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Of course not, you know what I mean. Tell me, if the new guy does not perform better than Pardew by Christmas what should happen to him?

So if the new manager comes in a wins one game, draws another and loses then next what then? Pardew's win ratio was very good. If the new guys doesn't do better will he last beyond Christmas?

So if his replacement doesn't get auto promotion I trust you will be calling his judgement into question? A man who has less experience in football matters than you?

How do we know it would not bring the right end result? The bookies seem to think we will get promoted yet after 3 league games the CEO thinks differently? All those years in banking and he has a football crystal ball?

It was a J O K E Alps

After the awful roller coster ride of finding a new owner and thinking that finally the club would be settled and well run, within a fewdays the new owner dies and his side-kick sacks th manager. I think it has been obvious for a while that Cortese does not rate Pardew, but as a banker with 1 year's experience in running a football club, perhaps he should have given Pardew the 18 months he requested? The club is going in the right direction and I would have been very surprised if we were not in the top 3 or 4 come Christmas, so why this now? This club achieved the little it has achieved over the years during periods of stability. It looks like those days are well and truly behind us and that we can look forward to more chopping and changing in the future.

It is C O R T E S E

Let's see, we sign a "Brazilian" midfielder because we all know that anyone born in Brazil is naturally a football genious. So next it will be an "Italian" manager because as we all know anyone born in Italy is naturally gifted in football management.

Anything is possible. For the first time we have sacked a manager who has done well. God knows what stunt this CEO will pull next.

What all 2 league games not good enough? If we had continued in those next games the way we did against Rovers no problem and no tweeking needed.

Sorry to see him go. The wrong person has left the club.

Money to squander? I thought most of his signing had been excellent to reasonable and he has not spent a fortune either.

I can. I have known many CEOs/Senior Execs who behave like children if they don't get what they want when they want it.

Not long out of bed but still in a state of shock. The timing sucks. To echo others, I wish good luck to Pardew for the future. He can certainly manage at a higher level than League 1 no matter what the CEO thinks. As for Cortese, he strikes me as a person who throws his dummy out of the pram if he doesn't get what he wants when he wants it. He also already made us look silly with the photo thing, now this. I am also wondering whether Markus was on board with this decision? If so, perhaps he was the kindly old boy we thought, if not then Cortese has acted with indecent haste so soon after his funeral. For some time I have been worried that Cortese will turn out to be worse for us than Lowe ever was. His methods may well turn out to be successful, but is success at any price worth having? Say, the soul of the club?

Three league games played. A good performance against a Premiership club and a terrific away win. Back on track so lets sack the manager. And why should we assume future funding is secure. The only thing we can take from this is that we have another CEO who believes in the revolving door philosophy. I think we can also take from this that Cortese was embarrassed by the support given to Pardew at the end oflast season and backed off sacking him then. But with the owner still fresh in his grave and all eyes elsewhere after a good win, a Night of the Long Knives and he is sorted. We may end up with a better manager. We may or may not get promoted. But this leaves a very sour taste in the mouth.

Well it look sas though Duncan was right. Can't say I am surprised but ceratinly the timing is crazy and this is another in an ever growing long line of stpide decsions by Cortese. I used to say that you didn't have to be a "football man" to run a football club. I was wrong. You do need to understand who sport works. Cortese, seemingly, does not know and does not care. His eye is permanently on the bottom line, and that does not mean just money. Pardew showed last season that he could do this job. Without the minus 10 we would have been in the play offs and a good bet to win them. He won us a cup and finally gave this club something to cheer about. If we win our game in hand we are straight up there in the play off spots. So let's sack the manager and most of his team. Defies belief. Cortese may well have a cunning plan and may well succeed in getting us back to the Premiership in 5 years. But if he also manages to turn us into one of the most hated and disrespected clubs in the country in the process, I would rather stay where we are thanks.

I don't think that he "focusses" on the cups, he said he wanted both. As for Lowe, not true until the Dutch experiment when we had to save cash anyway - otherwise he would have kept Wigley and Grey.

I really don't care where we were at the start, it is where we are at the finish that matters.

This is a marathon not a sprint. The papers didn't used to print league tables until 6 games had been played because that is when a more reasonable picture starts to emerge. Those teams out in front in the first couple of weeks can and often do fall away. The trouble here is that the season hinges on the last game, every game. It is one thing to talk about the game just played, another to write of a player, manager, whatever because of a couple of less than great results. There are some that don't like Pardew and will take every dropped point as another nail in his coffin and those people are going to take the joy out of the season for many. There is one poster who is already sharpening his knife for the next home game. We need to move past this blame game and stop heaping piles of negativity on all and sundry whenever there is a minor setback.

It is indeed, and if you run out after 2 league games perhaps you have some issues! If we win our game in hand we are right up in the play off spots after 4 games yet how much time and effort has been spent on the woe is me the season is all over already threads?

JUst as the two previous league games have been built on Alpy. It is an ongoing process as I am sure you realise. Pardew will know that just as we weren't the worst team in the league after the first two games we are not the best now. There is a long lomg way to go and that is why the threads slagging off Pardew and talking about ddom and gloom after TWO league matches were way too previous. As Pardew rightly says, lets see where we are after 10 league matches before we start to judge the seasons progress.

Chelsea have had a huge advantage and were supposed to be Kings of Europe by now. Unfortunately you have to earn it, you can't buy it.

Alps were are no more world beaters today than we were the worst team in the world yesterday. But can't you at least take some pleasure from todays result without looking forward with doom and gloom to the next home game? We were talking earlier about the pressure being off away from home. Today validated that to some extent but hopefully the strong win will add some confidence.

Huge, medium or small, we still have to win a lot of football matches just like the other clubs.

Indeed, which puts a lot of the recent negative threads into context. Still it is good to get the first win under our belt. The season starts here.