What Needs To Happen vs. What Will Happen

[mrmojorisin75]

neither imo, the decision to try and play 4-4-2 without the players to do it. pardew isnt the first and he wont be the last manager to try and put his best players into a pattern that just doesn't work. personally i think he done it to try and keep ba sweet and i know many will disagree.

 

i agree with this 100% fwiw, as bad as williamson and simpson are it's the managers job to stop them being exposed and playing a "system" for half the season that doesn't suit any of the players we have in midfield and attack, except ba, is madness and totally down to pardew

 

it may stem from the transfer failures, if he'd been able to upgrade on those two he might have started with a more expansive game from the off but i highly doubt it...as you say, keeping ba happy and scoring goals seems to have been his main concern at the expense of seeing the best of cisse, cabaye & HBA and having the team keep possession thus relieving the pressure on the defence

 

fuckin dummy