Sam himself was astonished when he came in at how badly the previous incumbent had f***ed up the squad and that was despite having studied it from outside and written an action plan. Even now we are still living with some of the consequences of Pardew's mismanagement and those two goals in the latter stages tonight were straight out of Pardew's textbook, "How to Defend Like S***e And Give Away F***ing Stupid Goals".

Looking at the four games prior to this one, the quality of the players coming in in January and the organisation and fitness in general, you would have to say that if we get relegated it will be nobody else's fault. It wasn't that he didn't know his onions, he had shown form prior to 2016 and had a remarkable Cup run. It was that he failed to manage the long-term capability of the players properly and also did a number of bl**dy stupid and reckless things.

Even if he had just managed out the away Swansea game at 4 - 3 we would be a whole lot safer than we are. But what did it for me was our failure to turn up at the start of the season after a proper preparation: when we came back we were disorganised, unfit and s***e. A couple of decent performances then and we wouldn't be anywhere near the drop zone.

And Hell would be well into the next glacial period and buried under a few kilometers of icecap before I forgave him. Quite apart from the precarious position he left us in in the league, he left us totally ill-equipped for getting out of it until surgery costing £30m or so, taking three months and demanding of the acknowledged mastermind of Premiership survival to start to rectify.

Pardew's mismanagement of Palace was criminal.

Edited by chateauferret (05 Apr 2017 10.32pm)

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Get. Over. It.

I didn't blame him for our losing tonight. I'm blaming him for f***ing up our team. OK?

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He didn't spend £50 mil in January, he spent just over £30 mil with add ons. The very money and areas Pardew should've spent and addressed, as was said by myself and plenty of others but apparently not essential or affordable in your opinion. Well they were essential and affordable. You excused him in leaving us severely vulnerable before poor squad problems we've all learned of.

Maybe not a PVA and a Schlupp in January as we need now mind you but definitely one then.

If we go down, up until this point I cannot blame Sam unless something happens from here on in. Sam should've been in earlier. I will blame Pardew, but not within hours of each match. The players should take some blame but really Pardew gradually ground them all down and all that bollox about players keeping their fitness levels up is so far from how professional sport works it's laughable. The shyte he came out with last week proves he's a top level blagger before manager, yet he's failed on both those counts as well.

Edited by Rudi Hedman (05 Apr 2017 11.47pm)

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Yep, I think having watching Palace under BS makes you realise how poor some of Pardew's management was. I remember three or four times when I was left bewildered by the substitutions Pardew made at critical moments in games. It seemed he was intent on producing a masterstroke that nobody else would have spotted - In fact, these decisions were merely punts that almost always ended in failure. Thank God we have some sense in the way the team is being steered.

If only it were White, rather than Yellow!

We are always wiser on hindsight, but I kept saying Pardew will ruin our club with his stupid ideas. The guy is a very very poor manager and we got rid of him just in time (I hope). I really feel sorry for the next club that get him, Millwall perhaps is about his level.