LondonLax Posted January 23, 2016 Share Posted January 23, 2016 (edited) 10 hours ago, HanoiVillan said: I asked some Chesterfield fans that when we signed him. 'Dunno, think he's shit' they said. None of them could believe a PL team actually wanted him. I said all along, I'm convinced he was some kind of vanity project. 'Look, I can turn any old shit into a decent footballer' I thought I read Lambert had some connection to Bowery before he signed him, something like him being a family friend? I can't remember where I heard that though so it might be total BS. Edited January 23, 2016 by LondonLax Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Pangloss Posted January 23, 2016 Share Posted January 23, 2016 He's a really terrible player, but did, if I recall correctly, have two good games for us. One against Hull and the other away to Stoke, where he was excellent in the first half. However, the fact that he can't make it at that level tells you all you need to know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimzk5 Posted January 23, 2016 Share Posted January 23, 2016 Scored on his debut for oxford Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MessiWillSignForVilla Posted January 23, 2016 Share Posted January 23, 2016 Sign him up! We need a striker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted January 23, 2016 Share Posted January 23, 2016 3 hours ago, Dr_Pangloss said: He's a really terrible player, but did, if I recall correctly, have two good games for us. One against Hull and the other away to Stoke, where he was excellent in the first half. However, the fact that he can't make it at that level tells you all you need to know. Funnily enough, that game against Hull more or less saved us from relegation* and he was a clear MOTM. Still managed to score an own-goal though (and remains an interesting pub quiz answer in being, as far as I'm aware, the only Premier League striker with more own goals than proper ones). *yes, we survived by more, but if we hadn't won, the teams behind would have fought harder on the final day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodders0223 Posted January 23, 2016 Share Posted January 23, 2016 I would make a joke about him finding his level....but I think he is still playing above it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommo_b Posted July 6, 2016 Share Posted July 6, 2016 Just signed for Leyton Orient in league 2! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StanBalaban Posted July 6, 2016 Share Posted July 6, 2016 1 hour ago, Tommo_b said: Just signed for Leyton Orient in league 2! He must have won a competition 4 years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCJonah Posted July 7, 2016 Share Posted July 7, 2016 On Wednesday, July 06, 2016 at 16:51, StanBalaban said: He must have won a competition 4 years ago. It was nice of Lambert to make a little boys dream come true. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted July 7, 2016 Share Posted July 7, 2016 It was nice of Lambert to keep us in the top flight. Look at us now, if we get back up then that will be a dream come true. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodders0223 Posted July 7, 2016 Share Posted July 7, 2016 46 minutes ago, useless said: It was nice of Lambert to keep us in the top flight. Look at us now, if we get back up then that will be a dream come true. Er...wut? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted July 7, 2016 Share Posted July 7, 2016 For all the mocking he receives Lambert kept us in the top flight, exactly where we'd like to be now. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post heid3ster Posted July 7, 2016 Popular Post Share Posted July 7, 2016 Now you bumped the thread, I have to do this. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davkaus Posted July 8, 2016 Share Posted July 8, 2016 I'll never tire of that GIF. He was basically Lambert's Salifou. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted July 8, 2016 Share Posted July 8, 2016 20 hours ago, useless said: For all the mocking he receives Lambert kept us in the top flight, exactly where we'd like to be now. He was taking us down before he was sacked. We just delayed the inevitable. Not that I fully blame the managers, the problem was the owner As for Bowery, awful player. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted July 8, 2016 Share Posted July 8, 2016 We were only in the relegation places on goal difference, and we hadn't been there all season. Lambert dropped Benteke which at the time I couldn't understand, but looking back it was probably what Benteke needed and in part is what made him come back a stronger player. I think with either Sherwood or Lambert we would have survived, thanks in the main to Benteke. Bowery wasn't a very good player whilst at Villa, but that's hardly Lambert's fault. Unfortunately if your budget is as limited as ours was over the recent years then a few duds are inevitable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted July 8, 2016 Share Posted July 8, 2016 Of course it was the Lambert masterplan to drop our only threat to fire him up! More like Lambert's eye bleedingly bad football was to blame for Benteke looking isolated and lost. Sherwood, as useless as he turned out to be, saved us that season by doing the basics right - playing to our key players strengths. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeyp102 Posted July 8, 2016 Share Posted July 8, 2016 33 minutes ago, useless said: Bowery wasn't a very good player whilst at Villa, but that's hardly Lambert's fault. Without turning this into a Lambert thread... What a complete load of tosh. Bowery had NEVER been a good player. His record was appalling at low league. Irrelevant of any budget we had, Bowery was not going to become a good player. The most random signing ever. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted July 8, 2016 Share Posted July 8, 2016 Sentence quoted isn't 'a complete load of tosh', since Bowery wasn't a very good player whilst at Villa and that was not Lambert's fault. I never said anything about his time at other clubs or claimed that he was ever a good player, not sure why I would, as that would rather contradict the point I made in my last sentence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeyp102 Posted July 8, 2016 Share Posted July 8, 2016 (edited) 14 minutes ago, useless said: Sentence quoted isn't 'a complete load of tosh', since Bowery wasn't a very good player whilst at Villa and that was not Lambert's fault. I never said anything about his time at other clubs or claimed that he was ever a good player, not sure why I would, as that would rather contradict the point I made in my last sentence. Lambert signed him. Therefore him being poor at villa was Lambert's fault Edited July 8, 2016 by mikeyp102 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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