'This is our best 11' - Nigel Pearsons Post-Match Comments

[seenitall]

No shots on target from his best 11 - god forbid anyone gets a suspension or injured

[suffolk fox]

The beeb reckoned we had 0 shots on target all game Sky reckoned we had 2. Even so home or away that is very, very poor.

Mr Pearson now resorting to blaming the players. Has, made some ludicrous rants and comments to the press recently. Surely is losing the plot.

[Thracian]

Up to the Manchester United game our players were collectively excellent. Afterwards they've seemed deflated and uninspired. It's not about one player either because we've tried all sorts and in all kinds of set-ups. 

 

It's like the air has gone out of our balloon and we've no idea how to repair it.

That has to be down to the management.

 

Whether something's changed the mood in the place or players have become frustrated with Pearson's now constant negatively I don't know but the buck lies firmly with the manager and nothing he's saying of late suggests he has the faintest idea how to put things right.

 

Some talk about fickle fans but I don't think our current crisis is just about losing. We didn't win three points against Arsenal and Everton nor did we win any against Chelsea. But we were proud of our team and up to and including the United game we were more than pleased with both the rewards we got and the manner we got em.

 

Now we're not losing or drawing with attitute. We're losing without a whimper and we're not even looking like scoring goals or asking questions of the opposition either through pressure or through breakaways.

 

We're playing like we're almost embarrassed to be in The Premiership and it's an attitude that's spread through the team like ebola.

 

It's just not good enough. 

[Guest MarshallForEngland]

To be fair Southampton's defence is inarguably better than Utd's, who have been woeful all season especially around the time we played them. Getting results against big sides who perhaps aren't ready for a physical game or aren't expecting a tough fixture against a newly promoted side is not a good indicator of where we should be. We haven't been in this league for ten years amd virtually nobody here now was there then. It's a steep learning curve.

Standing over the ball, slowing games down, making the opposition chase the game, drawing fouls, getting in the ref's ear, knowing how to pick off inexperienced defenders, and being able to play against people who are enormous, physically strong and mentally astute - the Championship didn't equip us for all of this. The players are learning and so is Pearson. Sacking him will just balls everything up, there will no doubt be players who will follow him out like last time, the new manager will have his own agenda and won't like some of the players, the players will have to start over again with a new approach to the game and there will be no consistency. It's like people have forgotten the last ten years - when has sacking a manager ever been good for us?

[Guest Col city fan]

Again, I say if Pearson is claiming this is our best 11, we got real problems.

[Bob Weasel Fox]

In my honest view (and I hope these words come back to haunt me like they did last time I said this) if we don't get at least a point against Sunderland I think Vichai and Top may lose patience and Nigel may be packing his bags. I don't think any of us would be too hard on the lads losing if we at least look like we are giving it a go and lost to better teams, but just recently, we looked scared stiff. Can not fathom it at all.

Totally agree

[v6rat]

We did get into good positions. Morgan should've hit the target with his header and Wood's miss was laughable.

I think Morgan has only scored 3 goals in all leagues since he's been at Leicester, which considering he comes up for all the set pieces, is pants, so missing yesterday shouldn't be a surprise to anybody.

[Steven]

It's quite simply the manner of the defeats. Of course we knew it would be tough.

But if we can score 5 against United, 2 against Everton and look threatening going forward at Stamford bridge then how can we not create anything in the last 4/5 games against inferior opposition.

Pearson has completely changed his mindset , and I have no idea why! 442 with creative players resulted in 8 points from 5 games. We looked a great side, who ok may concede the odd goal but we looked unbelievably good going forward.

Now 1 point from 5 games playing so negatively and zero creativity. Ulloa hasn't lost the ability to finish overnight. Nor Knockaert & Mahrez haven't lost the ability to create chances. So please for all of us and your own sake Nige, go back to how we destroyed teams last year and how we succeeded at the start of this year and play positively!

 

Quite.

[sylofox]

I think NP had it sorted after the man u game.

 

So he has told the lads to take it real easy as we need to give Chelsea a chance.

So from Sunderland onwards we will rip the prem a new one.

 

The out come will be us winning the title in the last game of the season having done QPR 12-0 a new prem record.

 

Pearson will be king AGAIN and just to round off the perfect season we relegate QPR.

[inckley fox]

I am embarrassed reading some of these posts tbh. What happened to keeping a sense of proportion? We win against United and it is the best game anyone has ever seen, Pearson is a deity, we are pushing Europe and showing everyone else how it's done, and then we go on a relatively predictable and not at all unusual run of defeats and Pearson needs to go, Pulis is already in a taxi, yesterday's genius Ulloa is today's donkey and we are certain to be relegated. Where is the middle ground? Why can't we just accept that we are in what is arguably the best league in the world and every game is a long hard slog. I sometimes wonder if some of these idiots have ever seen a premiership season.

 

We can't just sit back and accept a point from six games, and we can't keep allowing the Man United game to affect the way we look towards the future.

 

The question is a very valid one: Is Pearson - a very competent manager in the second and third tier - going to prove to be a top flight survival specialist?

 

Now there are those who say, it doesn't matter if he isn't, he has done so much good in the past that he should not be fired. I'm afraid that is the biggest load of nonsense I've ever heard, especially if you harbour ambitions of establishing yourself at the highest level.

 

Then there are those who say he has achieved enough in the past to suggest that he is worth giving a little longer to turn things around. Well, in response, I'd say that the past counts for nothing now, all we are concerned with is his capacity to do a very different sort of job to that which he's done in the past. There are plenty of managers who have been successful in the lower divisions but not at the top - Bassett, McCarthy, Davies, Little and so on.

 

I've also heard the claim that, more often than not, mid-season changes of manager go wrong at this level. This is wrong. Of teams in the bottom six at this stage of the season, ten have chosen to make a change before the end of January, over the past five years. Only three of those have been relegated.

 

The best argument for him, and the one I'd go along with, is that he knows this squad and its strengths / weaknesses better than anybody else. He has coaching experience at this level and a reputation for assembling a club infrastructure, in terms of sport science and academy-building, of the highest level. If he is willing to look again at how he's approached the season so far as regards his line-up, formations, perhaps even the way he has reacted to results (clearly something wasn't done correctly after that United game), and certainly in terms of his motivational approach, then he may still represent our best option.

[Dan]

I am embarrassed reading some of these posts tbh. What happened to keeping a sense of proportion? We win against United and it is the best game anyone has ever seen, Pearson is a deity, we are pushing Europe and showing everyone else how it's done, and then we go on a relatively predictable and not at all unusual run of defeats and Pearson needs to go, Pulis is already in a taxi, yesterday's genius Ulloa is today's donkey and we are certain to be relegated. Where is the middle ground? Why can't we just accept that we are in what is arguably the best league in the world and every game is a long hard slog. I sometimes wonder if some of these idiots have ever seen a premiership season.

 

Not at all unusual? We've picked up one point in six games against by and large bottom half sides and even that came in one of the best chances for three points we will ever get at this level, failing to score in five of those six games.

 

I agree our fans are fickle and I don't want Pearson gone, but there is absolutely no defending this run. I'd struggle to stomach it even against the top sides let alone the likes of West Brom and ****ing Burnley.

[ozleicester]

I think NP had it sorted after the man u game.

 

So he has told the lads to take it real easy as we need to give Chelsea a chance.

So from Sunderland onwards we will rip the prem a new one.

 

The out come will be us winning the title in the last game of the season having done QPR 12-0 a new prem record.

 

Pearson will be king AGAIN and just to round off the perfect season we relegate QPR.

 

 

Only fvcking 12-0?

 

sick of you negative boo boys

[ARM1968]

What was it Pearson said about Burnley?