I don't agree with the "Comfortably" but as things stand I think there are at least 3 teams with a greater chance of relegation than us.

My feeling is that we will hover in the lower reaches but not get cut adrift of a safe place by plummeting into the bottom 3 and the 4th from bottom starts to pull away.It is for this reason that I believe Pardew will survive.

I believe our net spend (Not counting add-ons) is approx £15 Mill which really isn't that big in PL terms.

Apparently, AP has seen 5 wins in 30 games during 2016,which must be one of the worst managerial records since the Premiership was formed.
It is conceivable that come end of the year,we could be in the bottom 3,based on AP's new transitional attacking style.
Think we need to go back to basics.A few clean sheets and some 1-0 wins wins would do nicely, as our overriding priority must surely be to stay in this league ,no matter what.
We need to sort this out,with or without AP,as with the likely impending defeat against City,meaning 5 defeats in a row,AP cannot keep blaming the referee,bad luck,the good form of the opposition or anything else that comes to mind.

This is an era of management with transferable skills - gone are the days of first among equals getting the respect of their underlings from having been there and done it - we must all have experienced a boss who has no clue or experience of the field we and they are now in due to the brilliant theories and ideas developed at boardroom level. I'm sure there's a head of HR somewhere who could do a fantastic job, Danny at my local Homebase in Bexhill runs a really tight ship, time to think out of the box guys - know any decent managers who could be brought in from other areas who could reapply their managerial skills to our current situation? Someone from an office at Southern railways HQ or the NHS could be given a new lease of life and have a similar effect on our first XI.