foreveryoung Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 Tonights team is very random. I cannot believe after nearly 2 seasons he is still experimenting with players and formations. He blatently does not know his best formation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pacbuddies Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 The pro Lambert brigade are out in force tonight. He must have been on a leafleting run. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StefanAVFC Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 The pro Lambert brigade are out in force tonight. He must have been on a leafleting run. You make it sound like supporting the manager is an odious crime. Just an observation, I'm neither 'pro-Lambert' nor 'anti-Lambert'. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coda Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 You could at least wait until half time to slag him off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 Nobody asked him to buy 16 players. We didn't need 16 players. 6 or 7 decent players would have been far more use. He needed too. If PL were to do as you believe the squad would be around 12 to 14 players, we would be screwed when injuries and suspensions hit. We have players in the reserves that could probably do a better job than some of the dross he has bought. Ah the old "playing in a good reserve team must be the next Messi argument". Well played sir, well played. I think he has pulled together a mediocre prem team on a serious budget. Also I keep seeing Kozak mentioned as a waste, didn't he win us some games earlier in the season? Is this really worse than our current "playing good(ish) in league 1&2 teams must be the next Messi approach"? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyjsg Posted February 11, 2014 VT Supporter Share Posted February 11, 2014 Nobody asked him to buy 16 players. We didn't need 16 players. 6 or 7 decent players would have been far more use.He needed too. If PL were to do as you believe the squad would be around 12 to 14 players, we would be screwed when injuries and suspensions hit.We have players in the reserves that could probably do a better job than some of the dross he has bought. Ah the old "playing in a good reserve team must be the next Messi argument". Well played sir, well played. I think he has pulled together a mediocre prem team on a serious budget. Also I keep seeing Kozak mentioned as a waste, didn't he win us some games earlier in the season? Is this really worse than our current "playing good(ish) in league 1&2 teams must be the next Messi approach"? Your expectations are too high, it was find prem quality players for little money, he has to a point achieved this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P3te Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 He blatently does not know his best formation. We don't have one. Young players are incredibly inconsistent so the "best" team this week could be a completely different one next week unfortunately. That's a big part ofthe problem Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KjParton Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 The pro Lambert brigade are out in force tonight. He must have been on a leafleting run. Get the pitchforks eh? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Risso Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 Nobody asked him to buy 16 players. We didn't need 16 players. 6 or 7 decent players would have been far more use. He needed too. If PL were to do as you believe the squad would be around 12 to 14 players, we would be screwed when injuries and suspensions hit. We have players in the reserves that could probably do a better job than some of the dross he has bought. You are being unreasonable expecting all Lambert's signings to be successes, especially instantly. ALL? All but two have been absolutely dreadful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bradarmstrong_ Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 Got it wrong again so far tonight. Really poor stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Risso Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 Which is why I said his football is awful. His results are below average which is better than awful. Awful? I give up, I really do. I think calling it awful is being kind. It's the worst I've seen a Villa side consistently play since Billy McNeill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 Nobody asked him to buy 16 players. We didn't need 16 players. 6 or 7 decent players would have been far more use. He needed too. If PL were to do as you believe the squad would be around 12 to 14 players, we would be screwed when injuries and suspensions hit. We have players in the reserves that could probably do a better job than some of the dross he has bought. Ah the old "playing in a good reserve team must be the next Messi argument". Well played sir, well played. I think he has pulled together a mediocre prem team on a serious budget. Also I keep seeing Kozak mentioned as a waste, didn't he win us some games earlier in the season? Is this really worse than our current "playing good(ish) in league 1&2 teams must be the next Messi approach"? Your expectations are too high, it was find prem quality players for little money, he has to a point achieved this. And likewise is no one expecting our reserves to be the next Messi, but they might turn out to be prem quality for even less money Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dukes Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 He's still done a good job. Comparing him to other Villa managers is meaningless, because they all came into better situations. The lack of money and the awful squad he inherited is why villa aren't better now. No, his tactics aren't perfect and some of the transfers have been poor, but every manager messes lots of transfers up. Like Brendan Rodgers, Roberto Martinez and Pochettino. With the budget he's had, to have Villa where they are, is better than most would've done. We're in the top half of the league for transfer expenditure in the last two seasons. Transfer expenditure that was spent on 16 players, not on 5 or 6. But 16 which works out to about 2.7million per player. Nobody asked him to buy 16 players. Apart from his boss. So you reckon his boss said "Paul, I want you to buy 16 players" Yea right! The quotes have been repeated over and over in this thread. He HAD to rebuild the squad. Was part of his remit. I'm not even defending his performance as a manager; just this point. I think 'his boss' would have preferred that rather than spunk the money on 16 players from league 1, and europes second leagues he maybe mixed things up andalso bought fewer players of better quality and then tried some of our own young players, who probably wouldn't have done worse than Luna, Tonev, KEA etc etc. For the record i think he's made the following decent signings : Vlaar Benteke Okore (probably) Lowton (2012 - 2013 version) Maybe also add Westwood to that list, but i'm undecided about him. I don't count Guzan as one of his signings. so he's signed 15 players and 4 or 5 of them are decent. His record of signing players really isn't that good IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LondonLax Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 He blatently does not know his best formation. We don't have one. Young players are incredibly inconsistent so the "best" team this week could be a completely different one next week unfortunately. That's a big part ofthe problem Lambert didn't play with a "best formation" or a set first 11 at Norwich either. He has always rotated a lot and changed formation from match to match depending on the opponent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pacbuddies Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 We go again. One point from our last two games is atrocious. We have to start beating teams around us in the league and very soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
juteface Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 Got it wrong again so far tonight. Really poor stuff. Nothing to do with an impressive defensive display by Cardiff then? No other variables than draw=failure? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jayEm Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 1st half tonight was unimpressive, but we managed to pull it together and apply some great pressure in the 2nd. Would have won it, were it not for some great defending. I've been saying this all season, but if we can play like that for 90 minutes... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dodgyknees Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 Honestly, I'm not so sure now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Spoony Posted February 11, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted February 11, 2014 I don't think today was his fault. For me, the players take most of the blame today. They were just wandering around like lemons. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swerbs Posted February 11, 2014 Share Posted February 11, 2014 Maybe he shouldn't of started Bennett but the players should take the blame for today. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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