[bomberbrown1968]

Spot on Josh, Pulis was the start of the decline and to be honest Pardew has just continued in a very similar vein. The new manager "bounce" never looked like happening and we've just lurched from one abject performance to another, much like the rest of a completely miserable season. I can't remember a more depressing time being an Albion fan than this one.

There's not much positive to say about Pardew, he's another who is so set in his ways that he keeps persisting stubbornly refusing to change and insisting that his ways will see us pull through, much the same as Pulis always did.

The gamble didn't pay off on Sturridge and if we'd got any game time out of him we may not be as doomed as we are as we're so clearly short of someone who can stick away half chances and one on ones and headers in the six yard box, and Sturridge would probably have done a lot of those things.

Pardew needs to go, exactly what would be the point in keeping him just to finish the season with the inevitable. Replace him now, try and salvage some pride and start the rebuild towards a push for promotion straight back next season.

While I bemoan our last 2 dinosaurs of managers and what they've done to us, there aren't many of the current crop of players who will come out of this smelling of roses either, little fight, little effort and seemingly couldn't care less attitudes, there's a couple of exceptions and another few who haven't been able to have any effect for one reason or another.

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To cap it all take a look at comment 137 on the BBC match report, another dinosaur