Mattoon

A friend of mine suggested they'd happily swap Rodgers for Pardew today?!

As if it's all about the results and the string of wins obviously negates the 18 months of continuous dry arse humpings we had to endure?

I'm greatful for the performances that Barton put in when we came back up, he had some patches of good play but it doesn't undo the shit that preceded it. Cult hero? Nah. But he was a useful player. As for Abeid it smacks of Pardews incompitence to sustain a winning formula whilst having to make enforced changes, so he'll keep it as close as possible to the detriment of anyone and anything. Desperate measures by a shit manager, but we knew that.

We are a fincial business first, then football. I think a financial decision was made, asset that cant play, costs ££££ - needs to be moved on asap. The financial reasons are understandable taken out of context but a modicum of empathy should have been forefront to any decision made. A persons life and indeed state of mind should take presidence in any life threatening situation. Heartless decision to wipe their hands of him.

He genuinely lives on another planet, literally everything he comes out with either didn't happen or he's completely revised it in his own mind to be something different to actual happenings. It's insane the amount of revisionism he comes out with weekly.

QPR have been playing well recently and been unlucky with a few results, with our growing list of casualties I'm genuinely worried Pardew will bring his favourites back in to put in a defensive shift. If he tinkers again we're gonna hit another one of our hot losing streaks.

I think it's always been obvious that Ben Arfa was the one who stood up to Pardew and questioned his shit football when the cloggers kept their heads down. How anyone could question the Kings authority is a mystery to him, so he was frozen out and lied about (we know they do this, they've admitted as much). To say he was given a decent crack? Joke! In different positions? Hoiked out on the left and vilified for not being able to play in the wrong position. He'd never flourish in a Pardew team, too much of a "luxury" player for a defensive outfit. Bruce will never get the best out of him either. If he'd have had the chance to work for someone like Keegan or Sir Bobby all you doubters would be drooling over him.

Still the uttering a of a madman. What's changed this season? Other than the kids showing him up?

Great instinctive goal by Rooney.

I'd sell my house. Burn it to the ground, declare bankruptcy and start again, it's the only way.

Every time people buy into this propaganda they are told and ignore what they have seen with their own eyes. HBA is a prime example of this, I have NO doubt he's a great player because I've seen him... Play great! I have no doubt Pardew is a shit manager, because I've seen him manage us... Like shit. Use your eyes ffs.

Not enough 50% of voters are Mackems "shocker" (and Cronky)

Vote in its now a 50/50 split.

Couldn't agree more. Hope he massivley rekindles his career. Seems an honest and likeable lad. Far too few of our players, coaches and managers get experience abroad and I'm convinced that is a major factor in why we haven't seen as much success at a national level. Aye - hope he does well. This. I think it will be the making of him if he's given time to adapt and learn a new league. If/when he comes back he'll be a better manager for it.

I'd like to frust a red hot poker in this tools eye with a bit of fret.

The supporters have been well and truly Pardewed if they genuinely believe we should take a player out of the team based purely on the fact he's hit some kind of form?!? How must you feel about the manager to presume the only way a player would start to perform is because they wanted away. There's something incessantly wrong with that.

This is the type of game we get unstuck, after two decent results against superior opposition, this is the kind of game we expect to win on the back of riding a wave and it inevitably ends in a draw or worse. Should be looking to win this but Pardews sit back and counter game won't work here.

Spot on, there's been a crusade to lower expectations and have us believe we are where we should be in the pecking order. 4 wins on the bounce will not convince me that the football I've witnessed over the last 4 years is acceptable or that this is his true level and not the preceding 10 months of dross. I'll take the wins but I don't believe for one second Pardew has masterminded it or that we've turned some kind of perpetual corner. The sooner he's gone the better, end of, don't let any PR campaign have you believe anything else.

He's done what he's always done, stumbled on a winning formula and a winning team sheet. He will stick rigidly to that come what may. When it stops working or he goes behind he'll start to tinker and we'll be back on the slide. I'll enjoy the wins, who doesn't love beating the bin dippers? But sooner or later it'll be insufferable again.

Poor Bigi, who knows wtf he did to Pardew. He fell in the borehole. We're saving up for a ladder to get him out. Bloody sovereign states and their large array of ladders, can't compete with that.

He was/is always only a mini-run away from a seasons stay of execution. He's had a couple of good, if not fortunate wins and for some reason it always erases all that proceeded it. He gets abysmal results 70-80% of the season, but it's the other 20% that proves what kind of manager he is, aye alright. Good Managers don't turn bad overnight? Yeah and shite managers don't turn good overnight either, 1 swallow doesn't make a summer. They'll all be crying into their Wonga tops when he takes us down eventually.

It was obvious the minute the team sheet was made public he was trying to throw the game, what he didn't know is that the kids were going to play out of their skins to prove a point. Hindsight says he was just being a genius obviously, like the time he played a blinder with HBA.

enjoyed that

I can see Pardew reverting to type because that's what he knows, Gouffran will be playing if fit, guaranteed and there's no way, even after that performance, Pardew will trust Abeid with a league start. Graft over skill. I hope he proves me wrong but we've seen it for 4 years now.

I'd think you'd have to be deluded to not have looked at that starting line up at 7:45pm and thought, yeah he's throwing the young ones under the bus. If anyone deserves credit it's the players for hoying that bus out the way. They took the chance that they were given and they made it count, good on them, mores the pity they won't see another match until the QFs though.