Fox Ulike Posted 15 March 2015 Posted 15 March 2015 He's clearly not good enough for the premiership but he's an excellent championship manager, he's more likely than some random Spaniard or Neil Warnock to get us up again. And then what? Would you really want Nige in charge of another Premiership campaign? He's taken us as far as he can.
Sniffer Clark Posted 15 March 2015 Posted 15 March 2015 Yeah I think you are right with that Matt,I get the impression the owners are not to bothered either,if they were they would have sorted this one big mess earlier,the Sheffield bruiser and the owners have let the fans down big time
st albans fox Posted 15 March 2015 Posted 15 March 2015 Anyone think it was interesting that Martin O'neill was the owners' guest of honour yesterday? Heard it on radio Leicester before the game. Not really. He has a job that he isn't going to resign from.
artursteppe Posted 15 March 2015 Posted 15 March 2015 O'Neill for the rest of the season, then move him upstairs as Director of Football and bring in Neil Lennon as Manager for next season. That's my vote, change with continuity with hope for the future. If you agree then write to Top and tell him, why not. At least from the club's point of view season ticket sales would remain high - if we keep Pearson there will be a huge slump in sales if we get relegated.
Stadt Posted 15 March 2015 Posted 15 March 2015 And then what? Would you really want Nige in charge of another Premiership campaign? He's taken us as far as he can. I'd probably let him go
Guest MattP Posted 15 March 2015 Posted 15 March 2015 O'Neill for the rest of the season, then move him upstairs as Director of Football and bring in Neil Lennon as Manager for next season. That's my vote, change with continuity with hope for the future. If you agree then write to Top and tell him, why not. At least from the club's point of view season ticket sales would remain high - if we keep Pearson there will be a huge slump in sales if we get relegated. You really think MON would give up the Ireland job to oversee a relegation and then be moved into a DOF role at a Championship club? As for Lennon, why would we want him?
lgfualol Posted 15 March 2015 Posted 15 March 2015 You really think MON would give up the Ireland job to oversee a relegation and then be moved into a DOF role at a Championship club? As for Lennon, why would we want him? Because he used to play for us which automatically means he'll win us the league.
Collibosher70 Posted 15 March 2015 Author Posted 15 March 2015 O'Neill for the rest of the season, then move him upstairs as Director of Football and bring in Neil Lennon as Manager for next season. That's my vote, change with continuity with hope for the future. If you agree then write to Top and tell him, why not. At least from the club's point of view season ticket sales would remain high - if we keep Pearson there will be a huge slump in sales if we get relegated. I would love o'neill back for the remaining games and next season...wonder why he was at the game yesterday ?
Gerard Posted 15 March 2015 Posted 15 March 2015 I had great hopes for this season and I thought we were in an excellent position to finish mid table. We were promoted with a core of young side Schmichael Age 27 De Laet Age 25 Schlupp Age 21 Moore Age 21 Drinkwater Age 24 James Age 22 Knockaert Age 22 Mahrez Age 23 Vardy Age 27 None of these players had any real Premier League experience, most of them were early 20's and even Schmichael and Vardy were young in footballing years as one is a goalkeeper and the other has had a short footballing career. Nine months a go you would look at that list and say those players were young, ambitious and highly motivated to succeed in their careers. Now out of that lot maybe only Mahrez will move on to better things. I supported Pearson in giving these players a chance but somewhere along the line they haven't made the grade. From being a far better team than QPR and Burnley we've spent the best part of £20 million on two strikers and brought in Cambiasso who is only 34 and plied his trade with Real Madrid and Inter Milan. Despite QPR and Burnley spending less than us somehow we've fallen behind them. This is Pearson's team and his big money signings like Ulloa have failed.
weller54 Posted 15 March 2015 Posted 15 March 2015 I would love o'neill back for the remaining games and next season...wonder why he was at the game yesterday ? Wanted a laugh!!!?
cjslcfc Posted 15 March 2015 Posted 15 March 2015 O'Neill for the rest of the season, then move him upstairs as Director of Football and bring in Neil Lennon as Manager for next season. That's my vote, change with continuity with hope for the future. If you agree then write to Top and tell him, why not. At least from the club's point of view season ticket sales would remain high - if we keep Pearson there will be a huge slump in sales if we get relegated. Listen to yourself for a second. For starters, do you honestly think an international manager would give up his job to come and be a Director of Football at a Championship club? Added to that, in what way does a Director of Football role suit Martin O'Neill? O'Neill's strength was managing players and motivating them day to day, not dealing with transfer negotiations and working under budgets!
Collibosher70 Posted 15 March 2015 Author Posted 15 March 2015 No not DOF o'neill wouldn't want that...anyway the DOF position to me seems like a waste of time.
Clever Fox Posted 15 March 2015 Posted 15 March 2015 Mon is on something like 2 million with Ireland and very little pressure unlikely he'll give that up to come back. He couldn't hack it with Villa or Sunderland so why people think he could do it here again beggars belief. The game has move on rapidly and so should we.
seenitall Posted 15 March 2015 Posted 15 March 2015 Where's our young and hungry team that we were all promised? Why did we spend £17m on two strikers and have yet to play them together for any length of time? Why did we not buy some midfielders when we had two chances, other than Camb who must wonder how he ended up playing alongside lightweights like James? Why do we persist in playing a defensive formation at home, with a player who was clearly never going to step up as Captain? Why did we offer long term contracts to players who had never played at this level - as a reward for a good Championship season? Why do we think we have a good scouting network when we have not really signed any quality players for two or three seasons? Why do we have an inexperienced board - do we even have a board? Why does Nigel seem so uninspiring at the touchline - Dyche, Martinez, Sherwood, Pulis, Pardew all work their arses off during the games? If someone can defend these questions then I guess they can defend Pearson - for me he was always going to be out of his depth at this level - he isn't even as good as Warnock or Paul Lambert when it comes down to it - bad decision making at the 'top' level will cost us again.
johnny the fox Posted 15 March 2015 Posted 15 March 2015 the majority of our young squad of last season has been discarded and scattered to the winds... instead of evolving into better players they have gone backwards, why is this? and who carries the can for it?
yorkie1999 Posted 15 March 2015 Posted 15 March 2015 Should have stuck with last seasons team and just bought someone in for Dyer and maybe dropped schlupp in for Konch. Simpson, Cambiasso, Upson, Kramaric, Ulloa, Huth, Swarzer, were not part of that team and the way it played. We lost all our pace and sidelined players who gave us that pace. replacing Dyer with Schlup didn't work, although Dyer was shit at passing he scared defences.
weller54 Posted 15 March 2015 Posted 15 March 2015 I've said it before and say it again.. Pulis would have saved us if appointed before he went to wba.. That was our chance of staying up, but our owners bottled it!... Pearson has cost us our premiership status, NOT the players!
yorkie1999 Posted 15 March 2015 Posted 15 March 2015 Where's our young and hungry team that we were all promised? Why did we spend £17m on two strikers and have yet to play them together for any length of time? Why did we not buy some midfielders when we had two chances, other than Camb who must wonder how he ended up playing alongside lightweights like James? Why do we persist in playing a defensive formation at home, with a player who was clearly never going to step up as Captain? Why did we offer long term contracts to players who had never played at this level - as a reward for a good Championship season? Why do we think we have a good scouting network when we have not really signed any quality players for two or three seasons? Why do we have an inexperienced board - do we even have a board? Why does Nigel seem so uninspiring at the touchline - Dyche, Martinez, Sherwood, Pulis, Pardew all work their arses off during the games? If someone can defend these questions then I guess they can defend Pearson - for me he was always going to be out of his depth at this level - he isn't even as good as Warnock or Paul Lambert when it comes down to it - bad decision making at the 'top' level will cost us again. Why didn't you say that at the start of the season? Why didn't anyone say that at the start of the season?
weller54 Posted 15 March 2015 Posted 15 March 2015 Should have stuck with last seasons team and just bought someone in for Dyer and maybe dropped schlupp in for Konch. Simpson, Cambiasso, Upson, Kramaric, Ulloa, Huth, Swarzer, were not part of that team and the way it played. We lost all our pace and sidelined players who gave us that pace. replacing Dyer with Schlup didn't work, although Dyer was shit at passing he scared defences. Don't think he would have scared premier league teams defences!!!
inckley fox Posted 15 March 2015 Posted 15 March 2015 Everyone is culpable for this season, Pearson hasn't got it right and some of the players have been a disgrace. The persistence with Morgan and Schulpp is indefensible. As was the negativity yesterday in a game we had to win. For the first time though listening to Pearson I don't think he's too bothered if he gets the sack. If this is the case, then it's a matter of urgency that we sack him now. Having a guy in charge who doesn't especially care whether he's in charge or not would be a catastrophe.
inckley fox Posted 15 March 2015 Posted 15 March 2015 You could argue the Premier League is equally tough to remain in, let alone establishing yourself in it for a longer period of time. The squad will be changing no matter what division we'll be playing in next season, as about half of our players' contracts are running out. Far more sides stay up in the PL upon promotion, than win promotion from the Championship upon relegation.
inckley fox Posted 15 March 2015 Posted 15 March 2015 It's all a learning process, Pearson has won us 2 titles, if we go down then he'll bring us straight back up with a years premier league experience which will not count against him. PEARSON IN It took him three and a half years last time, two and a half if you only take the second stint, and he didn't bounce straight back with Hull either. And lots of managers have PL experience - other relegated managers like Law, Brown, Holloway... would you want them in charge? Their subsequent careers tell us that they didn't learn from their experience. If you look at how our side has slowly fallen apart over the course of this season, and line-ups and formations become increasingly more experimental, and Pearson's behaviour more erratic, there's very little to suggest he's actually gained any positives from that experience.
nettle Posted 15 March 2015 Posted 15 March 2015 I actually think the tactics from us yesterday were quite shocking so negative. With us needing a win you would have thought Pearson would have tried to stretch the game and play with wingers and pacey fullbacks I.e schlupp and Rdl bombing on and ulloa and kramaric up front. Where is the bravery from Pearson to take the game to the opponent's and have a real go I just don't understand it.
st albans fox Posted 15 March 2015 Posted 15 March 2015 I just don't understand it. Sadly, it seemed the players didn't either
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