Quote: UllFC "you know full well I was paraphrasing, anyone with half a brain can see what Pearson is implying with his comments'"
I'm afraid you'd fail a GCSE-level Critical Thinking exam with skewed interpretations like that. A classic example of perception bias.
Pearson has specifically blamed Gentle & McRae for specific things - lacklustre recruitment and a lack of professionalism mainly. At no point has either he or Radford claimed that the squad was a disaster or that Radford was starting from scratch. Neither have they implied such. When Pearson has defended Radford he has always banged on about the 'hard work' Radford is doing and all the stuff 'behind the scenes' that he's having to sort out. He has never directly blamed the squad.