captainchris

Pardew is bitter about using the players that were already here when he came. Except Wotton - my God..........

Anyone who picks Wotton should be on a couch somewhere! Not managing Saints..

Derry, this is so very accurate but AP can't see it - it's been ten games now twelve with cup games and the tactic remains the same. ITS NOT WORKING NOR IS AP!

Yes yes yes but what if we get 9 points from every ten games or perhaps worse! What then?????????? AP has shown no tactical knowledge what so ever so far, he's virtually all his own players out there and no strategy in games at all!! Oh yes we one strategy - I do appologise - it's evidently to play very narrow with no width and no cover for the full backs! ITS NOT WORKING!!! No win Saturday and no sign of a tactical strategy and it's enough for me......This is a very expensive hand picked squad he should be doing better!

Only one answer to that - what did the Rovers side cost that beat us tonight !!!

Over reactions!!!!! After ten games! We don't need any more passivators we now need a Churchill reaction. Everything IS NOT alright in the garden is it....

Irrelevant what he knows or doesn't know about running a football club. It has to run like any business on results. If the manager doesn't deliver then a review has to take place, reports delivered on progress and forecasts given. No business, club can run on 'giving someone time' for ever. You have to draw a line in the sand somewhere and there will always be a variant in opinion on where exactly you draw that line - Cortese will know where and when AP has crossed that line. The owner of Saints didn't get where he is today by standing by dead ducks when they're not producing. Very rich people are ruthless backers of winners - I back his judgement or at least his man on the case Cortese to deliver the right decision whether it's backing or sacking.

leitch should go - not up to his job...........

Well said. I am another who is tired of the very happy clappy AP supporters club come what may and with no - as yet substance! When is this AP euphoria going to come more into line with the football we are playing which so far, is as poor as I can remember for many years. I'm not saying sack him - yet, but Christ, he's bought some good players but abjectly failed so far to get them playing football...........

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Looks about right..........

Surely there is quite an obsession with personel when talking about our team at the moment. This is the clever AP rhetoric which he has spread quite convincingly since he has been here. The idea that it's all about players and nothing to do with the technical side of tactics and those tactical choices which have to be honest been suspect so far. There has been an awful lot of long balls - so far - more than I can remember for many years in fact. Possesion of the ball has been a low priority - so far - narrow formations and tactics have prevented our build up play from maturing into structured attacks. Ap has a very long way to go before he will start to get the team to perform consistantly from what I have seen so far. So, yes, his transfers have looked good, however without a very good tactical manager one wonders where we are heading. I know the 'in' words are patience, give him a chance, we are only a win away from turning into a winning team etc ....... lets see - i'm trying very hard to agree with the 'majority' - so far!

You touch on an interesting point here. For me the coaching and tactics are short on quality so far too.

Holmes on the left fine but Mills is not good enough yet.

This is an interesting statement but what evidence is it based on! I see nothing said here to that gives credence to keeping Pardew?

Obsession with Mills is becoming tiring.......

Without doubt!

For Christ sake how can you say give AP two years. So if that were for instance two years without a win that's ok is it? I am perplexed by the number of number of happy clappies on here at the moment. Yes give him time but don't bury your head in the sand!

Faith - blind faith with such poor performances - is that wise?

Actually, on reflection I really don't think AP will make it. Yes as he has said his string point is reginising a good player - though his persistance with Wotton was bewildering. However his tactics are well short of the required standard for this club. I really do think he ain't gonna make it. Yes another three games would be fair if things are not sorted by then - which they won't be tactically, then that's long enough- he is so far away from getting things right that persistance will be by then futile!

+1 - time for him to deliver. I wouldn't worry if our team had a tactical strategy and cohesive method of play but we don't..................It's so obvious we are playing with a narrow midfield tactic and we are crying out to get those wide midfielders WIDE but AP does nothing about it!

FFS - It's nothing to do with personnel it's everything to do with tactics. We are are totally disorganised and are hoofing it all the time. Don't tell me that is not AP's strategy - it obviously is. It's boring non productive rubbish no other way to describe it. It's nothing to do with who plays the result is exactly the same who ever plays - haven't you noticed!

You mean £6m for one player who doesn't want to play for us in exchange for another - not as good who doesn't want to play for us! If you are weak in your reaction to transfer requests you will encourage the perpatrator to persist in his selfish wishes - he smelt blood in other words and RL as we all know was a selling chairman. Eventually this strategy took us down. Our current managment/owners appear far more resiliant ,unless it suites them to sell which it did with Rasiak by the looks of it. By the way, because you disagree with my opinion I would not throw cheap jibes at you by saying your arguments are 'silly'. Keep to the argument and resist the tempataion to condemn people for their opinion.

If someone said to you here's £6m in return for your relegation is that too good to turn down ?

Wait a minute - the reason we are loosing so many games is the songs we sing??????????????????????????????? ffs that's beyond a joke - isn't it..............