Sniffer-Clarke Posted 26 April 2009 Author Posted 26 April 2009 Yes i think your right matt the acid test will come next season for NP and his backroom staff, I know friday night was not a night to be judged on but it was a poor performance and they have had one or two like that this season. I think we have to wait and see who they bring into the club for next season to improve the team but any performances like friday night they will get hammmered in the ccc.
maddog Posted 26 April 2009 Posted 26 April 2009 Looking threw 5 pages of this thread it's laughable now the amount of people who said they would have prefered Gregory, Ollie, Kelly, Kevin Bond I can't find what i said about the appointment. Nigel Pearson has turned out to be our Susan Boyle
Matt Posted 26 April 2009 Posted 26 April 2009 Looking threw 5 pages of this thread it's laughable now the amount of people who said they would have prefered Gregory, Ollie, Kelly, Kevin Bond I can't find what i said about the appointment.Nigel Pearson has turned out to be our Susan Boyle You'd probably predicted something.
JoeyB Posted 26 April 2009 Posted 26 April 2009 I can't say I'm happy with this.I don't know why, I just have a really bad feeling about this. I hear Southampton fans wanted him to stay which is always promising but I just feel there are so many more better candidates we could have got instead. Maybe he'll surprise me I don't know, but I'm just not confident about this. Still not happy with it Joe?
Guest Posted 26 April 2009 Posted 26 April 2009 I don't like the name Nigel. I bet you do now Nigel Pearson Factfile Part 1:1) He shares his surname with the members of Five Star 2) To the best of my knowledge, he has never mutilated a horse After trawling through the first 8 or so pages, this was by far the funniest thing I read
Flynny Posted 26 April 2009 Posted 26 April 2009 As much as I don't think this is a particularly bad appointment, if Rob Kelly had left the club at the end of the 05-06 season to go to another club, I'm fairly sure the comments on this forum would be similar.Despite personally reckoning Kelly's slightly better than he's had credit for in keeping that shitbag of a team up two seasons running, most people wouldn't be happy with Kelly, so why this guy? Having said that, he seems to be a "good coach". The only thing I can see to suggest he isn't a Kelly type of character is that he seems to have changed the team by sheer force of will and tactical nous, rather than it all going swimmingly from nowhere. At any rate, here's to John Gregory getting the job when Pearson's sacked after two games. OH MY GOD WHAT AN ENORMOUS ARSEHOLE
leftsideoverhere Posted 26 April 2009 Posted 26 April 2009 Wasn't on the forum last summer, so don't have to anything to crow about or recant, but it's a delight reading the posts full of trepidation and cynicism about "this joker" Pearson, above signatures which have been subsequently edited to show his team lifting the league one trophy. Time for some humble pie, Uncle Albert? I count myself as a generally optimistic person, but after the manager-go-round Mandaric imposed on us, I really thought we'd struggle to make the play-offs. Pearson has exceeded my expectations, and I just hope he does stay here long enough to build a team in his own no-nonsense image. Can't remember the last time I felt this optimistic about an upcoming football season.
DeclanMC Posted 26 April 2009 Posted 26 April 2009 Wasn't on the forum last summer, so don't have to anything to crow about or recant, but it's a delight reading the posts full of trepidation and cynicism about "this joker" Pearson, above signatures which have been subsequently edited to show his team lifting the league one trophy. Time for some humble pie, Uncle Albert?I count myself as a generally optimistic person, but after the manager-go-round Mandaric imposed on us, I really thought we'd struggle to make the play-offs. Pearson has exceeded my expectations, and I just hope he does stay here long enough to build a team in his own no-nonsense image. Can't remember the last time I felt this optimistic about an upcoming football season. When I read through it, the first thing I noticed was uncle albert's post, how times change. To be honest, we had just come out of our worst season ever, everyone was depressed by holloway and expecting another merrygoround of managers like last season, people had every right to be wary.
Alexikokopops Posted 26 April 2009 Posted 26 April 2009 Found my views on the subject. They seem to be along the theme of "we're shit, who do you expect us to get" I'm willing to admit I wasn't sure about Pearson but I was resigned to the fact that's the best we could do. Wrong, but I think I might get away with it better than some people (Thracian's "I guess that's the basis on which some people would appoint the Yorkshire Ripper as a mentor for a call girls' charity" analogy springs to mind ) Doesn't fulfil me with confidence but any manager who is appointed deserves to be judged on what they achieve with this club rather than their past record. I guess that's the basis on which some people would appoint the Yorkshire Ripper as a mentor for a call girls' charity. Me I like centre-forwards who can show me they score 15+ goals a season. Goalkeepers who keep a good percentage of clean sheets. Midfielders who score/create goals. And managers who win/draw far more matches than they lose. Statistics aren't the final word. But they do offer a sound first sentence. In which case take note - he lost 4 out of 14 at Southampton, hence they stayed up. That, along with the comments of the Saints fans I've read (obviously I have discarded what your son said) leads me to believe the bloke deserves a chance if he is appointed. You could argue 1000 people deserve a chance but wouldn't it be nice if, just for once, we picked a manager with a record of relevent success and with the sort of philosophy that will take us forward in every way? Pearson strikes me as more from the same mould as we've had before - build from the back, plenty of muscle, endless loanees and lots of cautious football judging by all the draws he's had and how few victories he musters. It's so long perhaps fans have forgotten that to achieve anything in football you have to win matches not keep drawing them. Didn't we have enough draws under Levein and Kelly? What are we aiming at now, staying clear of yet another relegation or going up? Where all this enthusiasm for Pearson has come from I don't know. Cos I can't remember him being mentioned at all when fans jotted down their original preferred options, and a considerable number there were too. That's all very well, but who do you honestly think is going to come to us with a record of relevant success and the soprt of philosophy that will take us forward? Lets be honest, we're a bit of a joke and we're in League One, it's got to the point where I'll take what I can get as long as it's not John fecking Gregory. Plus my two Southampton supporting mates disagree with your son, they were big fans of Pearson Check out that for some belated replying. At last, we now know who the manager is. Can't say I know a great deal about NP but I am fully in favour of supporting him. As I posted previously, some of the people on this Forum would not be happy no matter who was the manager. Well tough, it's been sorted, now either give him your backing or clear off into exile No doubt you would all come crawling back at the first sign of us being successful. I'm not sure why some posters always have to come over as so sanctimonious but it's always the pro-manager/Mandaric brigade. I like many others have paid over £300 for their season tickets and have a right to express disappointment over the choice of yet another manager with either no track record or a piss-poor one. The Mandaric-era has so far seen relegation to Division 3 and so many shite managers we are now a laughing stock - so no I will not clap like a seal when yet another uninspiring appointment is made. I do know a bit about Nigel Pearson and his time at Carlisle, he may have kept them up but it was a disaster. I will be there against Franchise FC and I will be behind the manager and the team, but that does not mean I am happy we have appointed Nigel Pearson. Who did you expect though? We're a joke of a div 3 club, lets be honest.
lcfc81 Posted 26 April 2009 Posted 26 April 2009 Thank goodness its not John Gregory!!!!!This news has made my day. I'm glad we got Pearson. We need a strong personality to get some of our players into shape. I'm reading he has worked with the England U21s? So he might have worked with Mattock and Stearman? Even Better. COME ON YOU BLUES!!!!! I'm still happy it's not John Gregory (I hate to think where we would be now!)
Ultra Posted 26 April 2009 Posted 26 April 2009 Happy to give him a chance and very much hope he proves my doubts to be completely wrong. if at the end of the season we have achieved promotion I will be the first to come on here and say how wrong i was to doubt this appointment. So what's keeping you?
ozleicester Posted 27 April 2009 Posted 27 April 2009 We will not achieve 100 points... PEARSON OUT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
davieG Posted 27 April 2009 Posted 27 April 2009 Ambivalent about this but that's how i feel about all things LCFC these days. WOW!Someone with dignity and integrity that'll make a change for LCFC not sure how that sits with Mandaric though! Bearing in mind the state of LCFC our tarnished reputation our vacilating Chairman, our string of failed and eccentric managers I'm happy to settle for a decent season with a man in charge who it's claimed has dignity and integrity something our club is clearly lacking.Let's hope that some of that rubs off on Mandaric and LCFC because I would like to see us gain a little self respect even at the expense of promotion. Yes I really would. I'm happy with my input - and I still feel the same as my last post and believe that his dignity and integrity to have been as important as his success on the field because that seems to be the cornerstone to our fantastic team spirit which is what ultimately got us across the winning line.
Guest Posted 27 April 2009 Posted 27 April 2009 The Southampton fan at work is gutted we have Pearson, saying they couldn't afford to keep him.The way I see it, he got a very poor team to grind out the results when it mattered. If he can do that next season with us, I will be happier. Happier? Fecking ecstatic!!
Corky Posted 27 April 2009 Posted 27 April 2009 Facts are we don't know if he's a good manager or not. That sounded right when he was appointed, and he's proved he's not bad
General Smuts Posted 27 April 2009 Posted 27 April 2009 Meh. Scrolled through a shit load of pages to see what i wrote thinking in the back of my mind 'I bet all i said was Meh'. I'm so predictable.
surrifox Posted 27 April 2009 Posted 27 April 2009 Vital football Saints fan given Saints current predicament I wonder how this guy's feeling at the mom.
GLC Posted 27 April 2009 Posted 27 April 2009 I support the club not the fooking manager, what could possibly be good about this person? This made me laugh Under his post is a Nigel Pearson picture
CosbehFox Posted 27 April 2009 Posted 27 April 2009 I still shudder at the thought we flirted with John Gregory.
davieG Posted 27 April 2009 Posted 27 April 2009 I still shudder at the thought we flirted with John Gregory. I could be one sitting here with egg on my face but if we'd have kept Holloway or appointed Gregory I probably wouldn't have gone for a ST. Never wanted Holloway not since his management of QPR and overseeing the worst game I've seen in LCFC V QPR a couple of seasons back; as for Gregory he's just a wide boy!
Darkzzz_ Posted 27 April 2009 Posted 27 April 2009 I'm not going to embarrass people but looking through those posts made me laugh. I know a few people on here are clueless at times but the John Gregory fans really made me laugh. It is funny looking back.
Lillehamring Posted 27 April 2009 Posted 27 April 2009 well, if he uses the players we retain in their best positions, brings in players who can do their jobs and want to play, and if he is brave enough to start utilizing the obvious talent we have at youth level, then there is no reason why we can't get promoted and in some style...but that's a big IF, many have failed to do this before, and only time will tell whether NP can do it.... i don't really need to add anything to this oh, aprt from - for shame, kareem, for shame
dave_the_fox Posted 27 April 2009 Posted 27 April 2009 I just want a manager inI just wanna get this big league 1 rave-a-thon started !!!!!!!!!!! I'm happy with what I said about NP! edit: AND WHAT A RAVE IT WAS!!!
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