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Pearson - Absolute liability

Pearson - Absolute liability

raefil said:
I think Edgy made a very point, I certainly understood it.

Did we miss Pearson today?

Absolutely we did but I think a lot of it was in the way we tried to compensate for that loss by packing midfield as opposed to starting with a like for like replacement with Ledson. I felt DJ, Browne and even Gallagher didnt look comfortable today with the roles they were asked to play.
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What point was that then.?
 
Well if you are comparing Ledson with Pearson, I though Ledson did reasonably given his lack of game time recently, but not enough to edge Pearson out when his suspension ends

Ledson of Johnson ? Now that’s a different story. Johnson has gone backwards compared where he was IMO so I would give Ledson a run over him

I think you could play Pearson Ledson and Gallagher has a mid-field trio in a 4-3-3 setup
 
I thought Ledson did quite well in breaking things up, and attempting to challenge for the ball. However, Ledson is no where near as good on the ball as Pearson. But not many are at this level.
 
norky84 said:
I thought Ledson did quite well in breaking things up, and attempting to challenge for the ball. However, Ledson is no where near as good on the ball as Pearson. But not many are at this level.
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Agree.

Ledson is a good ball winner and did that well today.

However Pearson wins the ball back and then plays it out and starts attacks.

Ledson was winning the ball today and then it took another player or a couple to then get us going again.
 
edgy said:
Then as long as you agree to sit watching the pitch in future i shall take up surfing
Thanks for your input
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Glad you appreciate my input as for watching the pitch read the thread and spot the odd one out now go ride a wave good lad.
 
Without doubt Pearson is our best player and undoubtedly has a positive effect on many of our other players.
I’m looking at the positives...we have one more game without him and then the last 10 with him fully involved.
He has played 30% less games than most of the other players so I don’t want to see him pretending to be knackered near the end of games and I certainly don’t want to see him acting like my 3 year old grandson......I nearly told him this yesterday on the Invincibles but I was eating my pie as he passed.
 
miff said:
Glad you appreciate my input as for watching the pitch read the thread and spot the odd one out now go ride a wave good lad.
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Happy to be the odd one out my friend, or put another way us visionaries do have to endure a little stick once in a while?
I do if you read back in the main agree with you and certainly respect your view- he is our most talented player no doubt but the definition of best player has many measures I suggest.
Is he our best player if he is forever gaining nothing more than splinters in his backside for yet another totally unnecessary ban - maybe yes or maybe no - I'm simply offering different perspective than talent being purely what you do with your feet rather than the addition of mental contribution also ?
 
Yoowell said:
Without doubt Pearson is our best player and undoubtedly has a positive effect on many of our other players.
I’m looking at the positives...we have one more game without him and then the last 10 with him fully involved.
He has played 30% less games than most of the other players so I don’t want to see him pretending to be knackered near the end of games and I certainly don’t want to see him acting like my 3 year old grandson......I nearly told him this yesterday on the Invincibles but I was eating my pie as he passed.
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Probably a good job you were eating your Pie
Or you might have been eating your teeth as well
 
Ledson and Pearson are completely different players, Pearson completely runs the show when he is playing suits Alex Neil's playstyle and links the play the whole game, extremely rarely losing the ball or giving it away when he isn't playing the system doesn't work almost nearly as well. Ledson was OK a 6 out of 10 was fair their playstyles aren't even similar so i'm not sure why we have him for when Ben is suspended or if he leaves. I'd say Ledson isn't a championship player and is in too deep, when we don't have Ben the team has looked woeful in general, I'd be interested to see how many points we have when Ben isn't in the team this season
 
Yesterday showed how much we miss BP in the middle the park. Ledson did well in breaking play up but has zero passing range and isn’t available for us to play out from the back hence davies and storey chipping hopeless balls up to maguire all afternoon.
As alluded to by a previous poster BP brings the best out of players around him and this is another reason why he is so pivotal to us.
Even with 4 CM’s on the pitch yesterday Bristol IMO got the better of the midfield battle.
 
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