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They were in freefall, nothing to lose by sacking Arty. If the new guy gets a honeymoon period, that may just be enough to keep them up.

McClaren whilst being a poor international manager, has shown to be a good club manager. Hope it isn't him.

I heard it too late, shit odds now. He's bloody awful as well. He is but a better coach/manager than we have.

Come on David, you have to explain this one Christmas Tree is using Dave's posts on another forum without the context or the thing between his lugs to back them up. Oi Christmas Tree you Tory knobhead. Still sucking Cameron's dick? Post that bleeder.

Pardew always speaks of his sadness of selling him. Obviously fits nicely in Pardews footballing edicts.

Come on David, you have to explain this one

Bit unfair of Rio Ave to acclimatise Benfica to our level of shiteness

Someone needs to overdose Pardew on industrial laxative on the next 2 Sundays.

I've been as low as a 3 but I'm up to a 5 now. Still think we will be ok, but in spite of the manager not because of him.

I agree. But just think relegation would surprise me less.

I think so too.

It's irrelevant "how long we give him" because our opinion doesn't register with the owner. He'll do exactly as he pleases with our club, and that's likely to be sticking with Pardew. This reality makes it so difficult to support the club/team at the moment because with this squad we all know we could do so much better with a decent coach. I really think they might bin him, they're not anywhere near as stupid as I thought they were and they'll want to be getting maximum return on a lot of the good work they're doing off the pitch. They're ruthless too and I'd be surprised if Pardew's contract was worth the paper it was written on, in terms of the implications of sacking him. Knowing Ashley an 8 year contract pay off for Pardew would cost less than paying any of the previous owners managers off for 6 months worth. I think it will be this summer unless he wins the Europa cup or Jan if we arent in the top 10 by then. Me too, Ashley and Llambias are all about value for money etc and I'd imagine they'll be really fucked off about this season, regardless of their own dallying last summer. He gets paid up a year of his contract. Aye, that's what people seem to be saying. £1m or whatever seems like a fucking bargain at the minute. The thing that does cross my mind sometimes is if we somehow managed to win the Europa League then I'd have to get a tattoo of Pardew's face on my chest or something, I place so much value on winning a trophy after 40-odd years of under-achievement and it feel like the ultimate irony if a manager that I've never really taken to (other than giving him credit here and there for good results, etc) was the one that delivered it for us. was just wondering what the Pardew Haters would do if we won the Europa What is more likely. Relegation or winning the Europa? Perhaps both.

How can you come to that conclusion exactly? How is that fair to say that last season was the one off and this season truly represents his ability? And that it can't possibly be the other way around. For that reason that's why he needs to stay until at least January, imo Check his history. You'll see a pattern that reoccurs. It is happening again.

If we can keep our absentees to an absolute minimum, we will beat them.

I was mistaken, Bayern scored within a minute, 9-1. Can just picture in 100 years time, some Munich fans taunting their Hamburg counterparts. Nein eins marra . FTH.

Next Sunday is a far more important game imo.

Comical Stu, Ian or Inochi ?

I reckon even bastarding Souness could get more out of this squad than this plank.

To think we gifted Reading that win up here. f***ing hell man. That Reading game was a killer imo. We're only one game from safety and to lose against Reading then Wigan were painful to say the least. Then again, with Pardew managing us, which teams have we swamped with our play?? Pardew gave Reading the points with his inane substitutions.

Beggars belief this like. Our recruitment is the envy of the all the teams in the league that aren't mega rich. We absolutely could attract a better manager than Alan Pardew man, without a doubt. I've no faith in this lot whatsoever to bring in anyone up to the job. They'd be struggling to find anybody equivalent or worse than Pardew imo.

No he doesn't. He actually got us playing well at times in the last months and we started getting results again. Thing is, he's very focused now on the Europa League and, who can blame him? It's a great chance we have to bring a trophy to SJP finally after all those years. No-one will care if we survive by 1 single point in the league but won the Europa League. Thing also is, that we have two very winnable home games now in a row that should see us getting 6 points and therefore bing absolutely safe. We still haven't been playing that well though. He still hasn't addressed the issue of service to whoever our centre forward is on any given day. It's been a problem all season and not one he looks like he knows how to resolve. The lack of service for Cisse is something I'd totally agree with. Still, to say he should be sacked after losing at the Etihad is over the top. Especially not when you know that he's concentrating on the Euro League and (it seems) on the winnable games in the league. It is about the season and the way he has us set up, not about today.

This, well said Middsy.

See what 'appens when we try and play facking attacking football. Cants.

This all points to Pardew having a 10 minute crapattack at HT, and being confined to trap 3 of the Eastlands away dressing room shithouses.

Me too.