Its definitely a good sign, but there is still a way to go, but winning three games on the spin has taken us from being relegation fodder to relegation potential, and there is still a way to go. But we've given ourselves a very good fighting chance, some belief and confidence.

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I said that it would take a long time for him to turn it around. I wasn't fully convinced we needed to take such distractive changes to the tactics and training but it was obvious he was changing a lot on the training ground.

End of the day, you ask any of the bottom 3 clubs if they’d swap their current manager for Sam Allardyce and they’d bite your hand off. That tells you all you need to know. He’s by the far best, by a country mile, for the predicament we find ourselves in. We are lucky to have him and just hope he keeps us up so we can properly revel in his greatness …

What was really annoying me wasn't the fact of Allardyce yes or no, or his tactics or Pardew's...
it was the fact that 3 weeks after his appointment there were many users complaining that "he had 3 weeks to top up fitness and yet the team keep conceding at the end of the halves etc...".
Really, if anyone has ever trained, or even played any sport, perfectly know that you simply can't top up fitness while training and playing matches!!!
How could he??
Fact is, that the first 2 weeks break he had available, he almost did a preseason fitness again, and you all see the results.
A serie A manager once told that you have to decide, if you step in a team in bad fitness shape, you have to do the preseason fitness all over again, but you have to deal with the fact that you lose your team for 2 to 3 weeks due to heavy legs.
So, you have to decide if doing it or not, or better, decide if you have a break or decide to lose 3 matches in a row to be ready later.
How can anyone think that a manager can improve fitness while playing week it week out is beyond me.

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Agreed mostly but the points total from those first 8 games (4 pts) was awful. That's are the run of games that could end up costing us this season not the 10 to come. Did he work them too hard initially during a packed fixture list? We ended up messing around with a 3-4-3 but since gone away from it with better results. The Swansea game was the worst in terms of how exhausted the players looked despite it being the most crucial of our season, had we just got 1 point from that, we'd be on 29pts and Swansea would be on 25, that 4 point gap to the bottom 4 would have been massive.

Sam's record at Sunderland was similar; initially struggling but soon the players start to understand his ways but he did have a bit more time there. I'm not sure we actually needed as drastic a change with our approach, just needed to improve game management, greater focus on defence and fitness, those were the things costing us under Pardew, we were scoring a bunch, just conceding a hell of a lot too and fading in games.

Edited by Mad4palace (20 Mar 2017 10.17am)

Agreed.
For the Sam doubters,no Palace Fan would have dropped Dann and Jimmy Mac from the starting 11.
Sam did,and in the 3 wins everyone can see the improvement.
Then when he wants to make sure we win at least a point he brings Dann on.
And even Delaney on Saturday.
Superb game management.
Win or get a point Pardew did not like draws.

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