Managing the club was like being on death row says Paul Lambert

[ciggiesnbeer]

We had our disagreements during Lambert's tenure Brian but since he has left I think we can agree. He has become a deluded fuckwit. Down the rabbit hole indeed.

Lambert continues to break records even now, he is actually making Alex McLeish look good. Quite an achievement.

[brian green]

I did not wish to give the impression that it was personal ciggies.   I think you showed more patience than I did and that was no bad thing.   I am an old man in a hurry.   My meter is running.

[Jimbo]

I wouldn't read too much into the Green Mile reference. I doubt Lambert has the slightest inkling what it really means. I think it's just a case of the walk seeming like a mile, and he could see the pitch, which was green.

[ciggiesnbeer]

I did not wish to give the impression that it was personal ciggies.   I think you showed more patience than I did and that was no bad thing.   I am an old man in a hurry.   My meter is running.

Fair play sir, fair play. To be honest I think I was unable to see how bad things had got until Hull and it was in my face.

Let us hope we have a better few years ahead of us! Would be nice to actually win something!

[Brend'Watkins]

I wouldn't read too much into the Green Mile reference. I doubt Lambert has the slightest inkling what it really means. I think it's just a case of the walk seeming like a mile, and he could see the pitch, which was green.

Maybe it's because Lammbert has a load of flies buzzing around his mouth with all the nonsensical shit he comes out with.

[dave shelley]

I think as opposed to The Green Mile reference, after his first season, the correct analogy was more like Dead Man Walking.  Admittedly it was a slow, painful death.

[Villa in Denmark]

I think as opposed to The Green Mile reference, after his first season, the correct analogy was more like Dead Man Walking.  Admittedly it was a slow, painful death.

In the end he was more like Rain Man, but without the useful abilities.

[Villa in Denmark]

It's occurred to me that he should have been sacked for breach of contract.

Presumably he got the job after promising Randy / Faulkner he could deliver improvements on the pitch (anyone remember the "vibrant playing style" we were promised?) whilst delivering the savings.  He clearly didn't achieve the first half of that = failing to deliver as promised.

Anyway he's gone now, we just about got away with not sacking him sooner, so let his memory fester in some dark forgotten footballing purgatory.  Yeps. I've got him down as next blues manager

[aj2k77]

His first season was shit as well. From memory the last 10 or so games we're pretty good but the previous 35 we're just as appalling as anything that came in the other 2 seasons after. We pulled off a Wigan but we're still terrible.

I really dislike Lambert, I'm just glad he's gone so we don't have to argue about him anymore, fucking clown that he was, excellent my arse.

[Tom_Mc9?]

I'll never subscribe to the 'he's mumbling so he's thick' or even the 'he's arrogant' line of arguments. I was one of his last defenders on the site, but even I knew the gig was up a few weeks/months before the Hull debacle. I think I hoped he'd do well rather than expect he would. Essentially, I just don't think he's a very good manager, but is having to say all this to keep his name in the shop window.

[pauliewalnuts]

There was a definite point in season three at which you could see he had genuinely lost interest and belief. In the space of a few weeks he put on a load of weight, looked scruffier than usual, looked like he'd probably stopped washing, looked permanently ruddy faced.

That time of him sat on our bench next to that shabby fucking mental tramp Keane was so depressing.

Did anyone really - really - think the Keane appointment was going to work out? That was only ever going one way.

[pauliewalnuts]

I'll never subscribe to the 'he's mumbling so he's thick' or even the 'he's arrogant' line of arguments. I was one of his last defenders on the site, but even I knew the gig was up a few weeks/months before the Hull debacle. I think I hoped he'd do well rather than expect he would. Essentially, I just don't think he's a very good manager, but is having to say all this to keep his name in the shop window.

Woodhall said to me at one point last season that maybe the problem was he'd never experienced failure before (as a manager), and he was experiencing it here on a big scale, which left him with no idea how to turn it around. I think that's probably a decent-ish point.

[Walmley_Villa]

Lambert's 'tenure' put my youngest son off football for life (constant defeat and thrashings) - for that I will never forgive him...

[KevinGage]

There was a definite point in season three at which you could see he had genuinely lost interest and belief. In the space of a few weeks he put on a load of weight, looked scruffier than usual, looked like he'd probably stopped washing, looked permanently ruddy faced.

That time of him sat on our bench next to that shabby fucking mental tramp Keane was so depressing.

Did anyone really - really - think the Keane appointment was going to work out? That was only ever going one way.

The Keane appointment more than anything else started to make me think he actually wanted the club to sack him.

Why else introduce a volatile element like that.

With the pressure on, the last thing you need is  (a) an assistant  who was essentially doing the job part-time and was quite open about how it was way down his list of priorities and (b)  is a facking lunatic at the best of times.

[mr underhill]

I don't think he rationalized his situation like that. He simply didn't have to look beyond Uncle Randy awarding him a new 4 year deal -  he was never going to resign, no matter how death row- like his Villa experience became, and with the new contract, he was quid's in when the axe did fall. He's the ultimate blend of stupidity and hubris.