Nigel Pearson has left Bristol City with immediate effect

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Red Alert said:
By your logic your god LJ should have been sacked every season he was here.

What where Pearsons goals? Cutting the wage bill in half and promotion? what?
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LJ was not my god, nor was he the demon many on here painted him to be. If he had performed as poorly as NP he too would have been fired.
People forget, NP was hired as an experienced manager who was deemed to be able to operate on a shoestring budget, that’s the reason he was hired:headbang::headbang:
Yes, he has shifted a lot of the old high earners (who also brought higher league positions), and stabilised the club financially, but our league positions, and more worryingly our performances have been erratic and showed no real upward trajectory. I think the latter has gotten him the sack tbh. I’ve said before, a lot of clubs chairmen would have sacked him last season, many went for less, but SL stuck by him, so we have to assume he has not met the targets he was set.
 
wizered said:
I still think that spat Nige had with junior over him sticking his nose in was the start of his downfall, " Daddy, daddy I don't like that big man, he frightens me, tell him to go", he has done nothing for the club, he never informs, in fact he is never here, always found floating around the West Indies.
Rich daddy, spoilt brat, expensive toy, for christ sake get rid of him as well.
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I assume in this case by ‘junior’ you mean Jon Lansdown?
 
Red Robin said:
Well the Lansdowns have done the unthinkable sacked the best manager to walk through the doors at Ashton Gate Stadium-since Alan Dicks.
They have wasted millions and millions on bad managers and bad signings over the years that is down to them.
They say they want promotion-well we all want that but that don’t happen selling your best assets season after season and not reinvesting into the team.
Your are always going to struggle
Did your honestly expect us to beat the likes of Leicester City Football Club and Leeds Utd of course not.Both will waltz back into the premiership.Then you expect Nige to win games with major injuries on a huge scale.sorry you are delusional if you expect promotion with the squad he has at his disposal and the issues he has to deal with at present.
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Often I crossed the bridge to see first division football in the 70’s as there was no chance of seeing it at Ninian. I can recall the names
Shaw Sweeney Rogers Collier Whitehead Tainton Merrick Gow Garland Ritchie Cormack Hunter Cooper etc…

Then it went pear shaped and from the East End came the chants of “Dicks Out” - not literally :emoticon-0138-think
 
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Supcon72 said:
LJ was not my god, nor was he the demon many on here painted him to be. If he had performed as poorly as NP he too would have been fired.
People forget, NP was hired as an experienced manager who was deemed to be able to operate on a shoestring budget, that’s the reason he was hired:headbang::headbang:
Yes, he has shifted a lot of the old high earners (who also brought higher league positions), and stabilised the club financially, but our league positions, and more worryingly our performances have been erratic and showed no real upward trajectory. I think the latter has gotten him the sack tbh. I’ve said before, a lot of clubs chairmen would have sacked him last season, many went for less, but SL stuck by him, so we have to assume he has not met the targets he was set.
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Your besotted with LJ. Sorry but what was Pearsons target? Lot of waffle there but you didnt say what it was. Promotion?mid table? what? you dont know.
 
Supcon72 said:
LJ was not my god, nor was he the demon many on here painted him to be. If he had performed as poorly as NP he too would have been fired.
People forget, NP was hired as an experienced manager who was deemed to be able to operate on a shoestring budget, that’s the reason he was hired:headbang::headbang:
Yes, he has shifted a lot of the old high earners (who also brought higher league positions), and stabilised the club financially, but our league positions, and more worryingly our performances have been erratic and showed no real upward trajectory. I think the latter has gotten him the sack tbh. I’ve said before, a lot of clubs chairmen would have sacked him last season, many went for less, but SL stuck by him, so we have to assume he has not met the targets he was set.
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you do realise we have eleven first team players injured :emoticon-0130-devil
 
Supcon72 said:
You, and several others on here are THE ONLY ones who have spouted biased crap on here. The reality is, your post LJ miracle turned out to be a mirage.
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I'm amazed, you really think your views are in the majority, you must be looking through your rose tinted in the mirror again, LJ and his crew nearly bankrupted us and Nige masteredminded our recovery both on and off the pitch, it's madness to have sacked him before his contract had ended but thats life, this chapter is now completed
 
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wizered said:
I'm amazed, you really think your views are in the majority, you must be looking through your rose tinted in the mirror again, LJ and his crew nearly bankrupted us and Nige masteredminded our recovery both on and off the pitch, it's madness to have sacked him before his contract had ended but thats life, this chapter is now completed
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But he hasn’t, on the pitch we have been bang average at best, and we’re almost 3 years into his regime. The selling point to SL for NP was his experience in getting the best out of players, and doing it on the relative cheap. Open your eyes, that has not happened at City. As for the finances, I have given him credit for that many times, although he didn’t do anything other than let their contracts run out, that’s fact. He fell out with players, HNM and Kalas in particular, and has openly criticised his boss, even if he was right in what he said, it puts a target on your back, and when results, and in particular performances are average at best , you can only expect one outcome.
 
wizered said:
I'm amazed, you really think your views are in the majority, you must be looking through your rose tinted in the mirror again, LJ and his crew nearly bankrupted us and Nige masteredminded our recovery both on and off the pitch, it's madness to have sacked him before his contract had ended but thats life, this chapter is now completed
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Wipe the hate from your eyes, it was COVID that cost us financially, not LJ & MA.
 
Cliftonville said:
Could you explain this? If the covd pandemic had not occurred would BCFC still have had to have proceeded with steep cost cutting to comply with FFP?
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Hard to say, we weren’t cutting costs to comply with FFP before COVID hit from my memory. Again, from memory, our net spend was positive pre-COVID. The loss of revenue, combined with still paying wages is was hit all clubs outside the PL really hard, including City.
 
wow as posted on the Nigel barbed thread thought this week was the likely time frame for any action against NP ... SAD REALLY JUST GETTING to appreciate the bloke .. If GR gets the job ...what a stitch was plannned
 
Supcon72 said:
Hard to say, we weren’t before COVID hit from my memory. Again, from memory, our net spend was positive pre-COVID. The loss of revenue, combined with still paying wages is was hit all clubs outside the PL really hard.
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The answer is yes. The steep cost cutting was inevitable. The club made a profit for one season, the following season the loss was going to be inevitably tens of millions, a loss that could not be repeated over seasons as it would breach FFP boundaries.
 
I think sacking Nige is madness, the massive debt the club had, the £38.4 and other problems were not of Nige making but what he inherited from previous times, he dealt, overcame and put us on a sound footing, financial restrictions were imposed by the Lansdowns and controlled spend was the policy, family silver to the total of £35m was recieved and withheld, 2 senior suits left Gould and Alexander no explanation, Nige was the frontman taking all the hits, objected, told the facts and the Landsdowns reacted,
 
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wizered said:
Are you saying LJ & MA did not cost us financially?
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In the end, yes, but ONLY because COVID caused the transfer market outside the PL to collapse, coupled with no income and a high wage bill. This strategy was working g pre-COVID, and was sanctioned by SL who has to shoulder the blame, not just you’re 2 whipping boys.
 
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