Pardew at reading

[saintjay77]

Reading 0 Leicester 1

 

So the "boot boy" has got Leicester up to 5th, 3 points behind first place. I wonder how high he'll have to go before the professor and other Lowe luvvies finally admit that he actually is a good manager, and that the duckhunter fucked up by getting rid of him and replacing him with the two clowns?

 

Thinking back I cant remember there being anyone that didnt think Pearson deserved a chance based on keeping us up. Id say that most of us thought he could do alright with the right support and a proper pre-season. I dont think he did anything spectacular while with us but showed that he had enough about him to do well if given the chance.

 

Fair play to him for proving us right but there is no need to try and open up the old divide as thats in the past and it seems its only the few Anti-Lowes that have not moved on.

[hypochondriac]

Thinking back I cant remember there being anyone that didnt think Pearson deserved a chance based on keeping us up. Id say that most of us thought he could do alright with the right support and a proper pre-season. I dont think he did anything spectacular while with us but showed that he had enough about him to do well if given the chance.

 

Fair play to him for proving us right but there is no need to try and open up the old divide as thats in the past and it seems its only the few Anti-Lowes that have not moved on.

 

Actually there is every reason when you have the likes of nineteen canteen more than willing to slag off someone like Pearson as much as he can.

[Alain Perrin]

Reading 0 Leicester 1

 

So the "boot boy" has got Leicester up to 5th, 3 points behind first place. I wonder how high he'll have to go before the professor and other Lowe luvvies finally admit that he actually is a good manager, and that the duckhunter fucked up by getting rid of him and replacing him with the two clowns?

 

I'll freely admit I didn't think Pearson was the man for Saints last season and, despite his success, I still don't.

 

There is a world of difference being in league with cash (as Leicester were in Division 1) and being in a league with a youth team and no cash (as Saints were last season).

 

Based on the fact he'd struggled (albeit over a limited number of games) to keep Saints up the previous season with a Gucci squad, you can see why Lowe made the judgement he wouldn't be able to do it with a Primark squad.

 

I think it easy to get caught up in the emotion of the Sheffield United match and forget the Burnley and Hull debacles. We survived, just.

 

Make no mistake, Pearson is proving to be a good manager. I just don't think the end result for Saints last season would have been any different with him at the helm.

 

Personally, If I was Lowe I'd have done the same and replaced him. If he didn't, and the patchy (or worse) form continued, then the same people crowing now about how good Pearson is/could have been, would be criticising Lowe for 'employing a boot boy'.

 

Best to live or die by your own decisions, rather than other peoples. IMHO.

[Crab Lungs]

Holloway is doing something very similar with far less. He is apparently 'crap'

 

Apart from Ince, I think he is another of our shared 'preferred' managers!

[egreog]

Hopefully he was looking at Rasiak and thinking "thank goodness we shipped him out!"..........I see he is as mobile and prolific at Reading as he was at SMS, and a glance at the Reading forums indicate the same comments too..........!!

[a1ex2001]

Hopefully he was looking at Rasiak and thinking "thank goodness we shipped him out!"..........I see he is as mobile and prolific at Reading as he was at SMS, and a glance at the Reading forums indicate the same comments too..........!!

 

Strange how I seem to remember him scoring shed loads for about a season and a half before Burley inexplicably dropped him?!? Not saying I'd have him back but some fans have pretty short memories!

[Dark Munster]

However, Pearson did not really have enough time here to warrant cult status, he did ok, he did what many other coaches would have done, kept it simple and tried to stop us leaking goals. He kept us up yes, but only just.

 

The fickleness of some of us lot at times makes me laugh, if we had not been so lucky against sheff Utd what would you all have said ?? If he had got leicster relegated from league 1 ? What would be being said now ??

 

I don't think NP had cult status with many (if any) fans. Most of us saw him for what he is: a good up and coming manager who wasn't given a chance by Lowe. And as for "just" keeping us up, don't forget Saints finished on 54 points, and Leicester went down on 52 points. No team anywhere, anytime, in any league in the entire history of the world has gone down with 53 points. It was not so much the case of Saints being lucky, but rather Leicester being very unlucky to go down with such a ridiculous number of points.

 

 

I think it easy to get caught up in the emotion of the Sheffield United match and forget the Burnley and Hull debacles. We survived, just.

 

Make no mistake, Pearson is proving to be a good manager. I just don't think the end result for Saints last season would have been any different with him at the helm.

 

Personally, If I was Lowe I'd have done the same and replaced him. If he didn't, and the patchy (or worse) form continued, then the same people crowing now about how good Pearson is/could have been, would be criticising Lowe for 'employing a boot boy'.

 

Best to live or die by your own decisions, rather than other peoples. IMHO.

 

NP only lost 3 of 13 matches, averaging a respectable 1.23 points per game. The Hull "debacle" was against a team who got promoted, and with Saints having their top 2 goalies out injured and their 3rd choice playing with an injury. Also, see above about "just" surviving.

 

As for you believing Lowe making the right decision in getting rid of NP.... I agree! It fastened his (Lowe's) demise and the takeover by ML!

 

Thinking back I cant remember there being anyone that didnt think Pearson deserved a chance based on keeping us up.

Oh yes there were. I can name quite a few!

[egreog]

Strange how I seem to remember him scoring shed loads for about a season and a half before Burley inexplicably dropped him?!? Not saying I'd have him back but some fans have pretty short memories!

 

A symptom of the malaise that haunted the club in the last 2 seasons.......he is best "shipped out" in my view, though as I say, rarely has a player produced such polarised views.......but since he has gone on his "tour" of various clubs, none have valued him enough to give him the "run " in the team that so many suggest he deserved.......will be interesting to see if he can score "shedloads" for Reading!