Pearson interview

[Carl the Llama]

my point is that yes, he took a fairly challenging approach but this was balanced with praise for NP and the club. Fair?

He slightly redeemed himself with the praise for Nige and the club, but it doesn't excuse the sheer hypocrisy of his behaviour.

[dmayne7]

my point is that yes, he took a fairly challenging approach but this was balanced with praise for NP and the club. Fair?

 

 

He slightly redeemed himself with the praise for Nige and the club, but it doesn't excuse the sheer hypocrisy of his behaviour.

 

This. I'm afraid if you don't see where we're coming from, you must be an Ostrich.

[Flyfox]

Well fortunately I do. I admire NP, but that doesn't detract from the fact that, in my opinion at least, he would benefit from understanding that the media are not hell-bent on assassinating his character - at leaSt PM doesn't seem to be.

[Monsell1976]

I said that I understand its PM's prerogative to ask these types of questions and that Nigel Pearson didn't help himself. I simply felt the continued character assassination and derogatory comments, went beyond what happened the day before.

I have a feeling it will only get worse over the next 3 games, if we lose Saturday, and silly questions get asked, the press will be rubbing their hands.

I just hope Pearson doesn't react to them, keep calm, no story for the leeches that the press are.

[inckley fox]

Pearson has obviously tried his best to create a siege mentality this season and, in Morgan's words, to reduce the pressure on his men whereas, in truth, we've been at our best when the pressure is at its highest this year.

 

That said, it worked well enough last week.

 

And I probably need to shut up about Pearson; I stuck with him for a long time, longer than many (albeit with a lot of gripes), then posted a whole lot of stuff saying how clearly wrong I'd been to stick with him until February or March, and it came at precisely the moment that things miraculously pulled together. The WORST thing I could do in the world right now is say that he was the right man after all. I'll leave it at 'he's made a lot of errors, and if we go down he'll have a lot of questions to answer'. I'll revise it when I can soberly evaluate how many times I've been wrong this season.

 

The one element of consistency has been in my saying that, if he shows evidence of getting better over the course of the season and we go down, then we should stick with him. So I suppose that speaks for itself.

 

I maintain that our ability to enjoy all of the media nonsense (and, by the way, it's a lot easier to defend a manager who thinks that the media hates him after a fool like Murphy has been sent out to provoke him in the name of the biggest public-funded media corporation in the world) will be based on what's to come. If we go down, we'll think he should have spent a bit more time getting his players to face up to their shortfalls, rather than going to the ends of the earth to divert attention from it. If we stay up, or even go down, go up, and stay up under Pearson, then we'll have some great laughs looking back and view ostrich-gate and strangle-gate and FOAD-gate and ****-gate as the quirks of a mastermind.