I agree. In my opinion we would have beaten Swansea at home under Pardew. See Southampton at home. We were never in the relegation zone under Pardew. We will be under Allardyce mark my words. The performances against Man U and Chelsea were good. We just had a tough run of fixtures. At least we were scoring goals and playing good football. Allardyce has set us back years to a tean that sits back and defends. Awful.

we were the worst team in all of English professional football in 2016. He had to go. He was lucky to survive beyond last season and despite spending £50m on new players this year we showed no signs of improvement in terms of results.

He also got us to the FA Cup final. The irrelevance of 2016 stats versus season stats doesnt interst me. Season 1 for Pardew: top 10 finish. Season 2: FA Cup final and stayed up. Season 3: Not once in the relegation zone. You can twist things by talking about 2016 results but the season is August to June not Jan to December.

So in your words:

Season 1: Top ten finish

Season 2: Stayed up

Season 3: Never in the relegation zone.

Can you not see a a pattern??... I'll let you work it out.

If you think that we have been playing well for the last 12 months and that 6 wins in 39 games is acceptable then thank God you're not in charge of the club.

Don't waste your time with jealousy. Sometimes your ahead, sometimes your behind, the race is long. But in the end it's only with yourself!!

It's Pardew's f***ing fault we can't defend and are so f***ing unfit. If Allardyce had that team since the summer, we might not be playing exciting football but you can bet we wouldn't have been so disorganised that we conceded from a s*** set piece, and we wouldn't have been so unfit that we let in yet another late goal.

Can you explain this?
I'm no fan of Pardew but I can't see how you can blame the poor performances in the last few games on his transfer policy?
He had to work with limited resources, Bolasie wanted out, when a player wants to leave best you let him leave. Everybody was raving about the transfers we made when they were finalized. Even the media said we had a good transfer window.
You can't just pick and chose whoever you want, and a manager certainly can't spend as much as he wants, he was restricted by the budget. There were quite a few players we wanted that we didn't get (Macarthy, Wilshire etc.)
Everybody with the benefit of hindsight is blaming Pardew for not getting in a wing back, but who knew Soure would get injured like this? and where would this extra money come from exactly? We broke the bank and got in players for the most urgent positions, pretty much everybody agreed on that at the time.
We desperately needed a striker, we needed a CB, we needed somebody to fill Bolasie's position. That was it, we got the most urgent requirements, and there was no money left.

If you really want to go back, how come these same players we have now had the our best Premier League placing ever, and got to the FA Cup final.
I really don't think transfers are to blame for our current situation.

Edited by JonJon Blazino (04 Jan 2017 3.02am)