I backed Pardew until the Swansea game.

Results aside, the other massive issue for me and the reason we need a new man in before January is the transfers.

Aside from Benteke which was a no brainer, let's look at the some of other players he has brought in.

Sako - Overweight, slow, one-trick pony. Not a PL player.

Lee - Lightweight, tidy in possession but does nothing with it. Constantly played out of position on the rare occasions he can get anywhere near the starting 11. Not a PL player.

Kelly - Simply not good enough regardless if he's playing LB, RB, or CB.

Wickham - Not the worst of the bunch but buying a player with such a lengthy injury record (and questionably attitude when at Sunderland) as our no. 2 striker was not the best idea in the world.

Tomkins - Jury is out. Again a bit of a sick note.

Townsend - We needed to replace LW Bolasie, so he bought RW Townsend. Why?

Remy - Injured for the best part of 2 years. Whilst I consider him to be an upgrade on Gayle when fully fit, it was madness to rely on him being fit and releasing Gayle, especially given our other backup striker Wickham's injury record.

These are just the ones off the top of my head and not one of them has nailed down a starting 11 place (Kelly would not be playing if Souare was fit). To give this guy more money to piss away in January would be madness.

Most managers, that includes Pardew don't give a monkeys about the club they work for. Don't kid yourself, if a better offer came along he would be off like a shot. Freedman was a prime example.....................

I think the writings on the wall, he has to prove himself soon, or he's gone. Its really as far as I'm concerned now down to the board and the chairman, how much grace he gets.

I think Man Utd probably bought him some grace. The Campbell decision was rubbish, but it didn't really cost us the game. That was the combination of one of the best midfielders in the game, and one of the best goal scorers in the game, and some very dodgy decisions (which both cost us, and kept us in the game)

Even if McArthur was on the pitch, that's still most likely in the back of the net (and is why Pogba is 90m and 290k a week, and Ibrahimovic is 200k a week).

I don't think, on reflection, that the Man Utd result was particularly bad, or lost because of the manager.

But Hull, unacceptable after Swansea and Burnley results. If we played against them with the discipline we played against United, Pardew would be safe in his job.

0-0 away Bournemouth
0-0 home Swansea
1-1 away Swansea
2-2 away Sunderland
0-0 home Everton
1-1 home Bournemouth
2-1 away Middlesbrough
3-3 away Hull

..also in lots of lost games the end result often didn't reflect fairly on us and you must understand this, I include all the officials, all the cheating, all the silly individual mistakes from some of the players who apart from making these played well as did the rest of the squad, often the team was attacking and trying to get the equaliser because the majority of games was lost by only one goal.

No club in this league is easy to beat and we do not have any right to say we should be beating any of them, look at our squad and look at the oppositions squad, it really is not hard to work out...we are well placed and improving defensively for a real relegation fight that we will win, easily.