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Not losing the ball is crucial to Pardews keep it tight tactic as it run up and down like a headless chicken

Again what a loon we don't support Alan we support the club. Its hilarious how he actually tries to belittle the club whilst bolster his own ego at the same time

Positive person who takes no accountability. He really thinks he can fool us into thinking we have a chance of signing Remy

I was more referring to a lack of footballing ability

Average English clogger I was having this conversation with Ste last night. He isn't good enough for our first team but as a squad player he is, he is arguably better than anything we have on the bench, Ben Arfa and Bigi aside. Bigi lol. The solution isn't to buy average English clogger's IMO especially considering how poor our central midfield is

25 years old, decent record in the Championship, might be decent in a Leon Best style role, but we would still need another 2 front line strikers imo. Yup, didn't Shola have a similar ratio when we were in the championship?

PS its "Sir" to you. Fucking cretin

Average English clogger

Oh do shut up Alan. You aren't fit to mention the great mans name

Given most of us saw through him ages ago he really isn't a good conman is he?

We are behind the "team" we just aren't behind him.

Scraping the bottle of the barrel here aren't we? Some of us happy with us signing mackem squad players

Again he's allowed to tell these lies without question from the media

Nice buying championship level players on free transfer from your rival embarrassing as per

I think we will get something out of this its miserable that I think that's a bad thing though

Another defensive midfielder? We need goal scorers and creators! I'd put a high priority on a defensive midfielder who's better than Tiote. His distribution is too slow, too conservative, and that's holding the team back. I hope you are ready for Pelters lol

Hands tied, injury crises science type drivel?

Great work happy face. Your stats on Pardew are damming. Being Pardewed is nothing to joke about

Reading at home. Last season. Should have killed Pardew with fire after that game That's the point where he should have gone, since he's survived two 0-3's to Sunlun, 0-6 to the bin dippers, numerous hammerings, headbutting a oppo player, slagged off the area, basically said players who aren't middle class are thick (again insulting the area). And still he manages us, totally bizarre. Couldn't agree more. I remember being at that match and being the most furious I'd ever been at a manager. Remember thinking to myself that that was the first time I could distinctly remember a manager losing a game themselves with shear idiocy and ineptitude. We ended up with a midfield of Bigi, Jonas, Perch and Obertan in that game...Perch, Bigi and Obertan replaced Anita, Cabaye and Marveaux. It was Cabaye's first game back after injury so you can understand him coming off and he took Marveaux off first THEN Cabaye 10 mins later when it was 1 - 1 so we had zero creativity. Just f***ing bizarre. No creativity... Fuck all has changed there then.

Really hoping we all feel invigorated the day Ashley or Pardew leaves I can't fucking wait for the day we get our self respect back

Imagine going from Pardew to that Fans would probly complain that he's too attacking and we don't keep it tight at the back anymore

With the white flag raised at 2:07pm the only surprise was that it wasn't easier for Stoke. Yup excellent assessment

A man with a philosophy a vision of how he wants his side to play judging from that article. Sign him up

Martinez is a better manager, without question. If he was available I'd sack off Pardew and have him in a second. But I don't think Pardew is completely f***ing useless. He's probably not worthy of any more time. He hasn't been good enough in what I consider key areas of management; motivating players and getting confidence players, like Cisse, playing consistently well. He's on borrowed time. He's a mixed bag and nowhere near Martinez in terms of quality. But that wasn't the point I was making. We don't have Martinez nor do we have any real chance of attracting Martinez. We know Pardew's failings but the club's recruiting failings are just bigger in my opinion. We need a manager who can work around those. At the start it looked like Pardew could. It's becoming increasingly obvious that he can't. What are his strengths?

Our squad was still thin last season. Cisse had stopped scoring (and Pardew should have fixed that). But we still didn't have a period like we have over the last few months where we were getting routinely tonked. Our form before selling Cabaye - while up and down - was still much better on the whole. There's a very obvious contrast. You completely disregard from the fact that our squad was in terms of quality still easily a top 8 side last year. I'm not disregarding that at all. We had some good players and should have done better in the league than we did. As a whole, we under-performed last season. The season before we performed well above expectation. I said at the end of last season that he'd had one good and one bad and he'd earned the benefit of the doubt for this season. Now this season is basically over, our league position is borderline acceptable but our performances are garbage. Patchy in 2013 and disgraceful in 2014. Had everything else been equal then Pardew should be walking. However, all else is not equal. We've sold without buying. Our squad is still way too thin on bodies and quality. Pardew deserves criticism but I don't feel like he deserves all, or even most, of the blame. The way I see it, there are 3 ways this goes: 1) We're already looking for a replacement, we get them in soon and re-build in the summer around them. 2) We decide Pardew is worthy of a little more time. We recruit in the summer and he's got the first 5-10 games to show he still deserves to be in the job. 3) We don't recruit in the summer and the manager is irrelevant. We're f***ed whoever is in charge. Personally, I'd be going for option 1. I think option 2 is what will happen but I wouldn't be surprised by any of them. Management irrelevant lol.