The fans are the stupid ones? Get over your "better fan syndrome". I don't think there are many fans that think Lerner has been a poor owner and has left the club on the edge. But that doesn't excuse that as a manager Lambert has not been very good, he has failed to improve HIS players, he has failed to motivate his team, and his tactics on the whole have been terrible.
Ok then none of the Villa fans are stupid and I was implying that I'm a better fan than everybody by stating that some Villa fans are short-sighted....
Did Lambert motivate his players when we put that run together at the end of 2012-2013 season to stay up? Did the injuries last year have a major effect on our form? Did he motivate Guzan by dropping Given after 2 games and instilling confidence in him by making him No.1? Has Westwood improved? Has Vlaar improved? Has Delph improved?
Plenty of his other players haven't improved and imo this is down to the fact that they aren't capable of improving. This is because we had to shop in a market where the majority of our signings are gambles. You can blame the owner for that and stop expecting the manager to solve everything with one hand tied behind his back!
So he managed to motivate the team for about 10 games over 2 seasons?
So now your contradicting yourself by saying he has motivated the team, I guess your one of those short-sighted fans I referring to.
Hardly a full contradiction when I'm saying he has only motivated his team for 10 games.
As for short sighted, I disagree. If over two yrs I had seen a progression of the players, tactics and management I would be happy for lambert to continue as a plan for the future could be seen. However, I've seen the manager continuously make the same type of mistake over and over again and not learn from them. I have seen players digress under his tutelage. Therefore I see no long or short term plan under him.
Fair enough but I fail to see how any manager would progress under the circumstances and I think it's an achievement in itself that Lambert has kept us in the Premiership these past 2 seasons. If he was allowed to spend the kind of money that teams like West Ham have and we were having seasons like the last 2 then I'd be calling for his head also but he has been keeping us up while offering wages approx 10k - 20k per week, I'd say some of the players were even being offered less than 10k per week. Almost seems like an impossible task imo.