Pardew

[beak]

As the team went on to the pitch he only spoke to Yohan Cabaye he ignored the others!

 

[BromleyMonkey]

yes I recall the 5-4 loss to Swansea when were were 4-3 up in injury time!

To be fair though, we were 3-1 down and fought back to 4-3

 

[RubinsCube]

From what I can recall (which is to say, I haven't done any research before running my mouth off, and don't intend to!) I felt at the time that the side were on a poor run but would probably go on a good one sooner or later, as that is what the side was like at the time (albeit that may be a reflection of Pardew's approach).

As you say, they continued to be fecking crap under Allardyce, and then got their fingers out and all was well. I just remember thinking that they would have done that anyway, especially if Pardew had been allowed to spend the money Allardyce was given that January.

Overall, I think we often give managers too much blame when a team underperforms, and too much credit when they sort themselves out. These are often just the natural fluctuations of a group of average players, and the best cure is to spend money on decent players to reinforce the team, regardless of who is in the dugout. I think those were the key factors, not the change in manager.

That said, many a manager would have made a total balls of it and made it all worse, when Allardyce did what he knew and got the required results, so fair enough.

Very possibly.

Pardew was quite a streaky manager from memory: lots of wins and swagger in his teams followed by winless runs. Sadly for him and us we were in a quite painful winless run at the business end of the season and looking over our shoulder.

 

[PalazioVecchio]

all the Newcastle fans really loved Pardew

 

[ASCPFC]

all the Newcastle fans really loved Pardew

The funniest rumour I heard was he kept on losing money gambling with Mike Ashley or whatever is name is. So he probably liked him too.