What Do People Get Out Of Their Negativity?

[Danno]

Attention probably. Weirdos

[Dan]

"Critical" can be as positive as it gets...and this season will be the perfect test of Pearson's abilities and whether his critics are right or not.

 

Sun-in-their-eyes" optimists might think they're supporting the club by standing and cheering whatever dross is being served up by the team - and good luck to them - but it won't do a thing to help City's progress.

 

Critics, in contrast, express their support by cheering when it's merited  and highlighting the things they believe need to be rapidly improved when it's not.

 

This pre-season has left so many followers indifferent and that can't be positive. The feel-good factor is a necessary part of putting ourselves in the best position to win things and it needs to be promoted. But this year's build-up has been flat as a tabletop.

 

Even the Monaco game, which should have stirred the emotions, was all-but an anti-climax. It was summed up by Pearson who said "we didn't do enough with the ball" and that in a game when every player might have been expected to put on a show and demonstrate their own optimism for the future.

 

In the stands it started going flat when we conceded the first goal in next-to no time - making that, really, the end of that.

   

But Monaco was just a day-out. It should have been the climax to an encouraging build-up yet was about as thrilling as brewer's droop to a rampant woman.        

 

Instead, all the game seemed to illustrate was that there's no signs  that the team has been lifted from the demise of throwing away such a fantastic chance of promotion last season - and no impression that they're itching to make amends as soon as they get the chance.

 

I accept that there's no certainties in football.

 

But from the signs so far I can't see us lighting the league up with the sort of exhilarating football we opened with last season.

Nor can I see us finishing much above halfway at best.

 

Far from expecting promotion, I'm concerned that if we fall off the pace early on and be caught up in a battle for survival insted.

 

So much depends on Pearson getting more out of players like Vardy, Schlupp, Woods, Marshall, Waghorn and Knockaert than he already has and I don't see it happening because it hasn't happened up to now.

 

And I cannot imagine anyone emerging from the shadows because no-one has done that either under the current regime.

 

Even Schlupp's career here had to be revived by Manchester United!           

 

As for Pearson, he sounds now like a manager operating under great constraint and in the knowledge that if he hasn't succeeded so far, there's precious little chance of him doing better in today's circumstances.

 

But that's the challenge for him.

 

Any manager can do well with infinite resources. The test is to succeed against the odds by making the very best of what you have. Some managers have that ability. I don't think Pearson is one of them but I'll willingly sing his praises if I'm wrong.

 

Cracking post and very well balanced. Give me this over "badger head's got to go".

[DANGEROUS TIGER]

Garbage.

Not necessarily. Some posters do believe that.

[seenitall]

Cracking post and very well balanced. Give me this over "badger head's got to go".

But it is essentially the same thing- so the sentiment is OK just needs to be a few hundred words long every time and not allude to any personal insults re Nige? Check!