Paul Lambert confirmed as new manager!

[Tredman]

Doherty is bloody awful mate. I've genuinely never seen a full back performance worse than his vs Leeds. And I've been watching us for 28 years. I've seen Mark Rankine at full back.

He had a few OK games last season and started this one sort of alright. He is seriously substandard though. His defending is laughable.

CBJ is miles better than him.

Doherty is poor, but he is nowhere near Rankine RB level of shitness (I say FB as rankine was ok at CM)

 

[Peter_Knowles_Ghost]

https://danwolves.wordpress.com/2016/11/17/paul-lambert-six-areas-to-address/

Excellent piece, as always, DW - perhaps someone could forward it on to a certain Mr Lambert to read?

 

[Boozad]

Excellent piece, as always, DW - perhaps someone could forward it on to a certain Mr Lambert to read?

It's been forwarded to the Official Wolves Twitter account.

 

[pavlosmacwolf]

Excellant DW, hope Lamber gets to read it.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Lambo's record so far (all comps):

P14 W7 D3 L4 F22 A16

Over a season that would give us:

P46 W23 D10 L13 F72 A53 Pts 79

 

[darlowolf64]

Lambo's record so far (all comps):

P14 W7 D3 L4 F22 A16

Over a season that would give us:

P46 W23 D10 L13 F72 A53 Pts 79

Adjust for him listening to the dickheads who were advising him when he first came here and you can add 6 points to that tally easily

 

[Wolvensam]

I genuinely haven't felt this positive about Wolves since the 08/09 season. Lambert is the best thing to happen to this club since then. Genuinely seems a shrewd, tactical man who has learnt from his mistakes at Aston Villa.

 

[Johnny75]

Paul Lambert's league record so far 4 wins, 3 draws, 6 losses. 15 points.

Walter Zenga first 13 matches: 4 wins, 4 draws, 5 losses. 16 points.

Now there are clear signs that the team actually have a shape and the manager doesn't take impromptu flights and ask the first team captain to take training (allegedly). But there is something desperately wrong with our club at the moment and the bare facts suggest it isn't the just current manager.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Beating two top flight teams away in the cup rather helps him out. You can't pretend those results don't exist just to prove your point.

 

[Lord Knows]

Paul Lambert's league record so far 4 wins, 3 draws, 6 losses. 15 points.

Walter Zenga first 13 matches: 4 wins, 4 draws, 5 losses. 16 points.

Now there are clear signs that the team actually have a shape and the manager doesn't take impromptu flights and ask the first team captain to take training (allegedly). But there is something desperately wrong with our club at the moment and the bare facts suggest it isn't the just current manager.

Paul Lambert may have given the team defensive shape but like Walter Zenga he hasn't as yet created a midfield which helps the whole team properly function. Far to many players who struggle to pass the ball consistently well.

 

[Langers]

Paul Lambert's league record so far 4 wins, 3 draws, 6 losses. 15 points.

Walter Zenga first 13 matches: 4 wins, 4 draws, 5 losses. 16 points.

Now there are clear signs that the team actually have a shape and the manager doesn't take impromptu flights and ask the first team captain to take training (allegedly). But there is something desperately wrong with our club at the moment and the bare facts suggest it isn't the just current manager.

A lot of things haven't worked this season which will take a long time to rectify, but I believe Lambert is doing just that, slowly but surely.

I don't agree that there's something wrong within the club - the new owners evidently have a lot to learn but that's hardly unprecedented in this business.

I think we're moving in the right direction after a haphazard season both on and off the pitch with plenty of evidence to suggest things will soon change for the better (displays at Stoke, Liverpool, the signing of Costa etc etc).

We'll be fine.

 

[Johnny75]

A lot of things haven't worked this season which will take a long time to rectify, but I believe Lambert is doing just that, slowly but surely.

I don't agree that there's something wrong within the club - the new owners evidently have a lot to learn but that's hardly unprecedented in this business.

I think we're moving in the right direction after a haphazard season both on and off the pitch with plenty of evidence to suggest things will soon change for the better (displays at Stoke, Liverpool, the signing of Costa etc etc).

We'll be fine.

I don't think it's the owners and I don't think you can take the Stoke and Liverpool displays, as great as they were, as a positive towards the league as they are clearly outliers where different players have played and achieved success playing a very counter attacking style. That will not work in the league.

I like your positivity but I just can't see us achieving anything at the moment with the staff we have. Giving Edwards, Dicko, EEL and Doherty long term contracts suggest there is something seriously wrong with our outlook towards the championship. And this insistence of not playing football but trying to play a counter attack isn't working, yet we keep doing it.

The one positive I can see this season is Costa but the fear is he was signed so we could turn a profit on him in the summer. I wouldn't then trust our recruiting staff with 1% of that money.

 

[Johnny75]

Beating two top flight teams away in the cup rather helps him out. You can't pretend those results don't exist just to prove your point.

I haven't. But they are outliers, both teams had different personnel to the normal league team which is why I didn't include them.

 

[Langers]

I don't think it's the owners and I don't think you can take the Stoke and Liverpool displays, as great as they were, as a positive towards the league as they are clearly outliers where different players have played and achieved success playing a very counter attacking style. That will not work in the league.

I like your positivity but I just can't see us achieving anything at the moment with the staff we have. Giving Edwards, Dicko, EEL and Doherty long term contracts suggest there is something seriously wrong with our outlook towards the championship. And this insistence of not playing football but trying to play a counter attack isn't working, yet we keep doing it.

The one positive I can see this season is Costa but the fear is he was signed so we could turn a profit on him in the summer. I wouldn't then trust our recruiting staff with 1% of that money.

It's a Thelwell issue again for you, isn't it? :icon_lol:

 

[Johnny75]

It's a Thelwell issue again for you, isn't it? :icon_lol:

Normally I'd say yes.

But this is a wider issue across all of the back room staff in the club, we just don't seem to be progressing, not just on the recruitment front but playing style, mentality, eradicating mistakes or keeping the ball. As LK has pointed out, we may be more organised than under Zenga but we just seem to have any sort of idea going forward other than give it Costa.

The marginalising of Saiss and Prince has done Lambert and the back room staff no favours. If you look at the squad we have now, barring Costa and Bod it is the same as last season and we were shite then. Costa has replaced Graham and Bod hasn't really replaced Dicko and Dicko isn't even the same Dicko as before. I think we've taken a step backwards.

I hope Ronan, Bright and Ennis come good over the rest of this season and we develop some sort of attacking intent or we will be seriously on a low come the new season. The whole place needs a change of culture and mindset.

(FWIW if we finish 18th I think Thelwell gets the boot along with a lot of the backroom staff).

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

FWIW I think those are candidates for P45 wherever we finish.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Those stats are wrong bud, we've beaten QPR, Forest, Bristol City, Villa and Barnsley under Lambo.

 

[Johnny75]

Those stats are wrong bud, we've beaten QPR, Forest, Bristol City, Villa and Barnsley under Lambo.

Oops, so it's 14 games with 5 wins, 3 draws and 6 losses. 18 points (1.28ppg still just above relegation form)

Compared to Zenga's total (still 15, truly abysmal stuff). I'm still to be convinced by PL but I really don't think it's a problem of his making and only a run of Saunders-esque proportions would make me think otherwise.

 

[slink]

Oops, so it's 14 games with 5 wins, 3 draws and 6 losses. 18 points (1.28ppg still just above relegation form)

Compared to Zenga's total (still 15, truly abysmal stuff). I'm still to be convinced by PL but I really don't think it's a problem of his making and only a run of Saunders-esque proportions would make me think otherwise.

The games against the Premier League teams have given me hope that there is definitely something to work on and Lambert might having something, purely down to the shape of the side and you can actually tell we have worked on it in training. However not sure about the league games, he's definitely got it massively wrong in the last 2 games though. Initial selection, subs and style of play have all been wrong in both games and i think tomorrow is now a massive game.

 

[malta mick]

Still the same problems - no muscle or creativity in midfield and out of form strikers not getting enough decent service. Need to be playing 2 up front especially at home to Wigan, but not possible when Edwards takes a shirt in midfleld