well said.

but you could be on here all day trying to get thru to individual's like this.

sadly it's not just palace fans your trying to make see the obvious light...it's just pessimistic, argumentative, nastily sarcastic individuals who have way to much testosterone and not much else going on in their sad lives other than to call for the sacking of someone who has done a good job with a club our size in the best league in the world.

so we sack him. bring in a half decent foreign coach...then he has one good season making us finish 7th. then a bigger club nabs him and we then appoint Sam alladyce or millen then get relegated and forgotten.

that's what happens to a club like ours when you take chances to improve on a manager that is already doing an adequate job

if however we stick with him.....although he has taken us close at times...he has still proved he's a good bet at keeping us up either way.

it's the lesser of two evils and hopefully with a couple more transfer windows he can improve the depth of the squad...and that is really what is our problem. not much else. strength in depth.

we spent all summer chasing benteke. let's spend Jan sorting our left flank.

we will be OK.

The trouble is that Parish has totally bought into Pardew's view that we have to change our style of play. The old style which kept us in the Prem and produced some of our best ever seasons ever is now deemed as wrong for some reason ??
Charlton made this very same mistake and have spiralled down ever since!

Although we have spent what for us historically is a huge amount of money we have not strengthened enough to adopt this new style. Our midfielders are just not good enough to both protect the defence and supply the forwards - the sort of players required for this job are all at the big money clubs.
Our success has been built on great team spirit, hard work and a system which got the best from the players we had.
The truth is we are not ready to adopt this new system because we don't have enough top players and although I can appreciate the wish to play more openly I know that it just won't work with the current squad. Parish and Pardew needs to realise this and go back to basics until we can get the right players in. If Pardew can't see this then he will have to go.

Intrested reading all the thoughts on AP. I'm a Newcastle fan but always had a soft spot for Palace until they signed Pardew as I can't stand the man.

I hope he's sacked as I think you'll be better off for it, get Allerdyce (hippo heed) before the mackems do.

Have you scored from any corners yet? At Newcastle his record was impossibly bad.
Was selling Gayle was good business? It was for us.

In my opinion AP is good when first comes in, with pulis' team he did OK but many of us toon fans said just wait till his second season as then he will be found out.

Good post. You can look at it slightly differently though. Pardew took over from Warnock and basically got the Pulis team playing properly again. That took us to safety and momentum continued into the following season until injuries stopped it. He has never been able to get anywhere near the team playing to the same standard again. The cup final was a fun day out but masked the stats.

This transition stuff is rollocks, we have not changed in fact I think we bang it up to Benteke more now.

For the record I don't hate Pardew but I don't think he has attributes for the job and want a change.

The ups and downs of Palace have left me older than my years

I don't get why so many of you Newcastle fans are still obsessed with Pardew? If you hate him so much why do you go out of you way following comments about him on opposition fans websites? Mind boggling! Are you still kidding yourselves you were better without him? Because you weren't you got relegated!

Gayle was always respected by us and we all knew he had 20 goals in him at championship level , so nothing new there my friend. We got decent money that afforded us an England international in Townsend. Gayle had a good crack here under 4 different managers but still couldn't hold down a regular spot so not Pardews doing alone.

I personally wouldn't go near anyone who is corrupt and neither would the board I reckon. So big Sam is a big no personally.

As I say it's a concentration, focus thing. There's no jeopardy if you make a mistake. We need a hard nosed coach as number 2, someone who the players don't want to upset and then the mental side of the game will improve, I'm sure of it. It's up to AP to bring someone like that in.

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