Having listened to SP on Talksport earlier in the week and read Richard Cawley's piece for the SLP today I think AP is going to be given more time than some of us think.I genuinely feel he will be given until well after the January window now providing we are not completely left behind at the bottom of the table. Providing the team are showing signs of the style of football SP is expecting and we are clear of the bottom 3 I am sure he will still be here this time next year.SP talked about the work that AP has done bringing the Training Ground up to spec since he took over and he is obviously very keen on the direction that the manager wants to take the team forward with.Our recruitment has been far more professional this summer and both Benteke and Flamini spoke about the conversations they had with the manager as being key to why they signed and these guys are the world class players we need to take the club forward.As a Chairman you would have to be impressed with how the manager is moving the Business forward with regard to Infrastructure and Recruitment and these are arguably the two most important requirements in underpinning the clubs position in the PL.We all want to see our team go out and thump the opposition week in and week out and in a lot of ways the first half of last season heightened expectations to an unreasonable level but I feel the owners will see it as what we can achieve under the current manager when you also take into account the progress off the pitch. It is results driven of course, but as fans I think we need to understand that sometimes we cant see the wood for the trees.

I think it will take longer than expected before we see a massive upturn in performances to be honest which is why my opinion is as it is. I hope I'm wrong of course but we still have injuries so cant even begin to play the new style which is key to AP remaining in charge.Boro away is a tough game and this forum will go into meltdown if we don't secure a result which again influences what I have written the day before we play.

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People simply wont give the squad time to gel and will be calling for Pards head to roll in the next 2 games unless we win both...even then they'll be sharpening their knives in case we lose the 3rd!

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What your saying about "itchy" is probably the crux of how my opinion has changed.I also thought October would be the threshold for AP and like you my opinion has changed but not because of the second half against Bournemouth.If that were the case then one bad performance would surely mean your opinion would change once again if taken in context. My feelings on AP's shelf life have changed simply because of the Interview on Talksport with SP and how I perceived it. I think we will lose at Boro and I feel its going to take a few weeks before we start playing with any confidence but despite that I think that he wont be in any danger other than getting lynched by certain memebers on here maybe.

We shouldn't lose at Boro, we have a better 11 and a better squad, this whole transitional period is nonsense. Swansea changed from being a championship team to a posession based football team over one summer. As did Wigan when Martinez took over, players come and go and have to fit new systems. The idea that it is going to take a season for the club to adapt doesn't make sense and how SP has bought in to that rhetoric from AP I won't ever know. I want us to play the way they speak about, but I don't think a change in style is an excuse for more s*** performances and any more s*** results.

Sorry but that's not even close to being true. Martinez took them up through the leagues slowly building up the personnel to play that style of football. Then it was reinforced by Paulo Sousa in his brief spell and then built on by Rodgers. It took a long time.

And I think CitizenSmudge is right, if we really want to change the style then it can take a long time. Especially with the "personality" of our club is so entrenched in the idea of quick counter attacks down the wings. Changing that identity to patient possession football is complicated.

The Bournemouth game didn't change my personal opinion of how Pardew is doing as a manager, but it certainly pointed to the fact that the team are capable of playing good football and retaining the ball. But it was against a tired Bournemouth side who defended deeper and deeper as they ran out of legs. Whether we can do that regularly is a different matter.

I think it would be very unusual though for a club to have backed any manager so comprehensively in the transfer market and then to let them go shortly afterwards. He will be given some time to see if his team can play the way he wants successfully. But I still think if we haven't picked up 3 wins from the next 6/7 games that he will be gone.

Edited by OknotOK (09 Sep 2016 3.46pm)

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