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I want this so bad

Thing is, if we make a step up and are finishing in and around sixth or seventh every year, we'd start wanting Ashley to invest even more and push for Champions League. Expectations are a dangerous thing from his perspective. He wants to keep us in a safely mediocre space where progress looks hopeless so nobody will ever push him to spend more of the club's money.

Probably just journalists recycling old Newcastle stories

I will consider anyone with any sort of managerial experience within the past three years to be a coup

I fully expect we'll lose this heavily just so Pardew can gloat and make our lives miserable

Oddly specific that they're in charge for "Burney and Leicester." Seems to imply that someone will be brought in after that. This is coming dangerously close to giving me hope.

They won't, but we can at least enjoy the moment.

This is pretty much the most likely scenario. Carver or Beardsley as caretaker, then permanently if they're not a complete disaster.

He had ten years man, plenty of time to buy players that weren't so one-dimensional. There are plenty of "bad" teams in the Championship and below that haven't resorted to that abortion of a football style. Delap's throw-ins and Shotton's towel t-shirt have been quickly forgotten. http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/12/12/article-2073311-0F2416D100000578-813_468x286.jpg At Stoke? What the hell do you take to lure any players there? Tiny stadium at a club whose biggest achievement is winning the League Cup once in the seventies. And who gives a crap at how you play if you're at a club like Stoke. Decent cup run and mid-table is what they're happy with. And you're right they are plenty of teams like that.... Who aren't in the PL which is the most important thing to a club like that. This sounds exactly like the papers who say us lot would rather lose 4-3 then win 1-0. I guess Pulis' fear at Stoke was there was no need to change it. He had a system that worked for him, why change? At Palace he had nothing to lose. I don't want him here but I don't think we'd necessarily see Stoke-like tactics if he came. Think this is spot on. He persisted with what he had at Stoke because it was working. I don't think he's necessarily married to that style. He's a decent, average manager really. We can and will do a lot worse.

Again, I would totally take a shit English clogger manager, given that who we'll actually get probably won't even be a manager at all.

He can't beat Sunderland. They'll win their next ten matches against them just to piss us off

You know, with our luck he'll probably win the champions league with Palace

This place is like that last scene from Return of the Jedi

I'd assume this will be the case until the end of the season, with Beardsley getting the job permanently if he is acceptably mediocre.

Some insight from a world-renowned expert on jumping ship.

Seriously, let's not even stress over this. We all know it will be somebody that respectable football clubs wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole. We'll deal with that particular tragedy as it comes. For now let us just bask in the moment.

I guess it makes sense that we have a fresh thread for his second spell as manager.

The one advantage he does have over Pardew is that he'll probably drop dead before the end of his eight-year contract.

Don't be silly. I'm quite upbeat in the NBA thread.

Welcome back

We're a few days away from selling Sissoko with no replacement and appointing Beardsley at manager, yet I'm excited. How fucked up is this club.

This can't possibly be happening. He'll fail a medical or something.

It has to happen at this point. Even if Palace don't pay for Pardew, Ashley will sack him for this. For what though? All he did was miss a press conference Having the temerity to negotiate with Palace behind his back and present him with an ultimatum?

It has to happen at this point. Even if Palace don't pay for Pardew, Ashley will sack him for this.

I suppose the bright side to this is that even if Palace decide not to pay for Pardew, Ashley may be sufficiently fed up to just sack him.