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How many games exactly have you seen this year Alpine? Still it wouldn't be you if you weren't slagging off a manager would it? By the way, who employed Pardew in the first place? Do you remember the stick you gave to a previous CEO for employing who you thought were rubbish managers?

Let me see, one game away from Wembley, good chance to progress in the FA Cup, only lost 6 games this season, unbeaten in 22 league games. Yes I can see a dramatic improvement this season on last. Can't you?

I can't remeber how many times that this Board has complaind about a previous CEO going through managers to quickly, yet here we have probably the same people champing at the bit and waiting for the new CEO to dump Pardew. WTF? Not so long ago SFC couldn't buy a win. We are now riding high in 2 cup competitions and rarely lose league games. To say that things have turned round is an understatement and who is that down to? Pardew. Give the bloke a break and some support FFS. Isn't it bad enough that our current CEO sounds like Alpine?

Pardew's team has lost 6 games. His teams have done very well in cup competions. We are finally winning our homes games. Just where has he gone wrong exactly? He had had half a season. Are people supposed to prove themselves over a few months nowdays?

Inconstistancy, that is what happens. It happens to lots of teams who are good but just not good enough. sadly it is all about the people who play and how they perform. Pardew can only do so much but no doubt he will end up getting the chop because he wasn't an overnight success.

So if he goes through several managers and holds on to the purse strings that is fine...hang on a minute, haven't we been here before?

I am sure that Mr Cortese does want a better return for his bosses money. I am also sure that Alan Pardew would rather we won more matches too.

No we don't know the answer. We also know that NC is not going to pay wages he doesn't agree with to get ceratin players, which as I said is fine but then if you don't get the better qulity players you are not going to necessarily get the results that you are demanding in short order are you.

I am sure even Hilter was good to his staff.

Apparently now it is a 3 year plan. Far less realistic and puts more pressure on the management but there you go...it didn't take Cortese too long to fall into the "success overnight" trap.

I think that many agreed that we weren't quite the biz in midfield. I didn't want one more, I wanted a player like Danns. Hopefully Puncheon will turn out to be a good buy but they are different kinds of players.

Yes but he wants it at a price. Fair enough as that is his job, but if he is blocking some moves and sanctioning cheaper ones he needs to take some of the flak if, as looks likely, we don't reach the play offs this season. A goal scoring midfielder like Danns would have been ideal.

I think he is taking the p*ss.

I think I can see were Pardew is going wrong. He is watching games! If he were to move to the continent, say Austria, and select his team and tactics based on an internet forum, I am sure he would be much more successful!

Yes I would be totally amazed. I doubt very much if the pay offs were seen as a realistic target this season and Pardew has done a decent job. Why on earth would you sack him or even start threads about sacking him? Haven't you had enough of the manager merry-go-round at this club?

Both of my Grandfathers died as a result of WW1. My Dad was too young to serve in WW2 but was aprt of the local Home Guard. I can't wait for Alpine to find this thread. Father in the SS and chased the Von Trapps over the Alps and Grandfather serving with Corporal Hitler in the trenches?

Yep, there is a lot to be happy about but you wouldn't think so if you read some other threads here!!!!

We don't seem to losing matches like we sued to so that I would say was a result. Yep, we have drawn too many matches and that needs to change but I think some people need to be patient. It took the great Lawrie Mac three seasons to get us out of the 2nd Divsion with much better players.

Me too mate.

Let us hope it doesn't come to that. Mind you, if Pardew was carzy enough to read the posts here he might start to think that he would be better off somewhere else.

There is a 5 year plan apparently. I doubt whether promotion this year was part of it. If Cortese was stupid enough to get rid of a decent manager who has been doing a decent job then I would expect that the witch hunters would give NC the same grief they gave RL.

Don't you think he is earning his cash then? Since our slow start to the season how many games have we actually lost? We could end up at Wembley and could quite easily turn over a Prem club shortly. It wasn't all that long ago that many doubted that we would finsih midtable, now the disquite starts all over again. What is it with a group of posters on here who find it impossible to get behind the manager for any length of time?

Once again it just goes to prove that you can't necessarily buy success.

I couldn't agree more. It wasn't that long ago when I expect us to lose every week so not losing is a massive plus. Win a few games and the usual suspects bang on about promotion, draw one and it is all doom and gloom again.

Sorry, but I don't think were are SFC without the red and white stripes.