Bluetintedspecs Posted 10 March 2013 Posted 10 March 2013 I woke up this morning thoroughly expecting to read about NP being relived of his duties last night. Maybe they will give him time after all. I personally think if it's going to happen Waller it could be tomorrow night ala Sven sacking or if we fail at Cardiff. Think 10 or 9 games for a new Manager would be a foolhardy decision but a sh*t or bust move by the owners would not surprise me sadly!
Cropwellfox Posted 10 March 2013 Posted 10 March 2013 We struggle in every March that Pearson is here. Given playing passing football up for lent. We do seem to be crap in December and march year in year out
Deucalion Posted 10 March 2013 Posted 10 March 2013 I'm virtually 100% certain Pearson is going nowhere. There is usually more of a hum from the rumour mill than this. The only thing in the mainstream media has been an article in The Sun on Saturday. There is nothing from The Mirror, which is actually very good for breaking news on Leicester and nothing anywhere else. His departure is not immanent anywhere other than Foxestalk.
Bluetintedspecs Posted 10 March 2013 Posted 10 March 2013 I'm virtually 100% certain Pearson is going nowhere. There is usually more of a hum from the rumour mill than this. The only thing in the mainstream media has been an article in The Sun on Saturday. There is nothing from The Mirror, which is actually very good for breaking news on Leicester and nothing anywhere else. His departure is not immanent anywhere other than Foxestalk. Hope you're right Deuc.....Stringer was doing his level best with "Vice Chairman walking by shaking his head" gate
Guy Posted 10 March 2013 Posted 10 March 2013 Pretty much seventeen years ago to the day, he very nearly was. By the way, he turned it round after a home defeat against a Sheffield-based team, with widespread calls for his head reaching their peak and a Chelsea youth reject brought into the club the same week. Spooky, isn't it? I was echoing these very sentiments re O'Neill this time last season when we were stuttering and had recently only completed our first back to back league wins of last season at the time the previous weekend.......albeit over the mediocre Sheepshaggers and then over doomed Cov.! The said O'Neill sticky patch in March 1996 came at the end of that Sheffield United defeat at Filbert Street when people were calling for his head (spooky re the Sheffield connection I know!). However it never happened thankfully as we had a board at the time (Martin George, Tom Smeaton et al) who had been victim to managers leaving us behind for supposedly bigger and better things just before O'Neill came in (Brian Little, Mark McGhee.....), so firing managers for having sticky patches was not in their repertoire or agenda. Of course sticking with O'Neill paid handsome dividends in the end, even at the end of that very same season of course, as many of us will surely remember - paving the way for four glorious seasons to follow it on under O'Neill. If they sack Pearson anytime soion then as the old wise adage goes, "history will teach us nothing"!
LCFC_FAN_1995 Posted 10 March 2013 Posted 10 March 2013 Don't get why anybody would be happy with playoffs when we had it in our hands to go up automatically. Madness! Sums up the majority of our fanbase though Top 6 is what i've always been happy for, still in contention of going up. Top 2 would be a bonus but play offs will be happy for me, and if we do lose in the play offs you strengthen your team, just like Cardiff did, and now look at them? Sacking him would be stupid, even if we don't go up keep pearson so he can strengthen the squad, he sees them behind the scenes, he'll know what needs strenthening "Sums up the majority of our fanbase" What that we think it's stupid to sack him in this stage of the season? Behave.
Walshy5 Posted 10 March 2013 Posted 10 March 2013 I really think hes lost it. Time to go i think. What in gods name is he doing playing strikers on the wings! And if its true that part of the deal to bring kane here was that he has to play then we shouldnt have agreed to it.
Guest Col city fan Posted 10 March 2013 Posted 10 March 2013 I really think hes lost it. Time to go i think. What in gods name is he doing playing strikers on the wings! And if its true that part of the deal to bring kane here was that he has to play then we shouldnt have agreed to it. IF this is the case it's a terrible bit of management. No manager should be forced to play any player.
MattyFromLE Posted 10 March 2013 Posted 10 March 2013 I really think hes lost it. Time to go i think. What in gods name is he doing playing strikers on the wings! And if its true that part of the deal to bring kane here was that he has to play then we shouldnt have agreed to it. Fairly sure i've read somewhere that it is one of Kane's positions? He was awful yesterday. No contribution at all.
Bluetintedspecs Posted 10 March 2013 Posted 10 March 2013 I'm virtually 100% certain Pearson is going nowhere. There is usually more of a hum from the rumour mill than this. The only thing in the mainstream media has been an article in The Sun on Saturday. There is nothing from The Mirror, which is actually very good for breaking news on Leicester and nothing anywhere else. His departure is not immanent anywhere other than Foxestalk. Just a point to consider Deuc, how much of a hum was there when Sven sacked?
Deucalion Posted 10 March 2013 Posted 10 March 2013 Just a point to consider Deuc, how much of a hum was there when Sven sacked? To be fair, hardly any...but a little more than there is at the moment. Wasn't there the odd hint in The Mirror which was ridiculed for it on Foxestalk and such places? Also ITKs on Twitter were having their say about Sven. It still came as a massive shock to me though. Like it or not, I think Pearson is with us until the Summer.
LJS Posted 10 March 2013 Posted 10 March 2013 I remember being quite shocked when Eriksson was sacked. It felt as though it came out of nowhere.
Bluetintedspecs Posted 10 March 2013 Posted 10 March 2013 To be fair, hardly any...but a little more than there is at the moment. Wasn't there the odd hint in The Mirror which was ridiculed for it on Foxestalk and such places? Also ITKs on Twitter were having their say about Sven. It still came as a massive shock to me though. Like it or not, I think Pearson is with us until the Summer. Think that's the prudent decision personally,however, it would not surprise me if they pulled the trigger to be honest!And the Sven thing was a bolt out the blue for me too!
Deucalion Posted 10 March 2013 Posted 10 March 2013 I remember being quite shocked when Eriksson was sacked. It felt as though it came out of nowhere. I remember where I was...I was playing COD World at War online...I had just finished third* when my stepson burst in and told me to put the football news on because Sven had been sacked. I didn't believed him until I saw it on Sky Sports News. And...I haven't played World at War since. I've only just realised how traumatised I was by this shock. * Third isn't bad on World at War when you consider it is hacked to pieces. It's not an easy game to play honestly.
Danno Posted 10 March 2013 Posted 10 March 2013 We're only fifth really because of the teams below us being so inconsistent. Another time we would be outside the play offs IMO
LJS Posted 10 March 2013 Posted 10 March 2013 So we're only fifth because there are nineteen sides worse than us?
flowwolf Posted 10 March 2013 Posted 10 March 2013 Why sacking the manager when you're nestled nicely in 5th position? Yes, that's fifth position in the Championship. That's a playoff place. It's just about where many of us wanted us to be at this point of the campaign and there's still a great chance that we'll remain in this position comes April. It makes no sense to sack a manager with ten games to go under these circumstances. If, and that's still a very big if, we should drop out of the Top Six and finish the season outside of it, then maybe we can discuss this further on. Until then, it's all just one big piece of b*ll*cks. But we are not nicely settled in 5th place are we ? We all know that if we carry on playing the absolute dog shit that has been served up since January we will soon be taken over by other clubs and won't even be in the playoff's. Badger face has to go and the sooner it's done the better.
Guest Posted 10 March 2013 Posted 10 March 2013 We're only fifth really because of the teams below us being so inconsistent. Another time we would be outside the play offs IMO what a ridiculous thing to say. Fact is the Championship is a great wide open league where any team can beat any other each week. If NP is sacked then City will become a laughing stock. I didn't agree with Sven's sacking and this would be even worse. Imagine going to work and being on route to hitting your pre year sales targets only to get the sack a few weeks before they are realised. Those wanting NP out would not be happy I'm sure.
Deucalion Posted 10 March 2013 Posted 10 March 2013 I usually try to keep a sense of perspective about the football and avoid knee-jerk reactions but I have to admit my patience is wearing a little thin with Pearson. Although I am aware that other excellent managers for us have had bad patches and come through it. Despite the part of me which wants to throw my teddy out the pram over our current form, it is probably wise to see if Pearson can bring us through this and continue the good job he has done so far.
LJS Posted 10 March 2013 Posted 10 March 2013 what a ridiculous thing to say. Fact is the Championship is a great wide open league where any team can beat any other each week. If NP is sacked then City will become a laughing stock. I didn't agree with Sven's sacking and this would be even worse. Imagine going to work and being on route to hitting your pre year sales targets only to get the sack a few weeks before they are realised. Those wanting NP out would not be happy I'm sure. I'd be expecting to be on the receiving end of a quiet word from my bosses at least if I'd spent the past six weeks not getting even close to hitting my sales targets and being in danger of missing the year end target altogether.
flowwolf Posted 10 March 2013 Posted 10 March 2013 what a ridiculous thing to say. Fact is the Championship is a great wide open league where any team can beat any other each week. If NP is sacked then City will become a laughing stock. I didn't agree with Sven's sacking and this would be even worse. Imagine going to work and being on route to hitting your pre year sales targets only to get the sack a few weeks before they are realised. Those wanting NP out would not be happy I'm sure. So we are not a laughing stock already with our bottling it antics ?
cc_star Posted 10 March 2013 Posted 10 March 2013 I'd be expecting to be on the receiving end of a quiet word from my bosses at least if I'd spent the past six weeks not getting even close to hitting my sales targets and being in danger of missing the year end target altogether. We know they want & need promotion. We don't have a time limit on it, only the one fans put on it. For all anyone actually knows. The main target of the season could have been to get the bulk of work done on sustainability whilst being competitive at the top. Equally, it could have been to win the league by 10 points... No one really knows as they've never said, so it's different to the 'Martin George/Brian Little' era who kept saying they had a 3 year plan.
Guest Col city fan Posted 10 March 2013 Posted 10 March 2013 I remember being quite shocked when Eriksson was sacked. It felt as though it came out of nowhere. I even remember where I was.. Just about to start a night shift at work. I had the radio on as the news was filtering through.
cc_star Posted 10 March 2013 Posted 10 March 2013 I remember being quite shocked when Eriksson was sacked. It felt as though it came out of nowhere. Never getting out of midtable despite £10's of millions, & an awful 35 game run going back from the October to February came out of nowhere?
LJS Posted 10 March 2013 Posted 10 March 2013 Never getting out of midtable despite £10's of millions, & an awful 35 game run going back from the October to February came out of nowhere? Yes. I don't recall any rumours about it beforehand.
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