Any chance that NP will still be moved on?

[sylofox]

I really don't give a fvck what he say's long as it is legal.

 

He is here to manage a football team not a hotel.

 

Results are all that matters.

A fan abuses him a jurno asks stupid questions n he tells them to fvck off Who really cares as long as we stay up.

[EnglishOxide]

But take out last six matches alone and you'd have to wonder how on earth we found ourselves in the bottom three at all. So many things are being done now that weren't being done before.

Like what?

[MPH]

 

Don't mean to be rude but that just says to me you've learnt nothing from this season.

 

it says the exact opposite!

[CosbehFox]

I think they're savvy enough to have a eye open for a potential Pochettino-type upgrade but I'd be staggered if we stayed up and he wasn't here next season.

The owners have never shown any knowledge at getting managerial appointments correct. So I wouldn't expect anything of that ilk.

[Carl the Llama]

The owners have never shown any knowledge at getting managerial appointments correct. So I wouldn't expect anything of that ilk.

What about when they re-signed Pearson?  Or when Vichai overruled Top's attempt to sack him?

[Webbo]

I can recall a plethora of votes on here calling for his head, and that not just coming from the usual suspects - not exactly a generous amount of patience wasted back then...

I meant patience from the club. The opinions of the people on here, including mine , are immaterial. 

[MC Prussian]

I meant patience from the club. The opinions of the people on here, including mine , are immaterial. 

If the owners have shown anything for sure it's that they believe in long-term planning and are more than willing to give Pearson the benefit of the doubt.

 

Regardless of whether we stay up or not, he has shown he can manage at this level and that he can actually motivate an entire corporation to move forward (with five wins out of six). Long may it continue at Leicester.

 

Personally, I think it'd be more likely that Pearson left on his own terms (by not renewing his contract) rather than getting relieved from his duties by the club/owners.

[HighPeakFox]

I understand how newspapers start rumours now. FFS, this has to be one of the worst threads ever.

[Mike the Metal Ed]

If, and it's a relatively big, yet achieveable if... If, we win our remaining three games, we'll have achieved a points total just four shy of our 9th place finish in 1996-97. If NP is cut out for this level above barely squeaking survival or not could soon become very apparent.

[CosbehFox]

What about when they re-signed Pearson? Or when Vichai overruled Top's attempt to sack him?

Pearson was fourth choice.

Done many great things for us but they certainly lack football knowledge.

[Carl the Llama]

Pearson was fourth choice.

Done many great things for us but they certainly lack football knowledge.

I think it's safe to say they've learned a lot about the sport since taking over.  That they saw what Pearson did with us & Hull then resolved to bring him back in and keep him shows that imo.  If they did start looking at new managers I believe they'd set themselves a better criteria to follow than they used previously.

[sylofox]

No Nige will see out this contract and then Cambiasso will take over.

I see Cambiasso playing next season then one as player coach.

 

Then take his first management job with us.

[HitchinFox]

If we stay up then he goes I think we will get relegated anyway. Unless the Thais pull off a massive management coop.

 

[Clever Fox]

No Nige will see out this contract and then Cambiasso will take over.

I see Cambiasso playing next season then one as player coach.

 

Then take his first management job with us.

I think that would be a good choice if NP left for whatever reason. My own feeling is though that he's done enough to redeem his reputation or most of it. What I cannot still get my head around is why he did not know the strength of his squad from the start.

And why it took him so long to do what many of us were calling for. That was the introduction of Wasyl at the back and Albrighton on the wing along with Vardy in the middle.

[ceredigion]

I've supported the club since the 1970s. In that time we've been promoted to the top flight a few times under various managers.

 

1979/80 - promoted under Jock Wallace as champions. Relegated next season.

1982/83 - promoted under Gordon Milne. Stayed up for 4 seasons.

1993/94 - promoted under Brian Little. Relegated next season.

1995/96 - promoted under MoN. Stayed up for 6 seasons.

2002/03 - promoted under Micky Adams. Relegated next season.

2013/14 - promoted under Nigel Pearson. ?

 

It's hard to keep the club up for the 1st year but if that is achieved, it's usually followed by a respectable spell at the top. There's no way the club will or should get rid of Nigel if we survive. Do we want to become another Sheff Wed or Leeds or Derby?

 

As for Pat Murphy, I've enjoyed his journalism over the years but I think he made a twat of himself over the ostrich affair, as was widely recognised by people who thought the issue over.

[sylofox]

I've supported the club since the 1970s. In that time we've been promoted to the top flight a few times under various managers.

 

1979/80 - promoted under Jock Wallace as champions. Relegated next season.

1982/83 - promoted under Gordon Milne. Stayed up for 4 seasons.

1993/94 - promoted under Brian Little. Relegated next season.

1995/96 - promoted under MoN. Stayed up for 6 seasons.

2002/03 - promoted under Micky Adams. Relegated next season.

2013/14 - promoted under Nigel Pearson. ?

 

It's hard to keep the club up for the 1st year but if that is achieved, it's usually followed by a respectable spell at the top. There's no way the club will or should get rid of Nigel if we survive. Do we want to become another Sheff Wed or Leeds or Derby?

 

As for Pat Murphy, I've enjoyed his journalism over the years but I think he made a twat of himself over the ostrich affair, as was widely recognised by people who thought the issue over.

Did we?

 

Thought it was 4 but may be wrong.

[ceredigion]

The club stayed up for 6 seasons, although MoN was the manager for only four of them.

[Steve_Guppy_Left_Foot]

Yeah, I'm with Sylo, it was 4. Peter Taylor has been wiped from my memory.

[Julian Joachim Jr Shabadoo]

I don't even want to think about Pearson leaving for now. I think realistically, we finish 15-17th, bring in 3 or 4 essential squad members over summer, aim for mid-table next season (achievable without another horror run mid-season) and see what happens with further strengthening over the next few seasons. I really feel this could be a MON era mark 2 providing we don't balls up the next 3 games

Maybe in that time we'll finally get our name on the FA Cup, that'd be sweet sweet sweswesweet sweet

[foxfanazer]

I've stuck by Nige through thick and thin and will continue to do so but if he manages to keep up us up it's going to be very difficult to assess the season he has had.

On the one hand we'd still be in the premier league so he would've achieved the club's target for this campaign. We have won many plaudits and their is still a buzz around the club.

On the other hand he has been involved in a lot of controversy this season which may or may not have soured his relationship with the owner/s. We were also bottom of the table for a long time and looked all but destined for the second tier again.

The owners will have a bit of a tough decision to make that's for sure

[Fox Ulike]

Who says it was the manager's shortcomings alone that were responsible for our dire run last year (or even up until this February)?

 

Running a successful enterprise such as a football club involves a lot more individuals and their skills. The manager is just one piece of it (albeit the one with the most (media) exposure).

 

 

Yes, but if I write a post saying that things like the formation and  "Team selection" have been a problem this season, then I'm not going to end that post by concluding that the Tea Lady is responsible.

 

 

Pearson was fourth choice.

Done many great things for us but they certainly lack football knowledge.

 

Pearson was appointed with a brief to get us out of the Championship. In that respect it was a good appointment based on good football knowledge by the owners (who had learnt from their self-inflicted fiasco with Sven)

 

No-one knew how Pearson would adapt to being a Premiership manager. The answer now appears to be 'very slowly'.

 

Pearson is a superb man-manager, and deserves a huge amount of credit for turning things around.

 

He now also appears to have improved tactically (although his decision to finally abandon 442 has been painfully slow), and his substitutions are much more calm and measured. 

 

Right now, I think we have potentially one of the best English managers in the League. Moving him on would be a big big mistake.

[6ups 6downs 2 cups]

If we stay up there wil be a great buzz around the club, also factor in the pre season is very narrow with the PL ending 24 May but starting early next season Aug 8 surely we should use that momentum to kick on.

Has been a steep learning curve for everyone and we are not out of trouble yet, but imagine how flat it would be if on 25 May if it was announced he was stepping down and the uncertainty that would create.

[MooseBreath]

The owners have never shown any knowledge at getting managerial appointments correct. So I wouldn't expect anything of that ilk.

Mandaric appointed Sousa and was likely still pulling the strings when we appointed sven. So the only managerial decisions the owners have made so far are to sack sven (correct), appoint Pearson (correct), keep Pearson through two particularly poor runs of form (correct) and keep Pearson after his off the field antics (correct).

Very harsh to say they've never got anything correct when in fact, every decision they've made since Mandaric left has been correct.

[cc_star]

Mandaric appointed Sousa and was likely still pulling the strings when we appointed sven. So the only managerial decisions the owners have made so far are to sack sven (correct), appoint Pearson (correct), keep Pearson through two particularly poor runs of form (correct) and keep Pearson after his off the field antics (correct).

Very harsh to say they've never got anything correct when in fact, every decision they've made since Mandaric left has been correct.

 

Could also be said that the Thai's were pulling Manderic's strings saying they wanted a 'name' manager before takeover & when that didn't work to get an even bigger 'name'. Then when that didn't work their complete lack of knowledge meant their recruitment list was former managers who'd done great work for us, so called O'Neill & Pearson. Even approaching O'Neill again during one of the team's bad runs who turned them down so they were forced to stop with Pearson

 

Whatever, they have made correct decisions and they have stuck by a manager when most modern owners wouldn't.

[Hirsty The Blue 94]

I've stuck by Nige through thick and thin and will continue to do so but if he manages to keep up us up it's going to be very difficult to assess the season he has had.

On the one hand we'd still be in the premier league so he would've achieved the club's target for this campaign. We have won many plaudits and their is still a buzz around the club.

On the other hand he has been involved in a lot of controversy this season which may or may not have soured his relationship with the owner/s. We were also bottom of the table for a long time and looked all but destined for the second tier again.

The owners will have a bit of a tough decision to make that's for sure

In terms of footballing reason how would it be a tough decision? Doesn't matter when you pick up the points to survive whether its in the first 10 or the last 10 games. Equally you could say in the first 5 and last 5 games we are worthy of Europe. Looking at the season as a whole if we stay up which is now looking likely then the objective has been achieved.