“Maybe it’s a good thing for us to play away from home, it was a game where we really needed the fans”

[The Bard]

2 hours ago, SydneyCity said:

Living overseas, this is the first game I’ve been able to get to since 2013. I’m going to quote my Brazilian wife who watched us for the first time ever today and admittedly can be very Latina:

“You cannot let those bitch*s come to your stadium and be louder than you. They made you their bitch*s. I am offended for you. You are not supporters, you are complainers. The only time you make noise for your team is to boo. Your 15 cannot run at people if he doesn’t have the roar behind him. Your 21 cannot win those balls unless he knows you are there. You were made to be bitch*s and you played like them”.

I’m not going to repeat what she said when half the stadium walked out after the second goal but the polite version was: “This is when you support your team”.

On the plus side, we do have a great stadium.

Your wife is a top Latina.  Absolutely hits the nail on the head.  

[2015]

2 hours ago, bcfc ry said:

I will always try to see the positives but right now it’s very hard. We are a sinking ship in need of significant change. 

We have been a sinking ship since 2019 dont know why some fans are waking up to it now

[italian dave]

I thought the atmosphere was dire today.

But it didn’t get off to a good start when the same line up appears as put us through a shit 90 mins last time out.

And the selection of King over Atkinson appeared to be a deliberate statement in response to the fans. Rightly or wrongly that’s how it was perceived - as the response to King’s substitution showed. I didn’t hear that as cheering King going off specifically; it was cheering the (belated) arrival of a central defender to play in central defence..

And then we concede in the first 10 minutes. 

Not exactly a start to generate an atmosphere. 

Edited December 26, 2022 by italian dave

[Guest]

37 minutes ago, GrahamC said:

They’ve now won 6 of their last 7.

I bet we would have sold out the away end at The Hawthorns if roles were reversed.

I’m sure you’re correct. But that is a very big IF judging by current form.

My point was that to use the fact that there were no buses or trains was not a good reason for the empty seats.

Had the poster said the results at home have been poor and the football played by us uninspiring and that’s why people stayed away I would have readily agreed with him.

No doubt we will take a large following to Coventry, let’s hope the team rewards the fans accordingly.

[Andy082005]

1 hour ago, johnheadbcfc said:

Ashton gate before the redevelopment used to be a good atmosphere, under Wilson and Gary johnson especially 

It was also dire when things were not going well. We create a good atmosphere at this stadium but everyone has had the life sucked out of them by this current set up

[Guest]

10 minutes ago, SydneyCity said:

Don’t be. I can get an equally emotional reaction if a coffee is cold, or a train is late

But life is never dull?

[exAtyeoMax]

1 hour ago, Davefevs said:

I take it this is from the “written press” interview after Club and BBCRB one?

Just found it:

Blimey, are we really up in arms about these kind of comments from Pearson?

I think people are reacting to a different interview, that’s not the one I saw on Twitter 

Edited December 26, 2022 by exAtyeoMax

[Davefevs]

Just now, exAtyeoMax said:

I think people are reacting to a difference interview, that’s not the one I saw on Twitter 

No, I agree, but what Nige actually says (in full) on the club one on twitter is very different to what the OP has snipped into the thread title.

[cidercity1987]

1 hour ago, spudski said:

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/nigel-pearson-bristol-city-hostile-7970338 

He really hasn't helped himself again in these quotes.

Regarding WBA... Quote... 'They’re actually now getting the best out of their own players, but when we played them at their place, we beat them 2-0 comfortably on the night because they had players that were coasting, and they weren’t getting the best out of their players, so it depends how you want to look at it.'

If that's the case...what does that say about his own management and our players? 

That their players are considerably better than ours

Which would be correct 

[xerox6060]

2 hours ago, Chrizzler said:

He wasn’t blaming the fans at all. 

I agree I thought he actually gave fans more credit than was deserved, for a boxing day and a big crowd that was a dreadful atmosphere and didn't assist at all...though also say it was predictable and limited on the pitch so understandable 

[spudski]

17 minutes ago, cidercity1987 said:

That their players are considerably better than ours

Which would be correct 

You're missing the point.

WBA got in a new manager, who transformed their results and now gets the best out the players.

 NP has admitted our squad are capable of doing better and should in his opinion be near the play offs.

So who is at fault...him or the players?

Or is his judgement flawed? 

 

[Chrizzler]

Just now, xerox6060 said:

I agree I thought he actually gave fans more credit than was deserved, for a boxing day and a big crowd that was a dreadful atmosphere and didn't assist at all...though also say it was predictable and limited on the pitch so understandable 

I agree, whilst I’m as frustrated with Pearson as much as anyone I thought as well as the poor atmosphere from the kick off, the cheering of an injured player going off & the booing of the players as they were showing their appreciation to the supporters at the end by some of our, so called, “fans” was totally wrong. I’m not saying people shouldn’t criticise but direct it where it’s deserved.  

[Offside]

The atmosphere at AG was very flat today and has been for a while. A depressed malaise seems to have set in. But there is also the context of some poor results and performances. There was precious little to give fans something to cheer today. Our play from the start was so slow with no urgency, we even took an age with goal kicks and throw-ins.

We are being beaten so easily, today without a whimper. 

[WessexPest]

Bordering on SOD or Pulis, these remarks. Pearson’s a dead man walking. Sally forth and take the helmets who run our club with you.

League One incoming.

Edited December 26, 2022 by WessexPest

[Dr Balls]

The problem is that going to watch City at Ashton Gate in the past few months would have tested the patience of a saint. And there are very few of those amongst those who attend regularly. We usually come away from games frustrated by the result, bewildered by the team selection and tactics, and more recently disillusioned that any of it is ever going to change. Our form is woeful, the entertainment is minimal, and the response from the manager is unhelpful at best and more often than not downright annoying. And people want us to sing our hearts out for that?! Well when the players, management and owners show that they care as much as the fans and actually demonstrate some effort and desire, then maybe we might show some in return. However play useless, directionless, losing football, don’t expect to get anything other than silence interspersed with booing. It’s all that that deserves!

[AppyDAZE]

He's not the first manager at any football club to say that we need a couple of away games in order to take the pressure off a bit.

There's been a bit of an OTT reaction on here to this IMO.

I don't like everything he's doing, and I didn't like his little dig at us with his "I've been at bigger places" thing,

But I still think it would be a big risk to send him packing.

BCFC is not in a good place off the pitch as surely everyone knows.

I'd like to think they can go into the next two away games with a little less pressure and hopefully surprise a few.

 

[Ron W]

Nigel has been, for the most part, very wise in the way he deals with the media and the fans. It's a big part of the job in 2022 and he's been pretty good at it. When he talked about being on the bus or off it in the past, he was early enough in his City career, with enough green shoots of optimism that it brought us along with him.

He has come across as humble, accepting of his own failings, calculated in how he assesses the limitations of the club. I've not met him but people who have seem to have found him approachable, welcoming and charming.

I don't mean to be too cynical, but he's not stupid. He's been in this game a long time and knows if he can distinguish himself from the managers who can avoid sounding like they blame everyone else apart than themselves, he's won some of the battle. In the same way he knows exactly how and when to push the button on the state of refereeing and get national coverage.

Nigel's had plenty of run-ins with the media (and fans) before and made plenty of brash statements. Look at the final months of his Leicester career. But watching his interviews here, he's looked more mellow for the most part.

I say this very much from the outside, I haven't seen a City game in person since Millwall away last season, but I get the feeling the sentiment has changed from both sides. The atmosphere at AG sounded like it had turned today.

Nigel burned a few bridges with the way he talked about Atkinson last week, and now the line about getting booed out of bigger clubs isn't endearing himself to anyone. In the club interview, you can hear him getting half way through criticising the fans and then thinking better of it.

"Maybe it might be a good thing for us to play away. We didn't quite get the... It was a game where we needed the fans to get behind us, and they did for the mostpart, but their frustrations are very obvious too, so... We've just got to get back to being as solid as we can."

For a straight-talking manager, that's a lot of insinuation without actually wanting to go the distance and say what he means. His biggest problem is he's already said too much to backtrack, when his stock is already as low as it has been since he took the job.

As I said, I don't know enough about what it's like to watch City at the moment to speculate but it's certainly the sort of language we've heard from City bosses in the past who didn't have long left. Similar to GJ at Watford and Reading in his final days.

Edited December 26, 2022 by RonWalker

[Lack of Action Man]

15 minutes ago, RonWalker said:

His biggest problem is he's already said too much to backtrack, when his stock is already as low as it has been since he took the job.

This is exactly the comment I made (off the forum) earlier r.e. Pearson's comments. 

Scenario:

He implies to the media that he cannot trust Atkinson in central defense, hence why he is playing Andy King there. 

Andy King gets injured. 

He now is forced into playing Atkinson whose confidence is hardly likely to be at peak levels after that kind of comment is made to the press.

 

It's bloody baffling from NP.

[2015]

1 hour ago, Chrizzler said:

I agree, whilst I’m as frustrated with Pearson as much as anyone I thought as well as the poor atmosphere from the kick off, the cheering of an injured player going off & the booing of the players as they were showing their appreciation to the supporters at the end by some of our, so called, “fans” was totally wrong. I’m not saying people shouldn’t criticise but direct it where it’s deserved.  

Imagine booing a player who is a supporter of this club, i'd feel like absolute **** of I was King. Absolutely embarassing by some of our so called 'fans'. It's not King's fault that he is being selected out of position.

[Ron W]

When the 'so-called fans' are being called out you know you're not far from the sack...

[Kingswood Robin]

1 hour ago, Chrizzler said:

I agree, whilst I’m as frustrated with Pearson as much as anyone I thought as well as the poor atmosphere from the kick off, the cheering of an injured player going off & the booing of the players as they were showing their appreciation to the supporters at the end by some of our, so called, “fans” was totally wrong. I’m not saying people shouldn’t criticise but direct it where it’s deserved.  

Not a flippant question, but who is that and what is the correct way to express our displeasure to them?

For me it's simple. Serve up something that's worth watching and people will be happy. Serve up dross week, after week, after week and they won't be. One home win since August.

[Chrizzler]

Just now, Kingswood Robin said:

Not a flippant question, but who is that and what is the correct way to express our displeasure to them?

For me it's simple. Serve up something that's worth watching and people will be happy. Serve up dross week, after week, after week and they won't be. One home win since August.

It’s not the players’ fault that the manager is getting his tactics & selections wrong though. “Supporters” cheered when Andy King went off injured today, there’s no excuse for that.  The displeasure should be directed where it’s deserved. 

[Red-Robbo]

I actually think most were cheering because Atko came on (as most of us thought he should've started) rather than cheering an injury. 

It's not the first time a substitution has been cheered.

[Kingswood Robin]

Just now, Chrizzler said:

It’s not the players’ fault that the manager is getting his tactics & selections wrong though. “Supporters” cheered when Andy King went off injured today, there’s no excuse for that.  The displeasure should be directed where it’s deserved. 

But they weren't cheering the fact that King was leaving the field, it was a message to Pearson who was forced to change the positioning and selection.  

[Ron W]

3 minutes ago, Chrizzler said:

It’s not the players’ fault that the manager is getting his tactics & selections wrong though. “Supporters” cheered when Andy King went off injured today, there’s no excuse for that.  The displeasure should be directed where it’s deserved. 

It's not right and I'm not excusing it, but there's very few clubs where things couldn't get toxic enough for the same thing to happen.

[Harry]

I’m finding it harder and harder to like Nigel. Whilst I’m not overly bothered by his comments today, I’m finding his stubbornness really hard to swallow right now. 
It’s clear he ballsed up last week with the King at CB selection. He claimed in midweek that he takes full responsibility, but he then goes and plays the exact same team which pathetically allowed Stoke to win last week. 
 

The general malaise around the ground today, in my opinion, was the disbelief from the fans that he chose the same frigging line up. I know that my opinion when I saw the team was “ah well”. 
It wasn’t the most inspiring news. 
 

Perhaps if Nigel likes to take responsibility (as he says he does), then he could take a closer inspection of his own home record, and make his own conclusions as to why the home support is currently non-existent.  
He’s managed us for 45 games at Ashton Gate. 
His record is 12-14-19. 50 points from 135. 
A win rate of 26.67%. A loss rate of 42.2%. A points per game rate of 1.11. 
 

I think for the most part of his tenure, the general atmosphere has been ok and the fans have pretty much been behind the team. But that home record is enough to test anyone’s patience. 
 

I haven’t got the time or patience to look, but I’d be amazed if there was a manager currently in charge of a pro club who has a worse home record than Pearson’s (given a decent sample size). 
 

Yes, he’s been working under ‘mitigatIng circumstances’, but we’re not the only club who is hampered. 
We’ve got the 9th most expensive squad (according to Kieran Maguire), and we’ve got a top 10 wage budget (according to our own CEO). And of the 2 summers Pearson has been here, last summer only 14 clubs spent money on a player and the summer before, only 7 clubs spent money on a player. So we’re not the only ones who have been scratching around for free transfers and we still pay a top half wage in this division. 
Yes, it’s a tough job he was given, but it ain’t the only tough job in this league. The narrative from the club seems to be that we are the only ones operating under these conditions and we should all show some respect to that fact. 
I’ve said before, if the club want to play that narrative then they should ensure the manager also adopts a ‘siege mentality’, circle the wagons and get everyone onside. But his constant singling out and ostracising of players, and his propensity to play square pegs round holes football is making it hard for me to understand what he’s actually hoping to achieve by his actions and words. 
 

I for one, have had enough of the excuses now. Yes, the finances have and will continue to be a burden for him and whomever is in charge over the next 18 months, but we ain’t the only ones in that boat and the excuses, attitude and baffling selections are starting to wear very thin. 
 

Is change a-coming? Well, the tide has certainly turned in the last week. 
But we have to factor in the impending departure of Gould. I’m sure we won’t pull the plug with an outgoing CEO and it’s more likely that the new CEO will be the one responsible for making that call and to bring in his own choice. Guess it depends if we already have the new CEO lined up and he is able to make a decision now? 

[Selred]

The more I go through the squad, I just find baffling decisions in all positions from Nige. 

He makes Bentley captain, then drops him for OLeary who to be honest isn’t doing anything noticeably better than Bents. 

Right wing back, he resorts to playing Weimann our top scorer from last season. Instead of Tanner, a RB, or Sykes, both players signed under Pearson but to play where / what formation if not RWB? Or why not play Scott there who wasn’t bad last season in that position. 

Centre back he starts King again, who isn’t good enough there. Instead of Atkinson and Klose, two players he signed. 

Our midfield was over run, you could argue we have limited options there, but equally King is at CB, so why not change formation and bring him into midfield. Or yes HNM isn’t staying after the season, but he’s a decent championship player. 

Then up top, Conway and Wells have a good connection sure. But taking Wells off for unproven Bell seemed odd, especially when you were playing a bloke who scored 20 goals at RWB 9 mins before for a RB. 

Just so many baffling choices from squad selection, formations, tactics, in game management, signings.

[Kodjias Wrist]

9 minutes ago, Ron W said:

It's not right and I'm not excusing it, but there's very few clubs where things couldn't get toxic enough for the same thing to happen.

How on earth would you know how toxic every club gets in comparison with ours? Also I thought it was more the fact that Atkinson was coming on. 

Stop making out we are some toxic fan base, toxicity happens at every club. Gasheads have it, I remember Wolves players getting death threats when falling to league 1. LJ had it here, Barnsley and Sunderland when they were top 6. 

 

[NcnsBcfc]

I think the most difficult thing today for me was the substitions.

You're chasing the game at 1-0, but don't make any non-injury subs until the 71st min.

We then took off Weimann at RWB, rather than putting him up top alongside Wells & Conway.

Tanner came on at RCB, and we moved the CB (Naismith) to CM, with Sykes covering at RWB (where he has been ineffective for the last quarter of the season).

NP has Semenyeo stripped off, and warming up. He then sends him back to the naughty step, and neglects to bring any forward replacements on until we are 2-0 down (even then it took 5 mins to effect the substitutions).

Bell then took up the position that i would have expected Weimann to play in (he's some way short of Champ level, but good luck in L1).

All completely laughable in my eyes, and had little or no discernable positive effect on the game.

Awful, just awful game management.

And so it all continues.....

[Ron W]

4 minutes ago, Kodjias Wrist said:

How on earth would you know how toxic every club gets in comparison with ours? 

I think judging by the rest of your post you've misread what I wrote.

Edited December 27, 2022 by Ron W

[Davefevs]

1 hour ago, Harry said:

I’m finding it harder and harder to like Nigel. Whilst I’m not overly bothered by his comments today, I’m finding his stubbornness really hard to swallow right now. 
It’s clear he ballsed up last week with the King at CB selection. He claimed in midweek that he takes full responsibility, but he then goes and plays the exact same team which pathetically allowed Stoke to win last week. 
 

The general malaise around the ground today, in my opinion, was the disbelief from the fans that he chose the same frigging line up. I know that my opinion when I saw the team was “ah well”. 
It wasn’t the most inspiring news. 
 

Perhaps if Nigel likes to take responsibility (as he says he does), then he could take a closer inspection of his own home record, and make his own conclusions as to why the home support is currently non-existent.  
He’s managed us for 45 games at Ashton Gate. 
His record is 12-14-19. 50 points from 135. 
A win rate of 26.67%. A loss rate of 42.2%. A points per game rate of 1.11. 
 

I think for the most part of his tenure, the general atmosphere has been ok and the fans have pretty much been behind the team. But that home record is enough to test anyone’s patience. 
 

I haven’t got the time or patience to look, but I’d be amazed if there was a manager currently in charge of a pro club who has a worse home record than Pearson’s (given a decent sample size). 
 

Yes, he’s been working under ‘mitigatIng circumstances’, but we’re not the only club who is hampered. 
We’ve got the 9th most expensive squad (according to Kieran Maguire), and we’ve got a top 10 wage budget (according to our own CEO). And of the 2 summers Pearson has been here, last summer only 14 clubs spent money on a player and the summer before, only 7 clubs spent money on a player. So we’re not the only ones who have been scratching around for free transfers and we still pay a top half wage in this division. 
Yes, it’s a tough job he was given, but it ain’t the only tough job in this league. The narrative from the club seems to be that we are the only ones operating under these conditions and we should all show some respect to that fact. 
I’ve said before, if the club want to play that narrative then they should ensure the manager also adopts a ‘siege mentality’, circle the wagons and get everyone onside. But his constant singling out and ostracising of players, and his propensity to play square pegs round holes football is making it hard for me to understand what he’s actually hoping to achieve by his actions and words. 
 

I for one, have had enough of the excuses now. Yes, the finances have and will continue to be a burden for him and whomever is in charge over the next 18 months, but we ain’t the only ones in that boat and the excuses, attitude and baffling selections are starting to wear very thin. 
 

Is change a-coming? Well, the tide has certainly turned in the last week. 
But we have to factor in the impending departure of Gould. I’m sure we won’t pull the plug with an outgoing CEO and it’s more likely that the new CEO will be the one responsible for making that call and to bring in his own choice. Guess it depends if we already have the new CEO lined up and he is able to make a decision now? 

In the summer according to Transfermarkt, there were 38 transfers paid by Championship clubs and countless “undisclosed”.

Summer 21/22 there were 42 plus a number of undisclosed.

I do agree we aren’t the only tough job.

1 hour ago, NcnsBcfc said:

I think the most difficult thing today for me was the substitions.

You're chasing the game at 1-0, but don't make any non-injury subs until the 71st min.

We then took off Weimann at RWB, rather than putting him up top alongside Wells & Conway.

Tanner came on at RCB, and we moved the CB (Naismith) to CM, with Sykes covering at RWB (where he has been ineffective for the last quarter of the season).

NP has Semenyeo stripped off, and warming up. He then sends him back to the naughty step, and neglects to bring any forward replacements on until we are 2-0 down (even then it took 5 mins to effect the substitutions).

Bell then took up the position that i would have expected Weimann to play in (he's some way short of Champ level, but good luck in L1).

All completely laughable in my eyes, and had little or no discernable positive effect on the game.

Awful, just awful game management.

And so it all continues.....

Neil - 99% of OTIB wanted Naismith in midfield, so you can’t now start using that example against him!

[Olé]

6 hours ago, Davefevs said:

Blimey, are we really up in arms about these kind of comments from Pearson?

Exactly Dave, Nigel Pearson shouldn't really need any defending at this point (and should start earning that support) but my god the number of people on Twitter and here who have allowed themselves to be taken in by the most shameless misquoting of Pearson by a second rate podcast that has consistently never had a good word to say about him or our club, and to a lesser extend by the Bristol Post clickbait mob. 

There is a lot wrong with the selection and organisation at the moment but leaving the words "and they did for the most part" off NP's quote in order to whip up some hysteria and outrage is beyond embarrassing. I mean the atmosphere was as flat as a pancake but there is not much that NP can do about O'Leary's early error, and in the full quote as above he is being more generous about the fans than he needs to be.

[oldstandrobin]

13 hours ago, Countryfile said:

I don’t think he was blaming the fans at all.

I haven’t seen the South stand so empty in a long time, and like the Stoke game the atmosphere was flat from the start.

Ashton Gate is a super venue for away fans, if they travel in any numbers they can create a great atmosphere for their team filling the Atyeo.

For what it’s worth I think Nige will be dismissed and I think we will be relegated.

 

Nailed on, we give the away teams points start. As an ex Eastender of the 60's, I cringe when I see the Atyeo  nowadays in a key match.

[ralphindevon]

I’m usually fairly vocal with, mainly with encouragement but yesterday because of the never ending cold that I and many others have was quiet.

Also, very unlike me, I left early as the cold air was making me cough too much.

Not making excuses but I wonder if many were in the same boat as me? That and the fact it was all pretty dire.

[Northern Red]

9 hours ago, 2015 said:

Imagine booing a player who is a supporter of this club, i'd feel like absolute **** of I was King. Absolutely embarassing by some of our so called 'fans'. It's not King's fault that he is being selected out of position.

That on top of booing a teenager on his debut a few weeks back.

Belting "support".

[mozo]

Pearson's explanation that we just came up against a better team is fine in isolation, but it was our pathetic defeat to Stoke (and our paltry points total) which then piled the pressure onto this much harder game. 

Now the pressure has risen again and we have a tough away day which is hardly ideal given where we are.

Huddersfield play Rotherham on Thursday. A home win would really change the look of the bottom 7. Not for the better if we lose. 

[italian dave]

10 hours ago, 2015 said:

Imagine booing a player who is a supporter of this club, i'd feel like absolute **** of I was King. Absolutely embarassing by some of our so called 'fans'. It's not King's fault that he is being selected out of position.

I wasn’t aware of any booing that was directed specifically at King. Maybe I missed something.

There was some discontent at the announcement of the same team that delivered such a shit performance last time out.

There was ironic cheering when King was subbed, but that wasn’t directed at King - it was directed at the (belated) arrival of a central defender to play in central defence.

There was some booing when players came over at the end - but that was directed at whoever happened to be there at the time I felt - not at any one individual. 

I think some might have been directed at Pearson, had he been there, but strangely he only ever seems to appear when we’ve won. 

[Super]

How many more times they were cheering the fact we were bringing on a recognised defender not the fact King was injured. Laughable that people are saying this.

[robin_unreliant]

3 minutes ago, Super said:

How many more times they were cheering the fact we were bringing on a recognised defender not the fact King was injured. Laughable that people are saying this.

I have been a Pearson supporter but think the poor results are getting to me. When King went down my first thought was that he and NP had set that up at HT so he could bring Atkinson on without losing face. That is probably rubbish but shows me how much faith I've lost in Nige.

[italian dave]

1 hour ago, Northern Red said:

That on top of booing a teenager on his debut a few weeks back.

Belting "support".

I’ve got some sympathy with the view that Pearson’s statements yesterday are being used in a way that suits agendas - that the individual words are being interpreted to mean what people want. 

But you’re doing exactly the same with all this talk of “booing” individual players.

There were no boos directed at King specifically yesterday - the boos were at the whole team, at particular decisions but not at an individual player.

And likewise at the Lincoln game - the generally inept and shambolic defensive performance attracted boos, especially when Lincoln were allowed to waltz through our defence at will, but it wasn’t the case that Low was singled out and that boos were directed specifically at him. 

[Red-Robbo]

The more I reflect on it, the more disrespectful Pearson's comments are.

Lansdown (and TV money) may pay most of his salary, and gate receipts only a minority, but it's fans who ARE the club, we're why the club exists.  The fact he can continue into his 60th year earning more than an oncology surgeon in order to do a job of getting men to play a game in a way that should be entertaining to the general public, is because of fans.

You might be annoyed with them; who hasn't done a job where you're not irritated by some of your customers? But you don't show it.

[Davefevs]

9 hours ago, Olé said:

Exactly Dave, Nigel Pearson shouldn't really need any defending at this point (and should start earning that support) but my god the number of people on Twitter and here who have allowed themselves to be taken in by the most shameless misquoting of Pearson by a second rate podcast that has consistently never had a good word to say about him or our club, and to a lesser extend by the Bristol Post clickbait mob. 

There is a lot wrong with the selection and organisation at the moment but leaving the words "and they did for the most part" off NP's quote in order to whip up some hysteria and outrage is beyond embarrassing. I mean the atmosphere was as flat as a pancake but there is not much that NP can do about O'Leary's early error, and in the full quote as above he is being more generous about the fans than he needs to be.

Thanks Rob…I think it shows a number of posters on OTIB / pods / twitter are really ingrained in their dislike of Nige, want him gone, and will pick up on any snippet to whip it up further.  That is fine, that’s the nature of some folk, doesn’t make them wrong and me right, or whatever, but it does highlight their thoughts.

[italian dave]

9 hours ago, Olé said:

Exactly Dave, Nigel Pearson shouldn't really need any defending at this point (and should start earning that support) but my god the number of people on Twitter and here who have allowed themselves to be taken in by the most shameless misquoting of Pearson by a second rate podcast that has consistently never had a good word to say about him or our club, and to a lesser extend by the Bristol Post clickbait mob. 

There is a lot wrong with the selection and organisation at the moment but leaving the words "and they did for the most part" off NP's quote in order to whip up some hysteria and outrage is beyond embarrassing. I mean the atmosphere was as flat as a pancake but there is not much that NP can do about O'Leary's early error, and in the full quote as above he is being more generous about the fans than he needs to be.

 

25 minutes ago, Davefevs said:

Thanks Rob…I think it shows a number of posters on OTIB / pods / twitter are really ingrained in their dislike of Nige, want him gone, and will pick up on any snippet to whip it up further.  That is fine, that’s the nature of some folk, doesn’t make them wrong and me right, or whatever, but it does highlight their thoughts.

You’re right of course…but it kind of goes with the territory, doesn’t it? Especially relegation territory.

And if ‘misquoting’ is the worst he gets then it suggests he’s still getting away fairly lightly! Others have had to deal with the bedsheets, the personal insults and worse.

[Andy082005]

12 hours ago, NcnsBcfc said:

I think the most difficult thing today for me was the substitions.

You're chasing the game at 1-0, but don't make any non-injury subs until the 71st min.

We then took off Weimann at RWB, rather than putting him up top alongside Wells & Conway.

Tanner came on at RCB, and we moved the CB (Naismith) to CM, with Sykes covering at RWB (where he has been ineffective for the last quarter of the season).

NP has Semenyeo stripped off, and warming up. He then sends him back to the naughty step, and neglects to bring any forward replacements on until we are 2-0 down (even then it took 5 mins to effect the substitutions).

Bell then took up the position that i would have expected Weimann to play in (he's some way short of Champ level, but good luck in L1).

All completely laughable in my eyes, and had little or no discernable positive effect on the game.

Awful, just awful game management.

And so it all continues.....

Yet there are still many on here who lap up his press conferences and will try to make you believe we are lucky to have a ‘top manager’ 

 

[Simon79]

Have now seen the interview, don’t really get the reaction in all honesty. I think Pearson knows he’s had a fairly patient fan base & he has often commented on it. Nothing to see for me. COYR 

[Davefevs]

29 minutes ago, italian dave said:

 

You’re right of course…but it kind of goes with the territory, doesn’t it? Especially relegation territory.

And if ‘misquoting’ is the worst he gets then it suggests he’s still getting away fairly lightly! Others have had to deal with the bedsheets, the personal insults and worse.

It does indeed.

We’ve had Nige is an alcoholic, bully, etc stuff also.

Don’t get me wrong we all have our little bias one way or the other and that influences our ramblings on here.

25 minutes ago, Andy082005 said:

Yet there are still many on here who lap up his press conferences and will try to make you believe we are lucky to have a ‘top manager’ 

 

I really enjoy them.  I used to enjoy LJ’s pre-match /general stuff too.  Post-match not so.

[Top Robin]

This is just one out of a catalogue of NP errors and misjudgements over the past 2 years which have got him into this position and given good reason for many fans to want him gone. 

[Mr Popodopolous]

15 hours ago, Offside said:

The atmosphere at AG was very flat today and has been for a while. A depressed malaise seems to have set in. But there is also the context of some poor results and performances. There was precious little to give fans something to cheer today. Our play from the start was so slow with no urgency, we even took an age with goal kicks and throw-ins.

We are being beaten so easily, today without a whimper. 

To be fair, 1st 10 mins some good chants of "Red Army" and we had a couple of good attacks, they had a couple of good attacks.

When they scored the atmosphere seemed to collapse but first half performance wise didn't seem too bad, 2nd half they stepped up and we shrunk.

The last real decent combination of performance and atmosphere I remember however was v Watford in November IMO.

Edited December 27, 2022 by Mr Popodopolous