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You have probably forgotten but we made the play offs and would have made the final if not for a couple of individual mistakes by a couple of players. We were winning every other game. Doesn't happen to us very often but we are doing thta now and yu still can't bring yourself to back the manager 100%. Still, who needs stats eh. As for attention...how many poss exactly??? ps Do you have any comment about the money Keane has spent and where they are in the league???

Ah, the old pot kettle black scenario....still no answer to my question???

I hope you are right Foxtone but NC has hardly backed hin to the hilt in public has he? There does seem to be this thing going on, you know, bring in a "name" manager, give him some money, instant promotion that NC propergates. As we know, this is no instant recipe for success and if Pardew does pull it off this year he should be given the keys to the city. It would be good if NC could come out and back Pardew 100% for next season now so that we all know where we stand over the closed season and AP can get on with rebuilding job.

Any succcessful mamager in the lower leagues is going to attrack attention from above and Pardew has plenty of experience in the Prem as well as a good track record with us. He could walk into any job in the CCC and I expect there are clubs in the Prem who would have him too, irrespective of Celtic. I just hope he stays and sees the job through.

LOL, he certainly has the gift for avoiding answering questions!!!

You really do talk a lot of cr*p Alpine. There is a huge difference between targetting the play offs and seeking 6th. Please feel free to find any quote where he said he was aiming for 6th spot? You have learnt nothing from that season have you? There are plenty of other teams hell bent on promotion too as we have found this year again - no one is going to roll over and make it easy for us. That season as in this, we are one of the most competitive teams in the divison but we have no divine right to get promoted and it is a tough job. I remember you saying that you felt that he was deliberately trying not to get us up. I supposed you think that too about Pardew as you find it impossible to come out and give him your full support. Who exactly would you support in the job? It strikes me that anyone we employ is not good enough for you. Burley was the best manager in a points for game ratio before Pardew came along yet neither of them can please you. I suppose we need someone who can guarantee 3 points a game. Good luck with that. PS Roy Keane spent £8m of Ipswich's "family silver" this season - don't see them troubling Newcaste or West Brom.

Okay Alpine, as you obvioulsy can't bring yourself to give a simple yes or no I shall assume that it is a no and that you are keeping your powder dry for when Pardew does something else to warrant more grief from you. As for trying to "inform" myself "sufficiently". I was under the impression that I was trying to do with this simple question. Time to move on....

Quite, it is just a bit of banter on an internet forum, along with all the other topics that are discussed on a regular basis.

This is exactly why you can't guarantee to buy your way out of this or any other league. What looks good on paper does not always produce on the pitch. The trick is to pick the team and the tactics to get a result on the day and then to make changes if things aren't going to plan. For the more successful managers they get it right more often than not but even Wenger can and does get it wrong and so does everyone else. All managers have a hard job. On the plus side for them, most of them get rewarded very well for failure!

All I have seen you say is that you are not calling for his head "yet". I have asked for a yes or no answer to the question are you backing our manager for next season. This is not tring to get one over on you. I am simply trying to discover whether you think that Pardew is the man to take us forward next season. So then Alpine, once again. Yes or no?

What have courts and barrack room lawwyers got to do with anything? I have asked you a simple question which you seem hell bent on ignoring. Yes or no?

I am just going out Alps, but here is your challenge, in one word, yes or no, is Alan Pardew the man for us next season or not? Just one word mind! Look forward to the yes or no by the time I get back.

Answer the question please. No what I think doesn't matter, but judging by the huge number of posts you have made you think what you do does....

Strange that isn't Alpine, as I have recently published Pardew's stats which I believe are for the 2009/10 season??? You will recall Burley's stats too and Strachan's etc etc. Come on and answer the question. Are you backing Pardew for next season are not???

Oh dear, and i thought that C B Fry and Alpine were the only posters on here who could read a point and completely change it to suit their own agendas. Not once have I said that it would take Pardew 3 seasons to challenge. I said it took that long for McMennemy to get promoted (and in that time these people would have called for him to be sacked no doubt). After the start we had I said that promotion was unlikely (not impossible you will note). I still think it will be a tall order. I supported Pardew when others were suggesting that he was on barrowed time. I simply said he was a decent manager and deserved time to get it right (which he is doing). I have NEVER put a timeframe on his job or what I would expect him to achieve. But don't let that stop you making up nonsense so you can support someone who seems to get off on negativity and getting rid of managers. Sometimes I agree with you DD and sometimes I don't, but I gave you more credit than to stoop to the tactics of these others.

Ah, so you think that it was directed at you then Alpine? So something has started to register. Feel free to deny that you come on and moan most days (I think the description very apt)...but please don't be so pathetic to use this as an excuse (once again) to duck out of answering a straight question. You have called me (and others) far worse. Grow a pair, man up and be honest. Will you or will you not back this manager 100% for next season?

I think you are right. It is says a lot about Clegg that other parties are so woriied about him that they are trying to discredit him. God forbid that people should stoop that low (but did I see Cameron talking about his family tragedy the other day on TV? - hmmm, what has that to do with his party's polices? Surely he wasn't trying to milk the sympathy vote???).

This says it all and answers those who say that Pardew has been too cautious and has lacked ambition. After the slow start he has done a fantastic job and if we are fortunate to make the play offs and win, we deserve it as much as anyone else in this league. Taking away odd individual results, overall surely we can be delighted with this season?

LOL, once again avoided the point. So come on then Alpine, are you going to come out and support the manager for next season or not? Of course I already know the answer because your posts are so predictable every time we draw or lose. Out of 12,000+ posts it is amazing that you actually manage to avoid so many questions asked of you.

Let's not discuss the merits of the individual and their ability to lead the country, let's talk about their family backgrounds instead. Frankly I don't give a t*ss what any of their fathers do or don't do...what difference does it make?

Yep, yet we have been accused of not showing ambition nor an attacking mindset (2nd highest scorers in this division). Great stuff.

It is easier to be anything if your family have already made your pile...ask JFK would have testified.

NOt quite sure what all this has to do with hisa ability to lead a political party of even become Prime Minster? Why can't he claim to be middle class...what ever that is nowdays???

It would worr me hugely if the Government on this country depended on what three blokes did in from of a TV camera in a few staged debates.

The trouble with the Moaning Minnies is that they fail to bother to look at the Bigger Picture and everything is about the last result. Irrespective of the fact that Pardew has done a fanstastic job they still can't quite bring themselves to give him 100% backing because they want to leave themselves free to have room to slag him off the minute we lose another match. One of the ring leaders of the MMs said the other day that he wasn't calling for Pardew's head "yet." Pretty much says it all. There is not one team in any 4 of the divsions who has not dropped points to "inferior" teams or played badly on occasions. Why FFS should Pardew's team be any different? And before C B Fry slags this post off....if you ready it very carefully you will see that I am backing Pardew. Even by the MMs standards surely the bloke has done enough this season to justify support for next season????