Grant Holt - confirmed on loan

[Pat McMahon]

I was about thirteen and I was stood just behind the goal at the Holte End. Dave Simmons was playing number nine; we got him from Arsenal so he had to be good.  There was a corner or a cross or something. Then there was a goal-mouth scramble which saw Dave Simmons smash the ball into the net from about three yards whilst one of his team-mates conveniently prevented the opposition goalkeeper from getting involved by sitting on him.

We won one nil.

I don't care how fat or old or useless Grant Holt is I just want him to do something like that.

I think that game was v Charlton - his debut......we eventually sold him to Colchester and he played a part in the FA Cup when they knocked Leeds out the cup, who were top,top side at the time.

Don't forget Dave Simmons scored the only goal in a 1-0 win against the Blues around 1970 too. From about 3 yards as well IIRC.

[PeterWithe]

It's not Holt personally I'm complaining about, it's that Lambert is bringing in another option for his long ball game. I've supported him after all the humiliating capitulations on the basis of him bringing through a young team playing football. The way we've been lumping it forward recently and now bringing in Holt as another long ball target is the final straw.

[TonyD]

It wouldn't seem so bad if this deal went through at the end of the month after he had signed the creative midfielder and defenders needed.  Timing.

[Tom_Mc9?]

This is Lambert admitting he has screwed up.

Oh come off it. How is it?

[Ross]

Hope he does well, but boy, how far we have fallen.

[Rolta]

It's not Holt personally I'm complaining about, it's that Lambert is bringing in another option for his long ball game. I've supported him after all the humiliating capitulations on the basis of him bringing through a young team playing football. The way we've been lumping it forward recently and now bringing in Holt as another long ball target is the final straw.

And yet it's also well known he's trying to buy someone to play the number 10 role, or are you going to ignore that fact? We played good football at the end of last season, and Norwich played exciting attacking football in his prem season with them. I think a bit of patience might be the tonic for the moment, perhaps? 

[saunders_heroes]

It's not Holt personally I'm complaining about, it's that Lambert is bringing in another option for his long ball game. I've supported him after all the humiliating capitulations on the basis of him bringing through a young team playing football. The way we've been lumping it forward recently and now bringing in Holt as another long ball target is the final straw.

And yet it's also well known he's trying to buy someone to play the number 10 role, or are you going to ignore that fact? We played good football at the end of last season, and Norwich played exciting attacking football in his prem season with them. I think a bit of patience might be the tonic for the moment, perhaps? 

Go on admit it, you're Paul Faulkner aren't you?

[Monty]

It's not Holt personally I'm complaining about, it's that Lambert is bringing in another option for his long ball game. I've supported him after all the humiliating capitulations on the basis of him bringing through a young team playing football. The way we've been lumping it forward recently and now bringing in Holt as another long ball target is the final straw.

And yet it's also well known he's trying to buy someone to play the number 10 role, or are you going to ignore that fact? We played good football at the end of last season, and Norwich played exciting attacking football in his prem season with them. I think a bit of patience might be the tonic for the moment, perhaps? 

I think Lambert believes that long ball football is attacking, though. That's the problem. It's actually a lack of patience in our football which is the entire issue.

[pauliewalnuts]

It's not Holt personally I'm complaining about, it's that Lambert is bringing in another option for his long ball game. I've supported him after all the humiliating capitulations on the basis of him bringing through a young team playing football. The way we've been lumping it forward recently and now bringing in Holt as another long ball target is the final straw.

And yet it's also well known he's trying to buy someone to play the number 10 role, or are you going to ignore that fact? We played good football at the end of last season, and Norwich played exciting attacking football in his prem season with them. I think a bit of patience might be the tonic for the moment, perhaps? 

Well, when he signs the number 10 type and we actually stop lumping it long so frequently, I suspect a lot of people will be happier.

I've been staunchly behind him until recent wobbles, but I don't blame anyone for being very pissed off with the lumping it long tactics of this season, and anything that suggests it might continue isn't going to be applauded.

[PeterWithe]

More than willing to be patient with him until I've seen his preferred tactics, be they against Sheffield or Arsenal, to ignore a passing game and allow his team to aimlessly boot the ball forward. We are going backward tactically.

He's too quick to regress to the long ball, I've seen enough to make my mind up after 18months.

[danno]

I quite like the idea of Nelson Muntz teaching our squad of Millhouses how to bully other teams.

Also I think he'll score against Norwich, right after the Jed Steer thing has been resolved.

[supertom]

This is a signing so bad I suppose the positive spin is, at the very least Holt will deliver what we expect, and he won't have to do much to exceed our expectations.
Good luck to him. If he's bagged a couple of winning goals between now and the end of the season I'll send him a good quality pie, from M&S or something. It might get mullered in the post, but he'd still eat it.

Lamberts rapidly losing the plot, if he ever bloody found it. He's now got to shift his bloody arse and sign a couple of good midfielders and some good defensive cover. If we're left with just Holt having come in by the close of the window on the 31st he'll have a hell of a task winning back round even his most ardent supporters.

[ozzjim]

Scores the winner against the Albion on the 29th and it is the best signing of the window isn't it?


Anyhow... how many do we think lotso huggin bear will score between now and the final kick of the season. I am going with a respectable 4, and with it gain us 5 valuable points.

[pauliewalnuts]

The way I see it, it's a poor signing, I can't see what the bloke sees in him, he's clearly past it, and is brought in to fill a position we don't really need to fill. I appreciate he's going to be "a proper man" behind the scenes and what not, but I'm not too sure if that justifies the fact we'll be paying his wages.

Having said that, he's here now, so there's not much point moaning about it.

The main issue now is that we address the gigantic, glaring deficiencies in the team in the next two weeks. Let's see what he does about those.

[ozzjim]

Cough.... feck all.... cough.....