He made the club toxic. I can't think of another manager leaving such a disaster behind him, however you got to give him some credit for keeping us up after warnock and sneaking 10th place the following season. At one stage Palace were 5th in Nov/Dec 2015. Then it come crashing down to earth in 2016. With an absolutely horrendous year of results 6 wins. The cup final which should of been his last game as manager but he seemed to convince parish and the board to offer him a long contract. Then we started this season and his arrogance got to a new level saying that clean sheets weren't important. I'm glad he's gone but to say he was a useless manager is not right. Maybe he rode the wave of pulis defensive structure to get the important results in 2015. Not many Palace managers have a 40% win ratio in the prem. In 2015: pld 38 w19 d 6 L13
In 2016: pld 37 w 6 d 9 L22 .

Edited by Dan89 (29 Mar 2017 9.13pm)

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I am not sure what people mean about toxic. The crowd bizarrely didn't turn against him and even though we were playing pretty badly the team seemed to still be playing for him. Yes there were some unhappy players but I still haven't seen anything concrete about the apparently toxicity.

He made me dread going to watch Palace.He stripped us of our leader and team spirit. He made us gutless and passionless. Continuing to make mistake after mistake. 2 home wins all season. The games would be the same every week. Play ok for 43 minutes then concede, then get back in the game , only to throw it away in the last 5 mins. For me that's toxic as a fan you don't expect to win every game but you expect for our players to give 100%. Which we rarely saw under pardew, wether the players lost belief or were not fit enough the buck stop with pardew.

Edited by Dan89 (29 Mar 2017 10.07pm)

Edited by Dan89 (29 Mar 2017 10.07pm)

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That reply is nonsense.

We are lauding Pardew for his tenth-place finish, but he only achieved that with the help of Murray hitting seven league goals in the final thirteen matches.

Throw in one of the best centre-forward displays ever seen at Selhurst against champions Man City and I say, not forgetting 30 league goals in our promotion year, that amounts to a "massive contribution."

As for Bournemouth, he gave their fans one of their greatest ever days supporting the club, with the winner over Chelsea FC at Stamford Bridge.

Oh, and he's not doing to badly at the South Coast Wanderers this season with 18 league goals this campaign.

Before you whine: 'That's the Championship it doesn't count' the dross that replaced him, Connor Wickham, has NEVER, EVER scored that many goals at any level of senior football.

I do not need to explain the reasons why Jedinak is a "massive contributor". If you can't work that out for yourself you are an idiot.

I thought after the Swansea 5-4 it was probably time. I think against Manure he was up against it to get points and he went chasing it.

How often we lost by a single goal. A lot of individual mistakes at each end of each half. But we were too gun ho but it was the most attacking and free scoring Palace football I have ever seen in the top flight.

I have had a plethora of conversations about the Pardew 'Reign' with a whole host of people both from inside and outside the world of football and there have been diverging opinions of course. Been very interesting and enlightening. At the end of the day I wish him all the very best in his next job and beyond.