Nigel Pearson appointed Watford manager

[CosbehFox]

7 minutes ago, 49er said:

Wholeheartedly agree. What great success did he enjoy in the Premier League? He also has some odd personality traits. The teams around Watford must be delighted at Pearson’s appointment. He is ought of his depth.

All well and good saying that in retrospective but at the time Pearson left the club with us still in the Premier League and achieved something only O’Neill before that had done. Other pretenders had failed 

[KingsX]

When the news broke, I was just happy the man gets another well-deserved go.

 

8 pages in, I’m starting to dread the 14th of March.

 

Is this place going to be overrun by the activation of a fifth column of zombie trainer-sniffers? 

 

[CosbehFox]

4 hours ago, David Hankey said:

I'm not wishing that on him at all, I was just replying to an earlier post. As being one of our "best ever" mangers we'll have to disagree. 

Well factually achieved and won trophies to place him in that bracket of our best ever managers. 

[worthosoriginals]

39 minutes ago, Clever Fox said:

Great to hear. They have a good squad, He just needs to find a goal scorer in January window. 

He could sign Vardy and kane, sit them on the bench again. 

[Mark_w]

11 minutes ago, 49er said:

 

[LC/FC]

20 minutes ago, HighPeakFox said:

I loved NP when he was with us, but this adoration of him is very strange indeed.

Brought us back to the top tier after a decade out of the Premier League.

10 years.

This man returned us to the place we craved, that about 10 others had tried unsuccessfully and with each succeeding manager doing progressively worse year on year.

This man helped reshape our entire clubs identity! This isn't hyperbole. He brought back a standard, that we had slowly lost in the preceeding years. 

Forget the easy, first time clearance of League One that Leeds, Forest and the Sheffields have struggled with.

Forget making 2 play offs with barely chances to improve each time. 

Forget the record breaking points winning total for the Championship promotion.

Forget saving us from being relegated back immediately by pulling off one of the most improbable comebacks of all time. 

This man continuously created teams that we as fans could be proud of again and again.

After meandering with the Allens and Holloways for so long he came, saved us. .. and then was painfully let go. He returned in his own words to finish what he started, fixing the Sven and Sousa catastrophe of King Power's initial reign. He helped instill a hard working ethic in the dressing room which still persists to this day. Found World class players such as Vardy and Mahrez and not just blow our owners investments. 

This guy rebuilt Leicester City Football Club by actually rebuilding the club. 

From scouting to sports science to man management.

 

This adoration for him isn't strange at all to me. He rebuilt us as a footballing side. 

 

 

[HighPeakFox]

Chaps, you don't need to point out what he achieved to me, I was there. He's a great guy no doubt. I'm sure I'd enjoy talking to him, and I'd certainly thank him for what he brought to LCFC. I had no intention of touching raw nerves, but I guess it was inevitable, much like when I once suggested that Steve Walsh (pre Little) had been a liability.

[Corky]

He took over the club in League One and left it in the Premier League. The behind-the-scenes operation was totally overhauled and it's legacy still exists today. Key players for our title win were brought to the club by his regime.

 

You can debate if he's the best or whatever but there is no doubt we prospered enormously whilst he and his staff were here and we are better off for his influence.

 

A generation of fans had seen half a decade of struggle and decline. Under Pearson they saw promotions, progress and Premier League survival. That's why he's popular. 

[Guest Eamonn]

23 minutes ago, 49er said:

Wholeheartedly agree. What great success did he enjoy in the Premier League? He also has some odd personality traits. The teams around Watford must be delighted at Pearson’s appointment. He is ought of his depth.

He kept us up, after we were miles behind. Doesn't that make him ideal for Watford? This is an inspired appointment by Watford.

[HighPeakFox]

He's popular with me, too. But the fawning is something else.

[Mark_w]

1 minute ago, LC/FC said:

Brought us back to the top tier after a decade out of the Premier League.

10 years.

This man returned us to the place we craved, that about 10 others had tried unsuccessfully and with each succeeding manager doing progressively worse year on year.

This man helped reshape our entire clubs identity! This isn't hyperbole. He brought back a standard, that we had slowly lost in the preceeding years. 

Forget the easy, first time clearance of League One that Leeds, Forest and the Sheffields have struggled with.

Forget making 2 play offs with barely chances to improve each time. 

Forget the record breaking points winning total for the Championship promotion.

Forget saving us from being relegated back immediately by pulling off one of the most improbable comebacks of all time. 

This man continuously created teams that we as fans could be proud of again and again.

After meandering with the Allens and Holloways for so long he came, saved us. .. and then was painfully let go. He returned in his own words to finish what he started, fixing the Sven and Sousa catastrophe of King Power's initial reign. He helped instill a hard working ethic in the dressing room which still persists to this day. Found World class players such as Vardy and Mahrez and not just blow our owners investments. 

This guy rebuilt Leicester City Football Club by actually rebuilding the club. 

From scouting to sports science to man management.

 

This adoration for him isn't strange at all to me. He rebuilt us as a footballing side.

And I think it's especially worth thinking about how much credit Vardy has given that management team for his Leicester career panning out as it did. He clearly had a load of off the field issues, and his performances on it in his first season left most of this forum fuming when he started on the opening day of our promotion season, and over half of it wanting us to ship him out to Preston on loan. If he'd had anything other than a fantastic man-manager at that point, Jamie Vardy would not be doing what he is for us now - he'd be nowhere near this level. How many Championship/League One managers at that time wouldn't have written off a striker signed from the conference, with a lot of baggage, who scored 5 goals in his first season, as a failed experiment? Particularly when there was money to spend and two proven Championship goalscorers in Chris Wood and David Nugent in the squad. I reckon just Nigel Pearson.

It's criminal that it's taken this long for him to get another Prem job, and criminal that he's had to settle for a club whose ownership clearly have an incredibly serious case of apparently undiagnosed/certainly untreated ADHD

[LC/FC]

6 minutes ago, HighPeakFox said:

Chaps, you don't need to point out what he achieved to me, I was there. He's a great guy no doubt. I'm sure I'd enjoy talking to him, and I'd certainly thank him for what he brought to LCFC. I had no intention of touching raw nerves, but I guess it was inevitable, much like when I once suggested that Steve Walsh (pre Little) had been a liability.

If you were there then how can you find it strange that we're all thankful to this man and his team for what he did to and for the club? 

Something that took 10 years. 

That bigger clubs like Leeds and Forest haven't achieved in almost 20.

 

Strange that someone can't appreciate the actual magnitude of the task accomplished and realise how fortunate we were to have him rebuild us and guide us. 

 

 

 

 

 

[HighPeakFox]

Just now, LC/FC said:

If you were there then how can you find it strange that we're all thankful to this man and his team for what he did to and for the club? 

Something that took 10 years. 

That bigger clubs like Leeds and Forest haven't achieved in almost 20.

 

Strange that someone can't appreciate the actual magnitude of the task accomplished and realise how fortunate we were to have him rebuild us and guide us. 

Strange that you can't read. I'm very thankful, and appreciative. Just not fawning like some here are. It's been done to death, I admire him hugely, ok?

[LC/FC]

5 minutes ago, HighPeakFox said:

He's popular with me, too. But the fawning is something else.

I think the issue is the acrimonious circumstances of his departure. 

Fired because of his son and not because of any failure.

Claudio came and helped us dream so we didn't dwell on it. 

But it did leave a slight bad taste in the mouth of fans and we're all probably just happy for him to just have a chance at the Top, where we feel he actually belongs, even if it is a major rescue operation. 

[BoyJones]

29 minutes ago, 49er said:

Wholeheartedly agree. What great success did he enjoy in the Premier League? He also has some odd personality traits. The teams around Watford must be delighted at Pearson’s appointment. He is ought of his depth.

You've no idea of football, have you!

 

NP is a top manager, but needs the right players to succeed  or those who can adapt to systems etc. I don't idolise the man, but respect him because he has both played and managed the game as a winner. 

 

I am sure you are perfect at your job; just cut the guy some slack, he is a good manager and stop being a total AH! 

[Mark_w]

1 minute ago, HighPeakFox said:

Strange that you can't read. I'm very thankful, and appreciative. Just not fawning like some here are. It's been done to death, I admire him hugely, ok?

Nope, not good enough, repent.

[HighPeakFox]

Just now, LC/FC said:

I think the issue is the acrimonious circumstances of his departure. 

Fired because of his son and not because of any failure.

Claudio came and helped us dream so we didn't dwell on it. 

But it did leave a slight bad taste in the mouth of fans and we're all probably just happy for him to just have a chance at the Top, where we feel he actually belongs, even if it is a major rescue operation. 

I'm happy too  It's just the reactions are too extreme, in much the same way they are about Puel. Nothing is ever so black & white.

[LC/FC]

1 minute ago, HighPeakFox said:

Strange that you can't read. I'm very thankful, and appreciative. Just not fawning like some here are. It's been done to death, I admire him hugely, ok?

Hey I've got it. You're thankful but not fawning.

...So what are you doing in the thread when it clearly has no appeal to you and you're not part of the fawning party when people in here clearly are? 

 

Or did some part of you need to let others know you don't understand the fawning of the achievements whilst simultaneously being thankful and appreciative of said achievements? 

 

[filthyfox]

Nigel who.... ahhh, is quaint that we remember someone from begore 2016 when history began ☻

 

ps ...  ive been away        for 6 months

Edited 6 December 2019 by filthyfox
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[HighPeakFox]

1 minute ago, LC/FC said:

Hey I've got it. You're thankful but not fawning.

...So what are you doing in the thread when it clearly has no appeal to you and you're not part of the fawning party when people in here clearly are? 

 

Or did some part of you need to let others know you don't understand the fawning of the achievements whilst simultaneously being thankful and appreciative of said achievements? 

 

Part of the idea of a forum is that we get to comment on what other people say. That might sometimes mean saying something critical. I am sure you can cope with criticism, just as I can.

[LC/FC]

2 minutes ago, HighPeakFox said:

I'm happy too  It's just the reactions are too extreme, in much the same way they are about Puel. Nothing is ever so black & white.

Nope. Not even in the slightest. 

Nigel is the best manager for me, period. As I've said, he rebuilt our club. 

To me he ranks higher than Ranieri. 

Claudio was the pilot that guided us to the top of the mountain. 

Nigel built the bloody plane! 

[49er]

12 minutes ago, BoyJones said:

You've no idea of football, have you!

 

NP is a top manager, but needs the right players to succeed  or those who can adapt to systems etc. I don't idolise the man, but respect him because he has both played and managed the game as a winner. 

 

I am sure you are perfect at your job; just cut the guy some slack, he is a good manager and stop being a total AH! 

What things has he won as a player and manager?

[FantasticMrFox&Son]

Ultimately, what a tosser.

Move on.

[Corky]

4 minutes ago, 49er said:

What things has he won as a player and manager?

Championship as a manager, League Cup and three promotions as a player.

[LC/FC]

3 minutes ago, HighPeakFox said:

Part of the idea of a forum is that we get to comment on what other people say. That might sometimes mean saying something critical. I am sure you can cope with criticism, just as I can.

Adding something constructive or deconstructive is usually more useful when making comments. Adds added insight and context to subjects. And I'm not bothered about criticism here. There's none that's here as such about your point of view. I merely clarified all the achievements and merits that Nigel Pearson accomplished while he was manager of our club. 

If what was listed to you doesn't impress you the same way as it has many others here then fair enough.

It's ok that some people just won't understand the behind the scenes work that it takes to achieve what he has. It's fine. Some people think big clubs will always remain big clubs no matter what circumstances happen.