I have to come clean straight from the off and say something that involves the “F” word.
I’m Fickle.
There. I’ve said it.
Here’s the dictionary meaning of the word;
adjective
1.
likely to change, especially due to caprice, irresolution, or instability; casually changeable:
fickle weather.
2.
not constant or loyal in affections:
a fickle lover.
It’s a good description of me actually.
Well, at least the first part is.
The club are the best thing since sliced bread if we win and absolute proverbial if we lose, simple.
Particularly so when we lose as often as we have been lately.
The second part is total rubbish though and doesn’t apply at all.
I’ll never love another Football club and my ultimate loyalty overall will never change.
“Yeah, yeah, what the hell has this got to do with the Villa?”, I hear you ask.
The answer is that I, amongst many other Villa fans wanted Lambert after the disaster that we had previously as manager (that Spurs away game, shudder).
He seemed a reasonable choice at the time, with the way he had progressed through the leagues, having played some decent footy.
But now I’ve 100% changed my mind.
He’s proven to be a total failure in my opinion, even if you weigh up the constraints he’s been under.
Have we ever had a bit of luck under Lambert? I struggle to remember, but if you consider we haven’t, that tells you something in itself. “You make you own luck”, is an old saying and we’ve had next to none for ages.
He should quite simply be sacked, regardless of what you think of him, purely because of his actual record.
It’s not as though you can say “things are moving forward” either, can you?
Ok, you can cite the fact that we’ve played the top 6 teams from last season and it was always going to be difficult. But have we ever had to witness such dire footy to boot?
You have to go back to the 80’s for that.
We play rubbish, no plan B footy, which is boring to watch and is something the manager doesn’t know how to change. This isn’t going to alter, as Lambert’s attitude is seemingly not to lose the game and actually going out to win it is simply not in the mindset at all. This surely has to be an attitude that gets passed onto the players, to my mind.
I could possibly live with a period of austerity if we played proper footy.
The fact that we’ve had the austerity with utterly poor footy and only have the same to look forward to under the current manager tells anyone with half a brain that something needs to change.
We’re again under a serious threat of going down and crowds are only going to shrink, the way we’re going.
You only have to read the recent comments by the likes of JayDee, who has consistently been one of the most staunch supporters on here, to see where we’re headed.
As for the point that is often raised of which manager we should bring in; that’s not our job to choose, is it?
All I know is Doug Ellis would never have allowed Lambert to be here as long as he has been.
Which quite nicely leads back to me being fickle.
I never liked Ellis.
But I’d take him over what we have now.
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91 responses to “Why Lambert has to go”
Hmm, that was an interesting debate lads.
I’m very minded to agree that our lack of creativity is demonstrated mostly through our lack of successful crossing.
But come on, I used to play left wing as a kid.
And even though I was crap, I could at least put the ball in the box, with decent pace and at a decent height; which at least gave the attackers a chance, more often than not.
Of course, I appreciate that at the top level, you get closed down a million miles faster.
But the only conclusion I can draw from our players is if they can’t get the ball in the danger area, they simply aren’t good enough!
You can argue the nuances all day long, but that’s simply what it boils down too, imo.
Personally, I think there’s more to it than that though and I suspect it’s more about the mindset of the players; something that’s been bought on by Lambert. The whole attitude is about “don’t concede”.
And that’s why he has to go.
He won’t be able to change this and will NEVER be able to move us forward.
He’s a busted flush down the Villa, imo.
Bollocks pal.
The whole mindset bit doesn’t even play a part and there’s no point blaming the players. We have a manager who hasn’t got a fucking clue what he’s doing. He doesn’t even know what a mindset is. Have you heard the mans press conferences?
At any other club, with the results we’ve had to bear witness to over the last 3 years and the unwanted records broken, would have sacked Lambert a long time ago. Unfortunately we have an owner who doesn’t want to pay out on a early contract break and equally doesn’t want to pay out bigger on a manager worth anything.
Lambert should never of even had a renewal in the first place. How coud he have possbily merited it?? It’s all completely bananas at the Villa right now. We have a good team on paper who could and should be at least top half but the man in the dug out is cocking it all up.
I remember there was talk of a plan, a project when Lambert arrived…I can’t even remember what that project was now. Young and Hungry we were told, lower wages, clear out the deadwood. All that died a quick death now didn’t it.
The last window saw the ‘bomb squad’ reinstalled and the likes of Richardson, Senderos and Joe Cole as new arrivals.
The owners must think the we’re a bunch of mugs. Our club is the laughing stock of the PL.