The Premier League has gone mad in the last few days!
Crystal Palace and West Brom have sacked their managers and it looks like Warnock’s replacement at Selhurst Park is to be the Newcastle manager, Alan Pardew.
In the space of a few days, three teams no longer have managers. It will be really interesting to see how these teams do, having taken the gamble and made the changes. There will be many Villa fans who believe we should have booted Lambert out long ago. I think, although let’s hope it’s not eventually to our detriment, this current managerial merry-go-round will give us some indication as to whether or not we were right to stick with our man.
My instinct tells me that, as with Allardyce and West Ham and, until a few days ago, Pardew at Newcastle, every manager needs time. If they have anything about them, managers will eventually come good. There were many calling for their heads earlier in the season and you won’t find many agreeing with that now, even if not every Newcastle fan is heartbroken at the thought of Pardew leaving.
What else will be interesting is to see who they, particularly West Brom, will bring in. The odds-on favourite for that job is Tony Pulis. There are those who thought he would be a good candidate to take over at Villa Park if Lambert were to lose his job. I was not one of them. Although he is very likely to keep a team up, I don’t quite fancy being managed someone once labelled by Gillingham Chairman Paul Scally as, ‘evil and despicable.’ The hope is that he doesn’t free a space up in the relegation zone by keeping Albion up. I remember reading a funny tweet at the start of the season when he left Palace where someone thanked him for improving our chances of staying up by exactly a third. Let’s hope the appointment, if it happens, doesn’t prove damaging to us, as with the Pardew appointment at Palace, if indeed it happens.
Whatever happens at other clubs, it is ours that’s most important and we have chosen a manager and stuck by him. He has made some dodgy signings but everyone does. Although our last win was a while ago, our form hasn’t actually been that bad and bar a few red cards, something which we need to eradicate immediately from our game, harsh decisions or not, we might have had a few more points going into the New Year’s Day game.
Of course, it is against Palace, a team expected to be managed by Pardew by then. It will be tough, as their players will be fighting hard for the points and possibly to impress their new manager. Too many times, the Villans crumble against teams that need a win. Perhaps this time we can burst a few bubbles and go some way to showing that loyalty to the man in charge goes a long way.
Your wrong, sooner, rather than later, this manager and owner will finally take AVFC into the realms of no return. Together they have destroyed the good will of the fans and for three seasons have reaped total failure as their strategy. They even had the audacity to call it progess.
Audacity, finals? Progress is how you view things, and there is progress when the plan is to destroy the failure that was the team under MON and then to rebuild a team capable of real success without suffering relegation. And yes it’s not been nice to watch, but if it creates success, and there is a strong possibility that it might now that we have a CEO who is more interested in success than penny pinching on the budget. But we will not see real progress until Lambert can select a team capable winning without having to wonder how he can mix and match players to avoid defeat.
All I have to say is did you look around the ground on New Year’s day? Sure the opponents were not attractive but the wide open spaces speak volumes.
We need a new dynamic Manager capable of putting bums on seats. Those bums will create that VILLA PARK stronghold effect once again. The VP Roar is more like a meow nowadays.
Give this manager the sack and do it now, so a new guy has a little time to explore the market.
Why has this club not been sold? Google it, you may be surprised.
What a load of tosh….. get rid of him, poor manager, poor, poor signings, actually poor in every department. V good at talking bull to the media, damn this clown loves a camera to blow on about how well we played, when we clearly didn’t.