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

[Can Gana Be Bettered!?!?]

end of the day the money was there to replace petrov. Lambert's made some good signings but he's also made some arse ones

KEA - 2.5M
Bennett - 2.5m

5m just for starters

Bowery is one for the future but you could say with our strike force signing him was the wrong player at the wrong time. And Vlaar has made little impact even when he is fit. I make that the best part of 9m

Bennett as a left back is not a good option, however, I think going forward he's looked quite good. I'd give him a go left midfield.

[N'ZMAV]

Hindsight is a wonderful thing.
In the summer a lot of people were impressed with Lambert looking at other options instead of the typical 'MON type' etc...

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In the summer Lambert was counting on the likes of Dunne to step in and help us out.

[LeeB]

end of the day the money was there to replace petrov. Lambert's made some good signings but he's also made some arse ones

KEA - 2.5M
Bennett - 2.5m

5m just for starters

Bowery is one for the future but you could say with our strike force signing him was the wrong player at the wrong time. And Vlaar has made little impact even when he is fit. I make that the best part of 9m

Our 'rivals' Southampton spent more or less the same as our budget on two players, one of whom had never played at the top level.

[eastie]

Hindsight is a wonderful thing.
In the summer a lot of people were impressed with Lambert looking at other options instead of the typical 'MON type' etc...

Of course, but i doubt even the most fervent lambert fan expected things to be this bad - i wanted lambert as well but i would rather say i think i was wrong than support him just because i thought he was right man last summer.

Some people still feel he is the right man and thats their choice - its fair enough , i would love him to prove me wrong , staying up is all that matters right now.

[Greg N'Ash]

end of the day the money was there to replace petrov. Lambert's made some good signings but he's also made some arse ones

KEA - 2.5M
Bennett - 2.5m

5m just for starters

Bowery is one for the future but you could say with our strike force signing him was the wrong player at the wrong time. And Vlaar has made little impact even when he is fit. I make that the best part of 9m

Bennett as a left back is not a good option, however, I think going forward he's looked quite good. I'd give him a go left midfield.

mebbe but you wonder why the penny hadn't dropped with Lambert. Everyone else could see  he's not a left-back

[Drummond]

Where did he play for Middlesbrough and England at U19, U20 and U21 levels?

[Concrete John]

end of the day the money was there to replace petrov. Lambert's made some good signings but he's also made some arse ones

KEA - 2.5M
Bennett - 2.5m

5m just for starters

Bowery is one for the future but you could say with our strike force signing him was the wrong player at the wrong time. And Vlaar has made little impact even when he is fit. I make that the best part of 9m

Bennett as a left back is not a good option, however, I think going forward he's looked quite good. I'd give him a go left midfield.

mebbe but you wonder why the penny hadn't dropped with Lambert. Everyone else could see  he's not a left-back

It's far too early to draw conclusions like that.  He's looked good going forward, but ropey defensively - a criticism that could easily have been leveled at Kyle Walker or Ashley Cole early in their careers. 

[LeeB]

end of the day the money was there to replace petrov. Lambert's made some good signings but he's also made some arse ones

KEA - 2.5M
Bennett - 2.5m

5m just for starters

Bowery is one for the future but you could say with our strike force signing him was the wrong player at the wrong time. And Vlaar has made little impact even when he is fit. I make that the best part of 9m

Bennett as a left back is not a good option, however, I think going forward he's looked quite good. I'd give him a go left midfield.

mebbe but you wonder why the penny hadn't dropped with Lambert. Everyone else could see  he's not a left-back

I don't know how they play up at 'Boro, but I wondered if he was struggling in the 3-5-2 because, like most full back will have, he's spent his time growing up playing in a 4-4-2 with a player directly in front to exchange passes with.

I think he struggled to adjust, and whilst again you can apportion blame to the manager for sticking with him sometimes you have to let players work through a struggle to come out a better player, especially when the alternative is Eric Lichaj, or god forbid Stephen Warnock.

[Greg N'Ash]

I'd rather play Ireland there. Serious. We might as well start games with big signs on the pitch showing the opposition where to go

[Greg N'Ash]

end of the day the money was there to replace petrov. Lambert's made some good signings but he's also made some arse ones

KEA - 2.5M
Bennett - 2.5m

5m just for starters

Bowery is one for the future but you could say with our strike force signing him was the wrong player at the wrong time. And Vlaar has made little impact even when he is fit. I make that the best part of 9m

Bennett as a left back is not a good option, however, I think going forward he's looked quite good. I'd give him a go left midfield.

mebbe but you wonder why the penny hadn't dropped with Lambert. Everyone else could see  he's not a left-back

I don't know how they play up at 'Boro, but I wondered if he was struggling in the 3-5-2 because, like most full back will have, he's spent his time growing up playing in a 4-4-2 with a player directly in front to exchange passes with.

I think he struggled to adjust, and whilst again you can apportion blame to the manager for sticking with him sometimes you have to let players work through a struggle to come out a better player, especially when the alternative is Eric Lichaj, or god forbid Stephen Warnock.

Well he's up there with the worse i can remember. Hopefully it is just a period of adjustment but i hope he adjusts before we're in the Championship.

[john e]

even if we do stay up i dont think it proves Lambert has done a good job, far from it actually,
 but i still think he deserves another season to prove himself,
 i like some of the football we are playing,

standing at the Emerites on saturday in a game we lost to put us further in trouble ,yet at no point did i think this team is a load of shit playing shit football, i actually thought we played some decent stuff, which for me is the big difference from last season

whether Lambert can take us on and progress is another story, i hope he can i actually believe he can, and i was one who didnt want him as the new manager and was completly ambivalent towards his appointment

but there are signs that things could get better, maybe only small slow steps, but steps never the less
anyway the alternatives some mentioned on here are just to catastophic to behold, so i hope we stay up and see what he can do next season

if we go down i think it would be difficult for him to stay to be honest, i would still take him over a lot of others, but the confidence in the man from the fans would be shot,
 at the moment considering the record breaking shitty results weve had, there is absolutly no turning agaisnt him from the supporters, Lamberts army still being sung, i feel its because of the battling performances and qaulity of some of the football being played, even if we are naive in giving late goals away

[LeeB]

I'd rather play Ireland there. Serious. We might as well start games with big signs on the pitch showing the opposition where to go

As usual you replace decent debate with hyperbole.

[Chico Hamilton III]

at the moment considering the record breaking shitty results weve had, there is absolutly no turning agaisnt him from the supporters

That definately wasn't the case at Millwall. And I though the atmosphere in our end was pretty tame at the Emirates on saturday, compared with every other visit there. It's usually much better than that.

I'm treating all the remaining away games as some sort of farewell tour of the premierleague.

[Greg N'Ash]

I'd rather play Ireland there. Serious. We might as well start games with big signs on the pitch showing the opposition where to go

As usual you replace decent debate with hyperbole.

not really.  I think everyone here knows a glaring weakness in a team line-up when they see one and presumably the opposition do as well.