26-02-2018, 19:18
It's so important when you bring in players to a club they deliver on effort and ability compared with what they are they are paid. This we have done quite well during our PL tenure which is now soon to end. Over-discipline under Pulis has been replaced by no discipline under Pardew. Now the die is cast. Several players - Evans, Livermore, Barry and Krychoviak especially, are going through the motions. They don't care about this club any more, if they ever did. Brunt is trying to do what Pardew should be doing and trying to get them out of this mindset.
Seeing the hapless performance on Saturday we are deservedly going down. Now we need to plan for the championship. We will lose some, if not all, of the above. They will not be missed. We might get something for Rondon who tried as hard as anyone on Saturday but has never looked like the prolific scorer we need. McLean has probably come to the end of his useful life with us. Time will tell if Leko can step up to the plate. Jury is still out with Burke. We need maybe to take a leaf from Villa's book and find a young battle-hardened manager from a successful club in the lower leagues and make good use of the parachute money to rebuild the club with young, hungry players who want to make a name for themselves. Under no circumstances, do I want Pardew.
Such a shame. We started the season with many of thought was a decent side. We made a good start, without players like Evans and Krychoviak if my memory serves me well. Since then, zilch. We have been mismanaged to relegation and it's back to square one.
We need to find a new Chris Brunt, better still, 11 of them.
Seeing the hapless performance on Saturday we are deservedly going down. Now we need to plan for the championship. We will lose some, if not all, of the above. They will not be missed. We might get something for Rondon who tried as hard as anyone on Saturday but has never looked like the prolific scorer we need. McLean has probably come to the end of his useful life with us. Time will tell if Leko can step up to the plate. Jury is still out with Burke. We need maybe to take a leaf from Villa's book and find a young battle-hardened manager from a successful club in the lower leagues and make good use of the parachute money to rebuild the club with young, hungry players who want to make a name for themselves. Under no circumstances, do I want Pardew.
Such a shame. We started the season with many of thought was a decent side. We made a good start, without players like Evans and Krychoviak if my memory serves me well. Since then, zilch. We have been mismanaged to relegation and it's back to square one.
We need to find a new Chris Brunt, better still, 11 of them.