Parky

Problem is without Terry they have the Luiz/Cahill combination at CB. Sell Luiz as well.

Sell Terry and Lampard in the summer they are the main troublemakers and deluded to psychotic proportions about their self worth. Terry causes trouble wherever he goes. Probably thinks he can be a manager the dimwit. If those two aren't jettisoned then ACB 'the ginge' is doomed.

Also the PL is the last league in the world where you take the pitch with very little or no grit in the side.

Chamakh, Arshavin, Rosicky are clearly finished/had enough/going through the motions.

For me a lot of the problems started with not replacing Adebayor who was the focal point of their attack and gave them some muscle upfront. I mean who did Whinger bring in? Chamakh who looks like a badminton player. He buys too many good looking young boys with promise.

Point deductions are in order.

Fair play to them. Needed saying.

He's always been like that. It's well documented. He really rates himself. Personally don't really mind that in a manager.

He's always been quite a cockey know- it- all- like that.

Post of the thread that TT.

Good post.

Can't compete with Gazprom and Oil states.

Think ole Pards is conflicted between hi energy synth pop and the flowing cream of Mozart.

The tempo is too slow and they don't create that many clear cut chances. B'ham worked hard and had a very solid shape.

I want the one HTT has got.

He's a decent manager, nothing special and he's been lucky that Ba has scored from anything that moves. [/lock it]

I reckon you should start stalking Pards...You know jump out of the bushes with tactics in hand that kind of thing. Oi Pards! Fancy a bit of 433! http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s229/ivoliveira/taxi_driver_ver4.jpg

Has to be said that Pards has got decent performances out of two crap full backs for most of the season (before santon became a starter). This has a lot to do with one of his strengths imo that he is a very good organiser and data gatherer pre-match.

Cue HTT compiling a 3000 word report on how he could come in and successfully succeed Pards. Only 2 badges behind him. Not bad for someone who has never played the game like Tactically I'd wipe the floor with him to be honest. Let's try and keep it real yeah?

And then what? I'll probably start a Parky esque HTT vs Pardew thread You'll be infringing copyright and all hell will be let loose form Parky Industries. ©

Who is wanting fabulous football as you put it though? No-one. Again, can people fucking read. I've had the anti-Pardew carp thrown at me, the agenda crap and so on. What I have offered is solid and reasoned analysis of our football or rather our inability to play football and how that can hurt us, has hurt us and will continue to hurt us. I have offered a reasonable opinion that if we are to keep improving in the way our recruitment and scouting side of the club is progressing, then we will need to upgrade our manager eventually. That is my opinion which to be fair, I have put across well enough without resorting to "OMG Pardew is crap, sack the cunt". I liken my thoughts to how many felt towards the end of Sir Bobby's time here (although most dared not submit their thoughts) that perhaps we need a change. Admittedly it would be a brave and bold change not guaranteed to work, but I genuninley believe this team and our players require the things Pardew lacks and will never have. I know I'm in a minority but I have spotted certain things which I've expressed in this thread, things that we as a side or club simply cannot gloss over with "well we are sixth man" or "well look where we used to be, we were a Championship side not long ago" or "we started the season unbeaten" or "who else could we get" or "he's not been here long enough", our football is absolutely piss poor and so are our tactics in the main. Team selections are often wrong, negative and in need of changing not long after. Yes we are 6th but performance wise, I'd have us mid-table to just below at best based on what we have served up and thsi group of players are capable of far more. We are sixth because Arsenal and Liverpool in particular are piss poor this season, that top 7 stalwarts like Villa and Everton are likewise. In any other season, we'd be top 10 based on our football. We are 6th and deserve to be 6th but its been painful watching us get there and I guarantee next season even if we were to sign even more better players we'll not reach such heights. Not unless our football, tactics and team selections improve. Can pardew improve those areas? We'll soon find out in our final run of games. If I were a betting man I'd say nope. I bet he starts Taylor or Obertan ahead of Ben Arfa at home to Wolves and it wouldn't surprise me to see Cisse on the bench in place of Shola. We'll probably win it by a single goal margin with a scrappy performance as well. I agree on some of these points and the lack of sustained - cogent football being the main bugbear....But Pards has earnt himself at least another season at the helm. This is the wall you are coming up against in this thread and will continue to do so while our results remain fairm (regardless of the workmanlike football). Most will swallow it while we remain in the top 7.

With the first 11 we can put out if all are fit then 7th would be very dissapointing, knowing what we know now and from where we are NOW.

Cue HTT compiling a 3000 word report on how he could come in and successfully succeed Pards.

That's why we're 6th. Zing!

I seem to remember Shak dismantling the anti Souness agenda not too long before Souness was sacked. ....and on that bomb!