We've not been out of the top seven all season. We were a Championship side two years ago. Kindly go and boil your head.
Move on , we have bought well and have better players than two years ago, and a couple of years before we drop into the Championship , we were in Europe. Football changes and teams improve or fall off. Stop using that as an excuse, how many freaking years must we be out of the Championship before we can claim we can improve and be hoping for better.
Unless you're Man City/Chelsea it takes a while to build a squad capable of consistently finishing in the top six. The fact we're even competing a mere year and half follwoing a promotion is a testament to how well Pardew is doing.
The season hasn't ended lets see where we finish before the victory laps, i am more focus on how we are performing on the pitch. As i said in another thread is it Ridiculously to congratulate or give credit to Pardew before the end of the season. For now the credit he deserves is keeping us from being relegated and nothing more.
Where do you think we'll finish?
The fact we're merely competing for the top six shows what a great job he's doing.
1/3 of the season still to go, base on the football we are playing we wont be in the top 6 imo. Sorry i rate some of the players but not how Pardew translates it on the pitch , what if we ended the season 10,9,8?? how can you give credit to someone before the competition ends?
Maybe if there are 5 to 3 matches to go and we have a good tally, i will be more comfortable in assuming where we would be but before all the celebrations, No one is due credit. Challenging/competing means nothing if the end results doesnt correlate to our final standing
Who's celebrating/assuming where we're going to finish like?
We've had a great season thus far, Pardew deserves credit for that, if we finish badly he'll deserve criticism.
What a strange way of looking at it. I save all my opinion and emotional response until the end of the season when I can put it into context. That's when I perform my 40-minute interpretive dance: 1 minute dedicated to expressing my thoughts and feelings on each game and then the two-minute finale which serves as the summary of my opinion on the season as a whole and Pardew's reign to date. Be there.
