The club needs to stop flip flopping between attacking managers and defensive ones, look at the trend:

Freedman - Defensive
Holloway - Attacking
Pulis - Defensive
Warnock - ???
Pardew - Attacking

(Warnock doesn't really count in that trend as he was always seen as a temporary solution)

We need just a balanced philosophy, defensively sound, still good on the break, work on the pressing game.

Pardew has some of those elements in place but the defence is too big of a problem under his reign; fewest clean sheets in the Football League since his appointment.

We have the players, any decent manager will get us mid table but we need to be looking beyond this season and at managers that can take us to the next level.

It was a combination of the Burnley defeat and Pardew's general ineptitude that made me join the out camp. So I'm thinking straight now

As for a next manager, I don't want Allardyce, Coleman, or Hoddle (god no). I'd rather we take a risk and go for a European manager. But knowing our luck, we'll get Coleman.

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The Swansea game is career defining moment for Pardew.
Lose and he is surely gone as has widely been reported in the media.
But with the squad we have,this should be an easy away win and perhaps a chance for Pardew to go on one of his short-lived winning runs.

Please god no. He is no better than what we currently have. And before anyone says look at how well his sides defend, go check out his teams' defensive records. They're worse than AP's.

I would go for Sean Dyche, who has done very well with little money at Burnley, or a foreigner like Eduard Berizzo of Celta.

If you come to a fork in the road, take it.

If we do have a change we will be in a relegation struggle. Mancini's experience in the PL is only with Citeh. The hard facts are we need a manager to pull us out of a relegation struggle. In anycase I can't see the owners going with a foreign coach based on previous changes. The obvious candidate is Allardyce assuming it can be ascertained that there is no possible extra fall out from his time as England coach. He has worked at West Ham with a target man attack and surely will be able to do some reorganising of the defence.

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