villa]

Lets hope we are not all here again in 12 months time debating the next manager after Billy Davies has been sacked after frogmarching us towards League One.  I say that tongue in cheek but would not be surprised if it were to come true.  Lerner seems to have an uncanny ability to appoint the shittiest of managers.

[VinnieChase84]

Southgate appointed apparently.

??

[rob_bridge]

Better late than never

[garyshawsknee]

Pat Murphy. What an incredible twat.

I think you are being far too generous

I think he's alright

I've never understood the thing about him. I've always liked him. He took the view about Lerner ages ago being silent, which most of us mocked him about and now must of us think this. Is it down to his love of M'ON ?