Mick

Give your opinions, you might be right.

I wouldn’t necessarily disagree with you. He could prepare his team to play to its strengths instead of looking for an opposition weakness, then it wouldn't matter who we were playing.

It is tragic, the family will have it all to go through again tomorrow and that's probably the saddest part of it. Every one of them will once again be wondering what they could have done better to have prevented it, in reality they probably couldn't have done a thing.

None of those came across as being any stronger than Speed and look what he did. A year later and I still can't see the slightest bit of sense in him taking his own life.

I think you're taking it out of context, don't worry about it.

Have you been on a desert island? We're playing 2 in the middle against 3 more often than not and because of it we're not controlling games. We're losing possession because our 2 are being bypassed by the 3 opposition players. Do the players decide to go with 2 in the middle? If the answer is yes then fair enough it's the players to blame. We hoof the ball from back to front more than any other team in the league, noises from within the club suggest that the players are being told to play that way. Is that the fault of the players? We've got 2 forwards who don't look to be compatible and rarely if ever have done so. If the players are deciding to play 2 incompatible forwards then I will agree with you. We spend 4 out of 5 days working on defence then spend another day on the forward play, if that is down to the players then yes, they are to blame. We play 2 different teams a week when we play in Europe and surprisingly Pardew claims he doesn’t have enough time to prepare. Is it the fault of the players that we play 2 different teams? We concentrate on stopping the opposition and that means we have to look at each team before playing them and have little time to do so. It would be better to concentrate on what we do rather than the opposition. Is that the fault of the players? Our season has been stop-start and we play as if we’re playing with 11 players who have never met, they probably only meet socially anyway because we seem to look at areas of the team in isolation. Is that the fault of the players? If it was 1 of 2 players playing below an expected level then I would tend to point the finger at them. When it’s a large part of the team I tend to look in different areas for the reason. Even if I'm wrong and the players are playing a greater part in our poor season, whose job is it to sort it out? I will be managing people at work tomorrow just like I have every working day for years and if they fail to perform I’ll not get away with claiming that it’s down to the people who work for me. I’ll not need telling who is responsible because I’ll know it’s me for failing to manage them. Football management is no different in that respect, if he can't manage the players and get the best out of the team then he shouldn't be managing. Management is piss easy when things are going well, when the shit hits the fan you'll usually be able to seperate the good from the bad, we'll now see which of those Pardew is.

Being a football manager must be brilliant, we can just blame the players for everything and the manager has absolutley no responsibility for team performance. Why are the players being allowed to do what the hell they want? If they are ignoring him, why isn't he, the manager, doing something about it?

I've just checked the Wiki (yes I know but I can't be arsed to work it out) pages for the win percentages for Pardew, Roeder and Souness and they are: Roeder P72, W33, D24, L15, Win % 45.83 Souness P83, W36, D18, L29, Win % 43.37 Pardew P87, W34, D26, L27, Win % 39.08 If this creates a game of snap I'll get Maritimo in first.

I bet they're gutted about it. Sir Alex must have them working on it from Monday to Thursday.

It's not hindering them.

Williamson and Taylor are a part of a defence which has let in one more goal than the defence of table topping Man U.

I can't stand the booing and negativity during the match so I can understand your feelings on that. And the late arrivals, early pissing off at half time, late back after half time and early pissing off again at the end, the daft thing is that it's usually the same people.

Your view might be slightly different, that's up to you to decide where you stand. I'm not sure why fans reactions would annoy you as much as our plight, that seems weird.

Personally, I hope they are looking for a replacement but still give him time to turn things around.

The circumstances are that we are currently 4 points off relegation Our current form is as bad as all but 2 teams, even the mackems do us on goal difference. We can't just keep doing what we're doing, the time is fast approaching where players returning will not make the slightest difference, we may have already passed that point.

It's good enough to challenge for CL qualification, isn't it?

Agreed, same goes for Blackburn fans wanting rid of a piss poor manager who very few people had a good word for yet they were given stick for wanting him out of the club.

I bet he thinks he's multi-lingual now.

He's speaking English with a French accent.

Once I get the feeling he can no longer motivate the players I'll be all for binning him, for now I still have hope. I don't know why though because our players haven't looked motivated for months, at least not for a sustained period.

I lived near Stoke when they were promoted and knew Stoke fans who wanted Pulis out of the club before a ball was kicked and I've heard them saying the same thing many times since.

f***ing hell. Imagine the fall out after that It will be Armageddon bro. That's the game for me. Quality teams find it hard to play Stoke away at the best of times so a loss wouldn't have been unexpected even if we'd been flying. Fail to beat Wigan though and it will kick off. We'll probably beat Wigan as long as they don't score first, QPR with Redknapp is another thing and comes after 2 games which will probably bring 2 defeats.

Realistically nobody knows what is going to happen, you can only go with your own expectations. Hopefully you’ll be proven to be right because I don’t trust Llambias and Ashley in the slightest.