Pardew had much more match winners when he was in charge so he got away with having no plan and shit football to a certain extent results wise. Cabaye, Remy, Ba, Cisse, HBA all won us games that we played shit in at various different stages of his tenure in charge. Now we don't really have any of those type of players so I believe Pardew wouldn't be doing much better than McClaren is at the moment. I don't watch them regularly but just from looking at some of their players I would guess that this is how Crystal Palace are doing well at the moment as well. Players like Zaha, Bolasie and Cabaye winning them games they maybe don't deserve to win