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He learned from the failed experiment playing 3-5-2.

 

Moving Colo to CM in hindsight looks slightly dodgy, but as we've discussed before he obviously wanted to keep Barton out wide. He was hamstrung by injuries and suspensions against Villa, anything but a defeat would have been amazing.

 

I don't think either are cause to worry that much. 

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He was talking out of his arse during that phone-in the other week, if the Villa game is anything to go by. He acknowledged that he'd made mistakes by shifting the defense around away from home. Then went and did the exact same thing which saw us lose horrendously again. We didn't need to play Coloccini in midfield for goodness sake.

 

What's particularly frustrating about us having another new manager, is that he's got to learn about the squad all over again. I don't think there'll be wholesale changes in the summer so it's annoying that we've got to go through the whole process of a manager making mistakes and learning from them, again.

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He learned from the failed experiment playing 3-5-2.

 

Moving Colo to CM in hindsight looks slightly dodgy, but as we've discussed before he obviously wanted to keep Barton out wide. He was hamstrung by injuries and suspensions against Villa, anything but a defeat would have been amazing.

 

I don't think either are cause to worry that much. 

 

Like I said, unfair to judge him just yet.  I just hope that he learns from his mistakes, as the tactics and team selection was all wrong before a ball was even kicked in those games.

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The performance was horrendous.

 

The fundamental problem with the changes against Stoke was that we'd moved the defense around. The defense is the crux of our team cos it contains our best players - especially if Nolan and Tiote aren't in the squad.

 

He went and did the same thing against Villa. Infuriating, and not just 'with hindsight'.

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The performance was horrendous.

 

The fundamental problem with the changes against Stoke was that we'd moved the defense around. The defense is the crux of our team cos it contains our best players - especially if Nolan and Tiote aren't in the squad.

 

He went and did the same thing against Villa. Infuriating, and not just 'with hindsight'.

 

But at the same time, everyone has been saying for weeks that Joey Barton should never be played in CM again. So Pardew's options were limited, unless he went for something totally suicidal like Ryan Taylor in the middle.

 

Really think we're reading too much into the Villa result... the main issue was the lack of decent players.

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I'm no fan of his at all but the result against Villa was down to a huge amount of injuries and suspensions if we had Nolan, Tiote and Best/Shola back we'd have got a result.

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I can never see how people judge managers over one game. Fair enough to whinge on if theyve made some bad decisions but the real judgement lies in whether they move on and make amends for these mistakes in the next 2/3 games after. Hughton would have been our best manager ever if we only ever looked at the Villa home game but no, just like Pardew does, he had his faults too.

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I can never see how people judge managers over one game. Fair enough to whinge on if theyve made some bad decisions but the real judgement lies in whether they move on and make amends for these mistakes in the next 2/3 games after. Hughton would have been our best manager ever if we only ever looked at the Villa home game but no, just like Pardew does, he had his faults too.

 

Who is judging him on one game then?

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Not anyone in particular here but when I've been to the past few games there's a massive amount of see-sawing opinions from week to week on him depending on what the result is. Wish some people would just have some time to think and not hit the roof about everything.

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Not anyone in particular here but when I've been to the past few games there's a massive amount of see-sawing opinions from week to week on him depending on what the result is. Wish some people would just have some time to think and not hit the roof about everything.

 

Most football fans are like that to some degree, just some worse than others.  For example, when Leon Best scored his hat trick against West Ham, it was hilarious.  People who had been saying how shite he was for months on end suddenly said "oh he's a great finisher" "I knew he'd come good" "Quality striker, going to get better and better" and then started singing his name!

 

Fans are fickle by their very nature, just varying degrees of fickleness.

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Just because you don't like the answer :lol:

 

Couldn't give a f*** about the answer, because it's worthless.

 

Even if he preferred Hughton as manager, he wouldn't say so.

 

AS JH said, why he couldn't he just say that he respected them both or that they are both good in their own ways? You think Pardew gonna drop him for saying that?

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