TT and Davids did help, but untill this season when Steed has played LM he offerd hardly any suport for the LB, and alsays cut into midfield so left a huge gap for teams to attack down.
Lennon's defensive game has been poor, but has always done a job at helping, even with just his pace players know they wont get far passed him or chimbonda befor he is there again so even though Lennon isnt the best at defending, his pace still causes problemsfor the attackers
Before this season Steed has played no more than a dozen games at LM in front of Lee.
In fact last season Lee was far from a regular at LB until BAE got injured.
BAE didn't paly again after January and still racked up 16 Prem starts.
Lee is a decent player and I don't have any problems with him but there is definitely some selective memory going on. Since he has been at Spurs he has only ever been automatic 1st choice LB when his competition for the position has been injured. When other LB's have been fit and available his selection has actually been quite limited.