Holt knows the score

Norwich City boss Paul Lambert keeping tight-lipped over Grant Holt role

By Scott Collen  October 28, 2011
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Holt typically physical in the challenge (©GettyImages)

Holt typically physical in the challenge (©GettyImages)



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Paul Lambert
It’s not Morison versus Holt or anything. It’s what is beneficial for this football club. I’ll wait and see later on today.
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Norwich City boss Paul Lambert will not say if Grant Holt's cameo against Liverpool is enough to oust hardworking Welshman Steve Morison from the lone striker role at the club.

Lambert denies preferring Morison or Holt to lead the line, and would not be drawn on his selection ahead of Blackburn.

"It’s not Morison versus Holt or anything. It’s what is beneficial for this football club. I’ll wait and see later on today. We have in our heads what we are going to do. I’ll pick a side and like I say to them sometimes they find themselves in the side and sometimes they won’t," said the manager.



More often than not this season Holt, last season's top scorer, has found himself out of the starting line-up. But his substitute appearances have been essential to Norwich's excellent start to the season. He has goals to his name against two of the strongest teams in the Barclays Premier League, Chelsea and Liverpool.

Holt has come a long way since he turned out for Workington twelve years ago, played at a series of conference clubs before making a name for himself at Rochdale. At Norwich, Holt has really hit his peak averaging a goal every two games.

Luckily for Lambert, he doesn't have a Balotelli-like ego to work with.

"Grant has been brilliant in and around the place for the last two years. He understands. He is 30 years old so he understands the game. He is not a young lad that you are having to explain a lot of things and he has been good about it," he added.

Norwich have no fresh injuries for the Blackburn game with long-term absentee Zak Whitbread still injured.

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