Nigel Pearson appointed Bristol City manager

[Unabomber]

The whole “Team Pearson” thing is such a load of bollocks. He’s the manager and they all report to him. It just seems as if it’s another reason for some to not give him credit for the amazing job he did for us. People don’t say wow team Pep are doing well for example ffs lol. 

[Steve_Guppy_Left_Foot]

It's as if Craig leviene never happened. Now there's a manager whos bashing I can get behind. Not Nigel Pearson. 

[bovril]

When you look at how promoted teams struggle (Norwich, Fulham WBA), you realise what an achievement it was to build a side not only to go up but also to thrive. We stayed up by 6 points in 2015 and really it could've been more comfortable. 

[Unabomber]

15 minutes ago, Steve_Guppy_Left_Foot said:

It's as if Craig leviene never happened. Now there's a manager whos bashing I can get behind. Not Nigel Pearson. 

Exactly I mean some of the shit we had pre Pearson man. 

[Fox92]

56 minutes ago, Cardiff_Fox said:

@Fox92 He’s twice been assistant manager at PL clubs. Hardly some huge fall 

I know. Very good coach, no doubt about it. I was actually laughing because I thought you meant as a manager.

[matty98]

Nigel Pearson was a fantastic manager, Kasper Schmeichel even stated he was the best he'd ever played under, think he knows more about managers than most.

 https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11712/9831136/nigel-pearson-the-best-manager-ive-played-under-says-kasper-schmeichel

[Steve_Guppy_Left_Foot]

Bit weird. 

[Unabomber]

Wow 

[whoareyaaa]

3 hours ago, bovril said:

When you look at how promoted teams struggle (Norwich, Fulham WBA), you realise what an achievement it was to build a side not only to go up but also to thrive. We stayed up by 6 points in 2015 and really it could've been more comfortable. 

we was in every game from what I can remember that season we played good football just unlucky with the results

[whoareyaaa]

3 hours ago, Steve_Guppy_Left_Foot said:

Bit weird. 

Saturday 2 May 2015

[Soar Fox]

Col had some posts deleted?

[Carl the Llama]

3 minutes ago, Steve_Walsh5 said:

Col had some posts deleted?

I made a funny joke about it but that's gone too so I shan't repeat it.

[Soar Fox]

1 minute ago, Carl the Llama said:

I made a funny joke about it but that's gone too so I shan't repeat it.

So strange how people can dislike the bloke or discredit the job he did here, twice. 
 

If people don’t still like talking about him surely you’d stay out of the thread. 

[moore_94]

2 minutes ago, Steve_Walsh5 said:

So strange how people can dislike the bloke or discredit the job he did here, twice. 
 

If people don’t still like talking about him surely you’d stay out of the thread. 

Some people just can't help themselves, they just HAVE to make sure everyone knows how crap they think he is

[bovril]

6 minutes ago, moore_94 said:

Some people just can't help themselves, they just HAVE to make sure everyone knows how crap they think he is

There are a lot of armchair managers. There are a few who constantly need to show that they see something other's can't. 

[Unabomber]

So many posts have been deleted. A few I took a long time to write as well so that’s annoying. I assume this one will be gone too. Just shows that whichever mod is deleting these is not a Pearson fan. 

[Unabomber]

42 minutes ago, Steve_Walsh5 said:

So strange how people can dislike the bloke or discredit the job he did here, twice. 
 

If people don’t still like talking about him surely you’d stay out of the thread. 

It’s one of the weirdest Leicester fan things. The fact some clearly dislike our saviour absolutely mental.

[Brizzle Fox]

58 minutes ago, Unabomber said:

It’s one of the weirdest Leicester fan things. The fact some clearly dislike our saviour absolutely mental.

I swear there are one or two off here who have even gone so far as to create accounts on OTIB with the sole purpose of damning Pearson with faint praise / passive aggressively slag him off.  There is one so called Leicester fan in particular called Ostrich who seems to have quite a familiar writing style / approach to sentence construction and phraseology... 

 

Now that's proper borderline psychotic levels of ****ing weird. I just don't get it. How can any proper Leicester fan have anything less than love and respect for the big man, and wish him well in whatever he chooses to do. 

[tom27111]

Hi, welcome to RobinsTalk. (Joke)

 

Looking at it rationality, there was a massive divide in our fanbase if Pearson was the right man for the job.

 

It was probably a 50/50 split of for and against. 

 

The FOAD incident, the ostrich episode and the strangling of McArthur were actions of a man under immense pressure.

 

Personally, I felt we should have parted company with him.

 

Then, we had the greatest escape. What happened in that summer happened, what followed in the next season was unbelievable. 

 

People then seemed to shift opinions that it wouldn't have happened without Pearson.

 

In hindsight, I'm grateful for what he did here and appreciate it. I don't feel bad for wanting him out at Xmas 2014. The results weren't good enough.

 

He was the right man at the right time for us. He was succeeded by another man at the right time and in the right place.

 

That's it. Pearson isn't the incredible manager that some people think he is. If he was, he wouldn't be at Briatol City via other unsuccessful ventures.

 

 

[Carl the Llama]

1 hour ago, tom27111 said:

Hi, welcome to RobinsTalk. (Joke)

 

Looking at it rationality, there was a massive divide in our fanbase if Pearson was the right man for the job.

 

It was probably a 50/50 split of for and against. 

 

The FOAD incident, the ostrich episode and the strangling of McArthur were actions of a man under immense pressure.

 

Personally, I felt we should have parted company with him.

 

Then, we had the greatest escape. What happened in that summer happened, what followed in the next season was unbelievable. 

 

People then seemed to shift opinions that it wouldn't have happened without Pearson.

 

In hindsight, I'm grateful for what he did here and appreciate it. I don't feel bad for wanting him out at Xmas 2014. The results weren't good enough.

 

He was the right man at the right time for us. He was succeeded by another man at the right time and in the right place.

 

That's it. Pearson isn't the incredible manager that some people think he is. If he was, he wouldn't be at Briatol City via other unsuccessful ventures.

 

 

The opinion that his tenures were integral to Leicester's stratospheric rise isn't revisionism based on the title win, he'd already reached legend status before that season kicked off.  Alongside the league titles he brought us he also oversaw a radical shift in our back room set-up, put an emphasis on sports science ("fine margins"), shifted a bunch of dead wood journeymen and made a player's character a key part of the scouting process, a huge improvement after the failed attempts at big name Charlie managers and players. He brought in Vardy and man-managed him when he was at his lowest point and wanted to quit the game, I shouldn't need to tell you how important that's been for us.
 

The negative incidents you mention all took place when we were in the Premier League after he'd already done all of the above to earn our respect and patience through the hard times of 2014/15.  Imo he had every right to tell that fan who was being a dick to foad . McArthur said he took the strangle incident as a joke and thought it was overblown by the press.  If you can't see the funny side of the Ostrich event then... well you know where your head is  

 

So yeah, after seeing him completely transform our fortunes, finishing in better positions in every consecutive season of his time here, seeing his legacy in the way we continue to operate as a club and seeing how much the Srivaddhanaprabha's clearly respect his contributions judging by their continued relationship with him I think it's absolutely fair to say that at Leicester City football club he was an incredible manager and he more than deserves a little slack for his eccentricities.  Remember how Ranieri initially made a point of not changing things much and riding that ridiculous wave of Champions League form from the previous season, focusing on man-management with his pizzas and taking the pressure off with his media handling skills. It wasn't until he started messing with the backroom and trying to put his own stamp on it (ie. ousting the team psychologist) that things started to unravel and the owners had to step in..  Without Pearson there is every chance we're still struggling to get out of the Championship.  Bringing him back into the fold was the smartest thing the owners ever did. .

[UpTheLeagueFox]

2 hours ago, tom27111 said:

1. He was the right man at the right time for us. He was succeeded by another man at the right time and in the right place.

2. Pearson isn't the incredible manager that some people think he is. If he was, he wouldn't be at Briatol City via other unsuccessful ventures.

1. Agree totally re Pearson. Right man, right time - twice. Same with Claudio, until he went a bit nuts.

2. Pearson was incredible for US. Doesn't matter where he was before or after or whether he succeeded or failed elsewhere, I judge him on the magnificent rescuing and building job he did here.

[Finnaldo]

17 hours ago, Steven said:

The record at the Club since Pearson left would suggest otherwise. Even Micky Adams manged to get us promoted to the PL and that achievement was a greater one than Pearson's. I do not understand the messianic following some have for Pearson as he played his part in Leicester City's history better than some and not as good as others. 

 

That said, Happy Birthday Nigel. 

That’s an extreme amount of revisionism. The record the club has had since absolutely proved Pearson did an incredible job. I distinctly remember that the moment Ranieri began fiddling with the system in his second season is where things instantly fell apart for him, even Shakespeare trying to replicate the system failed. However what he built in terms of a team (including back room staff) as well as sports science and scouting (in conjunction with the Thais heavy investment I may add) is partially what has made us so attractive to that next tier of manager like Rodgers. 
 

I don’t think anyone Pro-Pearson would say that he would’ve won the league with him in charge as his tactical mind was arguably fairly limited, but the fact a more tactics-minded coach like Ranieri could come in and win the league and admit he had to make virtually no changes to the back room structure tells you all you need to know. The Thais, whilst they have learnt massively since, initially were all on the spend, spend, spend on players method, it wasn’t until Pearson returned we saw the level of investment in the club infrastructure and back room staff that’s carried on up until today. 
 

Mickey Adams managed to take a broke club and take it back up to the Premier League which is no mean feat and deserves praise. Pearson took us from our absolute historically lowest, completely demoralised, and created a culture of winning, and if not winning then coming back the next season to finish the job. He built a foundation of sports science and sabremetric scouting we use up to today. Him and his team are responsible for recruiting an entire class of modern Leicester City legends as well as three of the finest footballers worldwide currently active. 
 

I have no problem if people want to debate his intrinsic managerial qualities like his tactical mind, but to pretend that Pearson, alongside the owners vision and investment, wasn’t one of the foremost architects of modern Leicester City seems massively shortsighted.

[Fox92]

13 hours ago, tom27111 said:

Hi, welcome to RobinsTalk. (Joke)

 

Looking at it rationality, there was a massive divide in our fanbase if Pearson was the right man for the job.

 

It was probably a 50/50 split of for and against. 

 

The FOAD incident, the ostrich episode and the strangling of McArthur were actions of a man under immense pressure.

 

Personally, I felt we should have parted company with him.

 

Then, we had the greatest escape. What happened in that summer happened, what followed in the next season was unbelievable. 

 

People then seemed to shift opinions that it wouldn't have happened without Pearson.

 

In hindsight, I'm grateful for what he did here and appreciate it. I don't feel bad for wanting him out at Xmas 2014. The results weren't good enough.

 

He was the right man at the right time for us. He was succeeded by another man at the right time and in the right place.

 

That's it. Pearson isn't the incredible manager that some people think he is. If he was, he wouldn't be at Briatol City via other unsuccessful ventures.

 

 

Well it wouldn't because we'd still be in the Championship now without him.

[AjcW]

Anyway... back to talking about Bristol City... a lot of neigh sayers on here seem to be forgetting this is the Championship, one win in four isn't exactly rare is it

 

It's all about runs in that league we know that, tick along safely until Christmas, try not to lose more than two in a row, and then go on a winning run for a few months and chances are you make the play offs.

 

Whilst NP will have been disappointed not to get a draw of Swansea, I bet he hadn't planned on getting more than 4 points from the first 4 with the squad they have. 

[Carl the Llama]

1 hour ago, AjcW said:

Anyway... back to talking about Bristol City... a lot of neigh sayers on here seem to be forgetting this is the Championship, one win in four isn't exactly rare is it

 

It's all about runs in that league we know that, tick along safely until Christmas, try not to lose more than two in a row, and then go on a winning run for a few months and chances are you make the play offs.

 

Whilst NP will have been disappointed not to get a draw of Swansea, I bet he hadn't planned on getting more than 4 points from the first 4 with the squad they have. 

This thread's full of people horsing around.