Paul Lambert (R)

[brentastonb6]

How can you possibly have any sympathy for anyone who is poor at their job, gets their fat contract paid , gets another well paid job and cycle starts again? Is there any other industry like football ?

[London Villan]

Mr Morals gets another pay-off.

[Sexual Ealing]

Has any managers stock fallen as much in such a short span of time than this numpty?

I'd say that given it's only four years ago that David Moyes was being hired to manage Manchester United on a six year contract, there's at least one.

yep he qualifies for sure. And Brendan Rodgers took the easy route by taking a stint in a one team league in Scotland because he was headed somewhat the same way as Lambert.

I think Rogers has a bit more about him than Lambert. Lambert can come in and make a fairly immediate impact results improve and then they plateau, then they fall down.  He has a way of playing, when that goes wrong he has no option but will experiment.  The experiment will be foundation-less, the keeping possession for possession's sake we were repeatedly treated to for instance.  When that too fails we get a bit of both which is even worse.  In short, he really is clueless.

Rodgers, whilst to an extent having taken the easy option, has done a fantastic job. It's easy to say that it's a one-team league (because it is), but to go unbeaten through a treble is an achievement. If it wasn't, somebody would have done it before.

[peter w]

Never before has there been such an inbalance in Scottish football allowing one team to be so far ahead of everyone. That its not seen as an achievement anywhere else shows where it really ranks. Everyone expected Celtic to walk the title and they have. Its  some going to nearly win every game though, but then you look at the Celtic team and you know that the rest of the division must really really be poor for them to win it so easily.

[London Villan]

Even Scott Sinclair looks good.

[eamonn]

I guess the most impressive thing is that the players were motivated enough to win practically every game when they'd already won the league months ago and could have spent the rest of the season "on the beach". Possibly tricky in Glasgow, mind.

[robbo1874]

Tone would whip the wastrels into shape for sure. Get him in!

[SoccerHQ]

Actually 5 years to the day since he turned up here according to my FB.

What a waste of time.

[Duncan Shaw]

Actually 5 years to the day since he turned up here according to my FB.

What a waste of time.

It's funny isn't it, I was really quite excited by the prospect that day!

[PaulTheVillan]

Villa fans are to blame for Lambert joining.

[itbrvilla]

I wanted Rodgers

[LeeB]

I wanted Rodgers

What you get up to in your private life is none of my business.

[SoccerHQ]

It was going to be OGS before Lambert but talks broke down for whatever reason. Can't remember at the time if we tried again for Martinez.

Time was right at that stage to go for a Garde style appointment.

[Simon Page]

What, someone who'd not managed for over a year and never in Blighty? Maybe we could have tempted the more successful Lyon manager Paul Le Guen. He had form as a poor replacement for Alex McLeish. I think in 20 years Remi Garde will be the manager whose name we all struggle to remember and Villa will still be his second most successful managerial stint.

[SoccerHQ]

More getting a continental manager who would've had pre season to shape the squad rather than Garde being parachuted in mid season with no money and the morale at an all time low.

As I've said before I look at the likes of West Ham and Southampton and wonder how on earth they're never in relegation battles or going 7 games without even scoring a bleeding goal as Lambert infamously did getting in Garde style appointments like Pochettino, Koeman and Billic.