Paul Lambert on six months in charge at Wolves: We've been too inconsistent

Friday marks half a year since Lambert took the Wolves hot seat, replacing Walter Zenga who was sacked after just 17 games in charge.

FA Cup games against Liverpool and Stoke, league victories over Villa and Leeds and a five-game winning streak that pulled the team clear of relegation trouble have been the standout highs under Lambert.

But on the flip side Wolves have endured miserable defeats to Wigan, Burton and Bristol City and lost six games on the trot which included the worst ever month of February in the club’s 140-year history.

Lambert said consistency had been the main thing lacking from his team, in what’s been an underwhelming season for Wolves fans after £27million was spent on transfer fees alone.

“We’ve had a lot of good highs, some low and just not been consistent enough,” Lambert told the Express & Star.

“This league, 46 games plus your cup games, it’s a marathon.

“You’ve got to be able to get through and sprint towards the end. You have to cope with these sorts of things.

“You have good and bad moments, you just have to come through them.

“‘Inconsistent’ is how I’d sum up the six months.

“We’ve had some really good highs and some lows where you think we should have done better. It’s just been the consistency level.

“It’s a great club, with a great fanbase behind it. Everything’s there for it to take off.

“When I look back on it there have been some really good highs.

“It’s a big club, it’s not small, it’s got a big fanbase with the tradition and history.

“That doesn’t surprise me because I knew that side of it.”

“You’ve got to have more attributes when we play to win games, that’s what we have to do. And we have to make it stronger in the summer.”

Lambert has spoken frequently of Wolves’ huge potential, citing the fanbase and the infrastructure already in place at the club.

He’s confident that with the right additions in the transfer market Wolves can mount a bid for promotion next season.

And he believes the club’s passionate fans can help drive them to success.

He said his first six months had given him a taste for me – but reiterated that everything off the pitch means nothing without a winning football team on the pitch.

Lambert added: “It’s given me an appetite for it. The club is sitting there and it could be great.

“You look at the support at Derby on Saturday, unbelievable support.

“It shows you what can happen if it can go the right way. It’s got everything there for it.

“If you get success here it can be unbelievable.

“And if you get that stadium full, like the Chelsea, Newcastle, Villa games...the support is there for it.

“That drives it on. But we again have to be better on the pitch.

“We’ve have games we’ve not performed – and games where you’ve thought how’ve we lost that.

“But you have to eradicate that.”