Swansea visiting Selhurst was a pardew performance. That clown is still haunting us with his poxy atmosphere and players not wanting the ball.

attacking players passing back to midfielders.

midfielders passing to defenders.

defenders passing to hennessey.

nobody going in for crunch tackles, taking a card for the team, nobody growling at opposition players. A bunch of polite gentlemen. Should be playing bridge down at the teahouse.

Kayla did Anfield & Old Trafford

The simple answer to the original question is 'yes' and Parish should have had the bottle to do it after that appalling PL record in 2016. The fact that he didn't has resulted in us being where we are now. I could have lived with that if he'd acted after Swansea away and his failure to do so was almost unforgiveable.

If, as reported, Pardew had told him that he would be 'in transition' in 2016/17, which would effect our league position, that should have started alarm bells ringing, bearing in mind the half season that had gone before. Why it didn't will, I suspect, forever remain a mystery.

Bexley Dave

Can you hear the Brighton sing? I can't hear a ******* thing!

"The most arrogant, obnoxious bunch of deluded little sun tanned, loafer wearing mummy's boys I've ever had the misfortune of having to listen to" (Burnley forum)

Yes, he should have gone even before the cup final, now look at the crap we are in!

South London born and bred
red and blue till im dead.

Most certainly yes. I thought at the time he should have gone. The last half of the season was shocking aside from the cup run, that was all Pardew seemed interested in.

Parish and Co must take the blame for this, it's a massive error on their part, one which has become all the more apparent now. We just look a complete mess, SA has a massive job as he stated last night.

hindsight is a wonderful talent, should he have been sacked in the summer, should we have got another left back in in case ours had a major accident on the m4? etc etc

Sometimes I set out for Ludlow
Sometimes I end up in Chepstow

The league form writing was on the wall with 11 points from the last 19 at the end of last season, however SP et-al lost the plot they saw the cup final achievement as meaning we were a top six team and then let Pardew lose with the transfer kitty, so we ended up with losing some of our better players who were replaced by AP's mates some of which had sick notes in their pockets or we ended up with misfits from other clubs who were looking for game time but could not hack first team football with their previous clubs all in all an absolute disaster overseen by Parish who has to accept some of the blame!