The Original OTIB Posted October 23, 2021 Report Share Posted October 23, 2021 I don't recall any other City manager taking as long as Pearson to come and do media interviews post match. Maybe I remember incorrectly, but does seem to take an age. Quote Link to comment
Oops Posted October 23, 2021 Report Share Posted October 23, 2021 The old boy looked ok when they took him away thankfully. Massive respect to the young lady who made her way up the stand to help out as well. I presume she was a doctor or whatnot, but she took charge until the paramedics came up. 2 Quote Link to comment
collier Posted October 23, 2021 Report Share Posted October 23, 2021 23 minutes ago, chinapig said: You are right about the overall picture of course but it has to be said that Rooney is doing a remarkable job in more difficult circumstances than Nigel faces. Would that we were as hard to score against as Rooney has made Derby for instance. I don't disagree with that and your right but I won't have people telling me Derby this season are a better all round club and that we should expect us to put up less of a fight against the big teams because of terrible management from a previous tenure. I have never been on NP out but this guy trying to tell me we should expect to be worse than Luton and Derby, do me a favour!! 1 Quote Link to comment
pl00peh91 Posted October 23, 2021 Report Share Posted October 23, 2021 Wasn’t particularly happy with our away fans at the metro station after the game today, some of them squaring up to the WBA fans and some punches thrown despite families being stood nearby. The people involved barely had half a brain cell combined unfortunately. Quote Link to comment
WessexPest Posted October 23, 2021 Report Share Posted October 23, 2021 6 minutes ago, pl00peh91 said: Wasn’t particularly happy with our away fans at the metro station after the game today, some of them squaring up to the WBA fans and some punches thrown despite families being stood nearby. The people involved barely had half a brain cell combined unfortunately. But the CSF hate racists and nonces so they are all thoroughly nice blokes! 1 Quote Link to comment
collier Posted October 23, 2021 Report Share Posted October 23, 2021 22 minutes ago, Merrick's Marvels said: We're talking about what their team, as opposed to our team, has achieved on the field of play!! A point perfectly obvious, I would have thought from my previous post. Enjoy the rest of your angry evening. Rooney's Derby have been left in a much worse position on and off the field by previous management than NP has at City. Please explain then how they have accrued more point's than us this season? Your point being about on field play supposedly. They never even had enough players to field a team before the season started but grabbed any old free they could. We started the season with more than enough to field a first team and some, we brought in an experienced manager they have Rooney who was still playing a few years ago and had 0 managerial experience. Putting all that together why should we expect to be (minus their points deduction) in a worse position than them after 1/3 of the season? Quote Link to comment
David Brent Posted October 23, 2021 Report Share Posted October 23, 2021 Just let the bloke get on with his job and accept that we’re not one of the big teams in this league. Anyone who says there is no progress since he took over is lying. Had the team not folded against Forest then we’d be saying we’re nowhere West Brom’s level and to move on. 11 2 Quote Link to comment
WessexPest Posted October 23, 2021 Report Share Posted October 23, 2021 4 minutes ago, David Brent said: Just let the bloke get on with his job and accept that we’re not one of the big teams in this league. Anyone who says there is no progress since he took over is lying. Had the team not folded against Forest then we’d be saying we’re nowhere West Brom’s level and to move on. I do agree his hands are tied to an extent, but we should be doing much, much better than we are under a manager of his pedigree. Quote Link to comment
Lorenzos Only Goal Posted October 23, 2021 Report Share Posted October 23, 2021 I can see us having a bit of a bounce over the next couple of fixtures. The couple of bastard fixtures are out of the way now. 1 Quote Link to comment
exAtyeoMax Posted October 23, 2021 Report Share Posted October 23, 2021 https://www.bcfc.co.uk/news/we-were-well-off-it-today-pearson/ Quote Link to comment
Northern Red Posted October 23, 2021 Report Share Posted October 23, 2021 22 minutes ago, David Brent said: Just let the bloke get on with his job and accept that we’re not one of the big teams in this league. Anyone who says there is no progress since he took over is lying. Had the team not folded against Forest then we’d be saying we’re nowhere West Brom’s level and to move on. I remain absolutely convinced that if we'd held on to win a couple of home games but drawn two of the away games that we won, there'd be nowhere near as much doom and gloom despite the fact that we'd have exactly the same number of points. 3 Quote Link to comment
GrahamC Posted October 23, 2021 Report Share Posted October 23, 2021 43 minutes ago, The Original OTIB said: I don't recall any other City manager taking as long as Pearson to come and do media interviews post match. Maybe I remember incorrectly, but does seem to take an age. Maybe he’s discussing the game with the players, eh? Does this really matter? Does he do the interview in the end? 1 Quote Link to comment
The Original OTIB Posted October 23, 2021 Report Share Posted October 23, 2021 1 minute ago, GrahamC said: Maybe he’s discussing the game with the players, eh? Does this really matter? Does he do the interview in the end? Just an observation, no more, no less. Quote Link to comment
johnheadbcfc Posted October 23, 2021 Report Share Posted October 23, 2021 30 minutes ago, David Brent said: Just let the bloke get on with his job and accept that we’re not one of the big teams in this league. Anyone who says there is no progress since he took over is lying. Had the team not folded against Forest then we’d be saying we’re nowhere West Brom’s level and to move on. I think most people realise west brom are better than us, what I cant take is the lack of fight they've shown today. West brom were pressing us at every opportunity and we just let them have their way us. Pearson has told us how the fitness has improved for this season and how much its needed, that performance had no energy no fitness no desire and that is not acceptable to everyone that follows them across the country. 1 Quote Link to comment
eardun Posted October 23, 2021 Report Share Posted October 23, 2021 34 minutes ago, WessexPest said: I do agree his hands are tied to an extent, but we should be doing much, much better than we are under a manager of his pedigree. Should we though? I don’t recall many people saying at the start of the season that we’d be promotion candidates this season. 1 Quote Link to comment
JoeAman08 Posted October 23, 2021 Report Share Posted October 23, 2021 5 minutes ago, johnheadbcfc said: I think most people realise west brom are better than us, what I cant take is the lack of fight they've shown today. West brom were pressing us at every opportunity and we just let them have their way us. Pearson has told us how the fitness has improved for this season and how much its needed, that performance had no energy no fitness no desire and that is not acceptable to everyone that follows them across the country. Spot on. Today felt like players have turned on Pearson. Might not be true but the performance was appalling. This team has been talked up by the staff as basically less talented than a lot of the league but the fitness and fight would be top notch. 3 games in a row that isn’t the case. 1 Quote Link to comment
ExiledAjax Posted October 23, 2021 Report Share Posted October 23, 2021 46 minutes ago, David Brent said: Just let the bloke get on with his job and accept that we’re not one of the big teams in this league. Anyone who says there is no progress since he took over is lying. Had the team not folded against Forest then we’d be saying we’re nowhere West Brom’s level and to move on. Yeh broadly my view right now. It's a real shame that the first 45 was so abject today. I thought the second half was better...we were still second best to a top championship team, but at least we gave them a game. Quote Link to comment
firstdivision Posted October 23, 2021 Report Share Posted October 23, 2021 1 hour ago, WessexPest said: B******s, b******s and thrice b******s. Did anyone, hand on heart, anticipate anything other than a comprehensive defeat this afternoon? I didn’t. Cast your mind back two seasons when we were on the wrong end of a similar hiding at the Hawthorns as LJ’s stock began to plummet big style - progress since then has been negligible. We’ve too many distinctly ordinary players, too many promising but raw youngsters who lack the experience to rumble with the big boys at this level, and a coach who increasingly doesn’t seem to know how to set us up. The number of stupid errors, lapses in concentration and, of course, amateurish inability to see out a game is getting extremely tedious. And that Nathan Baker must be made of Waterford Crystal. I’m not out of patience with NP, largely because burning through managers eventually saw us go down last time, but his tenure has been deeply underwhelming on the whole. Perhaps I’m still smarting from that horrendous collapse in midweek, but it all feels pretty ominous I’m afraid. You are right, of course, about what we thought the result might be. What I did expect though was a collective determination to make it difficult for a better team. Didn’t see that at all in the first half. We were passive. spineless and harmless - an embarrassment. We were lucky not to be 5-0 down at half time. Reminded me of Watford (away) last season and we know what happened soon after that. As for the rest, I pretty much agree. Quote Link to comment
JoeAman08 Posted October 23, 2021 Report Share Posted October 23, 2021 2 minutes ago, ExiledAjax said: Yeh broadly my view right now. It's a real shame that the first 45 was so abject today. I thought the second half was better...we were still second best to a top championship team, but at least we gave them a game. Gave them a game? What game what were you watching? We in no way shape or form gave them a game. Should have been 5-0 minimum. Quote Link to comment
johnheadbcfc Posted October 23, 2021 Report Share Posted October 23, 2021 3 minutes ago, ExiledAjax said: Yeh broadly my view right now. It's a real shame that the first 45 was so abject today. I thought the second half was better...we were still second best to a top championship team, but at least we gave them a game. Second half was due to West brom taking their foot off the gas at no point did city up the level to "give them a game" Quote Link to comment
And Its Smith Posted October 23, 2021 Report Share Posted October 23, 2021 Surprised no mention of how poor Rob Atkinson has been recently. Still a long way for him to go to be a top half championship centre back. Good on the ball but not a great defender yet. Needs to player watch more and not just follow the ball. Players movement at this level top much for him right now Quote Link to comment
ExiledAjax Posted October 23, 2021 Report Share Posted October 23, 2021 6 minutes ago, JoeAman08 said: Gave them a game? What game what were you watching? We in no way shape or form gave them a game. Should have been 5-0 minimum. 2 minutes ago, johnheadbcfc said: Second half was due to West brom taking their foot off the gas at no point did city up the level to "give them a game" I disagree. I saw us give a bit more, play a little better, take shots, win corners, and create some chances. We didn't give them a good game, but it was a slight improvement...admittedly from an utterly abject baseline. Quote Link to comment
redsquirrel Posted October 23, 2021 Report Share Posted October 23, 2021 did the ball sort of stick to the turf on simpsons attempted backpass? looks like it sort of almost stops and changes direction a bit after first hitting the turf? Quote Link to comment
JoeAman08 Posted October 23, 2021 Report Share Posted October 23, 2021 6 minutes ago, ExiledAjax said: I disagree. I saw us give a bit more, play a little better, take shots, win corners, and create some chances. We didn't give them a good game, but it was a slight improvement...admittedly from an utterly abject baseline. To be fair a little better from the first half is still completely awful. Are 2 shots were a soft header comfortably saved from Martin. And Wells maybe trying to lob the keeper or float one back post. Martin also had an effort from the right side of the box which almost went out for a throw in on the left side of the pitch. With all due respect, there are 0 positives you can take from today. Quote Link to comment
JoeAman08 Posted October 23, 2021 Report Share Posted October 23, 2021 11 minutes ago, And Its Smith said: Surprised no mention of how poor Rob Atkinson has been recently. Still a long way for him to go to be a top half championship centre back. Good on the ball but not a great defender yet. Needs to player watch more and not just follow the ball. Players movement at this level top much for him right now Been bullied a bit last few games but we expected that. Still looks a good buy imo but won’t be the level of a Webster which I think a lot of people kind of think of. Don’t think anyone singularly should be pointed out. Everyone was miles below their best today. 1 Quote Link to comment
GrahamC Posted October 23, 2021 Report Share Posted October 23, 2021 1 hour ago, And Its Smith said: Surprised no mention of how poor Rob Atkinson has been recently. Still a long way for him to go to be a top half championship centre back. Good on the ball but not a great defender yet. Needs to player watch more and not just follow the ball. Players movement at this level top much for him right now Think that the step up from L1 is big & as strikers who have done it often show, they don’t make it. He clearly has potential but marking Dominic Solanke or Callum Robinson is a country mile away from facing some bloke from Shrewsbury or Crewe. Quote Link to comment
erndogz Posted October 23, 2021 Report Share Posted October 23, 2021 The worrying thing is that there is a gap emerging from teams not good enough for the prem and too good for the championship. WBA Bournemouth and Fulham sit in this bracket. Quote Link to comment
Busterrimes Posted October 24, 2021 Report Share Posted October 24, 2021 13 hours ago, BS4 on Tour... said: Nah - they got it from this song when a few Baggies heard it whilst on holiday ... Fair enough mate. More urban myth. 1 Quote Link to comment
BS4 on Tour... Posted October 24, 2021 Report Share Posted October 24, 2021 21 minutes ago, Busterrimes said: Fair enough mate. More urban myth. Who knows the real truth?! I was told the origin of ‘Boing Boing’ by a Baggies fan - but many more of them may support your theory instead - oh well, keep the faith Buster ... Quote Link to comment
Busterrimes Posted October 24, 2021 Report Share Posted October 24, 2021 15 minutes ago, BS4 on Tour... said: Who knows the real truth?! I was told the origin of ‘Boing Boing’ by a Baggies fan - but many more of them may support your theory instead - oh well, keep the faith Buster ... Thanks BS4. I actually have faith mate. Nigel Pearson is a good manager. We were in a mess last couple of seasons. 1 Quote Link to comment
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