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Who are these managers that we could realistically attract who could do a better job than Pards? Would be nice to have the odd name...

I've heard it all now like, that's insane. Replace Pardew in the summer, after possibly our best finish in recent memory? And replace him with who exactly? Fabio Capello's available I suppose. If we can get someone with a good proven record and has led teams into the top 4 consistently, why not? Always found it strange why at most clubs, the players are paid much more than the manager. Since the brain of the team,fitness and moral starts from the manager doesnt it make more sense to pay your CEO? Always found this quite baffling in football. Dont quote me for sacking Pardew please, i just think if there is some chance of someone better that is willing coach, leave transfers to the management and most importantly could collaborate with team. Btw personally i Think Pardew has earned himself another season to prove himself. Pardew has earned another season to prove himself? Am I actually reading that correctly? You make it sound like we are battling away in 12th position. We are ONE POINT off fourth place. What did you expect? A title challenge? Do you ever watch football? All this nonsense of being couple of points from 4th but there is still 1/3 of the season to go. What if we slide and end 12th or something? Funny how some could assume we can keep top 7 while not looking at the performances on the pitch. Great to look at numbers and Stats but isnt how we fundamentally get those numbers and stats more of reality? Damn - you've got me there. I don't watch football. Not sure why I signed up to this forum actually - must have been an accident. All you can judge Pardew on so far is what he has achieved to date. To date, he has done an exceptional job. At this point in the season, for people to even suggest that he should merely be allowed to have another season to prove himself is ridiculous.

I've heard it all now like, that's insane. Replace Pardew in the summer, after possibly our best finish in recent memory? And replace him with who exactly? Fabio Capello's available I suppose. If we can get someone with a good proven record and has led teams into the top 4 consistently, why not? Always found it strange why at most clubs, the players are paid much more than the manager. Since the brain of the team,fitness and moral starts from the manager doesnt it make more sense to pay your CEO? Always found this quite baffling in football. Dont quote me for sacking Pardew please, i just think if there is some chance of someone better that is willing coach, leave transfers to the management and most importantly could collaborate with team. Btw personally i Think Pardew has earned himself another season to prove himself. Pardew has earned another season to prove himself? Am I actually reading that correctly? You make it sound like we are battling away in 12th position. We are ONE POINT off fourth place. What did you expect? A title challenge?

I've heard it all now like, that's insane. Replace Pardew in the summer, after possibly our best finish in recent memory? And replace him with who exactly? Fabio Capello's available I suppose. Baffling isn't it? Almost convinced he's on a wind up at times.

£1.3 million net from what I can gather. Not sure how accurate this is - but it looks roughly like he has broken even - http://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/en/huddersfield-town/transfers/verein_1110_2009.html EDIT - maybe he hasn't broken even - forgot he was appointed in 2008. Don't think it is as much as £1.3 million though.

How much money has he actually spent, on a net basis?

I don't think it's a coincidence that the only times we have conceded 3 goals or more this season, Tiote has not been playing. He is so important to us. Apart from West Brom and Liverpool.. but you get the point.

JH - spot on.

Can't agree that we had a better foothold in matches under Hughton than Pardew. Must have been watching very very different matches.

That's why I raised the point, in fairness to Pardew he's still building. But Bobby really believed in certain types of players like Dyer, Bellamy, Robert and the like. He definitely didn't give a s*** about having big target men up front, in fact he broke up a relatively successful duo in Ferguson and Shearer quite ruthlessly to pursue his own philosophy by bringing Bellamy into the team. Whether Pardew has that sort of vision is where the jury is still out for me. You regard Ba and Cisse as target men?

Just feel he is not nearly physical enough to play the 'tough centre half' role. He isn't as good as he should be in the air for his height, he isn't particularly strong and most importantly he just isn't brave enough. For example, I can't imagine Adebayor scoring his goal if Saylor had been marking him. Saylor would have just thrown himself at the ball and cleared, regardless of any potential boot to the face.

I'd rather have a prime Solano than Ben Arfa..

Spot on from Oldtype - the brainless and baseless stereotyping of Pardew as some sort of managerial Neanderthal who can't cope with 'flair' players is becoming a bit too regular now. I do sometimes wonder if some posters on here support Ben Arfa or NUFC. For what it's worth - I want Ben Arfa to be playing ahead of Obertan.

Lower tier was brilliant yesterday. The Ba song is brilliant for getting everyone singing.

We don't even play 'hoofball'.

on win % it goes like this win % Keegan (92-97) 54.9 Robson 46.6 Roeder 45.8 Souness 44.8 Pardew 39.2 Dalglish 38.4 Hughton 36.8 * Gullit 34.6 Allardyce 33.3 Keegan (2008) 28.5 Kinnear 22.2 Hughton's win % including all competitive games in 10/11 season is 59.3% Hughton record in 10/11 Season (all comps) P 19 W 7 D 4 L 8 Isn't points per game a far more accurate indicator? I am never quite sure why people are always using win ratio.

Spot on. It's sad that a wonderful season is going to be slightly overshadowed by this debate. Every time he isn't picked there is an over reaction. I really, really like the lad, he is an immense talent but as you say it's getting very dull now. Can't agree more.

He isn't bad but it is clear and has been clear for some time that Taylor is much better CB.

I'd prefer Shepherd to Ashley because he understood football and had ambition even if it was more often than not misguided. The Souness era was disasterous for this club but nowhere near as disasterous as the Ashley era has been. The only things Shepherd understood were eating pies and taking money out of the club.

A balanced Shola view. Amazing stuff around here.

Not seen much that Shola has done wrong yet in all seriousness. I know people love to have a go and he gives ppl plenty of opportunities to do so, but at least wait until he does something bad.

Good header by Shola.

The only good thing about Robbie Savage is that he isn't quite as bad as Jason Roberts on 606.

What hit and hope is do with Pardew?

Bit over the top - he's clearly done a very good job at Spurs, but I wouldn't say the rest of his CV is outstanding.