not really, Lambert was part of that perfect storm

the most important part. But the fact the club was massively underperforming, enabled him to build up the unstoppable momentum which kept us up. The players in the team were then performing above themselves in the Prem, pretty much to a man. That was partly due to Lambert, but partly because they knew it was their real chance to do something significant in the game.

Neil took over a squad of players, most of whom have experiened the Prem, and who lack that same hunger and desire. Hughton had the different problem of trying to maintain the performance levels of individual players for 2 seasons and stave off the inevitable regression to the mean.

Posted By: Mecagoenti, Feb 7, 09:07:32