Big night for Lambert.... 10:20 - Oct 23 with 3836 views | unstableblue | .... whilst the season so far has been great, especially with the rise of young players such as Downes, Wolfenden, El Mizouni and the onboarding of KVY, and with the league standard having been generally better than expected (bar poor finishing from the opposition), question marks still remain about Lambert's system, team selection/rotation and the effectiveness of attack and defence questionable...... I think tonight he needs to pull one out of the bag, get the team prepared, motivated and set-up correctly and lets really outplay Rotherham and get the fans rocking. Rotherham's form seems sketchy = beating Doncaster and Blackpool, but losing to (EDIT) high flying Bristol Rovers and Oxford. Need to make Accrington a blip.... Peterborough and Sunderland on the rise?! [Post edited 23 Oct 2019 10:35]
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Big night for Lambert.... on 10:25 - Oct 23 with 3225 views | MrTown | Agree with most of that. Don't agree with standard of the league been better than expected, I think it has been worse bar the expection of the odd team. How unclinical teams are is ridiculous. We've got a long way to go. | |
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Big night for Lambert.... on 10:26 - Oct 23 with 3207 views | StokieBlue | Obviously it would be good if we get a performance but all this talk about Lambert seems excessive to me. We are still top with 2 games in hand. Oxford aren't low flying - they have been battering teams lately. SB | |
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Big night for Lambert.... on 10:27 - Oct 23 with 3211 views | haynes_toe1 | The standard of the league has been the lowest of the low. In fact, i'm not sure I remember a time in the last 10 years when League One was quite THIS weak overall. | | | |
Big night for Lambert.... on 10:31 - Oct 23 with 3192 views | Ryorry | Difficult with injuries of course, but we really, really need to establish a core, settled side and system. | |
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Goodness..... on 10:31 - Oct 23 with 3190 views | Bloots | .....the standard of this league is appalling, that's why we are top! "Low flying" Bristol Rovers and Oxford?? Have you looked at the league table? | |
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Big night for Lambert.... on 10:35 - Oct 23 with 3158 views | Herbivore | I'd say the fact we aren't playing well and yet we're top with 2 games in hand suggests this league is utter toss. | |
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Whoops - Bristol Rovers and Oxford book end us in the 6 game form table... on 10:43 - Oct 23 with 3116 views | unstableblue | .. have edited. As for league standard - Accrington were good on Saturday, and would have given a Championship side a test, but again weak up front. Peterborough were good, Doncaster were good, Tranmere had moments, Burton were half decent. MK Dons, Bolton, Shrews were pony | |
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Big night for Lambert.... on 10:43 - Oct 23 with 3114 views | Ryorry |
Big night for Lambert.... on 10:35 - Oct 23 by Herbivore | I'd say the fact we aren't playing well and yet we're top with 2 games in hand suggests this league is utter toss. |
Only 1 in hand with some teams. | |
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Whoops - Bristol Rovers and Oxford book end us in the 6 game form table... on 10:49 - Oct 23 with 3084 views | StokieBlue |
Whoops - Bristol Rovers and Oxford book end us in the 6 game form table... on 10:43 - Oct 23 by unstableblue | .. have edited. As for league standard - Accrington were good on Saturday, and would have given a Championship side a test, but again weak up front. Peterborough were good, Doncaster were good, Tranmere had moments, Burton were half decent. MK Dons, Bolton, Shrews were pony |
Not sure about that either. Accrington were fine but that was mainly because our selection was bizarre. If we had started 442 or a diamond without Toto and Edwards at the back we would have won I believe. Even Donacien playing RB would be better than Edwards. SB | |
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Big night for Lambert.... on 10:50 - Oct 23 with 3091 views | TRUE_BLUE123 | I am not sold on Lambert. We are going well at the moment but if we don't find a pattern of play soon, we will come unstuck by teams who are getting in to the league. If we keep winning I wont be complaining, but I must admit I have my reservations. | |
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Big night for Lambert.... on 11:00 - Oct 23 with 3050 views | davblue |
Big night for Lambert.... on 10:50 - Oct 23 by TRUE_BLUE123 | I am not sold on Lambert. We are going well at the moment but if we don't find a pattern of play soon, we will come unstuck by teams who are getting in to the league. If we keep winning I wont be complaining, but I must admit I have my reservations. |
We've had moments where players have won us games rather than fantastic play in general, im yet to watch us this season and think yeah we are a really good side. I think we are getting through games with the quality of players for this league but im yet to be convinced we will win the league through our style of play. Im reluctant to say this but we are a year into Lambert's reign so still early days in the bigger picture of his overall reign and he perhaps hasn't been able to get the type of player he ideally would like longer term because of our league position. Next year will be the real time to judge him, he will have had 4 transfer windows by then to build his team and this was never going to be a quick fix. | | | |
Whoops - Bristol Rovers and Oxford book end us in the 6 game form table... on 11:05 - Oct 23 with 3015 views | Herbivore |
Whoops - Bristol Rovers and Oxford book end us in the 6 game form table... on 10:43 - Oct 23 by unstableblue | .. have edited. As for league standard - Accrington were good on Saturday, and would have given a Championship side a test, but again weak up front. Peterborough were good, Doncaster were good, Tranmere had moments, Burton were half decent. MK Dons, Bolton, Shrews were pony |
Accrington were rubbish. We were just terrible ourselves. This league is trash, I don't like being disrespectful to other teams but it's been even worse than I expected and I expected it to be poor (hence my confident prediction we'd get promoted). | |
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Big night for Lambert.... on 11:09 - Oct 23 with 3005 views | TRUE_BLUE123 |
Big night for Lambert.... on 11:00 - Oct 23 by davblue | We've had moments where players have won us games rather than fantastic play in general, im yet to watch us this season and think yeah we are a really good side. I think we are getting through games with the quality of players for this league but im yet to be convinced we will win the league through our style of play. Im reluctant to say this but we are a year into Lambert's reign so still early days in the bigger picture of his overall reign and he perhaps hasn't been able to get the type of player he ideally would like longer term because of our league position. Next year will be the real time to judge him, he will have had 4 transfer windows by then to build his team and this was never going to be a quick fix. |
Good post. If he gets us out of this league first time of asking he has done well. We are top of the league with games in hand, so I am in no real position to moan. I just don't see us at the moment being able to keep getting results without playing well, especially as teams are seemingly starting to improve and putting opposition away comfortably. | |
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Big night for Lambert.... on 11:25 - Oct 23 with 2951 views | Guthrum |
Big night for Lambert.... on 11:09 - Oct 23 by TRUE_BLUE123 | Good post. If he gets us out of this league first time of asking he has done well. We are top of the league with games in hand, so I am in no real position to moan. I just don't see us at the moment being able to keep getting results without playing well, especially as teams are seemingly starting to improve and putting opposition away comfortably. |
I think we have been playing quite well, but in terms of gaining a lead and holding onto it, or frustrating the opposition and scoring later on, rather than free-flowing lovely football with lots of goals. Hence scoring not all that many, but conceding very few and winning lots of games 1 - 0. It's effective, in that a one-goal margin gets you the same number of points as six. But it appears less fluent than we hope for. Plus we have used the early part of the season well to gain a head start. | |
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Big night for Lambert.... on 11:27 - Oct 23 with 2941 views | Herbivore |
Big night for Lambert.... on 11:25 - Oct 23 by Guthrum | I think we have been playing quite well, but in terms of gaining a lead and holding onto it, or frustrating the opposition and scoring later on, rather than free-flowing lovely football with lots of goals. Hence scoring not all that many, but conceding very few and winning lots of games 1 - 0. It's effective, in that a one-goal margin gets you the same number of points as six. But it appears less fluent than we hope for. Plus we have used the early part of the season well to gain a head start. |
People lost their rag when I said we've been quite Mick-like in our performances but that really is how we've been playing this season. Bit disjointed in terms of fluency of play but a few quality players producing to get us narrow wins whilst we (usually) effectively shut down the opposition. | |
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Big night for Lambert.... on 11:30 - Oct 23 with 2932 views | davblue |
Big night for Lambert.... on 11:27 - Oct 23 by Herbivore | People lost their rag when I said we've been quite Mick-like in our performances but that really is how we've been playing this season. Bit disjointed in terms of fluency of play but a few quality players producing to get us narrow wins whilst we (usually) effectively shut down the opposition. |
i said the same about Roy Keane and Mick, that their playing styles were very similar when Mick was having his good spell and got shouted down. Who was right? | | | |
Whoops - Bristol Rovers and Oxford book end us in the 6 game form table... on 11:32 - Oct 23 with 2921 views | Nthsuffolkblue |
Whoops - Bristol Rovers and Oxford book end us in the 6 game form table... on 10:43 - Oct 23 by unstableblue | .. have edited. As for league standard - Accrington were good on Saturday, and would have given a Championship side a test, but again weak up front. Peterborough were good, Doncaster were good, Tranmere had moments, Burton were half decent. MK Dons, Bolton, Shrews were pony |
Accrington were allowed to physically bully our weakened side off the ball. We were poor. They were well organised with a decent finisher. Quite clearly they did something better than they have been doing all season. We were clearly worse than we have been. Without Downes and Norwood we missed a physical presence. I would like to think in similar circumstances Roberts will come into Lambert's thinking and he won't rely so much on Judge/Dozzell/Dobra/Georgiou in such a physical battle. Nsiala remains a liability. Accrington have become a bogey side for us. Hopefully not when we play them at PR. | |
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Big night for Lambert.... on 11:32 - Oct 23 with 2911 views | Herbivore |
Big night for Lambert.... on 11:30 - Oct 23 by davblue | i said the same about Roy Keane and Mick, that their playing styles were very similar when Mick was having his good spell and got shouted down. Who was right? |
In Mick's good spell we actually won games. | |
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Big night for Lambert.... on 11:46 - Oct 23 with 2863 views | davblue |
Big night for Lambert.... on 11:32 - Oct 23 by Herbivore | In Mick's good spell we actually won games. |
That was the only difference, I'm talking about style of play. | | | |
Big night for Lambert.... on 12:03 - Oct 23 with 2789 views | Guthrum |
Big night for Lambert.... on 11:27 - Oct 23 by Herbivore | People lost their rag when I said we've been quite Mick-like in our performances but that really is how we've been playing this season. Bit disjointed in terms of fluency of play but a few quality players producing to get us narrow wins whilst we (usually) effectively shut down the opposition. |
We are, like when McCarthy first arrived, recovering from a disaster where everything rather fell apart. Defensive solidity seems to be the way to go in those circumstances. It all depends if and how Lambert develops from here (McCarthy didn't, really). He does seem keen on wingers and has recruited some better strikers. But we'll have to wait and see. | |
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Whoops - Bristol Rovers and Oxford book end us in the 6 game form table... on 12:43 - Oct 23 with 2681 views | MrTown |
Whoops - Bristol Rovers and Oxford book end us in the 6 game form table... on 10:43 - Oct 23 by unstableblue | .. have edited. As for league standard - Accrington were good on Saturday, and would have given a Championship side a test, but again weak up front. Peterborough were good, Doncaster were good, Tranmere had moments, Burton were half decent. MK Dons, Bolton, Shrews were pony |
Accrington were good against us on Saturday, deserved to win but was mainly down to the fact we were exposed on the wider areas with their system doubleing up on our 1 wing back. To suggest they would give Championship side a test is bit of stretch though. | |
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I do find it funny... on 12:53 - Oct 23 with 2637 views | unstableblue |
Big night for Lambert.... on 11:00 - Oct 23 by davblue | We've had moments where players have won us games rather than fantastic play in general, im yet to watch us this season and think yeah we are a really good side. I think we are getting through games with the quality of players for this league but im yet to be convinced we will win the league through our style of play. Im reluctant to say this but we are a year into Lambert's reign so still early days in the bigger picture of his overall reign and he perhaps hasn't been able to get the type of player he ideally would like longer term because of our league position. Next year will be the real time to judge him, he will have had 4 transfer windows by then to build his team and this was never going to be a quick fix. |
... that Lambert's performances get so much criticism... when during that passage of 1-1s last season, and in games like MK Dons, Sunderland, Tranmere, etc (all be it halves) we've played easily our best passing and attacking play for years - watch the Downes diving header for one. Some of the performances under Mick and Paul were so much worse. But yes I agree we've yet to put in THAT performance; 80mins of dominant pass and move.MK Dons first half I thought was fanstastic, albeit against dross. | |
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Whoops - Bristol Rovers and Oxford book end us in the 6 game form table... on 12:55 - Oct 23 with 2619 views | C_HealyIsAPleasure |
Whoops - Bristol Rovers and Oxford book end us in the 6 game form table... on 12:43 - Oct 23 by MrTown | Accrington were good against us on Saturday, deserved to win but was mainly down to the fact we were exposed on the wider areas with their system doubleing up on our 1 wing back. To suggest they would give Championship side a test is bit of stretch though. |
Dunno, they probably would have beaten a Championship side I’d say... ...if that Championship side was Ipswich Town 2018/19 | |
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I do find it funny... on 12:56 - Oct 23 with 2614 views | C_HealyIsAPleasure |
I do find it funny... on 12:53 - Oct 23 by unstableblue | ... that Lambert's performances get so much criticism... when during that passage of 1-1s last season, and in games like MK Dons, Sunderland, Tranmere, etc (all be it halves) we've played easily our best passing and attacking play for years - watch the Downes diving header for one. Some of the performances under Mick and Paul were so much worse. But yes I agree we've yet to put in THAT performance; 80mins of dominant pass and move.MK Dons first half I thought was fanstastic, albeit against dross. |
It’s probably because up until this season his win % was in single figures, and we’ve only started winning games now we’re in the third division | |
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I do find it funny... on 13:01 - Oct 23 with 2575 views | unstableblue |
I do find it funny... on 12:56 - Oct 23 by C_HealyIsAPleasure | It’s probably because up until this season his win % was in single figures, and we’ve only started winning games now we’re in the third division |
Agreed. I remember listening to the Blue Monday end of season podcast, and agreeing with the summary that it was overall an awful season, but during the 1-1 run we did play some excellent passing with good shape, but just completely toothless in front of goal, Stoke away, Leeds at home, etc etc. That gave me a lot of hope!! | |
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