Poll: Sack Race 2014/15

Who's getting it?

  • Total voters
    214
Fulax said:
I'm a southerner working in a hardcore northern city like Newcastle, too. It's his shocking record this calender year (bar the last four games) that gets him abuse, not his accent.
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Thank you, someone who can see through the rubbish that comes from the national media. If he is winning games and has the team playing good football I couldn't care less where he is from.
 
drunkenmaster said:
newcastle fans consistently ignored every single reason why Pardew was clearly in a horrible situation where any manager would also have struggled.
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That's just blatant nonsense. Newcastle fans are well aware that Pardew has been working in difficult circumstances: a draining European campaign, injury crises, Ashley's apparent lack of ambition, having his best players sold without plans to replace them, Joe Kinnear messing up two transfer windows, etc. The speed with which fans turned on Pardew depends on the extent to which they believed his circumstances accounted for his failure. Look at our results this calender year and tell me you would not have cracked sooner or later.

It's not just the results, though, it's the manner of defeat. More often that not over the past year or two we have been completely lacking in team organisation and tactical awareness and consequently we have rarely been competitive in matches. This calender year we have rarely even looked like scoring. Once you get to the point when you no longer look forward to watching your team play, when the experience is genuinely depressing, and when after the match you look in vain for signs of hope, I think it's fair to demand something change.

They've attacked him constantly, acted like complete a-holes, turned on him exceptionally quickly after their brilliant season while completely ignoring the injuries and europa league games(either alone almost always causes a drop in league form for ANY manager or team, combine both in a recently promoted no where near top quality squad and you have the worst possible situation a manager can face really), instantly jumping to Pardew being out of depth and they really haven't let him out of the crosshair since.
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Not true. Ashley was the main target of criticism in the year after we finished 5th. We only made one signing that summer, despite having a European campaign ahead of us, and he was criticised for his reluctance to spend. Pardew was still riding high, but his inability to make a team more than the sum of its parts - vital when you're without key game-changing players - lost him games and gradually support.

The fans complete u-turn is as embarrassing as their Pardew hate in the past two years.
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What u-turn? Most Newcastle fans I know, including myself, still want him out.
 
Freddie1980 said:
He's done well the problem for Pardew is (as an outsider looking in) every time he gets a decent squad of players and builds a team that could actaully achieve something the chairman constantly kneecaps the manager by selling all the best players and Pardew has to rebuild all over again.

As for accents....'Cockney Mafia' ring any bells?
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Jesus wept, man. These players wanted to leave, and rightfully so. You realise players have all the power nowadays, right? Also who are all these best players we've sold? Cabaye, Ba, and Carroll? Imagine thinking selling those players was the reason we've been ****e for 18 months.

Pardew hasn't built anything by the way. If it was up to him we'd be signing players Shelvey, Noble, Lennon and resigning Carroll.

Enjoying these results doesn't suddenly mean he's been hard done by or that people have forgiven him, now that would be fickle.
 
Freddie1980 said:
Pardew has to be one of if not the toughest mangers that's ever graced the premier league. I can't imagine what it must have been like to all that abuse hurled at you at every game and taking all on the chin when finally managing to turn the teams fortunes around propelling them to mid table. Must be hard being a southerner working in hardcore northern city like Newcastle.
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Ok my bad I didn't see this post. I should never have replied.
 
LOL.
Dont worry man.
The fortune of your team wont change because of me.
It'll take more than 1 comment to alter Newcastle's performances. :)
The fact that I happen to practise black magic...is by the by ;)
 
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I just thought that we should do an update on where things lie right now.
A snapshot as it were.

It is now 04/12/2014 and the current sack rankings are:
ocuk sack ranking. name [current league position]
1. Pardew [9]
2. LvG [4]
3. Alladyce [5]

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At the top of the sack ranking table, we see Pardew - favourite to be sacked - is doing pretty well in the league. LvG is in 4th place and on target to get Man Utd back in the CL. Clearly people did not believe the manager was responsible for our poor form last year.
West Ham is the one we got totally wrong. They are in 5th place doing well above expectations. At this stage, I can't see Alladyce getting sacked.


The current relegation zone, reads as follows:
[current league position]. name - ocuk sack ranking
[18]. Dyche - 9
[19]. Harry Redknapp- 6
[20]. Pearson - 12

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There is still a long way to go, but QPR, who are entrenched in the relegation zone received very few votes. It is quite possible that if their form continues, Redknapp will be fired.

What really surprises me is that recently Rogers and Wenger have come under pressure to quit, yet these managers have received very low votes. Wenger only received 1 vote. Rodgers received 7.

We shall need to see how the season progresses but we aren't doing too well right now. 3 people actually voted for Mourinho being fired and Chelsea are comfortably leading the league and looking to possibly break a few records.
 
The 'Rogers' 7 was at 3 well into the season, only myself jaffa and richl had voted that. Pretty sure it was only myself a game or two in also.

'Rogers' has come under no pressure to quit, retards cannot apply pressure, actually thats a lie, it happened to Rafa
 
Purdy said:
The 'Rogers' 7 was at 3 well into the season, only myself jaffa and richl had voted that. Pretty sure it was only myself a game or two in also.

'Rogers' has come under no pressure to quit, retards cannot apply pressure, actually thats a lie, it happened to Rafa
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Did Liverpool fans want Rafa to leave at the time? I can't really remember.

When you look at what has happened since... I'm sure you'd love to have him back now. The team had the right attitude and always looked dangerous when he was in charge.
 
grimm said:
Did Liverpool fans want Rafa to leave at the time? I can't really remember.

When you look at what has happened since... I'm sure you'd love to have him back now. The team had the right attitude and always looked dangerous when he was in charge.
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Many moronic loud ones yes, we've paid the price.

I don't want him back now, but I do wish he had never been gone.
 
Would anyone consider changing their van Gaal vote at this point? He seems to be finally getting the team a bit more consistent. Win tonight puts them at 3rd.
 
I had voted for Pardew to be out.
I honestly couldnt see how he would stay.
In fact at one stage, I thought he had got the sack already and I was shocked to see him in the dugout.

Since then he has gone on a winning run (he seems to either win or lose - he doesnt like drawing). I wonder what Newcastle fans think of him now.
 
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