Lambert on TalkSport

[LeeB]

I wish he'd had the backbone to resign after one on the numerous debacles he presided over. Pathetic. He'll never have to work again, but the scary thing is he'll walk into another very well paid job and mumble his way to more failure.

The last few weeks have felt like a breath of fresh air, I'm enjoying football again, I wish it had happened 12 months ago.

We wouldn't had Fox making the decision, and most probably wouldn't have hired Sherwood, so let's just be thankful we did what we did, when we did.

[Diablo]

Does anyone know what time the interview was?

Just after 8 this morning

Thanks LTA :-)

[villan from luton]

He always knew Villa would come good apparently. Maybe it has something to do with the fact he knew Jack Grealish would come good if he was actually given a chance on the pitch. Total bollox. Anyway, he goes again apparently.

[richard moore]

I offer him no good-will whatsoever. He arrived with promise and departed as one of the, if not the most, dreadful manager's this club has ever had. His football and results over the vast majority of the three years he was in charge was an embarrassment.

If i ever see him at Villa Park again in whatever capacity, it will be too soon. Good riddance and jog on!

How I feel.  Never been more miserable as a Villa fan.

Add me to that list. I think my views on him are well documented. Thank god I missed his idiotic, thick mumbling on Talkshite. Never was a show more appropriate for him to appear on because he certainly managed to talk just that everytime I heard him

[Steve67]

I heard this interview this morning. He sounded like my car speakers were distorted, as usual. QPR beckons when they sack Ramsey. God help them.

[steffo]

Lambert is a manager who was happy not to lose.

Sherwood is a manager who is gutted when he loses.

Where we were and who we are now!

[Risso]

I offer him no good-will whatsoever. He arrived with promise and departed as one of the, if not the most, dreadful manager's this club has ever had. His football and results over the vast majority of the three years he was in charge was an embarrassment.

If i ever see him at Villa Park again in whatever capacity, it will be too soon. Good riddance and jog on!

How I feel.  Never been more miserable as a Villa fan.

Add me to that list. I think my views on him are well documented. Thank god I missed his idiotic, thick mumbling on Talkshite. Never was a show more appropriate for him to appear on because he certainly managed to talk just that everytime I heard him

And me.  Easily the most dismal manager I've had the displeasure to witness. He made supporting Villa an embarrassing chore.

[villan from luton]

Lambert is a manager who was happy not to lose.

Sherwood is a manager who is gutted when he loses.

Where we were and who we are now!

I would add that Lambert was a manager who set out not to lose, hence the Benteke and attacking threat was nullified. Sherwood is a manager who sets out to win a game and play to the teams strengths. Step forward Tom Cleverley who has been a totally different player, but not the only one by far

[old man villa fan]

My view on his time at Villa was that he tried to change too much too soon when he came in and struggled with an inexperienced team until around the time when we lost at home to Newcastle but did everything but win the game.  From then on until the away game at Chelsea last season (when we shouldn't have lost), we looked a completely different team.  However, from the Chelsea match, other than a few exceptions, it was as though he turned off the light switch on the team.

I think he lost confidence in himself and this spread to the team.  Without a management support structure behind him he was on his own and, in football today, that is the last thing you want.

[edgysatsuma89]

I offer him no good-will whatsoever. He arrived with promise and departed as one of the, if not the most, dreadful manager's this club has ever had. His football and results over the vast majority of the three years he was in charge was an embarrassment.

If i ever see him at Villa Park again in whatever capacity, it will be too soon. Good riddance and jog on!

How I feel.  Never been more miserable as a Villa fan.

Add me to that list. I think my views on him are well documented. Thank god I missed his idiotic, thick mumbling on Talkshite. Never was a show more appropriate for him to appear on because he certainly managed to talk just that everytime I heard him

And me.  Easily the most dismal manager I've had the displeasure to witness. He made supporting Villa an embarrassing chore.

I actually turned down free tickets on 2 occasions under Lambert without having anything stopping me going. That's how bad it was. You would literally have had to pay me and stick matchsticks in my eyes to watch us play.

[mike]

There used to be a lot of criticism of those who complained about his dour, mumbling press interviews either on the basis it was anti Scottish/anti working class or just irrelevant. I always used to think it was highly relevant if he was like that with the players. It's hardly a leadership style to inspire. Imagine him firing up a team at half time? His ridiculous catch phrase 'we go again' sums it up. There's a little independent record label called Fat Possum that puts out some rough basic blues bands no one will have heard of. It's logo is a fat possum crawling out of a bin and the words 'we're doing our best'. A half hearted and self deprecatory mission statement is great for a small alternative record label but not for a fiercely competitive football club.

In terms of how it finally spiralled from poor to disastrous, I think the Karsa/Culverhouse affair might hold the key. Something was obviously going badly wrong and whatever it was, it must have had a devastating impact on the team. It needed a really strong and positive response if we were going to keep Lambert in post but we just stumbled along with Shay Given being promoted from bomb squad to coach then signing an assistant with a history of... well let's just say a history. Then when the wheels inevitably came off with him, we just stumbled on with no one. Imagine how the players must have felt? Surrounded by controversy, incompetence and awful results withno one getting a grip or seeming to do anything and the manager telling the world we were excellent.

[peter w]

Lambert is a manager who was happy not to lose.

Sherwood is a manager who is gutted when he loses.

Where we were and who we are now!

He was at the end but that was because he was truly broken. After success (of sorts) at Colchester, 2 promotions and a great third season with Norwich in the Prem - including a great win at Arsenal 3-2 I think - a great finish to our first season, and starting last season well, he just didn't know what to do when we stopped winning and scoring this season. He tried to change our pattern of play to a team that kept the ball but did it in pieces. We kept it in the 'wrong area'. Too much had gone wrong, if the attack worked the defence was porous, if the defence worked we didn't score, and when we couldn't score and the defence was still porous he had no ideas. How often did we see this season that we were strangely just a 45 minute team? A good first half and you know what was coming next.

[Damo70]

Lambert will get another job for sure. You wonder though if he needs to do a McLaren and work abroad for a year or two.

Renting pedalos out in Magaluf

He would alter them so they could only go sideways and backwards before they would sink like a stone.

You would get two goes for the price of one. The 'we go again' offer.

[postal]

He had the backroom to sort out with minimal help from what I could see.

I always had a private bet to see how many times he would say "brilliant" in a post match interview.

But he never had a Plan B to back up his Plan A, which resembled an ill crab that could barely manage only moving sideways.

its not always going to be great under Sherwood (he's aged in the last couple of weeks), but at least there is hope.

[Toronto Villa]

I was going to say the same thing. He looks like he's lost a stone and put on a quick 5 years.