Villa job to big for Lambert

keep peddeling the wheel hamster
championship beckoning
Lambert gone in morning

O'Neill overspent on older players without resale value, apart from Young.

And Milner.  And Downing.

wd have beat Bradford tho

Bradford pushed up and played offside against Villa second half.Lambert clueless on how to adjust tactics(high ball)not for the first time this season.He picks the team,He sets the formation out and He is to blame.Full stop.

should resign after that performance imo

They just got humiliated by a league 2 club. That's collective responsibility.

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Classic case of hitting out at the manager to hide the fact that the players aren't experienced and aren't pulling their weight. The Villa job isn't that much bigger than the Norwich job, and he has a track record of being an excellent manager. You can replace as many managers as you want, you'll still be playing Bradford next year.

Ops. Sorry, I meant this year. And losing.



tell livingston fans that

^ I watch Livingston now and then and said as much a couple of years ago because he was decidedly average with them,think he was married to one of the backroom suits,ex celtic manager whose name escapes me ?

Lambert just seemed to panic after Bradford scored. It's never the answer to just send on every forward you've got when you need a goal. All they do is get in each other's way.

Also too far too long to switch N'Zogbia from the right. Every time he got it you knew he was going to come inside.

davie someone ?

have to laugh at GABY AGBALDYHOR LOL

Tbh i thought Lambert should have been given his marching orders after the Chelsea debacle. I could not believe his tactics in that game which were possibly the most naive i have ever seen. Maybe he should stick to X Box and Championship manager!!

Bring back Big Ron

Rick Alert

Now your talkin Roker

Sky kept saying Villa are a good team.

davie hays

a great night for all norwich fans

made losing to villa in the previous round worth it

can those plastic flags/fans be re-cycled ?

He has to go! His tactics after the equaliser were shocking, he just threw on all our forwards and we had no wingers......completely pointless! We hardly created a chance since their goal which says it all! This guy hasnt got a clue, we are shocking in defence and midfield but all this guy wants to do it throw everyone forward in a bid to get more goals than the other team!

To lose to a league 2 team over 2 legs is a disgrace, if he is still in charge tomorrow i'll be shocked and very disappointed!

Hope hes still in charge for saturday

his contract will be watertight and it may be expensive to sack him tbf.

itn news "paul lambert stalked the technical area like a controlled beast"  haha oneway of putting it

MadVlad
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his contract will be watertight and it may be expensive to sack him tbf.


what about lambert and hay , they mates

davie hay is paul lambert's father-in-law

so thats how he got the livi gig

well it certainly helped let's put it that way

he made a meal of it lol

after this i was surprised he got a job in england to be fair , but has done well up until now.hopefully he can get villa out relegation battle

tbf since he went to england he has done well,I man ffs what do Villa fans want SAF and that aint gonna happen.

they sound like numpties always after the boss`s head

not a numpty pal, but did you watch the game tonight? totally clueless in the second half, he looked like a rabbit in the headlights. Oh and i'm one of the few who back him, but after tonight hmmmmmmmmmmmm

Well this Villa side are not doing to much wrong, his team play good football, the problem is they are to young, PL needs a couple of older players to steady the ship.

If he can get through this bad spell and  dtsy up which Im sure he will, Villa will win a lot next season and be good to watch

na never watched it

yeah Villa top 4 club with fans to match

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ok they are out of the Capital One cup (Credit where credits due) they did win tonight so its not all bad. at least they won

There is a lot of Interest in the Capital One cup' as you would expect.

Great win tonight

Great win tonight

oh sorry they went out

This guy hasnt got a clue, we are shocking in defence and midfield but all this guy wants to do it throw everyone forward in a bid to get more goals than the other team!


Those tactics won Norwich 2 promotions and by the look of things Villa will need him to do the same for them next season. No point in sacking him now.

Villa fans chanted his name on the last day of 2011-12 season, got their wish and now look at them turn to the owner to sack him. The irony

maybe villa shd change their shirts to yellow

Maybe they should merge with Birmingham

Halesowen maybe

Halesowen are a team on the up though!

why villa not sign carew back before he became an actor

the last few games have been an improvement. 8-0 4-0 3-0 2-2 and then a win, thats progress what ever way you look at it, after a very very bad \Christmas they are doing ok, wait till the next few weeks in the EPL to see if they weathered the storm.
I think their bad run is behind them.

Football is littered with things like this.

Fergie was 1 game away for getting the sack at Man U, Neil Lennon was 1 game away from getting sacked.

Paul lambert is a goof manager and will turn this around, youare not a good manager then god bad after half a season and next season you will see just how good he is, to sack a manager and not give him and the new players a whole season is crazy.

goof says it all

villa had a bad month thats about it

Come on Halesowen !

i wonndered how quick it would take someone to notice that,
I will be backing Villa every match now till end of the season and will make money

beware of Freud

backed him all season to the hilt, however recent games i've found him to be totally tactically inept. Hope i'm wrong but it really doesn't look good

you will stay up and then e has has a season to see what eaxh player can do and get the best out of them next season

getting the feeling like a lot of villa fans that he's not up to the job

Villa fans would want fergie out.

Villa fans wanted MON out when they were in the top 10, villa fans wanted Ron Saunders out because he never won the european cup in 1983

Thats what Villa fans do

ONe goal in the EPL are you nuts' check out you tube you might be surprised

All I know is losing a semi final over 2 legs to a league 2 team is not good enough! The tactics were horribly wrong in the second half, he panicked after the equaliser and threw everyone up front, everyone but him could see we had no width and created **** all after that. We were lucky to get a late winner!

I like what Lambert has done attacking wise but our midfield and defence is appalling, we have no shape, once we lose the ball the other team has acres of space and you cant be doing that at this level and it certainly is showing!

2.06 to get relegated sums it up imo. Adkins lost his job at Saints (currently 2.88) would be absolutely amazed if Villa stuck with Lambert

As a Villa fan I loved MON, we were on the verge of champs league with him. Only the fickle fans wanted him out! I also couldnt care less than he spent to much money etc, you have to if you want success.....look what happens when you don't!

Massive error by Lerner not to give MON money in the transfer market, its been downhill ever since that day, which was only a few years ago I might add!

^^^^^^^^

Spot on, VillaDemon

Simple facts are that since O'Neill left Villa it has been one massive downward spiral. It makes me laugh when some Villa fans complain about what he spent, completely forgetting that they let Houllier spend £24m on one player after he left.

Still, Villa's loss is my team Sunderland's gain.

wd struggle in league 2 imo

if he keeps on going as he is , the club will be the right size for him

Plenty of threads on here from when MON went saying to Villans to be careful for what you wish for! However, his legacy at the club and reputation amongst fans was massively tarnished by the timing of his exit. It was apparently all over the James Milner transfer and him being told he wouldn't be able to instantly reinvest the money received. The transfer was never in doubt and if he felt so strongly he should have left much sooner.

I certainly don't see any sense in ditching Lambert - certainly not yet. His vision is obvious. He's just tried to implement it all in one go and not gradually over a couple of seasons. I was glad to see the back of James Collins clearances bringing down planes over Villa Park, and his sometimes questionable attitude, but how they could have done with him recently. Seems obvious that Lambert needs an experienced Prem' centreback - a Micheal Dawson or even a Matt Upson, but they don't seem to be linked with any. The same goes for Petrov in midfield - no world beater but you don't know how well off you are til' it's gone. I'd love to have Gary Barry back there to steady the ship, a Tom Huddlestone or more realistically even a couple of Championship players like Pedersen at Blackburn with plenty of recent Prem' experience, but nothing seems to be happening.

Hope Lerner doesn't press the panic button. No idea what his long term intentions are. It could look like he was hoping to get them back to mid table security as cheaply as possible to make them a viable investment for a takeover, but who knows? The worst thing he could do would be to get in an Allardyce/Megson type.

Not looking good for Lambert.....

I have watched his career from his Paisley days and am truly amazed he is currently in the job he is in.I dont know him however his interviews from years ago and up to present day show a serious lack of a good proper grasp of the English language with his almost primary school type vocabulary.This may be totally different to the way he speaks to the players in training however if it is not I cant see how players can be harmonised and inspired by someone who talks in this manner.

Hamsterdam came out to that amazing noise and continental style atmosphere he just looked in  nervous awe...you do know he played for Dortmund and won the CL? I think he has more experience of noisy continental nights than villa players have had dinners.

If we kept spending at the rate we were under mon incuding wages, the club would be no more by now. MON is a knut

shocking........UTV

apart from benteke and vlaar, lambos signings are yet to impress me.......MON bought old mediocre highly paid players, lambert is buying young mediocre poorly paid players

All Martin O'Neill's fault blah blah blah

not saying its ALL his fault. But at the time the chairman was throwing so much money at the club and mon started wasting it on wastemen.IMO sixth was the very least we should have done at the time, drove the same 11 players into the ground and they were fecked by march and all his sh it expensive signings were sat on the bench not being used

HAPPY days

You do realise the manager after O'Neill was allowed to go and spend £24m on ONE player don't you? You do realise Lambert has spent £24m this summer don't you? Houllier and Lambert have done far more damage than O'Neill, Villa fans never had it so good under O'Neill.

der_der_73 bit of a difference when you are managing a big club though as opposed to just playing, a lot more responsibility.

I do like Lambert like a lot of Villa fans do...his attacking football and to go for another goal whether 5-0 up or 5-0 down mentality is quite refreshing. But he has made big errors overlooking the defense. A lot of English football is about hoofers and heading and this is where we are getting hammered at the moment. The lightweight defenders he bought (Vlar aside) from the lower leagues just aren't upto it.

wages crippled us, 10 or so players on massive wages under mon that weren't being used

hamster he has to loose that attitude now or we're down pal

No manager will have anything to do with wages, you best start pointing the finger at whoever your Cheif Executive is, and allowed those mad wages to happen.

*Chief

maybe, but mon was still bringing in people like shorey,harewood, sidwell etc and not using them. Because there sh it and then we were stuck paying them

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haQ4e_Ca2vw&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Mate had a spare ticket so went to the game tonight, my god Villa are bad. I don't know if it was the atmosphere, a game too much at the end of a tough week or whether they don't want to play for Lambert but Villa just were not interested. I support Charlton so i see a lot of dross week in week out and i can honestly say that Villa tonight were one of the worst teams i've seen this season. Too many kids and no leadership whatsoever. Millwall are a pretty average side at best but they wanted it far more. Lambert needs to sign a no nonsense centre half to get stuck in.

The only consolation that a Villa fan could take from that, is that going by the team Lambert selected, he obviously would rather be out of the cup.

Also, i expect a heavy fine coming Millwalls way, i've never seen so many bottles thrown on the pitch in one game. Game had to be stopped so the police could form a barrier to protect the lino. No way will they get away with that.

The money spent on brock players within the EPL is disgraceful. People stating Villa spending 24 million on one mediocre player.  Neil Lennon has spent less than 10 million in his time at Celtic and has now taken them to the last 16 of the Champions League.  This puts into perspective were Englisg football is compared to other leagues.  It's a false economy under the umbrella of Murdoch & Co. Aston Villa & other EPL teams are full of very average players who have cost a fortune.

We were lucky we that Lambert didn't want to come back to Scottish football.

In the unlikely event Celtic and Neil Lennon came to the Premier League, their is not a chance they could come with their present team and survive on a £10m expenditure. Not a chance.

Celtic are playing in a truly woeful league and getting results in a cup competition by raising their game against far superior opposition, much like Bradford City are doing.

Roker - totally disagree with ur analysis.  James McClean wouldn't get a look in at Celtic along with half of ur team.  We were offered ur top goal scorer for 2.2 million and wouldn't take him from Hibs. So your trying to tell me that the Sunderland team would qualify to the last 16 of the Champions League??

I'd pay to drive McClean to Celtic mate!! Fletcher would walk into your team mate. End of story.

No, not saying we would qualify for last 16 of CL at all. I'm saying teams against far superior opposition raise their game. I'm not putting Celtic down, I'm praising them for raising their game, but in Premier League they'd have to raise it every week with current squad.

I rate Celtic and Sunderland as equal

I wouldn't read too much into the loss to Millwall, the loss to Bradford was bad but not the end of the world. Villa are better off out of these cups now given their position in the league.

There is no point in getting rid of lambert unless it's done immediately and the incoming manager is given funds to spend before the end of the window - not going to happen. Lambert is not going to get funds either and that is not his fault. If the story re Bent's appearances is true then Lerner is the problem, not the manager. I find it hard to believe that he would drop a record signing to save a few million and risk 10 times that in going down, unless they simply don't have the cash to pay it?

But Lambert was a winner on the field and has a very good managerial record in and out of the PL, it has been a difficult club to work for the last few years and I think he deserves a full year in charge. You will never progress if you don't give a new manager more than half a season. Even if you go down he is a good man to take you back up. But I don't think that will happen, I think he will keep villa up and there will be huge optimism at villa park going into next season. Around the time of the loss to Man U, draw with Arsenal, win at anfield I thought the team was playing v well. They have lost their way in the past few weeks but there is plenty of time to turn it around. You have had two bad losses to lower league teams but that will hopefully snap the players out of it without any more points being dropped.

Get Dunne back from injury and play him with Vlaar, recall Warnock from loan and Hutton and stick them. Defence then much more solid. Buy or loan a midfield enforcer and Villa should be okay. Playing these youngsters is not paying off.

Well done Paul. Stuck to his guns and proved to be  correct.

Villa fans wanted MON out when they were in the top 10, villa fans wanted Ron Saunders out because he never won the european cup in 1983

i assure you we would have been gutted if saunders had won the european cup in 1983 when he was managing birmingham city.

Turned the season around. On to next season. I just hope he re-signs all the young stars on long term contracts.

oh dear!!!! 3rd highest goal scorer in europe in 2013 and 13th in the league how wrong could u be hahaha! UTV

they're not safe and could still go down

Thanks for bumping this so we can see all the Norwich fans gloating

Lambert can stay, it's been scary but he's won my trust with his methods.

ham, you cant be a real fan to not realise what your club is doing at youth levels.

We've been doing stuff at youth level for years Sonko.

I think you were correct with your original title now