I think there's something more important at stake for Lambert than money. As has been mentioned elsewhere, his counter-suing the club is a classic legal defensive strategy. But IMO he is also engaged in a damage limitation exercise regarding the increasingly widespread view of him as an ambitious chancer. Respect is not just about actions on the field.
I posted yesterday that what he did at the time is just football. Moving on and in your own opinion, bettering yourself. He is an incredibly successful part of our history. I thank him for his efforts but realise its a profession and he did get paid wages. Now he's getting paid more wages I assume. So the only thing that bothers me is why he now wants even more money for leaving to better himself.
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/paul-lamberts-wife-targeted-by-text-1280265 dont remember seeing this the first time round?
Can't see that his private life has anything to do with his decision to leave had he returned to manage in Scotland maybe Can't see why he is making the situation worse by suing will drag on for ages
After a while, we will all be able to agree that Lambert's time at NCFC was a gloriously positive time for both us and him. We gave him an ideal opportunity to prove himself at 3 levels of the football pyramid, and he gave us the most exhilarating three seasons of football. But we were never going to hold on to him, and it was entirely in his own interests that he left us before the upward trajectory eased off, which it was already doing in the Spring. I agree with Robbie that what he is now engaged in is trying to diminish the image he has of a manager who b***rs off when things get difficult, or to feed his ambition. I think it is that which led to his comments yesterday about being disappointed with Bowkett pre-empting a decision of the Tribunal. I also believe that Bowkett mentioned the suing on Thursday to deflect attention from our current performance on the pitch, and to remind us that we now have a very different manager, who is here for the long term, in good times and bad. As I type this, Villa are losing 2-0 at WHL, where we got a really good point a few weeks ago. i can't help feeling just a bit smug about that, and it will be a while before I am neutral about Lambert's new Club.
Well said gg, when he left, I was disappointed, but also very grateful for the sterling effort he'd put into turning our club around! Now I'm verging on the edge of wanting him to fail miserably!
I was telling Longsight to bugger off basically but replied without quoting him and it looked like I was telling someone else to do one and I was on tapatalk on my phone at the time so didn't have the more advanced options to edit/delete my post so just quickly edited it to that.
If I'm honest, David, I don't think we need to worry about him succeeding at Villa. I am of the opinion he will not be at Villa this time next year, and that won't be because he's left them and moved onto a bigger club.
Longsight, it occurs to me that I owe you an apology for my "prickly" comment earlier, I didn't mean it the way it looked, that's the problem with a written retort, you get no vocal inflection! Please accept my humble apology and NO, you can't have any of my malt!
Have any of you actually read my original post????? He was trying to gain something (sympathy)? by dragging me and you, our clubs supporters, into his devious scheme. I stand by what I've written! I've got a perfectly good pair of balls thanks, I just don't like a person like Lambert kicking me in them!
A "binner" telling me I should be ashamed!!! I've already grown a pair thanks, do you want me to tell "you" how to do it?
hmm, very interesting thread ILD. from my point of view my heart is broken but my head is still thinking straight on this. lambert has lost my respect as a man but not as a football manager. whether or not he feels aggrieved at the refusal of the board to let him officially speak to villa (i say officially because his representatives were already talking to villa behind norwich's back) he still got exactly what he wanted in the end. that is where it should have ended. as it stands, villa, lambert in particular and also our board come out of this looking ridiculous. lambert is seriously tarnishing his reputation both in general footballing circles but also with us, the fans who had once adored him. i think most had expected him to leave for bigger and better things at some point in the not too distant future so it was not a surprise that he left, though i still question whether villa was a wise choice. i personally feel he had to move there as it was his only option. we know he wanted to leave before. so what is he doing now? is he trying to bring the fans into this? damn right he is! ILD is spot on. he is trying to get us back onside but it doesn't wash and i think he's gone too far this time. its impossible for us to just 'forget' about lambert because the bloke did extraordinary things for the club, but it is possible for us to think he's being a right prick about all this, whether he believes he has a case or not. strikes me as its nothing more than point scoring from both sides, tit for tat. pathetic.
reading all these Lambert threads, about you boys 'losing respect' for him, don't you guys feel the board has disrespected Lambert in a way, considering what he has done for you over the years that they could have acted the 'bigger person' and just let him move on if that's what he really wanted. Instead they decide to drag his name through the mud, and if the reports are true he is only sticking up for himself with this counter claim. so this situation has only been brought about by your board's actions, not by Lambert. all in all its a really sad situation to arise and could have been avoided.
yes, i agree the board should have just given up the ghost. the board ALWAYS said they would do everything they could to keep hold of their manager, and i feel that was the right thing to say, but he clearly wanted out and they were merely delaying the inevitable. i feel we will pay for that mistake, literally, but that doesn't mean that lambert is in the right here, nor villa. it leaves a very unsavoury taste in the mouth (unless its my coffee - the milk is two days out of date ) just to add, the ultimate disrespect is going behind the boards back to talk to villa in the first place. none of the three parties involved here are in the right, hence why i say its tit-for-tat all over the shop. pathetic.
agreed, i think it would have been in the supporters best interests to just let it happen and leave it.
guru, i don't think we can moan at our board too much for trying desperately to keep hold of the best manager the club has had in recent memory. by just saying 'off you pop then' it would have sent out a far worse message. if it means being caught out by a technicality then so be it - i'm not happy about it but for me, the real problem throughout this has been lambert's behaviour. i think he knows that too, and so do our board.
No worries, when posts are read it is dificult not to imagine the vocal inflection at times. That's a shame about the malt, because I just received a 25 year malt, which I was willing to share. I mananged not to open it on Sat, thought I'd toast Norwichs first win with it.
