So far after league game 3 of the season I can see nothing to suggest that our transfer work is going to improve us this season. I would go as far as to say Pardew will not see this season out because the fans are ready to have a go at him almost from the off.
Some were defending our pre-season and saying it was all about fitness while others could see that nothing had changed and how our season was likely to pan out, nothing will ever change until we have a manager who knows what he's doing. We are a rancid football team and we're a reflection of our rancid manager. The only way things will get better while he's here is by chance, something lucky happening like us finding a game changer from nowhere because we don't have the skills to change anything on the training ground. Our back room staff are all dinosaurs who know nothing and follow the orders of an inept manager because they know no better.
I'm trying to look for positives and I can't see anything to get excited about, nothing to suggest that we're going to improve. Pardew said we should judge him after 10 games and that is bullshit, we'll have even less confidence after 10 games than we do now.
Our season looks like it's going to see us fighting in the bottom half, the only difference to last season is that we'll probably not have a good half season followed by a bad half. We're more than likely to have a shit season where we pick up a few points then drop a few. If we don't win one of the next 2 games I can see the crowd venting and once they start, it's not going to stop for more than a game or two.
A point against Palace is poor but not unexpected because the players don't seem to be motivated by Pardew but that's nothing new, I don't think he's motivated the players for at least 2 seasons. Even Cabaye when playing good wasn't motivated by Pardew, he was motivated by a move away and the same goes for Debuchy and Remy, they were both playing for a move to another club because our club has no ambition to win anything. We're nothing more than a stepping stone and we need hungry players for that to work. Once players feel they are stuck here we're screwed because Pardew will not be able to lift them. The only class player who genuinely seems to want to play for us and improve our game is stuck in the reserves because he told the manager a few truths which he couldn't take because his ego is greater than his talent.
3 games in and the season is as easy to work out for us as it ever could be, we're shit.
