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Who knows. Essentially there are two ways, get a load of journeymen and bully your way up or try and play football to earn your success. It would be interesting to see how Pearson would have fared had he adopted the second policy. I like the direction we have taken, but that isn't to say that there weren't other, perhaps more successful avenues available.

Or even hired a promising english lower league manager. It may not have worked but it IS an alternative which was my whole point.

I've already pointed out his alternatives earlier in the thread. I don't want to talk about it anymore as it's getting boring.

I refer you to post number 6 in this thread.

OK. Keep telling yourself that it was the only option. It's not true but I'm tired of talking about it now.

But how do you think he's doing so far? Better or worse than you expected?

How many games have you been to this season?

The thread was not started with the intention of talking about that issue. It doesn't matter anymore. Just leave it.

No. I wanted an acknowledgement from nickh (who was the first one on this thread to state that Lowe had no choice) to admit that he did in fact have one. Stop being deliberately argumentative for the sake of it DD.

It is more what he has not done this time around. I couldn't care less about Lowe as long as he stays in the background, makes the odd comment about football (which is his job I believe) and lets the manager get on with his job. So far I have been pleasantly surprised because he has managed to do this rather better than I thought he would. So he hasn't done anything fantastic but I am sitting here feeling a lot happier than I thought I would 4 months ago.

So it was a choice it was not forced upon him. Thanks, that's all I wanted.

Thanks for your insightful comments.

I don't want anyone else, have you read my posts in this thread? I am just trying to dispel the myth that Lowe had no other choice.

But we could have replaced him with someone else and replaced the likes of Euell with cheaper players (maybe more aggressive like Derby adopted a few years back) and tried to battle our way to success without the emphasis on youth. Do you honestly believe that Lowe's way was the only option?

But this is just guesswork. Even if it were true, we could have replaced Pearson with someone else and gone down a different road. It isn't even worthy of debate, we could have followed a different path.

Nope. I remember clearly that he never posted anything as fact unless it actually was.

We could also have gone for a blend of the two (I suppose we have done that to an extent this year but more youth orientated.) I too prefer the choice we have taken but to say we had no other choice is totally incorrect.

FF never posted that anything was a done deal. He is a good guy and does not deserve to be associated with with any of the bull****ters (not that saintlee or morph are, I just don't know them.)

Sorry? Not sure what you are saying there but being DD you will no doubt be disagreeing with me. It is obvious that the path we have chosen was not the only way to proceed. That is clear. How is this even up for debate?

ARGGGGH You are WRONG! There IS an alternative. Tell me which clubs under similar circumstances as ourselves have attempted this?

Controversial.

How many games have you seen this season?

Cheers. This is the sort of view I was looking for when I started this thread.

Probably done similar things to Lowe except that he could easily have kept Pearson on (assuming there were not any demands Pearson made that we are unaware about.) Many people who have spoken to Pearson said that he was fully aware of the financial restraints for the new season. It could well have been that Pearson was put in charge of these kids and actually got better results. Personally I like what Lowe has done and I'm glad he's gone down this route. He could easily have done things differently yet kept costs down. Look at other clubs in a similar position to ourselves, I don't see many of them going down the route we have chosen!

No that is rubbish (Um Pahars will love this post!) Rupert had many options (one of which was to keep Pearson on). He chose to go down this route so he is fully deserving of criticism if we get relegated.