Lambert

[Fiery Zac 1,066]

Bumped into him in the city today. Whatever could it mean!!?!

That''s it....just thought I''d see where this could go...

[morty 0]

The Southampton striker?

[Not Nigel 0]

Perhaps if you''d have had the necessary balls to go up to him and ask him outright you wouldn''t need to ask us to speculate.

[Warren Hill 0]

Was he looking well?

[Fiery Zac 1,066]

Sorry, will clarify. Paul lambert previous NCFC manager and God/Judas in Norwich City this afternoon at about 5pm.

[Fiery Zac 1,066]

[quote user="singupcarrowroad"]Perhaps if you''d have had the necessary balls to go up to him and ask him outright you wouldn''t need to ask us to speculate.[/quote]

Got you to reply though... And ask him what?

[Not Nigel 0]

Maybe he is applying for the current vacancy for administrative assistant in the customer services department, beats the dole.

[morty 0]

[quote user="Persnickety"]Sorry, will clarify. Paul lambert previous NCFC manager and God/Judas in Norwich City this afternoon at about 5pm.[/quote]I knew really[;)]Yeah, odd he''d show his face around here again lol.

[kingsway 108]

Maybe the poundland on Riverside has more variety than those in Birmingham??!!

[Fiery Zac 1,066]

[quote user="Warren Hill"]Was he looking well?[/quote]

He did look well, in fact, he was great, I couldn''t fault his effort, the lad was triffic today

[Not Nigel 0]

Surprised he hasn''t gone off the rails and gone on massive deep friend mars bar and heroin binges in an attempt to recreate Trainspotting. Maybe he was hear to collect his financial settlement, after being told by McNally that the settlement agreed didn''t include the price of a stamp.

[ZLF 342]

or homesick / wearing rose tinted glasses and reminiscing?

[Not Nigel 0]

Could be absolutely anything, but I think we must surely all know certain ''rumours'' involving Paul Lambert, don''t we? Orifices, and all that.

[Not Nigel 0]

Here are my five top theories, to answer the OP:

1) chasing a bit of skirt.

2) collecting some possessions

3) completing the sale of a property

4) visiting Norwich based friends, if he made any

5) crossing the i''s and dotting the t''s on the financial settlement that we made with him

[Fiery Zac 1,066]

[quote user="singupcarrowroad"]Here are my five top theories, to answer the OP:

1) chasing a bit of skirt.

2) collecting some possessions

3) completing the sale of a property

4) visiting Norwich based friends, if he made any

5) crossing the i''s and dotting the t''s on the financial settlement that we made with him[/quote]

5 does seem most likely as it was round carrow rd that I saw him - how disappointing, was still quite a thrill to spot him and my hatred for him has certainly waned of late (not because I saw him today!)

I know this has been asked but would you have him back? Say we get stay up and villa go down, they get rid and Hughton gets poached...?

[Not Nigel 0]

No I wouldn''t. He''s over-rated and slightly out of his depth at this level.

If he gets sacked for spending £27m on relegation then he doesn''t deserve another Premier League job and should go and do a season in the Championship, just like Hughton had to, just like Redknapp has done once or twice in his career, and just like Mick McCarthy is doing right now.

I''d want somebody a lot more inspiring. Swansea got Michael Laudrup for goodness sake, and Di Matteo was at West Brom pre-Chelsea.

Paulo Di Canio or Gus Poyet would be my choice if Hughton did for some reason leave.

[Fiery Zac 1,066]

What if both clubs go down and both get rid?

[Not Nigel 0]

Norwich? We aren''t going down. Villa are.

No I don''t want him here, he burnt his bridges. There are other good managers out there.

Lambert did a great job here but Norwich fans think that he can do no wrong. He is showing this season that he can do wrong, his ridiculously project at Villa has seen him spend almost £30m on numerous players who look like they have nowhere near the required ability to play in this league.

I''m just thankful that it was Hughton that spent our budget this season instead of Lambert.

He can go to Ipswich for all I care, I''d love to see his stock fall that much.

[BigManInTheBarclay 84]

The reason he''s not done well at Villa is the players have no respect for him (no matter what they are quoted as saying). Here he had players like Ruddy, Holt, Wes and pretty much most of the squad (even Morison) who would give their all on the pitch for him.

 

Now as for him coming back if he was sacked at Villa I''m actually 50/50 on whether it''s a good idea, we know what he can do on a small budget and we know he can motivate the players.

 

But the real question is would/will the board consider this if we stay up (or possibly drop back to the Championship)?

 

[Warren Hill 0]

Surely you don''t wish the man ill. For heavens sake, he worked wonders here on a shoestring and the players would run through walls for him. The lads always gave everything for him, like he gave everything for his boss and when the time came that he felt he couldn''t take us any further, he had the good grace to vacate his position an make way for new impetus.

I hope the new pope canonises him.

[Row D Seat 7 0]

Can''t forget what Lambert did for this club. He''s an NCFC legend.

His girlfriend is based in the Mulbarton area. Probably back visiting or something.

[havemyhowsonit 0]

He''s down for the bargains in republic in chapelfield as they are going out of business soon.

He''s looking for some lower end bargains

[Mister Chops 11]

It''s like your ex-girlfriend coming back to collect her (unused) home gym equipment, a shoe rack and some Steps CDs.

[Not Nigel 0]

I won''t forget what Lambert did for us, but by the same stretch I won''t forget what he did TO us.

Remember this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtZdoFZ6kxE

[AJ 1,377]

The guy is a legend whether you hate him or not. Did miracles to this club and saved us from administration and got us to where we didn''t think we could get and kept us there.

I wouldn''t want him back though. The time and moment was Lamberts, that has long gone now - he left at the right time for me.

Hoots will do a good job

[Not Nigel 0]

If there is any manager that I''d like to see return it is Martin O''Neill.

[BigManInTheBarclay 84]

You are joking? He''ll only walk out on us again!

[Not Nigel 0]

So you are 50/50 on Lambert who walked out on us, but I must be joking when suggesting Martin O''Neill who walked out because our chairman refused to sign one player while we were top of the league? How does that work?

O''Neill was given no money whatsoever and led us to top of the table, he only wanted one player - Dean Windass, half way through the season. Lambert signed three players in the January transfer window: Leon Barnett, Marc Tierney, and Aaron Wilbraham. He also got Lansbury and Pacheco on loan.

If Chase had backed O''Neill then perhaps it would have been Norwich reaching cup finals and Europe instead of Leicester.

If Lambert had not been backed by McNally he would have walked. As he almost did, in that January, to Burnley.

Selective memory?

[nutty nigel 7,963]

Matthew Rush[*-)]

 

 

[Not Nigel 0]

Wow, one player. All he wanted was a striker. We were top of the league, a few points clear, and he wanted to spend £750k on Dean Windass.

He had Ward, Fleck, and a young Akinbiyi who couldn''t score in a brothel, and three quarters of a million would have taken us up. Mike Sheron had departed a couple of months earlier.

Two months after he left Chase flogged Ashley Ward. He was right to walk, and so would Lambert have walked if he had been refused funds to replace players.

Many see his Burnley moment as an attempt to turn McNally''s hand. Soon after we signed Lansbury and Pacheco.