Whoever takes over I would hope assesses the players we have and sets up to play a style that suits them, as per Tony Pulis. That is Pardew's problem he has just picked a style he wants to play without giving any thought as whether they can do it or not.

I think that being organised is the problem. I hear that the defenders used to hate training , as Pullis would go over the same things again and again (bet they preferred the matches than they do now ).
Pullis used to give all of the players a DVD of the player that they would be directly up against the following game, I'm sure this doesn't happen now. If something's a good idea/working it should stay with a multi million pound company even if the person that suggested it turns out to be a judas , robbing , sheep sh**ging lying c*nt.

Even Pardew noticed our defence was not up to much last weekend (although of course it wasn't for the first time this season).

In normal circumstances we'd expect to see the positive effect of a week's hard training on Saturday ... but don't hold your breath!

Edited by Henry of Peckham (01 Dec 2016 11.36pm)

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