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9 hours ago, Milo said:

Daniel Craig is a good James Bond, but the films have been a bit crap

2 of his Bond films were good, 2 of them were the worst ever. 

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ozleicester

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Releasing balloons for any reason is just thumbing your nose at the environment and the future.

Gender reveals are the most ludicrous thing in recent memory

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Nalis

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19 minutes ago, ozleicester said:

Releasing balloons for any reason is just thumbing your nose at the environment and the future.

Gender reveals are the most ludicrous thing in recent memory

Surely that's not an unpopular opinion though?

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ealingfox

ealingfox

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57 minutes ago, Milo said:

Which ones are which?!

 

Casino Royale and Skyfall - good, Quantum of Solace - doggo, Spectre - decent

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Milo

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21 minutes ago, ealingfox said:

 

Casino Royale and Skyfall - good, Quantum of Solace - doggo, Spectre - decent

First part of Skyfall was ok - second half was Home Alone...   :thumbdown:

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Unabomber

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Recently watched casino royale for the first time in a while and thought it was very good. Then managed to find quantom of solace in a charity shop and wow it was bad.

Unabomber

Unabomber

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21 minutes ago, Wymsey said:

There's too much love for Nigel Pearson.

I’m not one to usually jump in to defend Nigel but come on man there isn’t enough love if anything. 

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Unabomber

Unabomber

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7 minutes ago, bovril said:

Attitudes towards Pearson fascinate me. I'm not sure any manager has split opinions and create debate like he does. 

I think it annoys some fans how much other fans like him. It is very odd though as not many sit on the fence re Pearson it’s all or nothing.

lcfc278

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3 hours ago, Wymsey said:

There's too much love for Nigel Pearson.

I don't understand how any Leicester City fan could not love Nigel Pearson.

 

We didn't just become an amazing side the day he was sacked and we got Ranieri in.

 

All of the work done in both of Pearson's stints at Leicester were the foundations for where we are as a club today, both in terms of our team spirit and the ethos of the club - this was only made possible because of our owners but you can just tell they knew Pearson had the same vision for us as they did.

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Fox92

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6 hours ago, Milo said:

Which ones are which?!

Skyfall and Spectre were his best imo.

 

Although I don't think they are written as good as they were, not the actors fault.

bovril

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58 minutes ago, lcfc278 said:

I don't understand how any Leicester City fan could not love Nigel Pearson.

 

We didn't just become an amazing side the day he was sacked and we got Ranieri in.

 

All of the work done in both of Pearson's stints at Leicester were the foundations for where we are as a club today, both in terms of our team spirit and the ethos of the club - this was only made possible because of our owners but you can just tell they knew Pearson had the same vision for us as they did.

All true.

 

At the same time he got a lot wrong, including in his only PL season.

 

I think he might be our most important ever manager in the way he turned the club around. Which is something of a paradox because I don't think as a manager he'll ever be at the level of O'Neill or Rodgers or possibly even Ranieri.

Fox92

Fox92

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47 minutes ago, lcfc278 said:

I don't understand how any Leicester City fan could not love Nigel Pearson.

 

We didn't just become an amazing side the day he was sacked and we got Ranieri in.

 

All of the work done in both of Pearson's stints at Leicester were the foundations for where we are as a club today, both in terms of our team spirit and the ethos of the club - this was only made possible because of our owners but you can just tell they knew Pearson had the same vision for us as they did.

Missing loads here too. Pearson joined us when we'd just been relegated for the first time. All time low, some players wanting to leave...  and we battered the league. Loads of big clubs spend more than one season there, we were out of there at the first attempt. Then he took that squad, plus a few additions, to 5th in the Championship the following season! (And the Championship was strong that season - Newcastle, WBA, Forest, Cardiff, Blackpool, Swansea, Sheffield Utd, Reading were all decent that season).

 

Worse things owners did was go behind his back and get Sousa in. Best thing they ever did was get Pearson back. It's all hindsigt but I believe we wouldn't be in the PL without him. Owners can make as much possible as they can but without the right manager it's nothing (see how much they backed Sven and he did fvck all).

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Footballwipe

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20 minutes ago, bovril said:

All true.

 

At the same time he got a lot wrong, including in his only PL season.

 

I think he might be our most important ever manager in the way he turned the club around. Which is something of a paradox because I don't think as a manager he'll ever be at the level of O'Neill or Rodgers or possibly even Ranieri.

Agree. I'm hitched on the NP love wagon firmly, but understand that he got stuff wrong both publically and in our PL season until the turnaround, and I think a lot of those on the wagon will see that.

 

However what is baffling are the core of supporters who seem to detest the man for turning this club around. Maybe the same as those who give our owners a cult-like status, despite them having made mistakes themselves (Sven etc). It genuinely saddens me that a man who transformed the club so much has such a negative legacy in the grand scheme of things. I don't know if winning the league and the exploits since then seem to have diminished his achievements.

 

One other thing which @Fox92eluded to, and to rationalise the "too much love." NP came in at a time when this club was on its haunches. It'd been through 4 years of shit, one relegation and it felt like the halcyon days of MON, or even the 03/04 PL season were decades ago. My prime teenage years were spent having the turgid time of Levein/Kelly/Megson etc. We needed something, we needed SOMEONE. Pearson came in and (twice) pulled us up by our bootstraps and gave us the progress we wanted. Gave us the joyous emotions of 08/09, the crushing agony of 09/10 and 12/13, the amazing scenes of 13/14 and the incredible last few games in 14/15. That's why he's so revered by people, and it's actually quite awful people want to blitz that away for a few comments and the McArthur incident.

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RoboFox

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Honestly, I love Big Nige as much as the next Big Nige supporter.


But fvck me, the discussion has been done to death and then some. We must have the same argument flare up on here about 20 times a season.

Koke

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5 hours ago, Wymsey said:

There's too much love for Nigel Pearson.

 

Definitely is. 

 

I love the guy and he's easily top 5 GOAT City managers. I do, however, think he's a one hit wonder. In the same mould of Lambert, Nigel Adkins, Roy Keane etc. The guy is 58 years old and has one promotion to the PL. Ian Holloway and Neil Warnock must have about 3 each, and I don't rate either of them. 

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bovril

bovril

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33 minutes ago, RoboFox said:

Honestly, I love Big Nige as much as the next Big Nige supporter.


But fvck me, the discussion has been done to death and then some. We must have the same argument flare up on here about 20 times a season.

This is what I mean.

 

What is it about NP that stirs debate amongst Leicester fans like nothing else? It's like our own culture war, just for LCFC supporters.

 

There's a PhD crying out to be written on the subject.

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