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Pearson - Absolute liability

Pearson - Absolute liability

The booking yesterday was childish beyond belief.

The referee was adamant where he wanted the kick taken from, he picked up the ball, walked back several paces and slammed the ball on the floor quite forcefully. After doing this Pearson started pushing the ball forwards in a very defiant way, as though taunting the referee, he must have pushed it forwards several times, and it wasn’t surprising the referee booked him.

He behaves like a kid taunting authority, in the early minutes Brown had to push him away from mouthing it off to the ref.

As for the booking and position of the ball, if referees are so adamant why don’t they spray a blob of that white stuff first to avoid this type of incident, and the irony was it looked like we eventually took the kick from the advanced position Pearson had pushed the ball to because the referee didn’t really know by then as he hadn’t marked the spot.
 
kbd_pne said:
Moult did nothing. Gallagher at least took up good positions but his quality was poor.

We had a handful of chances, if we were to truly take the game to them we would’ve needed a much more creative force in the midfield.
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Cannot understand your opinion on Moult I thought he was just what was required and proved a handful for the defenders who had totally dominated Maguire especially up till then. As regards Gallagher his distribution was poor and his dead ball kicking was awful plus he missed chance later on. Having said that I feel play better with him on the field as he is always there to collect the ball from the defenders who yesterday were unable to move the ball forward often reverting to back passes to Rudd or just lumped it up to the diminutive Maguire with obvious results.
 
Schofe said:
Exactly how i saw it. Every player attempts to pinch yardage at free kicks, all the ref had to do was say “ive told you once, anymore none sense you’re in the book”. Ref was very hasty to produce a ridiculous yellow card for pearo, yet enda stevens got away without a yellow despite felling Nmecha all game. Go figure.
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How do we know that the Ref hadn't already warned Pearson?
 
europne said:
The booking yesterday was childish beyond belief.

The referee was adamant where he wanted the kick taken from, he picked up the ball, walked back several paces and slammed the ball on the floor quite forcefully. After doing this Pearson started pushing the ball forwards in a very defiant way, as though taunting the referee, he must have pushed it forwards several times, and it wasn’t surprising the referee booked him.

He behaves like a kid taunting authority, in the early minutes Brown had to push him away from mouthing it off to the ref.

As for the booking and position of the ball, if referees are so adamant why don’t they spray a blob of that white stuff first to avoid this type of incident, and the irony was it looked like we eventually took the kick from the advanced position Pearson had pushed the ball to because the referee didn’t really know by then as he hadn’t marked the spot.
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You call it childish but on whose part the Ref was childish reacting like Pearson pinched his best toy.
 
Euxtonboy said:
Cannot understand your opinion on Moult I thought he was just what was required and proved a handful for the defenders who had totally dominated Maguire especially up till then. As regards Gallagher his distribution was poor and his dead ball kicking was awful plus he missed chance later on. Having said that I feel play better with him on the field as he is always there to collect the ball from the defenders who yesterday were unable to move the ball forward often reverting to back passes to Rudd or just lumped it up to the diminutive Maguire with obvious results.
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All our strikers were dominated, including Moult. I just think some people would say he’s fantastic no matter what because he’s a likeable person. He doesn’t really trouble defenders at all, and we just generally looked short up top yesterday.
 
Sedge_Fan said:
I still cannot get over people saying the ref was childish??? It beggars belief!!
Nobody otner than BP to blame
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I can't get over you supporting the Ref saying he had a good game and then saying he missed two penalties. We should have had more good decisions for him to have had a good game. In your book petulance is a booking cynical fouls not. The Ref made a mistake as did Pearson but the booking was childish on the Ref's part.
 
miff said:
I can't get over you supporting the Ref saying he had a good game and then saying he missed two penalties. We should have had more good decisions for him to have had a good game. In your book petulance is a booking cynical fouls not. The Ref made a mistake as did Pearson but the booking was childish on the Ref's part.
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Not sure what else the referee could have done. He'd already picked the ball up and put it down, and Pearson was taking several touches to move it to a different position. Pearson seemed that way out yesterday and, as some have picked up on, he had to be pushed away/blocked by Browne a couple of times to stop his mouth running away from him.

The solution to the Pearson 'problem' is to bench him but that requires Ledson being ready and the manager willing to adjust his tactics. At the moment, Pearson's collecting bans and walking straight back into the team so there's no consequence for him. There's no excuse for these avoidable bookings and it shouldn't need a teammate to be close by to protect him either. We're a better team with him in the side unquestionably but he's got to start taking responsibility for his own actions, and if not, Neil's going to have to do something about it.
 
PNEFC_2004 said:
Not sure what else the referee could have done. He'd already picked the ball up and put it down, and Pearson was taking several touches to move it to a different position. Pearson seemed that way out yesterday and, as some have picked up on, he had to be pushed away/blocked by Browne a couple of times to stop his mouth running away from him.

The solution to the Pearson 'problem' is to bench him but that requires Ledson being ready and the manager willing to adjust his tactics. At the moment, Pearson's collecting bans and walking straight back into the team so there's no consequence for him. There's no excuse for these avoidable bookings and it shouldn't need a teammate to be close by to protect him either. We're a better team with him in the side unquestionably but he's got to start taking responsibility for his own actions, and if not, Neil's going to have to do something about it.
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You're right, though he'll never take responsibility for his own actions if he is surrounded in his life by people like many on this forum who just will not accept that he ever does anything wrong.
 
Knowing that he is under the microscope for his number of bookings (42 in under 3 seasons) why even risk a stupid booking for dissent which then puts him one mistimed tackle from a sending off. Only 2 bookings away from a 3 match ban which would just about finish his season off.
 
...... omg, he is so frustrating, so much talent and commitment, but unfortunately linked to the tantrums of a 2 year old.
 
miff said:
I can't get over you supporting the Ref saying he had a good game and then saying he missed two penalties. We should have had more good decisions for him to have had a good game. In your book petulance is a booking cynical fouls not. The Ref made a mistake as did Pearson but the booking was childish on the Ref's part.
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Serious question, when was the last game you refereed and who were the teams involved?
 
Why does me saying BP is a liability mean I’m also saying we should play with 10 men, as we do have other players in the squad????
When he gets stupidly booked in the first half like he did yesterday, in a game where we needed to be as combative as possible for the whole 90 minutes, it obviously puts pressure on for the remainder of the game.
Without doubt, BP is a good player, however he is certainly not the world beater some think.


Pilot said:
Exactly, so you’re saying we’re a worse team with him in it and would be better off playing with ten men?
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