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Pearson - Absolute liability

Pearson - Absolute liability

If we're ever going to get promoted out of the Championship it's pretty clear that we're going to have to win games without Pearson so we better start getting used to it. Now's as good a time as any.
 
There were a couple of challenges on Pearson where the RL commentator suggested the player should get a yellow card. I can’t help thinking that if Pearson had committed those challenges the card would be out.
 
Kathryn said:
There were a couple of challenges on Pearson where the RL commentator suggested the player should get a yellow card. I can’t help thinking that if Pearson had committed those challenges the card would be out.
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You are probably right there Kathryn

But doesn't excuse the stupidity of getting a yellow for kicking the ball away
Will he EVER learn? I doubt it
Still as someone has already posted, If Ledson has two good games while Ben is out, Neil will have a decision to make for the ones after
 
John T said:
You are probably right there Kathryn

But doesn't excuse the stupidity of getting a yellow for kicking the ball away
Will he EVER learn? I doubt it
Still as someone has already posted, If Ledson has two good games while Ben is out, Neil will have a decision to make for the ones after
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You're right. But if we're still in the hunt for the play-offs, it would be a fairly easy decision!

Preston1880 said:
It's his emotions that dictate his actions, and he clearly struggles to control them when he feels there's been an injustice. A lot of people are like that in life.

Not sure how that is a sign of him being an unintelligent person?

If anything, he comes across as pretty switched on and very articulate, in interviews.
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That's a really good point. Loads of clever and successful people ride their emotions or have a bit of a short fuse.

Occasionally, even the President of the USA has been known to speak without thinking - although perhaps I should look for a better example! How about John McEnroe?. I think a really articulate, thoughtful guy who used to get close to spontaneous combustion if a decision didn't go his way.
 
John T said:
You are probably right there Kathryn

But doesn't excuse the stupidity of getting a yellow for kicking the ball away
Will he EVER learn? I doubt it
Still as someone has already posted, If Ledson has two good games while Ben is out, Neil will have a decision to make for the ones after
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A fit and available Pearson will always be first choice. If however the footballing powers that be brought in a ruling that meant being a complete dimwit forced you to spend time on the bench, then our Ben would be on first name terms with the doctors regularly having to remove splinters from his arse.
 
A liabilty is something you aim to get rid of , our form without "the liabilty" playing is dreadful suggesting we'd just we above Ipswich in the league without him.
He's a prize asset. If we can get threw the next 2 games with 3 or 4 points it will be great, when Pearson returns he will be rested and yellow card free ,so we can look forward to him giving the opposition "the full Ben Pearson experience".
 
he not missing for 2 vital games..... he is missing for the next 2 games!

Had he not kicked the ball away he would have got a yellow in the next few games sometime and then would have missed two games...which some would describe as vital....

Fact is IF we were going to push for the top 6 all 12 are vital and BP would always miss 2 of them.....somewhere along the line...

Lets learn to win without him so if he gets 15 before the play offs we can still win at @Wembley without him !!!
 
sports rehab said:
he not missing for 2 vital games..... he is missing for the next 2 games!

Had he not kicked the ball away he would have got a yellow in the next few games sometime and then would have missed two games...which some would describe as vital....

Fact is IF we were going to push for the top 6 all 12 are vital and BP would always miss 2 of them.....somewhere along the line...

Lets learn to win without him so if he gets 15 before the play offs we can still win at @Wembley without him !!!
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You make a good point....all vital and BP returns for the away game @Boro. Some have mentioned a cut off point that would have meant a clean slate....personally i was never confident he’d get there so let’s get it over with.
 
John T said:
You are probably right there Kathryn

But doesn't excuse the stupidity of getting a yellow for kicking the ball away
Will he EVER learn? I doubt it
Still as someone has already posted, If Ledson has two good games while Ben is out, Neil will have a decision to make for the ones after
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I think his decision will be how to break the news to Ledson that he’s back on the bench ?
 
edgy said:
I agree my friend
Very different players for sure but whilst Pearson does give everything and anything to a game in horsepower Gallagher offers a different dimension such as set pieces and from what I see a definite control of a game at times
Now imagine Pearson with a Gallagher attitude ?
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Orgasm 👍
 
Yoowell said:
You make a good point....all vital and BP returns for the away game @Boro. Some have mentioned a cut off point that would have meant a clean slate....personally i was never confident he’d get there so let’s get it over with.
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... but we're only 3 short of that cut off. Not completely out of the question.

Well, on second thoughts, maybe you'r right!
 
Did he not miss all the festive period?? We didn't win a game without him, he's such a good player and opposing teams fans will often say he is and annoying little horrible twat but a bloody good player.
 
Some of his Bookings this season where reputation bookings, never Yellows, but actually the Booking Yesterday maybe a gift. We miss him for Bristol City at Home and Blackburn away. So he's not going to get sent off in the derby, Bonus, So maybe the timing is better than we think, because we are going to need him in the run-in so take it now and move on. What will be important that when he is back he doesn't pick up silly Bookings.
 
yeahman said:
Did he not miss all the festive period?? We didn't win a game without him, he's such a good player and opposing teams fans will often say he is and annoying little horrible twat but a bloody good player.
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He's missed 9 League Games, 6 for reds (2 straight reds), 1 for 5 yellows, 2 times he wasn't in the Squad.
We've Won 1 Lost 6 Drawn 2.
League Games with him in the team
Won 11 Lost 5 Drawn 9

His Reds where Bolton (after the Final Whistle) and Sheffield Wed
 
Ledson to come in and play a couple of blinders, show us why he’s been brought to the club ..... as a previous poster said, hope he gets fired up ! Not to sure about being fired up, he might as well put a Pearson mask on !
 
yeahman said:
Did he not miss all the festive period?? We didn't win a game without him, he's such a good player and opposing teams fans will often say he is and annoying little horrible twat but a bloody good player.
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He is a brilliant player but we aren't a one man team. Yes we didn't win a game without him over Christmas but that also coincided with our horrible injury nightmare at the time. We probably would have done a lot better with the squad we have now had they been available over Christmas.

The same can be said earlier in the season. We lost to Leeds, Reading and Shef United. Again that took place when Ledson was also suspended and DJ was in and out of the team due to his contract situation. We also had Browne missing against Reading and experimented with 3 at the back in those games.

Pearson is a superb player no doubt but personally I'll think we will cope. Bristol have another game this week so could probably be a bit leggy and Blackburn aren't playing well at the moment. I'll think we will win both.
 
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