I hope our team of underachievers take a good long hard look at themselves in the mirror tonight. Pardew must carry the can but lets not hide from the fact that they have been truly awful. I hope and pray the new man can make me wrong but I think that this lot of players are not good enough to wear the shirt.
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He must have used 50+ players, is there even one of them Pardew has got the best out of?
Agreed
agree with that, but more concerning was that for about ten minutes after their 4th the players just gave up completely, they no longer cared.
The Sheff U players were clapping the away support.
Our lot looked beaten from the start
Absolutely right.
For me the pain this season has been seeing teams play at half pelt and still manage to comfortably beat us. I hate getting beaten but I can take it if the side has given an honest performance and tried the best, far to often this year only a handful of players can hold their heads up in this regard.
A new era represents a great opportunity for all the squad
Annorak Addick had all the names listed, Waghorn became the 62 player in 23 months, 43 of whom Pardew either signed or gave debuts too. So anybody who says he lost his best players, etc. is wrong, he has built the whole squad and it is purely his fault we aren't big enough and strong enough for this division. You can buy potential and pretty players when you've got promotion, until then the hull/stoke route of being hard to beat is the way to go.
No way. Yes the manager picks the tactics but not scoring a goal from a good position as happened yesterday or not picking up your player as happened yesterday or not just putting the ball out of play as happened yesterday are all down to the players not the manager. Confidence may be low, tactics may be wrong but they are basics expected of a kids team let alone full time pros.
No excuses, the players have underperformed. Now they need to get over it and start playing.
Agree with the basics stuff, Steve Thompson was great at kicking the ball into row Z, but then Lennie Lawrence was his manager!
He was discussin the massive divide that there is in the changing room, for me that is where the new manager really needs to work at.
I'd like to know where the divide falls maybe older and younger...
The younger players and the older pro's dont really get on.
Interesting that he said basey is firmly in the older pros camp.
I hope whoever comes in gives them a right royal kick up the arris and sorts it out. This club has been built on hard work, blood sweat and tears and any player who comes in thinking otherwise and thinking they're bigger can do one.
We need to get more out of them as a collective. Majority of these players are in the first team
How many of are players have a good first touch, how many can pass the ball to the own team mates; how many can win a tackle; how many can win headers and get the balll down to the own team mates. The catalogue just goes on and on, this has to be the worst team for 30 years.
The majority of them have little experience at this level.
I posted this the other week but I remember when we were in the prem and people wanted zamora, eastwood, trundle and loads of other unproven lower league players. its all a gamble but a good mixture of new and old, experienced and inexperienced players. if we get the balance right, then fingers crossed it'll improve.
Totally agree, I think the one where Weaver dropped it was completely Hudson's fault, did not want to let him near the ball in fear of him making a misttake, that shows great trust between our centre halves and goalie, but lets not beat around the bush, as a team we were SHIT
Yep with Pardew we've rarely got that balance right, if at all.