then get lost

"SP admitted his side are paying the price for the continued failings in front of goal" => NO! City are paying the price for his negative and clueless tactics. Had we created a bunch of chances he could argue that we are paying the price. But the fact is we dont create anything. And then, this cute little comment: "We are concerned but I feel it will be any three from the bottom eight who could go down." => Has he lost it?

Why did City not buy a player who could provide some goals? They waited until the last minute and only tryed to buy Mido. May be a new manager would be right at this point. It is to many excuses from Pierce.

We are inn serious trouble...

We didn't create anything so shot shy is a ridiculous excuse. I've tried to be positive and really believed that Pearce would be able to get the team motivated for this game. But from the start Wigan wanted it more. They were up for the fight and we weren't. Not one City player today can say they put in a good shift, not one of them. It's hard to pick on individuals as to a man they were awful, but Weaver was hopeless on the goal and his distribution is abject. Trablesi was just dire as he has been since the defeat at OT. Dunnie went into his shell as he always does when the going gets tough. Yes he's a first choice player and probably should start week in week out but without the burden of the captaincy. He is not a leader, he seems to capitulate under the responsibility, especially when we go a goal down. It was Barton who gave Weaver a bollocking over the goal. Maybe I've just been hoping that things will get better and hoping that Pearce will learn fast but he doesn't seem to have learned from any of the defeats in recent weeks. Can he not see that we're too good for the Championship sides we've played in the cup, but been found wanting in the Premiership in front of goal all season. So starting with Samaras and Corradi today was the sign of a man who hasn't got a clue what to do. Pearce was clueless today, there was no pride or passion in the team at all and there didn't appear to be any game plan other than to hoof it up to the front two, lose possession and be on the back foot. City have always been unpredictable, so I'm not going to let another abject display and defeat ruin my life. And I still fancy us to turn over Blackburn next week. I'll still go and support them whatever league they're in and I'm looking online for odds on a double of FA Cup winners and relegation in the same season. It's worth a punt. See you at Blackburn next Sunday.

city fans are not interesed in fulham and villa mr pearce, at xmas he was talking about getting into europe, he makes frank clarke look like ferguson, not a clue, do us all a favour pearce GO.

He had from January 1st until 31st to get a striker .....we have not had a playmaker since Ali and Eyal went.

He played under Brian Clough .....none of his management skills rubbed off on him.

Get him sacked Monday.

Wardle on Monday at 9am you should knock on the managers door and calmly hand him his P45...... with the departing words .... have fun with the U21s

PEARCE OUT

I have said from the start of the season that we would be in the mire with the crap squad we've got. 10-12 years ago the Prem quality players were sold off gradually to save money. Where did we end up? Same has happened here and been replaced with high-wages rubbish. Our squad is the worst in the Prem. If Marlon King hadn't got injured even Watford would be above us. We're not continually missing loads of chances, we never create anything to miss. Also said at the start of the season that home game v Rags could be where they send us down and remove the only thing we had left as oneupmanship against them. Pearce has lost it and is backed by an ever decreasing useless staff. All the momentum created by promotion, Anelka, SWP, Ali B, etc has been whittled away by poor management and short-sighted running of the club. The last minute panic buying attempt to get Mido in the last hour of the window shows how desparate we are and how unprofessional the club is run. We had all January for Christ's sake. With the crap we've got the die is cast, Pearce or no Pearce. This has been coming for ages. The fans have seen it and I'm astounded that Pearce, Macintosh, Wardle, Tueart etc couldn't. I'm devastated and have a empty pit in my guts 'cause I know what is coming. Deja Vu - Ball/Pearce, Swales/Lee, Wardle/Macintosh. Shattered that the hard lessons we paid for (boy didn't we pay for it) weren't learnt from and its all coming round again. Gutted.

I can't remember one shot on target Pearce.

20 goals in 27 matches says it all. SP has to accept that current first choice strikers and tactics have not worked. Given the matches we have left it is hard to see us picking up those extra 10 points to take us to the magical forty point mark. most worrying is that the teams around us are picking up points and putting runs together. Games in hand mean nothing at this end of the table. Its time to gamble with the youngsters. Was taking on the England job recognition of SPs ability or recognition that come the end of the season he will be released by City. I get the feeling that once we exit the FA Cup a post dated P45 will be completed. I can see little point in ditching him now given that his backroom staff are jumping ship.

On Sky Sports you can read that SP thought we werent at the races against Wigan. How many times has he said that now after a game? And how many times can he get away with that excuse?? If SP's explanations are that simple all the time, no wonder he cant motivate the team. Pearce out or everything will remain a joke!

Well that nice little break/jolly in Dubai did the trick didn't it Stuart? It's nice to see that our Season Ticket money is going to a good cause.

The bloke is clueless. End of.

It is clear as day,Pearce is so short sighted. How long do we have to suffer Samaras and the joker(Corradi). Perhaps pearce can not accept he has made a big error in signing these two players. Not withstanding, the sighning of Hamman. Time to act and give Sturridge and Mpenza a run out. Drop the Donkies!!

Pearce is frustrated by goal shy Blues? Then why didn't he do something about it in the January window? A good workman doesn't blame his tools. The buck stops with Pearce. The Board should have got rid of this man months ago.

Dreadful today. Our worst ever performance in the premiership - No desire, no tactics & no skill. At least the bars did good business. Corradi & Samaras are so slow Wigans back 4 could push up to within 5 feet of the half way line time after time, with no danger. SP is on thin ice. 1-0 down at home, he brings Sturridge on with just 3 minutes to go. He is also wrong about 40 points. 36 will probably be enough this season, so we have a slim chance of avoiding the drop. But there were big groups of fans chanting Pearce out today in the East stand. He may not be here by then.

Pearce has created this media myth with regards to his being straightforward and honest and, much like the previous "keegan teams can't defend" myth the media is only too happy to regurgitate the stereotypes without any thought or inquiry.

The fact is Pearce accepted the U121 job without the consulting the club and then made it clear in the media that the he thought that the position should be full time starting in the summer and. oh waht an honour it would be to serve his country blah blah blah.

Is it coincidence that we haven't earned a single point since then?

That we have lost key coaching staff members?

That overall coomitment levels to the club and to the tackle seem to have plummeted?

Pearce is, in his vernacular, being "a bit too cute" and reaping the rewards.

If he doesn't get his relegated then he will leave in the summer to ruin the U 21s.

If we do get relegated thanks to his self interested puruits and lack of focus on he club we will lose

1. Richards, Distin, Barton, Isaacson but not Samaras.

2. Miss out on the biggest pay day in professional football history

3. Lose the interest of potential investors and access to the type of bank roll necessary for future success.

4. Possibly surrender our place in the Premiership to Roy Keanes team.


But he least he'll have the honourof at least part time serving his country.


PS While we were fooling around not signing Mido at 5 to midnight Wigan picked up Folan, yesterdays goal scorer, for 500k.

Tme to move on SP.

CTID

Stu, I'm not bovered about Fulham & Villa. Stop trying to deflect from the fact that you haven't got a clue what to do with OUR team. Here's a couple of ideas; seeing as we have a couple of players who could play at right back, stop wasting Richards' talents and stick him further up the pitch, either in the centre of midfield or on the right wing. Is it only me who thinks that he frightens the opposition to death when going forward? And try sticking Sturridge on before 3 minutes to go - why not try him from the start with Mpenza? Huh, anything is worth a try at this stage and must be better than S(h)amaras & the Italian mule. Not sure who to play in net? Why not ask the F.A. for special dispensation and stick both Weaver AND Isaksson in goal? Huhhhhh...

Thank God I managed to get another 100 quid on at 14/1 before this match. Now 11/2 and falling fast - just like this club. There's so much to say but so little point. This could all have been so easily avoided and really Blue John in the previous thread has said it all very eloquently. The only remaining and very slim chance we have of staying up is if Pearce leaves before the next premiership match and we get someone, anyone, God knows who, to hold the fort til the end of the season. Keegan and George Graham's names have been mentioned by others and, as a very short term measure, I'd endorse those suggestions. But, of course, Pearce will not walk and Wardle is too spineless to make an executive decision, so we are as good as down already. Will we get another point this season? Quite possibly not. Clubs the same size as us (Birmingham, Sheff Utd, WBA, Sunderland etc) have all gone down and survived but as long as this Board/Manager remain, I'd say there's more chance we'll go down the Leeds/Nottm Forest route. We've had several consecutive seasons enjoying the financial benefit of the Prem, have the smallest squad, got rid of all the high earners, play Academy kids who didnt cost fees and we're STILL losing 10 mio a year. Joke club run by joke directors and managed by a complete clown.

What insight Pearce. We could all see this was going to be our problem from day one. How many people posted comments to this effect once Cole left. Have we done anything to sort it? A last minute panic to get Mido but we had all January to sign someone and Sept to Dec to scout. Mind you I wouldn't trust Pearce (or his scouts)to know a decent player anyhow. Pearce watched Walcott, Lita and even Foran a number of times and didn't think they were up to it!!! but signed Corradi, Dickov and Samaras. Put that on your CV eh, Stuart you muppet.
Losing Vassell and Nedum have been big losses but they only would have papered over the huge cracks that Pearce has mis-managed. Team for remainder of season should be 4-4-2, Issakson, Richards, Dunne, Distin, Ball, Abdoun, Barton, Johnson, Beasley, Sturridge, Mpenza with Weaver, Sun, Hamann, Trabelsi and Evans as subs. Very untried but can't do ANY worse than the c**p we've had to suffer so far. If we're going to go down then lets go down trying to win games playing football rather than trying to not lose and hoofing it forward. Sadly Pearce will continue to pick his overrated donkeys and the lads from the academy will only get in the team once we are broke and in the Championship. Look for Pearce's wholesale dramatic changes for next week! back in come Dabo or Sinclair - another quality decision by our inspired manager.

What a lame excuse. No provision - no goals, its a simple game really. On the same week the club announce big losses they return from Dubai, spending the equivelent of 3 new junior season card holder per bottle of wine. Please announce how many bottles of wine were bought out of the fans pockets before season ticket deadline.
If this is team building stay at home - the millions spent on the training ground not good enough.
A total dismal dismal display. Errors that get committed players left of pub teams. Beesley ran back every time Ball crossed the half way line. Corradi and Samaras would have been just as effective at home.
Only bright spark was Sun.
S.P. buy a suit and sit down shouting conflicting instructions must be a real bonus to the opposition. Get a soap-box and stand outside the ground shouting `Judgement day is Here` and then you will be believed.
Better still follow your staff to Coventry.(?was the writing on the wall). I will not renew Roll-Royce prices for scrap (sorry wrong word NO SCRAP LEFT)

Milo (and crying) Cheadle

Never can I remember a season where I have been sat with folded arms for so long, I lean forward and look to my left then to my right and all I see are folded arms and a despondant look on faces. No idea about football and how many times do you have to pump it forward to realise it just doesnt work? Make no mistake about it unless our game plan changes we may scrape another 4 points this season and score maybe 5 more goals if we're lucky. Has Pearce lost the dressing room because Paul Jewell certainly hasnt?

Please read back to my heavily criticized comments in January when I was blasted for claiming we would lose every game if we didn't bring in at least two strikers and a quality midfield player!

How dare Pearce try and shift the blame to other teams when he is too coward to criticize a referee (fearing the FA will look down on him as a replacement for Mclaren) Worry about City...not about Villa and Fulham , who both have very good attacking options and who unlike City shoot when they get a chance, whereas the Unblamable permed one passes it back to the half way line whenever he gets a sniff at goal! If Pearce has only just realized that we have a problem then he needs to be fired immediately.... even the REDDEST of City fans (Juste Lovitt, Napoleon and Voice of Reason) Have seen this coming but have backed Pearce for obvious reasons - because he's taking us down! If we go down, it will be a decade before we get back up - we are dire and half of the current squad have no passion or commitment, they will walk! Pearce should walk today...

I'm sick of reading that City teams have been "abject" in the first half. Why are the team not up for it as soon as the whistle blows? All these home games: Spurs, Bolton, Blackburn, and now Wigan. These are all games which have been over by halftime because the team have not competed in the first half. And to think that Pearce of all people should be sending out a team that is not prepared to fight. Disgusting. Something has been wrong for a while. The wins over Xmas have covered up a really bad season.