Unbelievable when you think about it, but the one problem that would have set us up for an exciting season a month ago was Pardew.
If we'd replaced him with someone more suitable - I'd have really high hopes.
Instead, Ashley's managed to make him the least of our problems. We now have a crap manager working under an imbecile maniac, a squad that's likely to be strongly decimated and an owner who's lost his only strategic input.