Keep Pearson

[NeilyBoy]

Oh just fvck off you Pearson haters. We were always going to draw or lose to Reading.

[pablos111]

Oh just fvck off you Pearson haters. We were always going to draw or lose to Reading.

i'm not a Pearson hater just a realist, but i love your optimism

Perhaps the players have the same attitude as you, would that be why we keep losing?

[jonlcfc1990]

We should be thankful Pearson left his outfit to come and join us ffs the fans who want him out know nothing.

[pablos111]

I dont think anyone really wants him out but the owners will, you see if im not wrong. What we want to see is the team and that includes NP play with more passion and hunger without a doubt these players were better under Sven the table at the time told that its not even an argument.

[iamafox]

I think so atm, I'd rather have stability at Leicester than be seeing chopping and changing every couple of months.

Completely agree. No stability, no success.

[NeilyBoy]

i'm not a Pearson hater just a realist, but i love your optimism

Perhaps the players have the same attitude as you, would that be why we keep losing?

You call yourself a realist but you were expecting to win this match? I'm sorry but a team with 7 wins on the trot and genuinely challenging for automatic promotion, not to mention with a really good defensive record, is always going to be a difficult one to beat and certainly not one we should expect to beat.

[pablos111]

You call yourself a realist but you were expecting to win this match? I'm sorry but a team with 7 wins on the trot and genuinely challenging for automatic promotion, not to mention with a really good defensive record, is always going to be a difficult one to beat and certainly not one we should expect to beat.

To be winners we have to go out there no matter who we are playing and believe we can win or we accept defeat and end up in division2 or 3.

So we had not even better bother to turn up against Chelsea next Sunday then because they are going to beat us anyway, better call Nigel and tell him to give the lads the day off then

[Mission Unlikely Promotion]

We need to stick with Pearson for the time being and give the club some stability

[Danny the Fox 95]

PEARSON OUT

[NeilyBoy]

To be winners we have to go out there no matter who we are playing and believe we can win or we accept defeat and end up in division2 or 3.

So we had not even better bother to turn up against Chelsea next Sunday then because they are going to beat us anyway, better call Nigel and tell him to give the lads the day off then

Yes, but we are not yet winners. A few changes need to be made and we'll come back next season to have another go at it.

[Danny the Fox 95]

Am I the only one who wants this boring man out of our club. Everyone is saying give him a whole season, but all he'll do is what he did with Hull an 11th/12th place finish.

When Sven was appointed he got results immediately and took us to the verge of the playoffs after being appointed when we were bottom. When Sven was sacked we were 2 points off a play-off spot, Nigel came in and has had since October to put it right with one of the best squads in the league, but no. We are 8 points off play offs but effectively 10 points off as Birmingham have two games in hand on us. There isn't enough progress being made.

Another point is that it's not like Pearson has a small budget like McDermott has. He is a manager we should be looking at, he has had a very limited budget and had to sell his best players-Mills and Long. While Nigel had the whole transfer window to strengthen but he only brought in three players-Morgan,Drinkwater,Marshall.

He obviously hasn't got the players backing either. E.G. transfer listed St Ledger and made Mills available for loan. WOuldn't be too surprised to see Beckford,Nugent,Schmeichel,Bamba go in the summer.

Plus he's a boring sod.

And before people start slating me, its not like I am a regular listener of BBC Radio Leicester. I have gone to 15 away games this season, but decided to give today a miss.

Bring on another loss on Tuesday

[Corky]

You call yourself a realist but you were expecting to win this match? I'm sorry but a team with 7 wins on the trot and genuinely challenging for automatic promotion, not to mention with a really good defensive record, is always going to be a difficult one to beat and certainly not one we should expect to beat.

So what about the previous match, at a club in dreadful form?

We had to win this game, because we didn't win the previous one. It's simple, this result wouldn't look so poor if we'd done as others have done and beaten the clubs near the bottom.

[Tielemans63]

I think the time to judge Pearson will be at Christmas time next season. We were shit under Sven and we're shit now. NP at least deserves a summer to rebuild as he sees fit and then we see what happens.

To bin him now would put us back to square 1 - and who's the foolproof genius you'd replace him with?

[jonlcfc1990]

I think the time to judge Pearson will be at Christmas time next season. We were shit under Sven and we're shit now. NP at least deserves a summer to rebuild as he sees fit and then we see what happens.

To bin him now would put us back to square 1 - and who's the foolproof genius you'd replace him with?

So we judge him in the middle of another season? after hes bought "his" players? lets judge him in 3 years and see where we are. I guarantee you the way some "fans" are he will be lucky to get 3 games

[Tielemans63]

So we judge him in the middle of another season? after hes bought "his" players? lets judge him in 3 years and see where we are. I guarantee you the way some "fans" are he will be lucky to get 3 games

Mate, I actually agree with you and would give him that but I'm thinking realistically - football is such a stupidly impulsive business these days that no manager gets more than a year to actually build something - it's crazy.

[NeilyBoy]

So what about the previous match, at a club in dreadful form?

We had to win this game, because we didn't win the previous one. It's simple, this result wouldn't look so poor if we'd done as others have done and beaten the clubs near the bottom.

The Bristol match was a horror show, but it was on the back of 3 wins, 1 of which was against a premier league squad to get us into the quarter final of the FA cup. Or had you forgotten that?

[Tielemans63]

Lets just have a look at Svens permanent sigings one by one:

Bamba £250k - Top value in my opinion, we were offered £2million from Blackburn

Vassell Free, Can't beat a freebie, and excellent performer

Ricardo- Free. Big mistake and cost us lots of goals, even if not lots of money.

Lee Peltier £750k - Good value, could sell him for the same

Kasper Schmeichel £1.25 Million - excellent value, could get £5million for him

Neil Danns Free - Can't beat a freebie

Sean St. Ledger £1.25 million - Good value, Rep Ireland international - easily get the same back

David Nugent Free - Can't beat a freebie, especially one on course for 20 goals!

Matt Mills Reading £3.5 miillion - Price tag pressure has killed his performances, the big shocker of all transfers

Paul Konchesky 250k - Good value for money, consistant performer

John Pantsil Free - yet to prove himself, big wages, so some question marks

Michael Ball Free - Mistake, but a very cheap one.

Jermaine Beckford Everton £2.5 million - starting to show his value, yet to be fully convinced

So he signed a number of decent individuals who have been reasonably successful. Didn't buy a team though did he? Didn't buy players who would actually compliment each other? He bought a team of good individual players in the hope that they'd somehow gel instantly - bit difficult when you bring in big egod -and that's why we're in the shit.

For what it's worth I thought the sacking of Sven was a bit rash at the time but I think the players had lost confidence in him. They didn't seem to understand the system they were playing in.

[iamafox]

It's bad enough for the owners to sack Pearson and then appoint somebody (whether he's proven or not) who doesn't know the squad more than Pearson and then tell the new manager that he has 1 season to get the club promoted.

[chris_lcfc_85]

Hello fellow foxes fans,

I appreciate emotions are running very high on here currently due to our inconsistent results/season but please can we ALL support Nigel and back him.

We probably have near enough a 50/50 split on who'd prefer Nigel or Sven but the fact is, Nigel is our manager and we should stick by him.

Just for the record, i think we sacked Sven too soon but its gone now and here we are. Listening to the phone in on Saturday then reading this forum after the game, its so depressing and embarrassing!!! We are already a laughing stock having signed a defender for nearly 5m that cant make our bench!!

So my point being, changing the manager now would solve NOTHING. He'd have no money to spend and we start from square one again in the summer..... Nigel has managed 3 signings so far as he literally only had Jan to sign players, not ideal and very tough to stamp his autority on the team from Feb onwards. Let him deal with it, and for once, can we PLEASE accept that we may have to take a few steps back to go forward....!!!

I know not everyone will agree with me and fair enough but trying to make people see that changing our manager now is NOT the answer and like Pearson or not, he is OUR manager now so lets give him the chance to put it right......

[jonlcfc1990]

50/50? I doubt it's that divided, People just like venting on here there is no need to take it too seriously i don't think, I'm a fan of Pearson i think he needs time to work his magic back into the squad and he like any manager should be given a fair crack of the whip. I think a lot of people on here would agree that it's far too early to think about shipping off ANOTHER manager in favour of another one or we will always be a mid table championship side.

Keep the faith

[hbkkids]

We were inconsistent under Sven, it ain't the manager it's the team, we need pre season and we need to work on attitude because I think that we go to places like Bristol city thinking it would be a walk in the park and then get humiliated.

[Babylon]

Of the 13 I see, 7 a great success, 2 arguably successful (beckford and Peltier), one yet to be proven, and only 3/13 are mistakes.

Lets not get carried away with ' clearing up the mess' rhetoric, or we will all begin to sound like a hollow members of the coalition government, churning out the party line.

Only 3 out of 13 a mistake... 7 a great success...? And yet they guided us to 14th when Sven was sacked and not much better now.

Except for Kasper, Nugent and Konchesky i'd say they have all been exceptionally average, and that's exactly why we are where we are.

Yes they are all capable of putting in the odd decent performace, but only those three have shown anything close to consistancy.

[red5]

He's failed and he's boring

I blame Sven

[Kitchandro]

I don't see why people claim 'you can't beat a freebie' as if being free makes it a decent signing, We're not bringing in players so we can sell them on for more, we're supposed to be bringing in players who can get us promoted. Have Pantsil, Vassell and Danns contributed to that? No. Are they likely to next season? I doubt it.

Beckford's shown some potential but SO FAR he has been a flop. If he had the same goalscoring record next season he'd be a poor signing. It's only the benefit of the doubt and some better displays in the last couple of months which have bought him some time.

Mills might only be one mistake but considering he's cost us over $4m it's a significant one. That's a lot of money that could have been better spent elsewhere. Peltier has been far from impressive since November.

As Babylon says there's only 3 of his signings that have been above average if we're honest.

[Krimbinho]

I think, like some others, he has to be given time until Christmas or at least we have to start the next season with him and see how it goes.

He has taken us to the Play-Off's before and he will do it again, if given enough time. Some people seem to forgett what a good coach he actually is and I'm getting fed up with that. What do you want? A new manager after every game we lose?!

Just let him clear out the players he doesn't want and bring 2-3 new additions in and see how it will work. With him in charge, the team will have a future. He doesn't spend loads of money and has an eye for bargains and young talent, that is the way to go!