Mick

Of course it is, we're flying.

I'm not sure either way, I can understand a manager doing what he knows more about and probably feels safe doing it that way.

Link?

You probably had full faith in the slump not even happening.

Can you not be unhappy with one while not unhappy with the other?

Losing the dressing room can go in a few ways. Sometimes managers lose it and players ignore them and start spitting dummies out and going to the press with snide comments. Other times it's simply that players fail to respond to what the manager is asking of them. They might still like him but lose respect for them and no longer react to them and that's the way I think Pardew will lose it, if he does. If they don’t believe in his brand of football then he’s going to struggle to get any positive reaction from them. Partly because he’s got rid of players who would try and control the dressing room. Things went well last season so he didn’t need an ego in the dressing room to help him, he could do with one now because he’s a lone voice. I think he's close to being unable to get anything from the players, I think he's close to being unable to lift them and get performances out of them. In the past a manager could get around that by bringing in one or two fresh faces in to give the players a lift but with transfer windows we'll have to wait until January. We’re seeing very little fight from our players and even somebody who is as good as Krul is dropping bollocks which look lazy. It’s as if he’s got absolutely no confidence in what he’s doing and he’s the keeper. The keeper who has a simple role to play in the team looks like he’s shot to pieces so if he’s feeling like that how are the other players feeling and what is going to lift them? It’s easy to say they are paid a fortune so should play better, that’s too simplistic and a load of bollocks. Players are like all of us and need motivation, ours haven’t got any and that’s down to the way we’re playing. Shit football isn’t motivating them and neither is Pardew because of the way he’s asking them to go about their jobs and he’s running out of time. I would guess that he’s asking them to do certain things and if he wants a reaction he’s going to have to lose it with them and do a Fergie and start throwing things around the dressing room. People do things for one of two reasons, they either want to do it, or they have to do it. The first one isn’t happening so he’s going to have to force them. If that goes wrong he’ll piss them all off and then he’s finished here. At the minute he’s probably lost some of the players but I’ve seen no signs that he’s lost the dressing room which will be catastrophic for him if he does lose it.

Not everybody wanted shot of him, even if they did, it's up to the club to appoint the right person.

95% of the blame doesn't lie with the players at all. They are doing what they've been told to do and they clearly aren't capable of playing the way that the manager wants them to play.

Pardew and possibly Carver.

As if anybody would admit to being him, having said that, the spelling.

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You usually see signs of dissent or players ignoring instructions when a manager loses the dressing room, I haven't seen any of it yet.

I don't think he's lost the players yet but he can't be too far away from doing so.

Simple as that. And people expect things to change for the better.

He only gets 1 day a week.

Is that added to the central defender and right back we need?

Carver was assistant here during our best spell for years, I don't see anything in his past to suggest that he's at fault for what we're going through now.

Did he really say that? I didn't hear it.

That's football, we can't just let things go the way they are heading at the minute, it would be insane to just let him keep going if things don't look like changing. He's just had 3 games which should have brought us more points than they have. We can't wait for our next run of easy games to see if things pick up because the longer our run goes on, the harder it will be to get out of it.

If he doesn't win any of the next 3 league games he should go, we can't gamble with our league status.

When? You clearly know more than most, when is this turn around going to happen?

I wonder if the "you can't call for a his head unless you can name a replacement" is the last defence of him?

Mourinho, Ferguson, Wenger, Guardiola, is that better? I know what's coming next so don't bother.

It's the training pitches to blame, we're over training them.

The fact that it has taken him 70 minutes to recognise that he had to change something with our formation isn't really a plus.