It's physcological

They don't want that man to succeed and feel he needs to be punished.
They won't believe or admit it but it's a sub conscious decesion.

Is that why they were s*** before he was manager too?

Pathetic shower of s***e.

When the players are off-loaded to cut the wage bill in the Championship, who will want any of that pathetic group of surrender-monkeys ?

Palace in the Championship

Ex-players to League 1 , at best

So, so, very embarrassed by that performance.

"The facts have changed", Rishi Sunak

Deduct them a months wages, that will focus their conscious.

Did they feel the same about Pardew, as I can see no difference?

No with Alan they wanted to succeed and please him as they liked him, tactical on field issues were the case with him.
There is a marked difference in players body language now which can be clearly seen.

Hard as it may seem and we all fully understand and agree with what your saying but there are behavarioul patterns in the human psyche that cannot be easily understood even by ourselves and its micro things that build towards the desired result ie for example not putting that 2 inch more stretch to clear a ball that when coupled X 11 and the fact it's elite sport a drop of even 1% per man equating to 11% overall could be the difference of 0-0 v 0-4