RICKIE Lambert and Grant Holt will be on opposite sides this weekend, but it wasn’t too long ago they were fighting for the same cause.

That is something Eastleigh defender Warren Goodhind remembers well.

Goodhind was a member of the 2005/06 Rochdale team, which boasted a fearsome attacking partnership of Lambert and Holt.

The pair’s time together was short-lived, but proved extremely fruitful.

Holt departed for Nottingham Forest in January 2006, while Lambert left the League Two club for Bristol Rovers in the summer.

But Holt, now at Norwich, who visit St Mary’s on Saturday, banged in 15 league and cup goals that season before he got his move.

Lambert finished the term with 22.

Goodhind, who signed for Rochdale from Cambridge United in September 2005, got a first-hand glimpse of what each player was capable of.

“Both of them were fantastic lads, they were really good people,” he said.

“When I first signed at the end of September, I went straight into the team and the first four or five games I played we were averaging three or four goals a game.

“They were banging them in left, right and centre.

“You knew if you got a ball into them it would stick.

“They wouldn’t lose it and you knew they would create something from it.

“Rickie was lethal from set pieces – he had a tremendous shot, an absolute thunderbolt.

“They just seemed to click together, which was brilliant for us.”

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