Pearson: "Too many pre-season games"

[Hungry Hungry Fox]

That's probably not so bad because the flight isn't between matches. The team get time to settle down and play properly. Preparation is still part of the plan there whereas ours was a bit of a rush with a match quickly following a long plane journey.

They've been flying long distances between games. Van gaal was complaining about it

[Hungry Hungry Fox]

I honestly think that it's the werder Bremen game that's the problem, a week before the season starts against a tough opposition is not ideal, especially at home with fans expecting big things and it's sole purpose being a publicity stunt.

We have a friendly against a bigger team every year

Have people not followed previous pre seasons?

[dmayne7]

I bet some of you still believe the "You won't have heard of any of our target's"

 

He has praps been looking on here and thought he would poor petrol onto the fire.

 

 He never said that! Its no wonder journalism is of such a bad standard when people misinterpret what was said, practically giving them a license to get away with anything. He said that he doubted whether most fans would have heard of the majority of his targets. So he has 100 players on his list for example, and we know of 20, that still leaves 80 people won't have heard of. Between us, we're obviously going to know almost every single target but there's been plenty reported that lots of people haven't heard of. And that's only the one's that the media have linked us with.

[Haydos]

I'm struggling to understand why Rotherham would want a pre-season game 4 days before their season starts.

 

2nd stringers and first teamers lacking a bit of sharpness.

[Guest Col city fan]

Genuinely bizarre comment for any manager of a football club to make. Unless it was a slip of the tongue?

To say that the club he manages has too many pre-season fixtures reeks, to me, of him being pissed off that someone else is controlling the number of games being played? I can't think of any other explanation.

[Hungry Hungry Fox]

He only said it was one too many

People read far too much into things

[Soar Fox]

All but one prem team has played abroad during pre season

Let me guess.....Burnley.

They haven't got enough pound notes to afford the Ryanair flights.

[RedSoxUK]

This is nothing...

 

Pearson clearly feels frustrated (like many managers do) about playing a game across the world to please owners / a different set of fans. There's nothing new or wrong about that. I imagine they moved either the MK Dons or Rotherham game to this date after LCFC announced the Thailand trip. 

 

Either way, 2 games in 2 days is great practice for the entire squad, and a few youngsters too - he's just worried about the potential injuries effecting his starting 11 v Everton which is on his mind every day.

[Foxhateram]

We have a friendly against a bigger team every year

Have people not followed previous pre seasons?

Excuse me? Don't have a pop, I've followed city since I was old enough to remember thanks.

I was just quoting Pearson as saying there was one too many games and seeing as we have played a game in Thailand on tour every year since the Thais took over I'm thinking the only other game that would be debatable is the Werder Bremen game. That's the only game I can think of that seems to only fit for a publicity purpose and not a good training excersice like the lower league teams offer.

[Hungry Hungry Fox]

Excuse me? Don't have a pop, I've followed city since I was old enough to remember thanks.

I was just quoting Pearson as saying there was one too many games and seeing as we have played a game in Thailand on tour every year since the Thais took over I'm thinking the only other game that would be debatable is the Werder Bremen game. That's the only game I can think of that seems to only fit for a publicity purpose and not a good training excersice like the lower league teams offer.

The game against Everton was a publicity exercise. I think the Werder Bremen game will be a better measure of where we are before the games that matter

[CPW22]

Let me guess.....Burnley.

They haven't got enough pound notes to afford the Ryanair flights.

They beat someone 8-0 in Denmark, I think.

[Foxhateram]

The game against Everton was a publicity exercise. I think the Werder Bremen game will be a better measure of where we are before the games that matter

Not disputing the fact Everton was a publicity stunt just saying that we normally play a game in Thailand every year. Have you not followed previous pre-seasons?

Anyway more games equals better match fitness so I'm not going to moan.

[Guest Electric Yetis]

You may be right but the only other time I can remember us playing in Thailand was against their national side in 2010?

[Oxfordfox83]

...that is worrying, especially on the verge of what will prove to be a difficult and problematical season.

I can't believe no one else has called you on this. I hate the faux prescience you (and the other trolls) have. Why will our first season back in the top flight prove to be problematic(al)? Why won't it be exciting to be fighting lower down in a higher league, as it was fighting at the top of the league below? Why the fecking downers all the time? You were so much better last season, why not try it again?

[Hungry Hungry Fox]

I can't believe no one else has called you on this. I hate the faux prescience you (and the other trolls) have. Why will our first season back in the top flight prove to be problematic(al)? Why won't it be exciting to be fighting lower down in a higher league, as it was fighting at the top of the league below? Why the fecking downers all the time? You were so much better last season, why not try it again?

This. I find it all rather puzzling tbh

[DANGEROUS TIGER]

I can't believe no one else has called you on this. I hate the faux prescience you (and the other trolls) have. Why will our first season back in the top flight prove to be problematic(al)? Why won't it be exciting to be fighting lower down in a higher league, as it was fighting at the top of the league below? Why the fecking downers all the time? You were so much better last season, why not try it again?

It's nice to know this is how you feel, knowing that it won't be difficult or problematical but you're not living in the real world.

Why bring "trolling" into the equation? I am not being critical of Pearson, but being realistic, about our first season back for ten years, where there will have to be a learning curve.

Of course we had a great season last year, but now we have to up the anti, and most certainly WILL be difficult, and doubtless problematical. We have to adapt to the big step up,and it will bring all sorts of hurdles to overcome, but hopefully we can take the first step to establishing ourselves, in what is probably the league in the world to be in.

I supported NP last year, and will be doing the same this coming season

[DANGEROUS TIGER]

I don't see the Thailand trip as pointless - quite the contrary - there were so many potential benefits. On and off the field we are trying to increase our profile and where better than where we have probably our strongest overseas support and in the homeland of our owners which have done so much to transform this club for the better.

 

The match offered a personal thankyou to our Thai fans and encouraged the recruitment of still more.

 

In football terms, being of Premiership status means, we need to get used to the experience of foreign travel demands on a much more regular basis whether it be for competiton or promotional reasons and Thailand - on the other side of the world - is surely as good a place to do this as any.

 

I can also understand the MK Dons fixture because it could be regarded as within the area of our potential local fanbase and if we're intending to increase our ground capacity alongside our growing status then some of the potential paying fans may well come from Northamptonshire and North Buckinghamshire because there's nothing else down there without heading south into London.

 

I'd presume the manager would be party to each and every friendly - even the Thai trip as a matter of discussion and courtesy. But people need to remember our owners have a business as well as a footballing agenda and the close season is increasingly important for that.

 

Maybe if we'd signed a few more players by now the pressures of fielding teams on back-to-back friendly days would have been easier. But the world cup perhaps took so much attention that other things didn't get done for various reasons.

 

What Pearson seems to be saying is that we're behind with our preparation in terms of team and tactics. And that won't be made easier if two or three others need to be drafted into the squad and settled.

 

Maybe the time taken up by too many transfer disappointments has taken its toll as well. Was that all because people didn't want to join us or because we weren't financially flexible enough to settle the deal?

 

Whatever our squad looks worse now rather than better to me what with Dyer gone and assuming Wood is bound for a loan move.

 

Up to now, Hamer's arrival has only made me wonder why people mock Logan so much, no-one's been signed to replace the genuine threat of Dyer, Upson sounds like this season's Sean St Leger, and, although hope springs eternal,  Ulloa  doesn't seem to be exciting anyone as yet.

 

Thank God Babs is around to assure us it'll all be alright on the night!    .

Great post Thracian.

[Westlife]

 

 

It's nice to know this is how you feel, knowing that it won't be difficult or problematical but you're not living in the real world.

Why bring "trolling" into the equation?

Of course we had a great season last year, but now we have to up the anti, and most certainly WILL be difficult, and doubtless problematical. We have to adapt to the big step up,and it will bring all sorts of hurdles to overcome, but hopefully we can take the first step to establishing ourselves, in what is probably the league in the world to be in.

Take your silly billy hat off, and fut on your thinking one.

 

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I don't get it . . .

[DANGEROUS TIGER]

It's nice to know this is how you feel, knowing that it won't be difficult or problematical but you're not living in the real world.

Why bring "trolling" into the equation?

Of course we had a great season last year, but now we have to up the anti, and most certainly WILL be difficult, and doubtless problematical. We have to adapt to the big step up,and it will bring all sorts of hurdles to overcome, but hopefully we can take the first step to establishing ourselves, in what is probably the league in the world to be in.

I supported NP last season, and will back him this season 100%

[5waller5]

Seems clear to me ....

 

He arranged the amount of games he thought necessary ... then the board added in the Thai trip.

 

No big deal, he can see why, it just added one more game that he didn't think he needed. That's all he's saying.

[DANGEROUS TIGER]

 

It's nice to know this is how you feel, knowing that it won't be difficult or problematical but you're not living in the real world.

Why bring "trolling" into the equation?

Of course we had a great season last year, but now we have to up the anti, and most certainly WILL be difficult, and doubtless problematical. We have to adapt to the big step up,and it will bring all sorts of hurdles to overcome, but hopefully we can take the first step to establishing ourselves, in what is probably the league in the world to be in.

I supported NP last season, and will back him this season 100%

 

How the hell did I manage to post this?

[DANGEROUS TIGER]

 

It's nice to know this is how you feel, knowing that it won't be difficult or problematical but you're not living in the real world.

Why bring "trolling" into the equation?

Of course we had a great season last year, but now we have to up the anti, and most certainly WILL be difficult, and doubtless problematical. We have to adapt to the big step up,and it will bring all sorts of hurdles to overcome, but hopefully we can take the first step to establishing ourselves, in what is probably the league in the world to be in.

I supported NP last season, and will back him this season 100%

 

I'm going back to bed. It appears I am talking to myself now!       

[Guest Col city fan]

It's nice to know this is how you feel, knowing that it won't be difficult or problematical but you're not living in the real world.

Why bring "trolling" into the equation? I am not being critical of Pearson, but being realistic, about our first season back for ten years, where there will have to be a learning curve.

Of course we had a great season last year, but now we have to up the anti, and most certainly WILL be difficult, and doubtless problematical. We have to adapt to the big step up,and it will bring all sorts of hurdles to overcome, but hopefully we can take the first step to establishing ourselves, in what is probably the league in the world to be in.

I supported NP last year, and will be doing the same this coming season

Excellent post DT.

I'm sure we've had this conversation before? Any poster who doesn't toe the party line ie. Who doesn't constantly be positive and optimistic about whichever manager we have. Indeed.. anyone who dares to even question.. is labelled a troll by the usual suspects.

[AyewJoking]

He said one game too many.

 

This is clearly a snipe at the game in Thailand.

 

This spells unrest between the manager and the chairman.

 

I say we sack Pearson now and get David Moyes before someone else.

[Guest LCFC_World]

He said one game too many.

 

This is clearly a snipe at the game in Thailand.

 

This spells unrest between the manager and the chairman.

 

I say we sack Pearson now and get David Moyes before someone else.

 

I hope your not serious.