Time to man up and get rid!

[Guest Col city fan]

I think you've got bigger blue tinted specs than Bluetintedspecs.

I think you put down our own fans far too easily. Shameful.

[richard80014]

Why has Pearson not been sacked yet? I'm getting very impatient. He has lost me now, I gave him a fair crack of it and he has failed me. I have read a lot of comments on here about giving Pearson the season and who would be better. The question is who could do worse for us in this league? I could name plenty of managers better then Pearson. Pulis, Sherwood, Laudrup, Villas-Boas to name four off the top of my head. I get a clear sense that there are many people who claim to support Leicester when in actual fact, they support the manager. I was a Leicester fan happy to trust Pearson in guiding us, now I'm a Leicester fan nervous that our manager doesn't appear to have a clue and I don't like it. Goodbye Nigel, thanks for the lower league success you brought to us but I am a Leicester fan with Premier League ambition levels and you just don't cut it.

Hit the nail on the head. All the Pearsonites worship the man but have no regard for the club. Nothing really else can be said as you can't speak to these isis sorry I mean pearsonite delusional morons

[MC Prussian]

I think we have a great fan base who absolutely deserve more than what they are seeing at the moment. I'm amazed anyone would think otherwise. Villa away is 42 quid a ticket. If we go there and lose, I think there will be even more disgruntlement.

But we don't make ticket prices for awaydays, Col. Tell Villa about your feelings about your wallet getting robbed of its money.

 

Any football fan who thought or still thinks we'd walk this division is delusional. It was always to be a hard-fought battle. It's not the fact that we lose that gets me, it's the manner by which it is done. And both the manager as well as the players really need to face the facts that mistakes are punished way quicker in the Premier League than they are a level down.

 

I still have faith in this team, but the sooner they realize their shortcomings, the better. Because we have shown we can compete. At the moment, we're sort of unable to put one foot in front of the other. We seem to make improvements in one department, only to be disappointed by another. The art now is to bring all elements together to find back to the spirit we've all enjoyed at the start of this season.

[Guest Col city fan]

I agree re our fanbase Col

Pearson out by Christmas/New Year if we are still bottom?

No mate. I said I'd keep him even if we go down. And stick with it. Surprisingly, I still think he'll somehow turn us round and get 17th. I just hope he's got money to spend in Jan. Its my belief that Pearson, like so,many seemed to, has underestimated the Prem. I can understand the likes of Scouse and Ttfn doing it, I didn't think Nige would!

[Bob Weasel Fox]

No mate. I said I'd keep him even if we go down. And stick with it. Surprisingly, I still think he'll somehow turn us round and get 17th. I just hope he's got money to spend in Jan. Its my belief that Pearson, like so,many seemed to, has underestimated the Prem.

I like your faith Col

Got to say I'm getting impatient but that said stability is usually the better way to go

[Manwell Pablo]

No mate. I said I'd keep him even if we go down. And stick with it. Surprisingly, I still think he'll somehow turn us round and get 17th. I just hope he's got money to spend in Jan. Its my belief that Pearson, like so,many seemed to, has underestimated the Prem.

 

I'd be in that camp.

 

I actually think we'd come up again with few problems and probably be stronger for it.

 

Don't get me wrong a change in manager could probably see us end up like Palace last season but it's a gamble. Getting it wrong could result in us spending another 10 years outside of this division.

[Guest Col city fan]

But we don't make ticket prices for awaydays, Col. Tell Villa about your feelings about your wallet getting robbed of its money.

Any football fan who thought or still thinks we'd walk this division is delusional. It was always to be a hard-fought battle. It's not the fact that we lose that gets me, it's the manner by which it is done. And both the manager as well as the players really need to face the facts that mistakes are punished way quicker in the Premier League than they are a level down.

I still have faith in this team, but the sooner they realize their shortcomings, the better. Because we have shown we can compete. At the moment, we're sort of unable to put one foot in front of the other. We seem to make improvements in one department, only to be disappointed by another. The art now is to bring all elements together to find back to the spirit we've all enjoyed at the start of this season.

True..but I betcha we fill our end..and thats my point

[richard80014]

Thai owners are thankfully not delusional pearsonites and they love the club not the fool in charge. Therefore he will be sacked and we can all rejoice

[Guest ttfn]

I'd be in that camp.

I actually think we'd come up again with few problems and probably be stronger for it.

Don't get me wrong a change in manager could probably see us end up like Palace last season but it's a gamble. Getting it wrong could result in us spending another 10 years outside of this division.

Exactly. As much as I am worried that Pearson has gone totally bonkers, it would be incredibly harsh to ditch somebody who led us to our best ever season outside the top flight.

[Mark_w]

Thai owners are thankfully not delusional pearsonites and they love the club not the fool in charge. Therefore he will be sacked and we can all rejoice

 

They brought him to the club. They didn't sack him when half of our fans wanted him to go towards the end of the 2012/13 season.

 

For all you know they have a Nigel Pearson shrine.

[MC Prussian]

True..but I betcha we fill our end..and thats my point

Any team would fill the away end in its first season back in the Premier League for 10+ years. Just look at all the Championship contenders who are lining up for a ticket for the Premier League this season.

 

We are average compared to the rest of the country - right now, we're mainly profiting from the "promotion bonus".

[Mark]

Exactly. As much as I am worried that Pearson has gone totally bonkers, it would be incredibly harsh to ditch somebody who led us to our best ever season outside the top flight.

 

We haven't built on that progress, if anything we've made things worse by filling the squad out with bang average players, and that doesn't quite equal better competition for places. Quality not quantity. Whoever's been behind the recruitment, their position should be looked at, mainly for ignoring the most obvious positions that needed strengthening (left back/wing/attacking mid)

[inckley fox]

It's interesting how black and white opinions can be. I've never understood how people who seem to know their football can be so unconditional in either their support for or criticism of the manager.

 

As for Pearson, his position has been in question on several occasions. In 2010 it appears they took a big step backwards in allowing him to leave. In 2012, when Sven's supporters were still in full voice, he still needed the chance to craft his own side. In 2013 I sat on the fence in the spring and backed him in the summer, when there were some valid arguments for him to go. The truth is that he didn't meet expectations that year and I'm sure there are managers out there who would have fancied their chances. In fact, I'm sure there are managers out there who would have also taken us up this year and, no doubt, some who would have pulled it off in 2013 or against the odds in 2012.

 

So I understand why some people have questioned him in the past, but by and large he's done a good job in a profession of few guarantees. In a bleak era for the club he has mostly delivered what has been expected of him by bookies, boards, pundits and fans. There have been more spectacular reigns in this club's history and, over these mostly grim past 14 years, at plenty of other sides in English football. But as Clough once said to O'Neill, 'it's never easy to win something, no matter how great the expectation'.

 

Trying to be balanced, neither screaming for his head or hailing him as our one and only, is something we've struggled to do in the past with Pearson. Right now it probably makes sense to give him at least a little longer, but once again there is a sensible argument that we shouldn't. I don't get how anybody can be so firmly rooted in either camp.

[ealingfox]

I think we're forgetting that under Pearson everything will be alright in the end. If it's not alright, then it's not the end.

[Webbo]

I'd be in that camp.

 

I actually think we'd come up again with few problems and probably be stronger for it.

 

Don't get me wrong a change in manager could probably see us end up like Palace last season but it's a gamble. Getting it wrong could result in us spending another 10 years outside of this division.

Getting it right though could see us stay in this division for another 10 years. There are no guarantees that we'd get straight back up with Pearson. Stick or twist, it's a gamble whatever we do.

[Mike Oxlong]

Hard to see us improving with the current personnel. The confidence from promotion carried us through the first few games but that was a fragile confidence as subsequent games have shown. It's marginal as to whether this group of players have the ability to keep us up and they certainly won't without an enormous amount of self belief and fight.

[Guest Col city fan]

Any team would fill the away end in its first season back in the Premier League for 10+ years. Just look at all the Championship contenders who are lining up for a ticket for the Premier League this season.

We are average compared to the rest of the country - right now, we're mainly profiting from the "promotion bonus".

Surely this is just wrong? Do you mean 'average compared to the rest of the Prem fanbases'. When in the Championship, I thought we had one of the highest average attendances? That's not 'average compared to the rest of the country'?

[buzzy]

Pearson has not got a ****ing scooby at all and needs to go.

 

His continual persistence of playing shite players (RDL, Schlup, Konch, nugent), his abysmal summer recruitment, his inherent lack of tactical awareness, sensible substitutions and down right arrogance towards the media and the fans is now so bloody obvious.

 

I bet my mortgage there is unrest in the dressing room and the fact that kasper came out in the middle of the week giving the vote of confidence is a clear sign not all is well.

 

Anyone who thinks it is acceptable to keep Pearson and get relegated and take it on the chin is clueless, it took as long enough to go up and loyalty counts for nothing in business and that is what football is now business and if we want to keep mixing it up in the prem then we need to adapt and quick. If adapting means binning Pearson and going to the next level with a proven premiership manager 'ahem Pulis' then so be it.

well said totally agree with what you have said . ive been sayng this since defeat to newcastle

[DANGEROUS TIGER]

No mate. I said I'd keep him even if we go down. And stick with it. Surprisingly, I still think he'll somehow turn us round and get 17th. I just hope he's got money to spend in Jan. Its my belief that Pearson, like so,many seemed to, has underestimated the Prem. I can understand the likes of Scouse and Ttfn doing it, I didn't think Nige would!

I admire you for your beliefs Col, but I lost mine today.

 

Defeat, I can accept, but it is the mediocrity of our performances that have finished me.

 

I think we agree on all points, and reasons for our situation, which began with dreadful signings, bar Cambiasso and Ulloa. Nine more of their quality, and we would be laughing. Sadly, I am convinced we need a managerial change, before it is too late, and now is probably the right time. However, that is for the board to decide.

[Mark_w]

I bet my mortgage there is unrest in the dressing room and the fact that kasper came out in the middle of the week giving the vote of confidence is a clear sign not all is well.

 

The dreaded Goalkeeper's vote of confidence.

[Guest Col city fan]

I admire you for your beliefs Col, but I lost mine today.

Defeat, I can accept, but it is the mediocrity of our performances that have finished me.

I think we agree on all points, and reasons for our situation, which began with dreadful signings, bar Cambiasso and Ulloa. Nine more of their quality, and we would be laughing. Sadly, I am convinced we need a managerial change, before it is too late, and now is probably the right time. However, that is for the board to decide.

You could be right chap.. I fear a defeat on Tuesday may well be curtains.

[johnny the fox]

Go and join isis or some other fanatic sect and give the pearsonite religion a rest you clown.

 

You would literally back him if burnt the stadium down and ran off with your wife 

 

Being in a sect is not healthy sunshine so you really should seek some help

 

The rest of us know pearson is the problem and your excuses of who do we get in blah blah are a little boring now. Pearson has taken us to the bottom of the division - it doesn't get worse you egit

 

You should take up politics clown or do anything other than pretend to support our great club

 

the intelligent fans will continue to support our club whilst the likes of you can continue to lick and taste your hero's bottom !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

The proof is when a new manager comes in you will not support him because are simply a pathetic troll so get off this site can crawl back to your sect

when you turn 14 you will regret this post..

[Number 6]

I still love Nige. He'll turn it around.

[inckley fox]

If the Pearson to stay people can give me some reasons in the here and now as to why he shouldnt lose his job, i'd be more than happy to listen. The Pearson out brigade can list numerous reasons why he should go.

 

I suppose the main reasons are that we are so close to being in our 'minimum finish target' placing of 17th and have played reasonably well these past two games. On top of that we have a January window just a month away and when he has been given a blank cheque book (if that's what you can call the first eight months of 2012) he's done a decent job with it. And if another manager comes in and doesn't have a blank cheque book he's probably going to be every bit as screwed as Pearson. Others will point to the fact that, in spite of some pretty disastrous past runs of form, he's tended to deliver the goods given time. For me, the main reason why I'd be reluctant to let go isn't so much to do with the past, but rather the present. The vast bulk of this squad have played together for two or three years, and have achieved success for this manager. He knows their strengths and weaknesses better than anyone, or at least he should, and the squad has been forged pretty much in his own images (think back to all those lines about how he knew who'd he'd prefer 'to be stuck in the trenches with').

 

But I appreciate that there are some well thought-out arguments that he should go. I'd suggest the tight fixture schedule will buy him at least a couple more games, but if they don't go to plan the arguments in his favour will be getting increasingly flimsy.

 

What I don't buy is people saying that his position should be beyond question for the whole of the season, as if us being favourites for promotion in the Championship four years after being favourites for promotion in the Championship would represent progress. Neither do I buy the idea that changing managers pre-January more often than not signals the end for relegation strugglers, or that Pearson's bizarre decision-making since last June is in some way beyond reproach. And, while I'm at it, people talking about 'short memories' might also like to remember our points totals at this stage in the 2001-02 and 2003-04 seasons, which were roughly in line with what we've got now.

 

I've said it a million times, there are good arguments for him to stay, and they probably win out, but some of Pearson's more fervent backers aren't helping the case.

[inckley fox]

I admire you for your beliefs Col, but I lost mine today.

 

Defeat, I can accept, but it is the mediocrity of our performances that have finished me.

 

I think we agree on all points, and reasons for our situation, which began with dreadful signings, bar Cambiasso and Ulloa. Nine more of their quality, and we would be laughing. Sadly, I am convinced we need a managerial change, before it is too late, and now is probably the right time. However, that is for the board to decide.

 

Honestly thought the performance was fine. There are 2 or 3 weaknesses that haven't been addressed and the manager persists in making some of the most surreal substitutions I've ever seen, but there was enough quality to win the game, had the manager done his job properly.

 

That doesn't mean I think he should be fired, because I don't, but the catalogue of amateurish errors on his part is really starting to grate.