Against a team who are good frpm set pieces, we gave away 24 free kicks..Pardew's fault?

The players need to start listening to instructions from the manager and his coaches. It was only the other week Pards said one of his players didn't pass on instructions to the other players whilst defending a set piece, and the opposition scored from it. The players need to start listening to what they are told from Pards.

Pards got us to the cup final last season so he is obviously a great manager.

One big thing that Neville has missed in his analysis is the selection of Martin Kelly at left back. If you can bear to watch today's game again in full, you will see that our biggest problem today was Kelly. We were totally in control of that game and deserved to be 1-0 up. However, Swansea knew our weakness and put all their attacks down their right (our left).

Kelly was either beaten by that Barrow or fouled him/gave away a corner every single time he went near him. I accept that our defending from set pieces is laughable (at best) but don't forget, you've got to give away a set piece in the first place to concede from one.

Pardew has to take the blame for playing Kelly again when we have Fryers available.

I would also add that we look ridiculously unfit and off the pace after about 60 minutes in every game. Pardew should take some blame for that too.

I think we are all missing an important point: 'captaincy'. Jedinak captained with ferocity when the team looked disorganised or confused. Pardew's recent excuses about messages not getting out to players is the indicator that there's no-one managing the players on the pitch. Pardew let Jedinak go (rightly perhaps) but he simply was too stupid not to see the deficit in captaincy. He should have replaced Jedinak with a strong leader or kept him until such time as one was available. TP created a 5 man defensive unit with Jedinak plugging holes and being in charge. Pardew's hope that Dann could do Jedi's job was a MISTAKE. Pardew then went further and replaced Delaney with Tomkins. Delaney supported Jedi's captaincy at the back. Pardew has ruined a good defence and captaincy. The team is being captained from the bench. You cannot fault the players' committment when they fight back from 3-1 to get to 3-4. They simply lack any sense of unity of purpose when trying to defend. They are all looking around for instructions and motivation and there is no-one there fit to do it.

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Phil Neville doesn't have enough brains to fill an egg cup. Gormless f***er

From what I understand there is very little respect for him at the club and when that happens players switch off. Just put yourself in their position, you have a manager who never accepts responsibility for the teams failings with yesterday as a classic example sighting that "there will be changes". Hopefully Alan there will be ....you!

Bring back Brolin