When asked to describe his first impressions of a young Lammens, Coton explained how he was well-suited to modern goalkeeping.
"I saw somebody that loved to protect his goal, defend his goal," he said. "I looked at somebody that... it hurt him when a goal went in, you know, it meant something because he conceded. He wasn't happy.
"Physically, he was good for that age and you're knowing there's more to come. So, the first thing was protecting the goal, and then what had come into the game was in-possession. Their in-possession game. Goalkeepers were more required to be playing out from the back and things like that.
"It was just the start of that. I will say, even from an early age, you really have to look at him and analyse him, to see which was his stronger foot.
"It was looking at that, just monitoring him and following up with my contacts. I would think from an early onset, physically, at his age, he was good in the possession game and had a desire to defend the goal.
"There was a period of time where I hadn't seen him a while but had a look at his growth and he was progressing in the right way. I came back here and he got brought up again, and we were following the international pathways through the Under-17s, Under-18s, Under-19s, and then Brugge and then Antwerp and the rest is history."