If the season just peters out like a cheap old firework i can see AP calling it a day in the summer. With the new board coming in, the discontent on this and numerous other boards the players body language, taking into account the amount of money he has spent as well as the poor run we have hit over the last few months i think he will go away in the summer have a long hard think about his situation and come back with one conclusion. I know i will get alot of stick about my thoughts but i just think looking at his body language lately compared to when he first came to the club you would think its not the same man. He used to be jumping up and down, urging the team on, arguing with the ref, he was more of a fan than a manager, now he just stands there like a clone of Mervyn Day. I dont doubt he is a good manager, but i think certain things havent gone his way, questions maybe are being asked about him and he is picking up on that, and the sale of Andy Reid he may have questioned. Just lately he has had a run with Varney (Reg), publically criticised the following of the away fans (rightly or wrongly) and now he has gone from someone who used to have his name consistantly sang at all games to a manager whoose teams are now being booed of the pitch!!!!!
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Don't want him to go but it Wouldn't suprise me if he left.
The Daily Express says that charlton directors see him as too cocky and are ready to fire the bulliet. Whether that is true or not.
Lets face it all senior directors like yes men !!!.
im fully behind Pards he will turn us around if given a chance.
oooooh I can see us doing a Southampton I hope im wrong. Please feel free to bolloc me :-)
I understand that we are not west Ham but they moan louder than us and he knew that he was in for a tough time with them when he failed to go straight up,
Also i think a lot of Pardew haters are doing the man a dis-service he always played well for us i thought yes he never emulated what he did at Palace and he and i believe him said that he always had a place for Charlton in him
i am sure he was pleased to have played apart in the rebuilding of the club i also think he is stubborn enough and proud enough not to be beaten by this task.
I hope he stays i dont care if i was in a minority of one in my mind he has all the credentials of the type of manager i would want to manage Charlton.
Not so long ago i bet alot of you all thought that if Curbs left you wouldnt have minded giving Pardew ago at managing us, I still stand by the fact that i dont think we have given him long enough.
have i got him well wrong :-)
I do remember him saying Charlton weren't a big enough club for him as a manager when he was still at Reading.
I was pleased when he was appointed - had to be better than where we were, but so far he has flattered to deceive.
I'd trust the Board's judgment (the CAFC one not this one!) at the end of the season on whether he should stay or go.
God i wish i coudl find that quote but i remember cockney addick kicking up a stink about it at the time.
His football heart is still at West Ham.
However, when he joined Charlton, I thought (and still think) that his ego could be just what the club, being eternally humble, needs. I think that he could provide a balance, provided that he has learnt lessons in man management from his time with the bling boys at the Hammers, where his ego provides a bit of belief and edge to the Club and team, and our work and community ethics provide a grounding to his sense of self-belief. I think given time, it could all still work out in that way.
I also fail to see how we was 'red hot favourites' this year, with almost an entirely new team.