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Ben Pearson

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In the last podcast he was asked "do you have aspirations to be PNE captain? "He answered emphatically "no i don't want the responsibility or the effect it may have on my game ".Point proved worst I've seen him play for few seasons.

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Has been very poor and his touch and passing all needs so many touches and thought. He's been very poor for last 3 games and I really don't think is what people make him out to be, much rather see Gally play in there.
 
Game of opinion but i think he's our best player but not at the races tonight. I'd have Gally in for DJ who seems a shadow of the early season player.

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Of course all about opinions. It is funny how DJ will get criticised for not having the bite of Pearson yet Pearson doesn’t get any negativity towards him for the lack of creativity and vision. He has a stormer every now and then when he literally breaks everything up and seems to be everywhere but those games are few and far between and spends a lot of time chasing shadows and being ineffective.
 
All I need to know is that we struggled much more without Browne than without Pearson. He's a good player but he's not vital to us.

Browne is the most underrated player on our team.
 
No doubt the "talking too", regarding the bookings, is effecting his ratting/ getting stuck in/style of game. Paul Scholes, who Ben reminds me off, did his duty week in and week out...yellow cards are part of the job. Let him play his game.
 
As I've said on another thread, it looked to me as if Pearson was playing with an injury tonight right from the start. He got a knock on Saturday, and, I can't remember him making a single tackle tonight - just so out of character. With Welsh being out injured, and the defence being decimated, AN may have felt that he had to play Pearson despite him carrying a knock.
 
Agreed Ben Pearson had his worst game for a while, but once Browne had to become a makeshift centre half he got overrun. But to talk about bringing Gallagher into the side is a joke, harrop surely must get in before this has been
 
We have missed Gally and it showed in that second half.

Browne did brilliantly at centre half

Pearson cost us the game, we were in it at 1-0 down but that blind pass to set them up for 2-0 was nothing short of disgraceful, just what was he thinking

Their premiership class showed

and finally if anyone is willing to pay £12 million for Hugill I would snap their hand off, I like this guy full of commitment but the sitters he misses I just give up sometimes.
 
spender said:
We have missed Gally and it showed in that second half.

Browne did brilliantly at centre half

Pearson cost us the game, we were in it at 1-0 down but that blind pass to set them up for 2-0 was nothing short of disgraceful, just what was he thinking

Their premiership class showed

and finally if anyone is willing to pay £12 million for Hugill I would snap their hand off, I like this guy full of commitment but the sitters he misses I just give up sometimes.
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Not sure anyone can cover themselves in glory last night but Pearson was exposed a couple of times early doors. The side doesn't need Pearson and Johnson. One or the other. I don't like it when managers put strikers "one the wing" which he has done with both Maguire (left) and Barkhuizen (right). They are strikers and their key attribute is a hunger for goals in and around the penalty area. The attribute of a winger is to get the ball, look up and pass it to those strikers.
Barkhuizen is a hungry player (striker?) but he was receiving the ball on the half way line and then - doing his best to follow instructions - just knocked it past the defender and tried to out pace him, without any other plan. Maguire the same, receiving the ball far too deep, looking up, and there's only Hugill to aim for.

It seems that Neil knows there are goals in those players, but he is trying to stuff them into the side anyway he can. They are not creators, they are finishers. Harrop is a finisher too. At one point in the first half a cross was sent into the Villa box, and there wasn't a Preston player in the penalty area.

Robinson. Harrop. Hugill. Barkhuizen. Maguire. All like scoring goals.

Someone has to supply them. For me they need two up front on a rotation basis. If you score or set one up you're in the team next week. Maguire and Hugill or Robinson and Harrop.

The midfield of Browne behind Pearson (or Johnson) who sprays the ball out to Gallagher out right and Horgan out left, looking to supply the front two in the box. Gallagher aiming crosses for Hugill is not what defenders want. And Maguire hangs around Hugill for the scraps.
 
Mistakes happen and yes Pearson was entirely responsible for the 2nd goal. Hes on the ball so much its no surprise that there will be the odd mistake.

Quality player who will only learn from last night.
 
raefil said:
Mistakes happen and yes Pearson was entirely responsible for the 2nd goal. Hes on the ball so much its no surprise that there will be the odd mistake.

Quality player who will only learn from last night.
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Spot on. He's still our most influential player
 
He's looked like hes been playing with injury past two games, maybe hes still carrying injury or maybe just taking him bit longer to get back to match fitness.
 
raefil said:
Mistakes happen and yes Pearson was entirely responsible for the 2nd goal. Hes on the ball so much its no surprise that there will be the odd mistake.

Quality player who will only learn from last night.
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Totally agree for me he is the first player on the team sheet he didn't have his best game but was not on his own.
This was always going to be a difficult game given our injuries but i do think that we looked more organised when Gally came on.
 
raefil said:
Mistakes happen and yes Pearson was entirely responsible for the 2nd goal. Hes on the ball so much its no surprise that there will be the odd mistake.

Quality player who will only learn from last night.
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Couldn't agree more. He was knackered at the end
 
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