Leicester on paper aren't better than us really. People are getting carried away because they won the league - would swap Fuchs with Kelly, Huth or Morgan with Damo and Mahrez with townsends but other than that I don't see any superiority "on paper". My biggest issue with Pardew is I don't see any improvement - if results were poor but you could see evidence of us evolving then fair enough but it's bulls*** in my opinion. Tactically we have looked completely lost for a long long time and we only ever seem to look good when we do the exact thing pardew supposedly wants to come away from which is sitting deep and nicking a couple by set pieces/on the break. The reason we are good at those things are because of the defensive foundations laid out by Pulis.

Under pardew, as time goes on, we look weaker and weaker at the back - regardless of injuries. It's all well and good saying you want to change the style of play but the goals we've scored this season have typically mainly been from set pieces or headers from Benteke. The only change I see is us looking more flimsy at the back.

My point is we should expect to win more games given players we've signed under him, if we go on a little 3 game run it's nice but I honestly do not think many managers would've struggled to beat Sunderland Stoke and Boro with the players we had at our disposal. I just don't see us pushing on and fulfilling our actual potential under Pardew.

We're 11th in the Premier League and just lost away to the champions, who haven't lost at home in OVER A YEAR. Some serious spoilt brats amongst our ranks these days.

The thing is we wasn't even that bad, Leicester were better and deserved the 3 points but the only real difference is they took their chances and we didn't, was not really much different pardew could of done.

If you want to pick faults with anyone then it's the players on the pitch on sat for not taking our chances.

AP is a good fit for where we are as a club right now.

It isn't my view of "success" at all, merely a more appropriate approach for where we are now than talking as though we're Barcelona. For the time being, anyway.

Funnily enough you go on to cite some of the reasons why I said what I said, so perhaps you'd better check that you disagree with me before biting my head off.

And I don't give a twopenny toss what other clubs do because I don't support them.

Or will we be branded as "fake fans" and "bed wetters".

The smugness from some fans was almost as cringeworthy as the smugness from himself after beating stoke Sunderland and Boro.

In the last 31 (yes, 31) games we've won 5 - that includes the 3 mentioned above.

Someone please make a case given our first 11, which genuinely has quality, that that is good enough.

All this "team in transition" is aload of turd as well. When we win games like we did against stoke it's because of the players we have on the pitch and the fact Pardew likes high intensity and power. Besides that he is clearly tactically inept - I thought that even when we were on a good run.

Expecting to get a fair bit of abuse and contemplated saying anything but in fairness I don't really care - some people really need to wake up.

Edited by Mstrobez (23 Oct 2016 4.48pm)

But this was exactly the same arguement that was being deployed as last year when we didn't have Townsend or Benteke on board.