I thought I might be the only crazy one.
I think we have a solid enough back four and midfield that on some occassions we could actually have our attacking players attack. We're not so shit that we need this Mcleish defensive mindset (even though we will score far less this season than we did under mcleish) in order to pick up points.
You must think lambert has assembled a truly awful squad if we have to have such an all out defensive mindset to just survive in the league. I actually think he's put together a decent one, he's approach to games is just wrong and he's unable to get the best out of players.
I really don't think we'd be in a worse position if Bent had played more times for us this season.
Lambert again?
We are talking about Bent and I disagree. He offers nothing, not worth a spot anywhere. If you are suggesting we could have tried 2 players up top then of course we could. Just not him, not anymore.
Without any one to serve it up on plate to him, which we have not had post Downing and Young, it is pointless playing or retaining him. Added to that he has put on some timber and seems disinterested anyway
Bang on.
Since then he has been a drain on what is already stretched resources and I think we should have worked harder to offload him sooner. As soon as he's gone there's a lot more Lambert has to play around with (on the wage budget) which isn't doing nothing for the team. I just hope he gets it all to spend...