A suggestion.. pardew threads

I can understand this is the popular topic at the time. Not everyone wants to talk about it 24/7 though. Yesterday, a discussion on referees was hijacked by pro/anti pardew arguments.

There are many threads on the subject, and I contribute to them at times when I feel I have something to add to it. But when I go onto for example the ground improvements thread, a referees thread, or a general humour thread, I don't want to be starting another debate about pardew, or having the thread hijacked as such!

Can a work around be discussed that suits all parties (ie constrict all pardew related arguments to pardew threads).

Suggestion: Robert Snodgrass

Looks like he's refusing to sign a new deal at Hull, would bring the creatively we desperately need at a reasonable price.

Discussion: How many will we sign in January 2017

Well , here we are . Deep in the shit , clueless manager , players that are underperforming , picking up injuries , or just gone missing .
We heard all the shite that we had identified players we were going to sign in 2017 and had put things in place .
We have the chairman keep teasing us about progression , and reminding us how he has smashed the transfer record 3 years in a row ( without mentioning of course that the net spend is very low ).

We had about 14 players leave in the summer , didn't even buy half as many to replace them. The crap about not being able to spend money because either we didn't have any or not allowed to spend it

So how many players do you think we will actually sign ?

New song - We're CPFC

OK I give up what's the words to the newish HF song.

Fitness

I firmly believe that the root of our problems, and in fact all for all of Pardew's teams is a lack of physical and mental fitness. i actually think other than that he is a good manager. He seems to be able to motivate his players well and his tactical issues are mainly due to desperately trying to fix bad runs.

His teams have excellent runs, like ours when he first arrived because he is generally a good manager, plus our team at the time had the benefit of a Pulis pre season, the confidence from the run covers up the deficiencies in fitness, but when things go wrong they don't have that stamina to fall back on to grind out results. Pardew then tries more and more bizarre things to try and turn the run around.

For this season we need to abandon the "transition" and just concentrate on being disciplined, with a rigid formation. Then in the close season we get in a modern day equivalent of John Harbin and get the team properly setup for next year. I think that would make us a top 8 team.

Watford away on Boxing Day...... Troy Deeney to score his 100th goal, against us

.......hes been stuck on 99 for 10 matches so you know it is going to happen!

Are our players a bit too nice?

Noticed a couple of things recently which raise this question.

On Wednesday from Block B, I didn't really get the impression that our players protested much about the Rojas lunge or the handball/offside goal. It wasn't until watching the replays that I saw how clear cut both incidents were.

Today, Costa and (eventually) Kante on yellows. Rile them up, get under them, force a reaction.

OK, the first doesn't change the refs decision and the latter is hardly sporting but it's the nature of the game and all other sides play it.

Is this related to the fact that we seems to lack much on-pitch leadership? Costa's goal came from indecision on Hennessey's & Dann's part - lack of communication, shouting, screaming...being too bloody nice?

Or is it just me.....?