Pearson potential

[Dan]

None of us have a clue about Pearson's potential. Babs is quite right. Pearson remains a relatively inexperienced manager and certainly this season appears to have learnt and developed. He may well continue to do so.

For me, Pearson's strengths are these:

- he seems an excellent man manager. He doesn't seem to take any shite and, like Fergie, if you give it the billy big bollox, you're out the door.

- he builds a squad. He doesn't just buy a group of disjointed misfits, instead he takes his time and plans.

- he develops a mixed blend of youth and experience.

- he seems to have a good sense of humour. I think the players enjoy working with him.

However.... unlike many, I think there's a big big gulf between the Championship and most of the Premiership. You pretty much have to hit the ground running. If not, you can easily find yourself on the back end of successive losses, morale and confidence get knocked and you're playing catch up. Nige has never managed at this level, has never had a big transfer kitty to play with and has always been pretty successful as a manager.

If we go up, and its likely we will, its going to be fascinating to see what Pearson will do. Will he go for any 'big names'? Will he stick with the somewhat dated 4-4-2. Who will be in, who out?

I'm itching to see whether both the players and Pearson can make that step up. My feeling is that we will probably just about be ok.

 

Still makes me laugh to this day that some people were using that against him. "Failing to get the best out of big name players".

 

I often find with a lot of fans that certain aspects of Pearson will be used in his favour if he's on a good run, and against him if he's doing bad.

 

He's quite a principalled (is that even a word?) bloke and I could see him sticking by them no matter how high he took us.

 

I'm excited by his potential and I hope that the Thais share it. Because I've seen things in the past couple of years that make me think he could go on to turn us into a iconic Leicester side.

 

I think the stick he gets for 4-4-2 is harsh. I'm no lover of it but we don't play a stereotypical old fashioned 4-4-2 at all in my opinion. It is 4-4-2 but it's like our own variation of it.

[Guest Col city fan]

Still makes me laugh to this day that some people were using that against him. "Failing to get the best out of big name players".

I often find with a lot of fans that certain aspects of Pearson will be used in his favour if he's on a good run, and against him if he's doing bad.

He's quite a principalled (is that even a word?) bloke and I could see him sticking by them no matter how high he took us.

I'm excited by his potential and I hope that the Thais share it. Because I've seen things in the past couple of years that make me think he could go on to turn us into a iconic Leicester side.

I think the stick he gets for 4-4-2 is harsh. I'm no lover of it but we don't play a stereotypical old fashioned 4-4-2 at all in my opinion. It is 4-4-2 but it's like our own variation of it.

Principled. .