All we are saying, is give Pearce a chance...

[tiggerrules]

Give him decent assistants and/or a general manager.
I bet if we all went to watch the team training, we wouldn't see Pearce telling the defenders to stop tackling, stop cutting out crosses and to fall asleep for a quickly taken set piece. I am sure he probably tells the midfield to close down the player in possession and get a tackle & get down the wing to put a cross in and someone must show karl darlow how to command his area and Britt & Fryatt know where the net is... So when the players set foot on the pitch it beggars belief that they cannot get the basics right! I don't care what people say about formations. Surely whichever 11 professional footballers start the game should be able to do the basics and work out what to do?
You cannot attribute all of what is going wrong to Stuart Pearce unless of course someone has seen him take training and he tells the players not to bother. No, he has every reason to be angry with the players who either don't want to play for him or are simp

[Bluebird21]

Are you serious. It is close to the strongest squad I have seen at Forest since 2002.

I could do a better job than Pearce. It is shocking, inept.

Enough is enough.

[rodred]

I don't buy the old "blame the players" chestnut Tigger. The Job of a manager is to get the best out of the players and communicate effectively what needs to be done.

Take today's opponents - they were relegation fodder and the players had the same problem ours had. How is it that a new manager (Rowett) has transformed them instantly into a well galvanised outfit ? By doing his job, giving them systems that they feel comfortable with, and climbing the table.

Also, I think too much optimism has been placed on the return of Reid and Hobbs. When they played earlier in the season, they had help from the whole team. Tactics are now a mess, and they are not miracle workers, particularly having been out for so long and being so injury proned. We need more to cling onto than that !!

[i961pie]

I think most Rams and Pies fans would agree with you give Pearce a chance.

[tiggerrules]

Ok if Pearce is sacked, then who is out there that can turn things around?

[tiggerrules]

Ha ha I am sure you would. Rams fans, will McLaren take the Palace job?

[Romanis]

I'm all for Pearce but in the end it's a result business. And as a former top defender, he would know that no serious push for play-offs/promotion can ever occur if the defense is shambolic.

And I've said this many times, I think even when I first posted here, we've always had a reputation of having a panicky defense. Whether it was Hart, Megson, Calderwood, Davies, Cotterill, SOD and even those days under Bassett, Clark and the final year of Cloughie, our defense has a reputation of being soft, losing composure or lacking coordination.

No doubt we were unlucky not to score until the very last, but this is not the problem, when you create chances and trouble the goalkeeper, eventually this statistic will even itself out. The goals will come.

But like Cloughie when playing for Boro said, he would score 3 and the defense would concede 4, how many did he need to score to ensure a win?

And our defenders are not bad in any sense, most are seasoned pros at this level. I'm sure most woul