That's obviously what I said.
Nothing has been dismantled by one post. We're doing well position wise in the league which is as much down to having Demba Ba than anybody else this season and I would include Pardew in that. One person’s opinion is supported by some but that doesn’t make them right and others wrong. I would be speechless if anybody had the audacity to counter claim that our football has been good other than for short periods of games or other than maybe 3 or 4 games where we’ve done it for longer.
I understand that results aren’t subjective and I don’t think many think that over the season so far the results have not been better than expected, even if some of the results have been individually poor. Pardew said that he was going to change the way that we play and I can’t say that I’ve seen much of that. I do think Cabaye is better in central midfield than the bloke he’s replaced. I would probably say that Ba has been better than any of our forwards since Shearer. We have lost 1 player who I think most people would agree that we are weaker for losing and that is Enrique.
We have a good spine to our team in Krul, Coloccini, Cabaye, Tiote, Ba and probably Cisse yet for too often we do hoof the ball as if it was a bomb that we were getting rid of before it explodes. Two seasons in a row we’ve had a manager who has fielded a very strong team in the FA Cup without understanding that top players just aren’t motivated against lower league teams, at least ours aren’t. I think both games could have been won without so many unmotivated players who turned up thinking that was enough to win the games. Both times the unmotivated team have had a player sent off which has had an effect on our league campaign. I’ll put money on it that a lesson hasn’t been learned and we’ll do the same again next season, we’ll play an unmotivated team against opposition that motivated but less used players would beat.
Our last league game was lost before a ball was kicked because Pardew told everybody that we weren’t under pressure and that the players could let their hair down and they did that all right. Not a single player turned up yet we were later told that we were expecting too much attacking football or words to that effect.
Last weekend wasn’t the one off people try to make out and when this is pointed out the excuses are straight out.
I’ve seen nothing from Pardew to suggest that we’ll play games any different to how we have so far and I’ve seen nothing to suggest that he’s ever going to be able to change a game once the game has kicked off if it is going against us. We may have a game that will change but I don’t think it will be down to our manager, like Arsenal last season it’ll be down to a player getting sent off or something will happen during a game that will change it.
I know bringing Shola on against Spurs changed a defeat into a draw but bringing on Shola is more likely to have no positive effect on a game as it does having a positive effect, yes, sometimes we have luck on our side.
Some people on here are like kids and can’t handle that others don’t share whatever opinions they hold. Not everybody thinks Pardew is any better than average, not everybody looks at our league position and automatically thinks that we must be playing well because of where we are. Not everybody thinks that things can’t be wrong just because we’ve won a few games.
Nobody is predicting our demise but I think a few people are wondering if we can maintain our results without improving the way that we play.
