MattyFromLE Posted 19 January 2015 Posted 19 January 2015 How can anybody, outside of the club really judge on team selections? We were unsuccessful on Saturday - but not totally outclassed. We again, had chances but didn't take them. Would we have made the same chances with a striker that has been our player for less than 24 hours? If Albrighton played, if he crossed the ball in - to who? Vardy isn't going to win a header, Nugent neither. So should he have played Ulloa? He was poor against Villa so why should he start? Our game plan for the most part on Saturday worked. We limited them to very few chances by being patient. Could we have done this with different players? Considering James and Esteban were unavailable? Nigel et al see the players train every day. If someone gives 110% in the week, shows desire, skill, discipline up until Friday afternoon and gets a start - it's up to them to live up to the managers expectations. I don't think the team selection was bad on Saturday, one of the substitutions wasn't correct in my opinion. Maybe Albrighton hadn't trained very well? Or wasn't up for playing? My point is. It's very easy to criticise from the outside and after a match. Pearson's team selections have for the most part what everyone would have expected.
Manwell Pablo Posted 19 January 2015 Posted 19 January 2015 How can anybody, outside of the club really judge on team selections? We were unsuccessful on Saturday - but not totally outclassed. We again, had chances but didn't take them. Would we have made the same chances with a striker that has been our player for less than 24 hours? If Albrighton played, if he crossed the ball in - to who? Vardy isn't going to win a header, Nugent neither. So should he have played Ulloa? He was poor against Villa so why should he start? Our game plan for the most part on Saturday worked. We limited them to very few chances by being patient. Could we have done this with different players? Considering James and Esteban were unavailable? Nigel et al see the players train every day. If someone gives 110% in the week, shows desire, skill, discipline up until Friday afternoon and gets a start - it's up to them to live up to the managers expectations. I don't think the team selection was bad on Saturday, one of the substitutions wasn't correct in my opinion. Maybe Albrighton hadn't trained very well? Or wasn't up for playing? My point is. It's very easy to criticise from the outside and after a match. Pearson's team selections have for the most part what everyone would have expected. Ulloa wasn't great against Villa, Ulloa is seldom great to be honest, but in terms of both Villa and the season as a whole he's been better than Vardy. Albrighton not getting a game is criminal. Yeah maybe it wouldn't nesc mean we get a result but people have a right to voice concerns over team selection surely that is one of the main purposes of this place? Wasn't up for playing? He's a professional fcking footballer, this isn't Sunday league he doesn't get to ring up and say he's not playing because it's a bit frosty and he doesn't like the cold. He's paid five bastard figures a week to be up for it!! If he's not "up for it" he should be sacked for breach of contract.
Kitchandro Posted 19 January 2015 Posted 19 January 2015 You think he got it wrong... we might have lost 3-0 with the players you and I wanted. We'll never know, people slated his selections at Liverpool and it was one of our best performances. What is that supposed to mean? We think he got it wrong. No we're not clairvoyant but neither is Nigel. What I do know is we played absolutely shite. So that would suggest he may have got it wrong. It wasn't the result he wanted that's for sure.
Kitchandro Posted 19 January 2015 Posted 19 January 2015 How can anybody, outside of the club really judge on team selections? We were unsuccessful on Saturday - but not totally outclassed. We again, had chances but didn't take them. Would we have made the same chances with a striker that has been our player for less than 24 hours? If Albrighton played, if he crossed the ball in - to who? Vardy isn't going to win a header, Nugent neither. So should he have played Ulloa? He was poor against Villa so why should he start? Our game plan for the most part on Saturday worked. We limited them to very few chances by being patient. Could we have done this with different players? Considering James and Esteban were unavailable? Nigel et al see the players train every day. If someone gives 110% in the week, shows desire, skill, discipline up until Friday afternoon and gets a start - it's up to them to live up to the managers expectations. I don't think the team selection was bad on Saturday, one of the substitutions wasn't correct in my opinion. Maybe Albrighton hadn't trained very well? Or wasn't up for playing? My point is. It's very easy to criticise from the outside and after a match. Pearson's team selections have for the most part what everyone would have expected. Cos I can, watch me: His team selection was shit. And I said that before the game, and we lost.
MattyFromLE Posted 19 January 2015 Posted 19 January 2015 Ulloa wasn't great against Villa, Ulloa is seldom great to be honest, but in terms of both Villa and the season as a whole he's been better than Vardy. Albrighton not getting a game is criminal. Yeah maybe it wouldn't nesc mean we get a result but people have a right to voice concerns over team selection surely that is one of the main purposes of this place? Wasn't up for playing? He's a professional fcking footballer, this isn't Sunday league he doesn't get to ring up and say he's not playing because it's a bit frosty and he doesn't like the cold. He's paid five bastard figures a week to be up for it!! If he's not "up for it" he should be sacked for breach of contract. When I say "wasn't up for it" - I mean maybe he was physically tired? I'm sure Pearson would have more of an insight to why Albrighton didn't feature than you or I - being as he watches them train every day. Who has the better judgement of who should play? Us, who see them once a a week if we're lucky - or Nigel who watches them everyday?
DANGEROUS TIGER Posted 19 January 2015 Posted 19 January 2015 Right some nutter has a blog, writes two articles saying Pearson is running out of time in December and one in November (acknowledging that he just doesn't like him frankly), and we're giving him more credence than Ian Stringer, Dangerous Tiger, Seenitall etc. because? Right some nutter has a blog, writes two articles saying Pearson is running out of time in December and one in November (acknowledging that he just doesn't like him frankly), and we're giving him more credence than Ian Stringer, Dangerous Tiger, Seenitall etc. because? Right some nutter has a blog, writes two articles saying Pearson is running out of time in December and one in November (acknowledging that he just doesn't like him frankly), and we're giving him more credence than Ian Stringer, Dangerous Tiger, Seenitall etc. because? "Because" you're brain dead!
Babylon Posted 19 January 2015 Posted 19 January 2015 What is that supposed to mean? We think he got it wrong. No we're not clairvoyant but neither is Nigel. What I do know is we played absolutely shite. So that would suggest he may have got it wrong. It wasn't the result he wanted that's for sure. It's fairly obvious what it meant, just because you think the manager was wrong it doesn't mean your choice would have definitely resulted in a different performance or outcome. So anyone sitting there thinking they 100% without a doubt know better is deluding themselves. Take a look at the Liverpool pre match threads, Pearson got slaughtered by the majority for his team selection and not starting Ulloa and it was one of our best performances of the season. Pearson is capable of making mistakes no doubt about it, but to kid ourselves that any of us always know better all the time is ridiculous.
doverfox Posted 19 January 2015 Posted 19 January 2015 the thing is that we all want the team to do well and i am sure NP does as well, if his position is under threat then you can only expect him to try and get a result that's not going to happen with nice football at the minute, luck and confidence come with winning i wish the board would come out and say publicly what Nigels position is, I think he is safe. it may give the team the space to express them selves for the manager rather than worrying that 1 more mistake could cost him his job and a new manager might not rate me as a player. Personally i would rather we accept that we are relegated and just go at teams if we stay up great if we don't then i am sure we will be back a lot quicker than last time we were relegated. We have toyed with premier league football quite often in the past NP is not the first to get us promoted and he wont be the last. we are in that diificult postion of being a top 10 championship/bottom 10 premier league team .
Manwell Pablo Posted 19 January 2015 Posted 19 January 2015 When I say "wasn't up for it" - I mean maybe he was physically tired? I'm sure Pearson would have more of an insight to why Albrighton didn't feature than you or I - being as he watches them train every day. Who has the better judgement of who should play? Us, who see them once a a week if we're lucky - or Nigel who watches them everyday? You mean wasn't up to it then. I'd be a bit worried if he's tired, he's a professional athlete hardly played this season. There was nothing wrong with him, the club have communicated no problems with his fitness and he's trained all week. You seem to live in this strange world where football managers are always correct and football fans are always wrong. Let me assure you there have been many cases in football history that completely disproves this, manages get things wrong. Obviously the manager should know better, and I very rarely have digs at team selection for that very reason, but Saturday was just poor choice in personal and arguable a failure to tactically outwit his opposite number. Pearson probably does have more insight into why he wasn't bought on, but it's clearly for footballing reasons, same reasons he's been dropping him all season I'd imagine
Manwell Pablo Posted 19 January 2015 Posted 19 January 2015 It's fairly obvious what it meant, just because you think the manager was wrong it doesn't mean your choice would have definitely resulted in a different performance or outcome. So anyone sitting there thinking they 100% without a doubt know better is deluding themselves. Take a look at the Liverpool pre match threads, Pearson got slaughtered by the majority for his team selection and not starting Ulloa and it was one of our best performances of the season. Pearson is capable of making mistakes no doubt about it, but to kid ourselves that any of us always know better all the time is ridiculous. I can't see many people suggesting their team would of definitely done better. He was wrong though, the team performed terribly, one of the worst showings of this season, and we lost, so regardless of what others would of done being better or worse, what he did was wrong. Unless you seriously suggesting that's about as good a performance he could get out of them that is. In which case time to start planning the Championship 15/16 tour.
sycokilla Posted 19 January 2015 Posted 19 January 2015 I thought the team was ok.....we lost because there was no high press on their back four, we lacked some energy and a little passion and if I were to critisize Pearson it would be for not realising that Hughes had instructed both of his wingers to run across and in front of our back four in the second half as they were getting no joy trying to get to the byline during the first half. If Pearson had done something about that we might have had a draw or a win......but as with all of us, we learn through experience and making mistakes. I still think we are well in touch with 7-8 teams and very capable of staying up.
fuchsntf Posted 19 January 2015 Posted 19 January 2015 All this negativity towards NP and phsyco-analysing every, single team choice, every mistake, is far too detailed, but that comes from being ...LAST. Taking in the previous 3-4 games, I though do agree with some, that against Stoke I thought his team selection was wrong, Albrighton, ULLOA, AND krameric, IMO should of started, we should of been bolder and arrogant with team selection, telling the opposition, here is 2 × of our top buys proven goalscoreres, being fed, by our best youngster Schlupp, and our in form player Albrighton. I believe NP sat on the fence with this one, doesnt mean we would of won, but would of shown the fans, he wants to go for it. NP isnt our problem, like many he is disapointed with the players lacking or showing PL nous and basic skills. If you are all honest we havent got the financial clout to buy us out of this mess, we are last because till now our top players from last year and other hopefulls simply havent been upto it. Too many fans want to buy, for buying sake, I do believe NP has some unfinished business with us, even if that means we are to go down again. We are football fans so we believe or just hope that the players can pull in their balls, and find performances and luck to save our PL status and their own failing careers and become Blue heroes again. Vardy should take a few games out, hoping he can turn it around.NP should buy a middfield player even if its an avg one from abroad, to re-energise the staleness, and give James n Drinkwater food for thought....A fit above avg with name CB again from abroad. Fans...stay blue, stay true , support and grit your teeth, hard critic wont help at this stage, city management and players just have to try and find that preverbial way out.
UpTheLeagueFox Posted 19 January 2015 Posted 19 January 2015 I've seen players make massive errors and managers get tactics wrong at some point in pretty much every match I've covered this season - PL, Championship, FA Cup, League Cup etc. We're not unique. Every club is the same.
DB11 Posted 19 January 2015 Posted 19 January 2015 There is no journalism in that article. It's just one fan's opinion Leicester City fan Ben Jacobs is a sports presenter for the Arabian Radio Network. He also appears on beIN Sports across the Gulf and is a Middle East correspondent for talkSPORT. Prior to this, Ben was editor of Sports Talk, the Middle East's first all-sports magazine, and spent four years as a reporter for BBC 5 Live and on BBC One's Final Score. Follow him on Twitter @JacobsBen.
Lovejoy Posted 19 January 2015 Posted 19 January 2015 Storm in a teacup. Pearson should be safe. Lazy article designed to get a reaction.
5waller5 Posted 19 January 2015 Posted 19 January 2015 Where did I say you can't have an opinion? The point I'm making is that I find it annoying that people sit here and make out 100% their team selection would have been better, without any appreciation that it might not have been. I've already stated I'd have chosen different subs and starting players, but I fully appreciate it might not have made the blindest bit of difference. As I pointed out in my post above the Stoke game away we were utter shit first half with Ulloa and Mahrez. A player everyone is saying Pearson got it wrong over and a winger everyone would have in the team over Albrighton every day of the week. We only turned it around second half going three in the middle I'm sure they do appreciate that .... What you are effectively saying is that all statements on the forum must be followed with "I appreciate this is just my opinion and I may be wrong, and we'll never know because we can't repeat the situation and run and experiment to show what would have been the right decision so it's conjecture anyway" It's a forum ... can't we take that as read?
Corky Posted 19 January 2015 Posted 19 January 2015 I'm sure they do appreciate that .... What you are effectively saying is that all statements on the forum must be followed with "I appreciate this is just my opinion and I may be wrong, and we'll never know because we can't repeat the situation and run and experiment to show what would have been the right decision so it's conjecture anyway" It's a forum ... can't we take that as read? I just don't understand the "I knew we'd lose" comments. For years we've had fans on here slagging off team selections and writing off matches we've then gone on to win or draw unexpectedly.
Matt Posted 19 January 2015 Posted 19 January 2015 I just don't understand the "I knew we'd lose" comments. For years we've had fans on here slagging off team selections and writing off matches we've then gone on to win or draw unexpectedly. I may have bet against us in the past, pretty confident we wouldn't win games but that's more down to bad run's but I've never wrote a game off based on team selection until Saturday, I knew we wouldn't win for sure as soon as I saw the line up. As I keep saying we set up not to lose and we failed on that objective.
Dr The Singh Posted 19 January 2015 Posted 19 January 2015 You think he got it wrong... we might have lost 3-0 with the players you and I wanted. We'll never know, people slated his selections at Liverpool and it was one of our best performances.
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