NIGEL PEARSON SACKED!!!!!

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Proud Fox said:
They all came here with Nigel first time, all followed him to Hull and all came back here with him

I suspect the reason they have agreed to take temporary charge might be out of loyalty to the players
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I am sure there is a loyalty to the players, but if they walk now they breach their contracts. Will probably join up with Pearson at Leeds/Middlesborough/Watford or Newcastle in October <laugh>
 
Nigel brought it all on himself, you cant bring the club into disrepute after the way he behaved, he deserved the sack and should have gone on the day of the incident. football dont need managers like him......
 
FosseFilberto said:
.... wouldn't disagree ... but any different to what Gus Poyet achieved the season before? ... or what Tony Pulis has done on numerous occasions? ... not sure what your point is exactly ... mine is that arrogance is more easily tolerated on the back of exceptional success ... I don't recall Ferguson being particularly arrogant during his early years at Man United (despite having already achieved remarkable success with Aberdeen) ... similarly Mourinho wasn't giving it large as far as I recall until he'd taken unfashionable Porto to European trophies ... Clough was just incredible ... although it pains me to say it ... what did he do when he took Forest up? ... only went on to win the bloody league ...
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Are you seriously suggesting Ferguson, Mourinho and Clough had personality changes after they became successful? You don't change who you are with success. You just allow that side of you to come out more because you feel untouchable. In that sense, Pearson was more genuine than the lot of them.
 
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FosseFilberto said:
... <laugh> a presumption that itself exudes arrogance? <laugh> .... the reality is that most of us on here that had criticised Nigel Pearson previously (in the Championship during a very poor run) actually got behind him and didn't waiver during the poor run in the Prem ... whilst I wouldn't presume to speak for others I can say that for me I appreciated what a step up the Prem is from the Championship, that it was a learning curve for all at the club (including the manager) and also that IMHO our best chance of survival was to stick with Pearson ... that didn't mean that I felt he was perfect by any means ...
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Where's the presumption? Some of his critics completely disappeared during our survival run. To deny that is to deny reality.

Nobody thought he was perfect. There's no such thing. But at a club of our size, he's as good as it gets, as, sadly, I fear we'll now find out.
 
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FosseFilberto said:
If we were to get Guus Hiddink - big if admittedly - I'd see it as a huge milestone in my football club's evolution - an appointment the likes of which I didn't think I'd see during my lifetime ... PS the chances of Hiddink or Neil Lennon for that matter kissing up to the media is on a par with the proverbial snowball's ...
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I'm gonna come out and say it - I don't think it will be Hiddink. I think he'd be my pick, but I just don't see what he's got to gain from it (although some thought the same about Cambiasso).

Lennon's never achieved anything at managerial level. What right as he got to be "himself" yet?
 
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Wellernever said:
I go back to the latter days of Matt Gillies and him and Jimmy Bloomfield would rank well above Pearson. The teams they had played a lot of First Division football, as it was then, over consistent periods. Only one substitute in those days as well. I would also put Adams above Pearson
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Micky Adams???!!! You cannot be serious!!!! (Yes, it is Wimbledon season).
 
Barwellfox said:
Completely agree about Matt Gillies and Jimmy Bloomfield, not sure about Mickey Adams though. He did brilliantly to get us promoted whilst in administration, but the stress got to him big time. Quite a few of the posters on here will only know about the three substitute rule. When I started watching, you couldnt make a sub, then 1 was introduced for injury purpose only. These days with the 3 sub rule and the dishing out of cards at a whim, means that you need a larger squad to compete.
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Subs on the bench have also gone up from five to seven too. So you need at least 18 first team quality players. Would you say injuries are more commonplace too?
 
Rightsideoverhere said:
I'm sure many many people will be returning their season tickets to the club and then buying one at whichever club NP turns up next won't they?

Also people criticising the owners? Wtf? Be very thankful we've not got owners like Blackpool!


Simple fact is nobody is bigger than the club, no Player,Owner or Manager.

The king is dead, long live the king.
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You can't say on one hand that you don't have agree with everything Pearson did and then on the other say you have to agree with the owners on everything. Our owners have been brilliant in many ways. This is not one of those ways.
 
I reckon. Remember Frank Large playing with a broken nose. Half of the players today would have shed tears and missed a couple of games. It was a hard physical game in the 60s which appealed to the working man. Players often got injured and shook it off. Mind you, a lot have suffered a great deal later in life from that combatative type of encounter.
 
Lesta Gangsta said:
Are you seriously suggesting Ferguson, Mourinho and Clough had personality changes after they became successful? You don't change who you are with success. You just allow that side of you to come out more because you feel untouchable. In that sense, Pearson was more genuine than the lot of them.
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... no I'm not ... I'm saying they were clever enough to cover it until they had achieved incontestable success... very different...
 
Lesta Gangsta said:
Where's the presumption? Some of his critics completely disappeared during our survival run. To deny that is to deny reality.

Nobody thought he was perfect. There's no such thing. But at a club of our size, he's as good as it gets, as, sadly, I fear we'll now find out.
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... in your claim that certain individuals went quiet reluctantly ... Obviously ..
 
Lesta Gangsta said:
I'm gonna come out and say it - I don't think it will be Hiddink. I think he'd be my pick, but I just don't see what he's got to gain from it (although some thought the same about Cambiasso).

Lennon's never achieved anything at managerial level. What right as he got to be "himself" yet?
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... the Celtic. trophy cabinet might siggest otherwise ... now before you dimiss that think carefully ..that league is comparable with
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Lesta Gangsta said:
Well acting like a nob is never professional, whether you've won the Champion's League or not.
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I"d agree.. but I'd include quite a few of Nigel's antics in that ...
 
FosseFilberto said:
... the Celtic. trophy cabinet might siggest otherwise ... now before you dimiss that think carefully ..that league is comparable with
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I"d agree.. but I'd include quite a few of Nigel's antics in that ...
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Celtic? Are you serious? Since Rangers disappeared they literally have no competition. What is it comparable with? Not many leagues that I can think of! I think the fact you didn't finish that comment says it all. It's like one Premier League side and eleven League One sides.

Yes, I included Pearson in that comment. All those managers have acted unprofessionally at times but all have been successful at their clubs so it gets overlooked. Except at Leicester.
 
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