I quite simply don’t know what to say.
Many of us had real fears about losing this one and so it turned out.
My predicted draw was looking in the bag, but we never really looked like scoring did we?
And what about that first half? I struggle to recall such a poor performance from two teams in the top flight, ever.
Even before the goal, the fact that Guzan had made the better saves in this game says it all and it’s simply not good enough. I even went so far as to think that Palace would probably nick it.
I now believe we stand every chance of going down, as we create absolutely nothing, especially at home.
How can it be that we are reduced to this?
I’m thoroughly despondent after that display, so am cutting it short. I just feel sick to the stomach.
But I will say one thing.
While I heard many boos and jeers, I never heard anyone calling for Lambert’s head.
I’m perplexed as to why.
Unless of course, most agree with me, in that we won’t appoint a decent replacement or give a new manager any money to spend.
Please, Lerner, do something or we’re doomed.
Belcs, I think you’ll find no one supporting Lambert. Happy Christmas to you and Terry.
I believe he will walk cos b4 he walked down the tunnel he had a look of totally bemusement, the players are playing the game he must av set plays patterns and the players totally are not playing 4 him and he knows it ~ hes always defended the players and its over he will walk 2day or by within 24 hours theres no way how e can continue
We can hope, just can’t bear to have him in charge for even 1 more game, has to go now. Nothing will change in 2 days, we’ll lose to Swansea for sure so we might as well sack the useless prat now.
and who comes in then given the stay away owner’s record ?
Odds probably on Steve Lomax I think ….
Whilst Lerner is in charge we will be lower half on the edge of relegation, time to realise that.
Plenty of managers out there, but we shouldn’t even consider anyone British.
Rangnick, Yakin, Tuchel, Mel, OGS, Queiroz, Di Matteo, Yakin, Bilic to name a few. Mind you anyone would be an improvement on Lamberk
And what are those potential successors supposed to do with the shower of a squad we have……we have 3-4 lads who were playing in the third division in old money a couple of seasons ago…….Clarke and Baker are the poorest centre backs in the league……we have no width and play the same shite system which is a piece of piss to play against…..who will come to Villa now…..? None of those mentioned……
Unless we get someone like a Benitez with £50-£100m to end then this club will never taste success again. There is more chance of me playing for Barcelona alongside Messi than that happening.
Of course there’s a chance we can get them though. Other than Di Matteo who I don’t rate at all, was on the way to getting West Bromich relegated and when a few of the old guard left, his tactics were shown to be terrible. But none of those are at bigger clubs than Villa, most aren’t in as big a league as the EPL. They know they’ll get backed with at least 20m a summer as Lerner’s done every summer but the summer O’Neill left.
Our lge position flatters us the downward spiral here we come.
players aren’t playing 4 him if u saw the palace goal u had delph last man, team discipline as gone the manager is responsible but players totally av their share of blame ~ our left back is totally the worst player I av seen wear the claret and blue and I saw balban play or try 2
lambert must av had the final say on incomings but if he never the guy whos job is recruitment he must go cos no of the players 2day did the job that was worth minimum wages apart from big bad brad guzan he was only only doing his job
I think anyone now on here would except a drop knowing he’s gone, that sounds bad I know but our football would be entertaining from then on. Robo any twat would be better than him a man that conned a Yank into thinking youth from foreign shores was better than youth from English academy, cheap thinking from Yanks prospective of our country.
Isn’t it very strange not one person said we missed benteke upfront.i suggest god as manager next.
course we missed him but hardly no point when in all the game only one decent chance created.
When you saw Bowery come on for Kozak you knew the depths to which we have fallen.
Bowery looked our sharpest player when he came on, no disrespect to the lad but i think that pretty much sums up the depths Lambert has taken us too.
We’ve missed Benteke for the last 16 matches
On official Villa site – Our great Christmas sticker giveaway is repeated in the Villa News & Record for the match against Swansea City.
Shit team, shit players, shit manager but whoopie doo free stickers.Great where do I sign?
BWS Terry and Oohah are now standing in a queue outside the ground getting free seats to the next game.
Lol i’ll plaster the fucking car.where do you get them mate?
“There’s no point wilting. I am disappointed. But you pick yourself up and meet that challenge.”
So nothing changes…
No heart, no care from the players at all and people question why fans don’t want him anymore. He has made 0 changes from our first loss to this loss, and won’t make a single change against Swansea in how we play. Why would anyone wanna play this style of shit?
I just heard lambs interview and hes not walking that’s 4 sure ~ I just can’t see how he can turn it around from here ~ its down 2 the players now and lerner if he wants 2 own a premiership club he will av 2 buy another or sack lambs
What a total humiliation , lambert has totally lost it and should be sacked tonight I predicted we would loose before the game and unfortunately it came true in a truly horrific performance , I will not be wasting my time down vp until lambert has been sacked !
Am I the only 1 who thinks that pretty much all of the other 19 PL chairman would have sent lamberk packing after today’s humiliation at the hands of Palace.
Amazing really as 2 top managers are looking for new challenges in Bielsa and Magath, how we’re crying out for someone like that as they’d rip this team to shreds. If only Randy Lerner wasn’t such a useless, ambitionless buffoon
If only… we can dream of Bielsa, would be a privelidge to have a manager of his ilk at our club, instead of the current mumbling idiot. But no chance sadly.
Magath is a great shout tbh, he wouldn’t be scared to tell the useless turds in our squad what he thinks of them.
No worries though, we can keep listening to “we go again” in barely audible English every week from a brainless moron. Lamberk= worst manager in AVFC’s history.
mentioning names like those shows how totally deluded some Villa fans have become.
If we stick with Lamberk, I’d rather AVFC was killed off. Its that bad, utter humiliation.
why do you think the likes of OGS, Martinez turned us down ?
When you get that answer then you will see the kind of shit we are left to choose from.
OGS- wanted to stay in Norway, Martinez was being loyal to Whelen, if Wigan had stayed up he’d still be there now IMO
Ian they turned us down because they met our CEO……
Well said Belcs… A lot of made up garbage comes on here quite often about “oh he turned us down for this reason” when it really was a totally different reason.
BELCS…..correct mate. Ian spouting his ITK bollox as per usual. To listen to him is like the poltician that ‘talks alot, yet says fuck all’
Swansea aren’t great away from home…but does anyone think we will beat them on Sat? The only changes Lambert can make are more of his own clueless signings. No Benteke means no goals, No Vlaar means no clean sheets. We are a very, very poor side.
Swansea have players missing as well, but i can see them beating us. We are shit
Crystal Palace were missing a reported 11 players. So yeah… It doesn’t really matter who is missing from any team.
my final thoughts b4 I hit the bottle or finish it
last season their was spirit, hope and a team that created and finished of chances ~ then there’s NOW were are just as dodgy at defending ~ absolutely no creativity I can see no hope for us 🙁 unless a new man comes in and the lift that brings may save us but immediate future is definitely bleak
happy new year
Its not reliable but a lad who sits near me at Villa has just rang me and said Lambert has the Swansea game and then its P45
So basically we beat Swansea and we are stuck with him for rest of the season or we lose and he goes. Think I prefer the latter
I’d take a 0-10 loss if it meant Lamberk was sacked on the FT whistle
He should be sacked i have seen no plan b, the team is awful, the players signed this summer are useless. He keeps on playing KEA who cannot pass forward to save his life.
If i was Lerner i would sack him as i dont think McCleish even had boo’s like that at
I heard boos on tv it went on for ages
Don’t you remember the run of games last year at this time. If anyone was going to be sacked it would be then. I hate to say but we are stuck and we are f@cked
We lose against swansea damn sure lambert will still be in the dugout,im sure that fucker is going to repeat in my nightmares..get fucking rid.
Swansea game lamberts finale adios & fuck off.
Just for a moment I thought I might be the only voice calling for Lambert’s head. I am glad to see it is the general view.
A performance of such staggering ineptitude, and a 4th consecutive defeat should mean Lambert won’t need to pen the programme notes for Sheffield Utd. Please Lerner not another bloody Glaswegian – I want to understand the excuses from the next victim.
I will go further, I shall not be spending any more money on tickets until Lambert has gone and Guzan, Bennett, Herd, Baker, Clark and Delph are out of the starting 11. I recall seeing Delph’s debut [a 2-0 home defeat by Wigan] and thinking WTF is he playing at? I have thought the same at most home games he started since.
Can’t argue with that mate. I want lambert out ASAP and like u will not go again until he’s gone. The football is as dire as anything iv ever seen at vp the players he has signed are simply shit no argument about that. The question as always is if we sack him then who do we get? No half decent manager is going to come to a club with no money or ambition. I’d love someone like Benitez and would trust him with £50m. But no way will Lerner pay that. We are stuck with this situation unless Lerner sells and that could be years.
Guzan….The guy who along with Benteke ensured Premier League footy this season? Give over mate, the guys shot stopping is tremendous…..His only floor being he loves a hoof, yet I think thats more down to Lamberts tactics and also not trusting those in front of him
Would of lost 3.0 if not for Guzan
Yes Helenius I am in a minority in criticizing Guzan – and all his supporters say he is a great shot-stopper. I agree with that, maybe Krul or Vorm are better but Guzan is no lower than #3 in the EPL. BUT… shot stopping is only part of the job, and at positioning prior to a shot, knowing when to come off his line and actually getting to a ball he comes for – Guzan is poor.
Another poor game – these holiday seasons really are brutal for us and the injuries this season are now coming thick and fast. Not many positives to take away from todays game, better possession maybe, but I would say that is due to Palace’s talent rather than anything else. Against any other team today the game could have been really embarrassing. I have to agree with the commentators today – with a crowd of roughly 38k the spectators deserved better and it really was a game of two relegation teams.
As for Lambert, he’s definitely starting to feel the pressure of the job. As he walked to the tunnel is his face after the match really was one of concern. The squad just is to thin and too weak – the club really does need to invest this winter, it’s that simple. I am confident Lambert will turn this around, but without the full backing of Lerner this winter Lambert’s sacking is all but written in stone this summer.
Lambert walking? Common, no manager would walk away from a club.
Zola walked. He will walk if he gets a pay off. Lerner will give lamberk fuck all to spend in jan remember last year and we were in a worse position then. Lambert is simply not good enough, his players are probably the worst iv ever seen at VP. Lerner will be happy if we finish fourth from bottom on goal difference which is more than likely what will happen. There is no point whatsoever supporting this dross unless you like pain. In the summer we will be linked with big name players again to sell sts and none will come to fruition. It’s the only time the club are interested in us is when season ticket renewal is due. I say boycott the club until things change but people won’t coz they are happy to put up with this crap
OOHAH, who in particular is happy to put up with this crap?
The 22,000 or so st holders for starters who will still be gullible enough to renew next year. If these people didn’t renew then more chance of action being taken.
They will renew again, because we will be connected to Ronaldo, Suarez and Messi at the same time!!
Yep that’s what I mean about st holders being gullible
Matt Law from the Daily Telegraph has just tweeted ‘I really don’t see any manager being successful at Villa until the structure if the club changes and good decision makers are hired’.
To sum this up whilst Lambert, Faulkner and Lerner remain we are fucked
You run a Ferrari on cheap red derv, it ends up breaking down… The Villa are being run on the cheap, with a cheap manager an inexperienced bean counter as a CEO, a board with no football knowledge and an owner that has given up his interest in his little toy…. Our home form is a disgrace but we still sell lots of season tickets and our home attendance is considerable, therefore as long as we finish fourth from bottom Lerner is ecstatic …!
Spot on saddened. As iv said earlier the only ambition from Lerner is fourth from bottom to protect his investment. He will do this as cheaply as possible. On another note the OS say they are giving everyone a free sticker for Swansea game whoopee!! They can stick their sticker up their arse ffs !!
Free stickers, scarves coaches etc, its all PR crap because they think it keeps the fans happy – same as being connected to bullshit signings when they are selling season tickets. These clowns could not run a bath let alone a premiership football club.
Hey saddened lamberts quote as predicted from goal.com
Defeat places Villa just three points off the relegation places yet Lambert does not believe his side are in a relegation battle, instead insisting his attentions are switched to their next game at home to Swansea.
“No. If you look at the table at the lower side of it everybody in that side is doing the exact same as us,” he told reporters. “I’m not going to be downbeat here and I’ll pick them up and go again on Saturday.
“The way we bounce back is if we win it and that’s what we’ll try to do and try and give them [the fans] something to go with. You stick with it and that’s important. It’s important that everybody sticks together.
Fans keep falling for it though