Originally posted by speediej

If we go down, I won't blame Sam, I won't blame Pardew

I will blame the board. Well some of it will be Pardew, but most of this mess is the board. Everyone demanded Pardew out months before it happened, they ignored the poor displays and the lack of confidence in our players and kept Pardew in. The board should of acted soooooooo much earlier than they did, but no they let Pardew keep destroying the team. Pathetic decision making. This isn't Sam's fault, he came in and has taken over a bunch of lost sheep. They are all so low on confidence, they all seem clueless.

If the board of acted quicker then this mess in our team wouldn't be as bad as it is. The have over paid on Benteke, they got an injury prone player in taking one of our loan spaces (even though I do like Remy). They over paid on Townsend, they let Yannick go to easily.

Before this season I felt the board was making good decisions and I have backed them.

Time for them to step up and put things right. Give Sam the money he wants, and get some half decent players in who want to try and win rather than big names who couldn't give a f*** about the soul of our club...

Rant over

Edited by speediej (14 Jan 2017 5.37pm)

Originally posted by geoff

As a board there have been countless mistakes. January 2016 as has been pointed out was a huge one. We will never know how much pressure was put on Pardew to play a more expansive style of football by then board. I would imagine there would have been quite a bit dieter from parish to keep,the yanks happy or by the yanks to brag to their mate about their investment!!!! Well board members you now have to dig deep and spend a lot or your investment and the passion parish has shown will be wasted in the championship.

Get rid of Benteke, get rid of Townsend and bring in some fighters!!!!

Originally posted by KAOS
You can also add what the club did/didn't do in the Jan transfer window 2016. We were in desperate need of some players then and only brought Wickham in. That was ignorant & short sighted. We have been punching above our weight for some time and have now been found out.

Originally posted by Painter

Having a go at the board and Parish is totally out of order. Since the poor end to last season, they backed the manager Pardew with money to buy new players To give him a fair chance to turn things around.
Too many clubs sack managers too quickly and Pardews first year was ok, so why couldn't he do it again, with more support. Unfortunately for them, it hasn't worked out.
The board are trying their best to support the team and manager.
The blame for the situation we are in, sits with the players fairly and squarely no doubt. They are well paid, proved they can play at this level in the past, they just don't have stomach for it. All the pundits agree, we have a strong talented team compared to others at the bottom, but they are just not performing.
They don't really care, they have good contracts that will make them rich, beyond what most fans will earn in a life time.

Originally posted by Willo

And IF we go down (God forbid) do you think Allardyce will be around to try and engineer a promotion challenge ?