Hiya Steve! Got to admit, that was a classic response! The big question is how will you fare without Wood (the player I mean)?
Sometimes a manager and a team just click together, take that manager out and throw him into another team and everything falls apart. As long as we don't get a Mark Hughes type of manager I would be pretty open minded. I don't even mind a couple of experienced heads in the team or journeymen as long as they do the business. Accepted passing teams like Watford don't win every week but you certainly wouldn't mind watching them every week and at the end of the season I bet they are higher than us in the table.
I can't see Lambert getting the sack, tbh. The US owner wanted costs cut & Lambert's done this by playing kids & not buying big like all his counterparts before him have done. It's a total revamp and all eyes are on the future. The results are not brilliant, but not that bad either, considering what he's doing. I have no doubt that he'll turn it around. Might make some interesting signings in this window if he gets cash from offloading Bent. (Anyone else got the feeling that something's been going on behind the scenes with Bent?).
I'm sure results will turn around if he stays, but you know how impatient chairmen can be these days.
How much worse could villas results be? Five nil, eight nil, hammered at home by Wigan in a vital relegation game. They're awful
He will certainly turn it around and I think his job is safe as well as he's there for the long term as long as they don't get relegated I think and even then it wouldn't surprise me if they kept him Can't work out what has happened with Bent personally, I think Benteke is better than him but he is still very useful
I don't want tippy-tappy ****e where we don't get it out of our own half except for to score the odd boring goal from the edge of the box which is passed into the corner. And do value the 'headers and tackles flying' that Warnock says excite him. But we need a mixture of the two rather than this turgid, thoughtless ****. We need trickery and movement and proper youthful energy again. If another manager could virtually guarantee us that, I'd trade them for Warnock in an instant. Priorities for a new manager would be buying a midfield playmaker, an attacking mid for behind the striker, a centre-back-cum-right-back, and a striker. And then tailoring it to a proper formation, and creating a proper playing style which excites the fans again while still retaining the Leeds edge that we all want as well as the pretty stuff.
