S-Clarke

not rifts with the players, rifts with the coaching staff and the new staff cortese is appointing for his ''development centre'..

just saw that Nick, very interesting and suggests that Pardew does not buy into this ''continental style'' that Cortese is trying to build.

even worse than Wise...!

I don't think that's far from the truth. Also seems to confirm why there has only been 1 signing, and that's a ''Cortese'' signing.

I would assume so. He's kind our ''director of football'' type figure so will have a say in all football decisions.

That's pretty much it.

It is up at the end of the season I'd imagine he's been advised to wait until January to see where we are before committing anything.

tbf Mark Dennis does make a few good points. Cortese is a bit of a nutter.

wtf? do you really think we should boycott the game? what would that achieve? nothing. Cortese is driven and ruthless, he doesn't really care what we do.

bit ott.

I don't think anything is imminent, but they probably have a shortlist.

Don't think he's the level of manager they're looking at.

I would cry.

I think it's the timing that's shocked a few of us, after a 4-0 away win! As he didn't go last season i thought he'd be given at least 10 games this year.

After thinking about it for a bit, There were also rumours that Pardew wasn't even Nicola and Markus's first choice, so it's within the realms of possibility to believe that Pard's has been under-review from day 1. Our start last season wouldn't have helped matters, and with us threatening to have a similar start this year i don't think Nicola could hold off. I'm still angry at the timing of the decision though, if he really wasn't happy with him he should have gone last season so we had a new guy in ready for the start of the season. What a truly surreal season this is, and we're not even a month into it yet.

thats from may...way old.

yikes..

....+1, that's the crux of it for me. And he was close to doing it too, but was talked out of it then. Not sure hes' really given him much chance this year to do anything.

I think it's thrown our season into doubt now. We'll now be treading water for a few weeks until the new manager comes in.

Not sure how it works, but Pardew didn't really sound or look like a man giving his last interview on Saturday. I expect the timing has come as a shock to him too. I don't expect us to get a new manager for a couple of weeks, Wilkins will oversea things as the OS states.

Unfortunately there's no chance we can attract a manager of that level to L1. We did well to get Pardew in all honesty.

Something has not been right for a while, probably after we failed to secure promotion after spending over 1.5m in January, and i would also assume this is why we've been so ''quiet'' in the transfer market this summer. We needed a quick start this year or he was standing on a tightrope, we didn't get it. The win over Bristol rovers should have given him a reprieve though, the timing of this decision is totally wrong.

It would be a step backwards imo. Zola seems a good fella, but he just hasn't got any real experience - especially at this level which is critical for us.

I'm apprehensive.

I really do not trust Cortese anymore Pilch.