Grant Holt - confirmed on loan

[Tom_Mc9?]

Following another shambolic home defeat I've spent most of the day at work trying to defend our club against the jibes of the glory hunters - I can defend most things but Grant Holt FFS -  I just went home, what could I say.

This is going gloriously off-topic and should be in the match thread, but how was yesterday's home defeat shambolic? We lost 2-1 to the league leaders, played well in some parts and not so well in others. Football teams tend to lose to better ones.

[BoskoDjembaSalifou]

Wigan fans are laughing at us. All ten of them.

Pass me the rope.

[pauliewalnuts]

Wigan fans are laughing at us. All ten of them.

Pass me the rope.

If ten of them is enough to get you reaching for the rope, how come about 300 of us laughing at your every post for the last several months hasn't tipped you over the edge?

[villa kicks]

There is no difference between Holt now in championship bench warmer and league 2s 32 year old brute Jon Parkin the northern club version of Holtie ! Lambert plays this card  ONLY beacuse hes worked with Holt before as there were other options !!

[BoskoDjembaSalifou]

Wigan fans are laughing at us. All ten of them.

Pass me the rope.

If ten of them is enough to get you reaching for the rope, how come about 300 of us laughing at your every post for the last several months hasn't tipped you over the edge?

Cheers for this. Gonna take a break from here.

[SashasGrandad]

Those of us with long memories can remember us signing a forward for about 1/2 million and thinking why?  He's been no good at his other clubs. He's too old. He's not good enough. But he did have experience and could wind up defenders.

He went on to score that goal in Rotterdam.

[pauliewalnuts]

Wigan fans are laughing at us. All ten of them.

Pass me the rope.

If ten of them is enough to get you reaching for the rope, how come about 300 of us laughing at your every post for the last several months hasn't tipped you over the edge?

Cheers for this. Gonna take a break from here.

Bye!

[pauliewalnuts]

Those of us with long memories can remember us signing a forward for about 1/2 million and thinking why?  He's been no good at his other clubs. He's too old. He's not good enough. But he did have experience and could wind up defenders.

He went on to score that goal in Rotterdam.

In fairness, that is word for word what people said when we signed Harewood and Heskey.

[Steve kirk]

People have been falling out on here about Holt but I dont see the problem with him coming on board, obviously Lambert dosent trust the Gladiator and with Kozak crocked I will take Holt over Bowery, I am much more worried about the possibility that we dont strengthen our sub standard midfield and dont replace Luna who is a liability.

[Monty]

Those of us with long memories can remember us signing a forward for about 1/2 million and thinking why?  He's been no good at his other clubs. He's too old. He's not good enough. But he did have experience and could wind up defenders.

He went on to score that goal in Rotterdam.

In fairness, that is word for word what people said when we signed Harewood and Heskey.

That's what sprung to my mind, I have to say. It's a reaction which I feel is the 'well I didn't want them, but now they're here let's hope they're ok like that other guy' kind of reaction. Not an unreasonable one, of course.

[damon loves JT]

He is more likely to be Steve Sims than Peter Withe.

[john e]

The Holt thing is an absolute joke, its right up there with TSM for me

Anyone trying to justify it is of their head, the new Peter Withe my arse, how many times we got to hear that,
I know its only 6 months blah blah blah, but it tells us everything we need to know about Lambert just as Harewood told us everything about MON

It's fucking ridiculous

[Hillbilly]

This is Lambert admitting he has screwed up.

[Monty]

Let's not forget what Holt is - not Lambert's solution-to-everything signing, but a temporary squad player to replace one for the duration of his injury (Kozak) and step in to fulfill a particular tactical role should something happen to the first choice in that position (Benteke). I happen not to like that tactic much, but that's what it is. This isn't something enormously important, to be honest.

[achilles]

Glad to see that the 'project' is progressing so well!

We have a 'real man' at the club now, what more could we ask for!