You seem to be desperately trying to provoke someone into an argument but I've read this thread through and Pardew has barely been mentioned let alone slated.

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold...

Your right the tactics were good today and the teams played with a lot more determination, of course we would have liked a win but no disgrace we stopped a very good side from playing well and who now have a sequence of wins 11/11, we played much better as a team and lost to a very good goal that most teams would have had difficulty defending, this was good example of rugged defending, something that has been missing for sometime.
sure we lost but were not disgraced!

You try jumping, when your moving backwards and the other player isn't and see how you get on.

I think we are too late now and have no option but to stick with AP because the transfer window almost upon us, any new manager would not have time to settle before he would be expected to strengthen the team in key area's. Our bed is made and we just have to hope that the performance in the last two plus some new acquisitions in T/F window is enough to get us 17th or above!

I suppose it depends whether we are already in talks with someone.

Also what we need is not exactly a mystery. Think Swansea could be the match (combined with Boxing Day) that decides his immediate fate.

The reality is none of our players would get in their first team, maybe 1 or 2 in their subs bench.
The value of their subs was more than our first team combined.
Games against the top 6 teams aren't going to define our season, as we are not financially in the same league. So its not particularly fair to dig players out, as they know they up against far better quality players.
We may get the odd win or draw, that's a bonus.