I could see the logic in it. But we should have known from last year we were awful when Rickie didn't play. Blackpool? Brighton? Doncaster? We were awful. He brings us so much more than just his goals.
Our players will only get better. I'm not sure what you're worried about. We have some sensational players here and I'd be more worried about us keeping them than bringing in aging players. Fact is, the majority of the players who are experienced in the premiership, but would also sign for us, probably aren't good enough.
Surprised this hasn't been put on here before. Good old Rickie wants to finish his career at Southampton. Now where are all those people saying we wanted to get rid of him in the summer...
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/rickie-lambert-tells-southampton-he-wants-to-stay-at-st-marys-8491429.html
Don't need any old heads, we have the perfect balance IMO. You could argue that despite a few of our players being quite young, they're not inexperienced.
Players like Cork, Maya, Rodriguez, Gaston, Morgan & Clyne all have over 100 apps each.
Would be interested to see who Hooiveld has played against this season - and how many points we would realistically been looking at. He must have payed Man Utd twice, Man City twice. Arsenal, Everton twice, Villa, Chelsea and Wigan twice. Also Stoke and WHU away.
No Forren in the u-21s but Gazza is playing, alongside Martin and JWP.
Don't think this is a 'must win' at all. Likelihood is they'll been us and then we'll beat QPR. I don't think either of us will go down. We're capable of getting a result, granted, but a 'massive game'? I'm going to have to disagree with that.
Maybe.....I don't believe much transfer stuff on TalkSport though, even though it says it was reports in Spain.
I am guessing he could have been the possible addition that MP was talking about at the end of January.