Lambert in or out? Poll reset with majority 'in', 7th May

[JJ-AV]

Agreed, Archie.

Re Holman,  he's a very limited player. Runs around a bit when he can be arsed, occasional decent shot.

He's like a moodier Craig Gardner.

There is not a single currently available permutation of midfielders at the club which is not shit.

That's the biggest problem.

Holman = Milner without the ability.

Completely agree though. Every week I find myself thinking 'well, if we can get Ireland/N'Zogbia in for Ireland/N'Zogbia and he can find a bit of form we may look more dangerous...'

I think Westwood is the only midfielder in the squad who is anywhere near the required level at the minute.

I'd say get Warnock in midfield but we (somehow) have a worse collective of left-backs so he'd be needed there.

If only we could field a back six of:

Lowton - Dunne - Vlaar - Warnock
Makoun - Petrov

[Monty]

Agreed, Archie.

Re Holman,  he's a very limited player. Runs around a bit when he can be arsed, occasional decent shot.

He's like a moodier Craig Gardner.

There is not a single currently available permutation of midfielders at the club which is not shit.

That's the biggest problem.

Holman = Milner without the ability.

Completely agree though. Every week I find myself thinking 'well, if we can get Ireland/N'Zogbia in for Ireland/N'Zogbia and he can find a bit of form we may look more dangerous...'

I think Westwood is the only midfielder in the squad who is anywhere near the required level at the minute.

I'd say get Warnock in midfield but we (somehow) have a worse collective of left-backs so he'd be needed there.

If only we could field a back six of:

Lowton - Dunne - Vlaar - Warnock
Makoun - Petrov

You know what, I think Westwood is better than Makoun, and Warnock easily had spells as what we've been seeing recently. But essentially I agree with you - I don't think that back six is getting relegated anytime soon.

[eastie]

All we can do is hope that randy has made the right decision  and now gives lambert enough to get 2 or 3 players in , if he was going to sack him he would have pulled the trigger by now and the window continues to run down so the likelihood is lambert will stay - the key thing now is that he brings in the right players- who have premier league experience and can hit the ground running.

[Californian Villain]

All we can do is hope that randy has made the right decision  and now gives lambert enough to get 2 or 3 players in , if he was going to sack him he would have pulled the trigger by now and the window continues to run down so the likelihood is lambert will stay - the key thing now is that he brings in the right players- who have premier league experience and can hit the ground running.

Like who?

[Legion]

Matthew Upson, perhaps? Warming the bench at Stoke, I believe. Proven Premiership experience.

[MoetVillan]

Has Lambert ever signed a player either here or at Norwich that has played for another premier league team?

[rob_bridge]

If Lambert gets the sack I see the future of Venables and Bryan Robson duo based on the fact they did ok when in charge of England in Euro 96. This was probably Faulkwit's first exposure to football.

It must have been this sort of thinking that had us hire Houllier and after all El Tel doesn't have the same heart problems

[VillaAlways]

Has Lambert ever signed a player either here or at Norwich that has played for another premier league team?

Or Championship even ?

[MoetVillan]

exactly, so I dont know why we are expecting him to suddenly do this. 

In for me.  The mumbling has got to improve, as do the results, but i think he is the one at least to change the results bit

we go again

[SamTheMouse]

It's a very fine line we're walking, but I say stick with him. This is a similar sort of shitty transitional season to the ones we had under Houllier and McLeish. It's just that this time we've got a weaker squad. Now that may be partly Lambert's fault, with the over-reliance on youth, but last summer he brought in a lot of players for very reasonable money (and presumably on very reasonable wages), and most of them look promising and should have good potential resale value. The only one I've been really disappointed with is KEA. What we need is for Lerner to approve the signings of two experienced pros - a CB and a DM - and I genuinely believe that is all it would take to turn us into a half-decent side.

We basically need a repeat of the "Bent January" to stave off the drop. But if Lambert and Lerner don't bring anyone in, we will be relegated.

[Brian Taylor]

It's a very fine line we're walking, but I say stick with him. This is a similar sort of shitty transitional season to the ones we had under Houllier and McLeish. It's just that this time we've got a weaker squad. Now that may be partly Lambert's fault, with the over-reliance on youth, but last summer he brought in a lot of players for very reasonable money (and presumably on very reasonable wages), and most of them look promising and should have good potential resale value. The only one I've been really disappointed with is KEA. What we need is for Lerner to approve the signings of two experienced pros - a CB and a DM - and I genuinely believe that is all it would take to turn us into a half-decent side.


We basically need a repeat of the "Bent January" to stave off the drop. But if Lambert and Lerner don't bring anyone in, we will be relegated.

Totally agree. Stick with him. Randy has to dig deep. A couple of experienced heads will make all the difference.

[eastie]

I think they will now decide to open the purse strings a bit more , but the fact remains we have dropped vital points during this window which could have been avoided if they had acted earlier in the window.

Instead of winning and being 6 points clear of the relegation zone we find ourselves in it , those points at the end of the season could well seal our fate.

[Brend'Watkins]

I still say stick with him.  However, he has to realise that the project or experiment has not worked and a back to basics approach is needed.  To do that we require a few good players and quickly.

[VillaAlways]

Instead of winning and being 6 points clear of the relegation zone we find ourselves in it , those points at the end of the season could well seal our fate.

They will,as will our goal difference as we effectively need an extra point as it's by far and away the worst of any of our rivals.So unless we go on a Wigan style revival we are doomed.We can't even rely on just winning games anymore,we also have to hope that teams around us don't either

[PaulWinch again]

Stick with him and give him funds to sink or swim, there's not point changing now.