Surely you can see the difference? We're a newly promoted club and it became Bruce's priority in November to finish above us. You should have completely different priorities to us this season, we were looking for 17th you were looking for 10th.
Now the situation is different for us, in that we are almost certainly safe and 10th is still your target. I'm not a big fan of using your rivals as a yardstick but it's your stereotypical Pardew craic, trying to get onside with the fans and set a short term goal, as he can't keep saying "we've got to stay up" when we're 9th with 7 games to go.