I'm assuming the Obertan decision is to change to more of a flat 4-4-2. That's the only way it makes any sense.
Obviously it's still shite, but at least there is a vague bit of logic.
Pardew actively made our players less capable by forcing them all to be horrid hard working defensive types, carver probably just shouts some random words and tells them to gan play footy. Probably won't get us very far, but it's an improvement.