Players are supposed to be developed byvtheir coaching. This lot have been getting worse. There's only one thing they all have in coomon and that's Pardew. Man management, tactics, discipline, confidence, fitness, selection, assignment of roles and lines of communication are all defined by him.

They were perfectly good players and they've been Pardewed.

He's lost some of them (Townsend) and others (Kelly) he's f***ed up so badly they can't function. He's let Cabaye get away with thinking he's Zidane, he's overburdened Dann with a captaincy role that he doesn't suit, he's pi$$ed Puncheon about in the cup final and ever since, he's turned Sako into a lumbering lump and he's assumed that Benteke is God and left him to sink or swim. And I don't know what he's done with Flamimi. Perhaps he's boarded him up under his kitchen floor.

The only one still functioning seems to be Zaha.

Going to get loads of abuse for this but I don't believe AP should be held fully responsible for this latest miserable run, and the players need to take a look at themselves.

I cannot remember when a team last scored a good goal against us. The management can only do so much in training and plan for matches. In my view some of the players have been a f***ing liability...

Mandanda - has let in several poor efforts since the start of the season, especially at Burnley where he was awful.

Ward - one of the only players who always puts his body on the line and gives 100 %, unable to get forward as much as usual.

Dann - it is like his s*** twin brother has turned up since being made captain, his marking and organisation has been nothing short of pathetic.

Tomkins - looks good in the opposition box but absolutely horrendous in ours and doesn't seem to know the basics of marking.

Kelly - has cost us numerous goals, inexplicably passing to De Bruyne and gifting City their goal last week.

Cabaye - I thought he had been decent of late, but that failure to clear the ball yesterday was unreal, 80k a week to have a touch like a rapist and costs us a goal.

Mcarthur - always gives 100% like Wardy but his passing has been terrible of late.

Zaha - cannot fault Wilf as he is always a threat and finally delivering an end product.

Puncheon - has returned to his anonymous self and looked like a right ponce backing out that header yesterday causing a free kick which they scored from.

Townsend - looked like a right bargain a few months ago but has severely dropped in form, sulking and moaning because he can't play on the right. Gives away a lot of free kicks in dangerous areas which lead to goals.

Benteke- scored a few goals but not enough for 32m. His defending yesterday was an embarrassment costing us a few goals. Granted he's a striker but a Sunday league striker could defend better.

Wickham - such a shame he got injured as he has looked good and a constant threat.

Hennessey - sufferring twin brother syndrome like Scott Dann.

Sako - looks like he's swallowed a fridge, slow and laboured.

Overall I accept AP has made errors like keeping Kelly left back, however he can't be blamed for some of the mistakes that keep happening. The one from Cabaye yesterday sums this shower of s*** up.

He should be given 2 games to save his job.

Thick and thin. PTID!!!

I looked through your post sure that Delaney would not be there.

What the team that was at our end of the ground celebrating? My God what bull. He did a silly 2 second shimmy, then turned to the bench to sort things out. Maybe he should of run down to the celebrating players and gave out individual laminates with precise instructions on? Maybe it was Al that allowed Rooney to go on that run without anyone of our heroes willing to take one for the team?
By all means Pardew should go, but having a bitch about something so insignificant to make your point valid is beyond laughable.