That idiot Pardew tried and look what happened

Quite, great scoring four goals away at Swansea OK but not the five we let in at the other end!!

Conjunctivitis.com - A site for sore eyes.

So, what are you saying, is there no middle ground between Pardew and Hodgson where we defend soundly but play more entertaining football? It doesn’t just have to be one or the other and I also think you underestimate the abilities of the players in our squad.

personally think if our home form had been better we would of been higher in the table still think our home form needs to improve massive ly and we definitely could /should be a top half team with the squad we have

Why would anyone be grumpy with our home form over the last three seasons? Jesus beggars belief tbh.

4 wins from 16 and a hand full of goals...swap away and home form and there’d be less of an up roar.

This is the situation - Parish couldn't back Roy, as he should have done this summer, to allow him to have two years doing it his way, to fully steady the ship and hand us over a mid table club..

Too many mistakes in the past are still being paid for, literally.

So, whilst Roy is doing a great job considering he is expected to finish 17th with what he has, we are not seeing the best of Roy.

This summer, i really feel we need to give Roy an extension, one year so that summer 2021 is time for a new manager to come in, with a similar vision and ethos to carry on with the club.

Last Jan, Roy was stubborn and was making statements on the pitch with players, showing that we needed signings - he asked and stated we needed up to 7 new bodies in. That never happened, not even close. There are articles out there stating this, any one reading up on us at the time will have seen this.
So, what happens, Parish lays it out to him and a year later, Roy has a different story, playing along with the poor us narrative Parish wants. It's not poor us, it's broke us.

Thing is, i don't think it's fair on Roy as we aren't seeing the best of him, which is why i feel, cash in on AWB, Meyer, spend that cash on 4 players Roy does want, built around Zaha and capable of plan b. Let Roy do his thing and i am confident we reach 40 points quicker next season and quicker again.

This was once a quality forum....

I would agree with your comments about underestimating the abilities. I think the big difference between good and bad has been the tempo. First half generallay pedestrian and second half, much much quicker. The only problem has been that in some games, by the time the tempo increases, we have ben a goal down ( Brighton, Southampton, W Ham as examples) and only thanks to Guita we weren't 0-2 down to Huddersfiled (again).

Its by and large the same players on the pitch (after all the delays in subs is well documented) so why so so so slow in build up early in the games as there is clearly that ability to play a a faster game.? Clearly they won't go tearing into Citeh early on ,but as somebody else has said we treat the poorer teams exactly the same as the big 6 at home.

I got vision, and the rest of the world wears bifocals.