The reason they haven't turned on him is just passages like that - it may have been appallingly innocuous, but we were passing it around and at least trying to play good football. The problem is that everything about Lambert, from the bog-standard formation to the obsession with Big Lump Strikers, indicates that he doesn't really know how to get us to play the style properly - a nuance Lerner and Faulkner will never understand.