Pardew's got to be sacked soon, he's completely failed Palace.
By failed you mean, all but safe by Jan last year, yeah they played out the second season like idiots but it seems to be the opposite of the likes of Sunderland and co. Other small teams seem to suck all year then get points in the final third to stay up, Pardew's teams seem to do great till Jan then not bother showing up once they are effectively safe.
They were 5th... 5th going into January last year. Palace, January, 5th. Then it was like they didn't want to be in europe and thought they couldn't be relegated and utterly gave up.
They are 14th now and judging by the woeful dive and the missed penalty, they'd be 12th with 2 more points if the ref wasn't bent.
I can't see how 12th for Palace is failure. Should they have done better in the second half of last year, no doubt, he has to fix motivation when he/squad think there is nothing to play for without question. But I'd struggle to call a first 12 months being great, the last 6 months being woeful (but pretty much safe the entire time) and 12-14th this year.
Looking at the table right now the only two teams that stick out as in completely the wrong place for their size/spend/last year is West Ham and West Brom. Southampton a little lower than you'd expect maybe but not that much. In this league with the teams and size of clubs, Palace are a team that you'd really expect to be fighting bottom half of the table.