Would you rather?

[inckley fox]

I think the fact that 84% want to stay up without Pearson demonstrates what a strange bunch of fickle fans we have. Yesterday the forum goes into a nuclear meltdown when Pearson "gets sacked" and yet people would rather stay up without him. How does that even make sense. News flash people, 9 points from the last 57 isn't survival form. We are going down quicker than the titanic on ice at this rate. Can't have your cake and eat it!

 

In all fairness, it's very different saying 'I'd rather Pearson stay because he's our best chance of keeping up / coming straight back and staying up afterwards' (as silly as I find that view to be) to saying 'I want Pearson to stay, even if that and that alone will doom us to relegation'.

[Bob Weasel Fox]

This is totally laughable. One of the silliest things I've ever seen.

There is no sensible argument that you'd forego a manager capable of getting results at Premier League level, getting them, and keeping us up, in favour of a manager who has shown himself not to be capable, who subsequently will get us relegated. Just because, against all probability and the vast bulk of historical evidence, there's a chance he might accumulate a better squad to go up with next time around, and be a better manager when he gets there.

Or, do you just really, really like Nigel Pearson for some other, inexplicable reason, and therefore want him to stay?

And before we start on the old 'look what he's done for us' argument (interestingly some of these people don't want to apply it to Lineker, in some cases not even O'Neill, in spite of the fact that our success and failure from here on in has nothing to do with either), none of that, absolutely none, goes any way to suggesting he will ever make a better fist of management in the top flight next time around.

How hard can it be to understand that a manager, a good one, can have his limitations and - from that point onwards - it's wise to find somebody better-equipped to take on the challenge?

Good post

[Swiss_tony]

i think some people who voted for b thought it said 'go down on pearson', such is their love for him.

[The Doctor]

What on earth makes you believe Pearson can build a Premier League side and keep a side there in the long-term? There's nothing to back that up with whatsoever.

 

If we appointed Ian Holloway, Owen Coyle or Nigel Adkins there'd be no less a reason to believe he could achieve that aim.

I never said that he could, I said I wanted the owners to stay because they are good for the club, and that I'd not want to get rid of Pearson for a manager with a track record of destroying clubs (Like Redknapp) but if a talented manager with a long term plan (Ie. Laudrup) came along it cheers for everything Nigel, but it's just not working out anymore. Basically, don't sack him for the sack of sacking him, sack him if the options are better.

[DANGEROUS TIGER]

I would rather we stayed up without Pearson but that alone isn't enough. We have to have a plan to stay in the PL for the long term.

 

Not going to give an answer to the poll because it's not specific enough. Next season alone doesn't bother me that much, it's the next three or four together that bother me.

I've got to agree Charlie. 

[cc_star]

It's obviously A

 

But the Premier League isn't the sum total of everything, truth be told I hate the play acting and media shenanigans and circus which goes with it, don't like playing so few games and the whole things a bit of a farce, propped up by billions and media which make their livelihoods off the back of telling us it's the best league in the world

 

So I'd be disappointed with relegation, but I'm not as bothered by it as I thought I might be

 

Anyway, it's entirely possible to go down, use the (possibly) better players we've accrued - the extra money, plus the ridiculously unfair parachute payments and come back stronger & more competitive than ever but be building a dynasty, rather than a club built on ever shifting sands of manager's merry-go-round, so although I'd say A.... it could just as easily be B

 

Staying up is irrelevant if we get a new guy in, rebuild yet again and go down anyway... There has to be a long term plan where changes of first team coach becomes irrelevant