100% It's Pearson

Nev, that's the problem. If you can give me the name of a manager you think better qualified (and would come) than Pearson to get us promotion, please say.

I can't see one.

Mersey i'm about as confused as everyone else look at what the caretakers have achived with the Svens and pearsons team it just need someone to motivate the existing players which it seems the owners did not think the existing managment team where capable of!

My head hurts

How is Pearson qualified to get us into the Premiership.He is a defence orientated manager with limited football vision. If the ball is in the other half they can't score!!
You cannot put the clock back and I see it as the owners pulling in their horns in terms of levels of spending and seeking to make the club "saleable" if they chose Pearson.
The clubs who won promotion last year -Swansea, Norwich and QPR all had a football based attacking philosophy completely alien to Pearson

Johngee, you're not Stringer in disguise are you?

Again 100% agree john i hope this is not going to continue?

I disagree Pearson is a defence minded manager - he builds a team from solid foundations and that's very different.

The championship is one of the ugliest leagues there is. Some of te games I've been to have been awful spectacles and you have to battle a grind out results.

The teams that went up last year didn't play expansive attacking football, they built solid defences and had midfield units that created chances. The only exception to this rule in recent years was West Brom, who did go up playing more continental style football.

Anyway, I'm very much in te camp of enjoying winning football, not pretty football.

In my opinion, Manchester Utd have been a more exciting and enjoyable team to watch than Arsenal over the last 10 years. Sideways passes do not entrain me, goals and goalmouth action does.

John, I don't know if you have spoken to your boys at length over this or simply agreed with the choices your boys have made. Personally, I would urge you to speak to them about it. Fine, if they want to forego the opportunity to see a comparatively new team with new players and new skills since NP was last here then that
is a matter for them. I can only think they will lose out. Even if they refuse to attend matches for the remainder of the season, and refrain from switching allegiances then that would be a positive step.

There have been something in the region of 23 managers at City since I first started watching them, and that doesn't include all the janitors/custodians who have to step into the breach at the 11th hour. With one or two I was rather dubious about their appointments but all happened to turn out for the best in the end.

Hopefully, your lads have not been swayed by the artificial gloss and glamour that is abundent in the Premier League and appears to be rammed down our throats week in and week out.

Sorry guys...pushed the wrong button!

***The clubs who won promotion last year -Swansea, Norwich and QPR all had a football based attacking philosophy completely alien to Pearson***

Norwich, yes – scored 83 goals, conceded 58 are the figures of a cavalier side for sure – but QPR (71) and Swansea (69) were only the seventh and eighth highest-scoring teams in the Championship, behind non-promoted Cardiff (76), Reading (77), Leeds (81), Leicester (76) and Watford (77).

If scoring goals was the biggest factor in promotion, neither of those sides would have gone up. They were, however, the two *tightest* teams in the league – QPR conceding 10 fewer goals than anyone else and 26 fewer than their nearest title challenger.