He has made a very valid point. That's part of FC's problem.

Even accepting the poor results the team have had recently the response from both Pearson and Radford demonstrates their poor man management.

If that is how they have been responding in private before their public outbursts no wonder things are going from bad to worse.

FC fans have commented on Pearson's habit of shooting from the hip in adversity. That is not generally accepted as a good man management tool. If he spoke in anger I think he made a mistake and if he spoke after careful consideration then that even worse.

I read it as "Pearson has shouted at the players so we definitely should be winning" which is complete nonesense. If that is not what is being said then fair enough.
Even if we were top of the league I wouldn't be expecting us to win with that squad. Given our current predicament a battling defeat with bags of effort and the right attitude is a reasonable expectation in my opinion. Anything else is deliberately setting them up to fail.

The club is Pearsons' the players are his employees if they're not performing as expected then he has every right to chastise them, as would only be fit and proper if you or I underperformed at work.
Afterall he is the 1 paying them.

I'm not expecting miracles on Friday or even to win just an iproved attitude and the will to compete will do me.
However too many false dawns of late and a different player giving their media spin week in week out for me to even contemplate victory.
I'm going out of a sense of duty as a passholder not for entertaining rugby or a win.

If I get a bollocking at work, it isn't plastered in the local newspaper.

"plastered" as in quoted, mis-quoted, overheard, rumoured, made up, in the public interest, the bbc has learned, etc, etc.

Radford surely wont play Abdull again at 6 so i expect he will do what we have been saying now for weeks and play Miloudi at 6.
Move Abdull to 13 and let Manu play his normal position and give a bit of protection to Cam Scott who i expect to play right centre in place of that lump of lard Griffin.
Play Griffin of the bench in the second row and make him earn his wages for a change

You've just described the HDM's entire content!

Maybe so Karen but if I have been spoken to at work for making the same errors week in week out yet continued to do so again and again then I would expect a major bollocking or some form or warning/disciplinary or even sacking. The fact its in the paper shouldn't be the issue as AP hasn't named the players individually or single anyone out. If the players are upset then pity they didn't think of that before putting in such embarrassing efforts. Maybe it needed saying publicly as if they have been told internally yet not taken any notice to change their effort then what do they expect?
At the end of the day people in jobs within the public eye be it sports people, politicians etc will have stuff made public if they aren't doing a good job thats part and parcel of it. They take the plaudits when made public so they also have to be willing to take the criticism etc.

If Abdul plays in front of Miloudi there’s something drastically wrong.
Abdul has stated his intention at the worst possible time, putting himself in front of his team mates.
I’d be calling for it even if he hadn’t put a transfer request in.
I’m sure Miloudi can cover for Abdul. Just have to do the occasional booming bomb.

Why was (edit - d'oh) after the Hudds game such a bad time to submit his request?

I don’t think handing in transfer requests when the club is on a horror run is a great idea at all.
Fans want to see players getting their head down, getting on with it and working harder than ever.
Not bailing out.

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