That's a fair enough assessment I think - I'm a bit more positive on him than you are I suspect and for me there are two reasons for persisting - firstly, we need to build some sort of stability and I certainly don't think he's harmful in the same way as the previous manager, and secondly for McLeish, my feeling is that the first half of his season wasn't bad and the second half got worse whereas for Lambert, it feels like we've improved in the second half of the season - in my head, that forms a big curve with the current end pointing upwards - it might not actually be true, I haven't checked whether it stacks up in terms of the stats, but it's how it seems to me.
It'd be a lot easier to have faith in having the right man if we had another three or four points though - these are fine margins and I suspect they're gong to be very important.
Nice post and I don't disagree with any of it ... however, even if we do go down I really like the way Lambert is going about sorting this team out. I do actually have a lot of confidence in him and whereas the next 4 games are going to be decisive in the majority of peoples minds as to whether he is a success or not, even if we go down I'd really want Lambert to stay and finish off the job he has started.
For me I just can't get behind this thinking. If we go down then he really hasn't sorted the team out. He's lowered the wage bill and got us relegated, I think I could have achieved that.
Which I think will be the majority of people's opinions and I can't argue.
He has however got the best out of Weimann, Agbonlahor and Guzan. He has bought 2 expensive players (El Ahmadi) and so has a 50% success record so far when given money. His cheap signings have been very hit and miss though this is to be expected. Westwood and Lowton have the potential to be very good Premiership players which is a testament as to where they have come from.
I think if Lambert were to play this whole season again knowing what he knows now about your squad and with the players having the experience of this season behind them then we would be a very comfortable midtable team which will be an excellent foundation from which to push on. It is for this reason I'd like to give him at least another 2 years.
KEA wasn't expensive .. If I'm not mistaken Lowton was more expensive ..