Has the communication improved under Pardew?

Pardew's lip service?
One of the biggest criticisms of the current regime in charge of NUFC has been the level of communication, or should I say the lack of communication.

We tend not to hear much, if anything, from the club hierarchy, but it’s been that way for some time to be fair. It isn’t a new phenomenon and is something that we have kind of learned to live with. I don’t want Ashley to become the next Dave Whelan who is always popping up with comments here and there about anything and everything to anyone who will listen and even those that don’t, but I would like to hear a little bit more about what is going on behind the scenes at my club.

This is why I was pleased when Alan Pardew seemed to open up the lines of communication a little with the fans. To be fair, he isn’t saying anything extraordinary and it’s generally the usual kind of football stuff that you get from any manager of any team within the Premier League, but occasionally he does give us an interesting little titbit such as his critiques of Nile Ranger and Wayne Routledge as well as the odd bit of injury news and so on.

When it comes to transfers though, I’m kind of getting fed up of hearing how the club are actively looking for players and how the summer will be good for transfers and that kind of thing. Less talking, just show us the action kind of thing. As Moreno said about Alan Pardew the other day, the guy has virtually zero control over any incoming transfers. He is not unique in that aspect as every football club owner has the ultimate say in any transaction. Pardew may realise this one day.

I’m not getting on his back or anything as I’ve been really impressed with him since he took over from Chris Hughton. I think our performances have improved despite the weakening of the squad and I think that we have played better than the form table suggests. Injuries are hitting us hard, but it’s not Pardew’s fault. Injuries are part and parcel of football and many of us said at the start of the season when Hughton was still charge that we would struggle if we sustained a few injuries in key areas of the squad. I think some people have forgotten that to be honest.

It’s almost like we are getting paid some form of lip service by Pardew, which is dangerous as it will lead to expectations being raised in the transfer market which will more than likely be followed by disappointment. With regard to speculation I much preferred Hughton’s ‘no comment, let’s move on’ kind of policy. It was boring and ****, but we never expected anything else.

That is kind of my point with this article. As I’ve said, it’s not a go at Pardew, and it’s not a Hughton love in, but it is a warning that Pardew is playing a dangerous game by raising expectations to a level that he might not be able to match.

People will say that Pardew is a puppet if he can’t get the required funding from the owner, but I would say that he is just an employee doing his job no differently to the way that you or I would go about our daily jobs. If the boss says something then you do it. If you want something and the boss won’t give it to you, what do you do in your job? Get on with it? Or walk out?

You may feel like doing the second but I’ll bet the majority will end up doing the first.

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174 thoughts on “Has the communication improved under Pardew?

  1. Totally off topic, but was watchin’ the tele with my old man last night and somethin came up about Liverpool. I explained to him that Liverpudlians are “affectionately” referred to as “bindippers” which he thought was hysterical. He proceeded to refer to them as “dumpster divers” for the rest of the show. LOL

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  2. “a little tubby!!!” toonsy is to the world of fitness what fred west was to the youth hostling trade.

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  3. Yes it has improved but then it couldn’t have got any worse really.
    I think its important for a Manager to talk to supporters, but I do understand that Pards can come across as talking to much but I would rather have that than being kept in the dark and treated like mushrooms the way we were with Clueless.
    I think Pards needs to find the middle ground but I think given time he will, I also think that when he said Judas would not be sold he believed that, I guess he will soon learn not to believe what the Fatman and Owlheed tell him. 😉

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  4. Dave-o

    In all fairness, would you have turned down 35mil for a player like Carroll? After the cheeky little ***** handed in a written transfer request?

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  5. OH I would have drove him there meself 😆 actually come to think of it after handing in his transfer request I think I would have just kicked him all the way 😀

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  6. Dave,

    I’d PAY to see ya do that. Matter of fact, I’d pay half a month’s wages just to punch him in the jaw. And I’m not even a born and bred Geordie! HA!

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  7. DJG > Has it improved?
    Why are you asking the question when Toonsy has allready asked it ❓ 😉
    I see the spanish 3rd division player has just scored against **** 😆

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  8. hes a snide and a gob *****,come to think of it he fits right in with the other two snides 👿

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  9. dave 29 or clueless chris who jumped into bed with fatty after fatty **** all over 2 yes 2 toon legends 😉

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  10. “I’m kind of getting fed up of hearing how the club are actively looking for players and how the summer will be good for transfers and that kind of thing. Less talking, just show us the action kind of thing”

    The argument regarding the media seems to go round and round and doesn’t really come to any conclusion apart from subjective opinion (Pardew’s a liar, a puppet, just answering repetitive questions, being more open than Hughton).

    The media have a job to do and managers have an obligation to talk to them. Unless the media stop, the quotes won’t stop, so i’ve got a little sympathy with Pardew in that respect. I guess the only way of stopping being sick of hearing quotes would be to stop reading them altogether.

    Being open and informative is great but I guess all you could ask of Pardew is to maybe be a bit more tactful in understanding how the media work when it comes to his comments and be aware that people do actually examine every word he says.

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  11. Howay Toonsy. It seems the manager can’t win. He either says too much or too little whoever it is.
    I liked Hughtons style but many didnt as he didn’t give much away but also Pardew is more open and that’s what fans crave. Again, I like Pardews style , it’s the likes of Kinnear that I didn’t like.
    I say you are whinging for whinging sake.

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  12. oh Jay thats a bit rough Lad 😥
    BS No9 well are you getting over your Ban now or is it causing you sleepless nights 😆 it should get easier with time 😀

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  13. no dave not what you think,were hardly any left in uk.took to america,bred there to protect the cattle from grizzly bear attacks which they did well,also now in some states now they are the only dogs allowed within police force and prison service for insurance reasons,they are more reliable than dobamans/alst ect,read a report from one prison out in the wilds in u.s.a that they can track for 8hrs straight,were most dogs can only go 4hrs then need break,great dogs i have found and i have bred many in the past

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  14. It’s just as well mate, although Richie is right about me being a short ****, at Wigan toonsy told me I’m not even ginger, I argued I was 🙂

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  15. Jay 😆 😆 😆
    Ice so they arn’t like E/bulls etc then 😆 I didn’t actually think they were that intelligent tracking etc, and im not trying to be funny incase Batty says I am 😉 I thought they would have been similar to my pig only wanting to mess about or fight with other dogs 😕
    What are they like with other dogs ❓

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  16. Dave 48 – He can get over another one now aswell. Fed up with his constant snide remarks like 🙄

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  17. Whilst we’re on dogs, mine was traditionally bred as a Roman guard dog. It’s used to sitting around for hours. Mine is excellent at that 😆

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  18. DAVE,it depends,gave two pups to guy in village he mixed them, and they wont fight with any other dogs ect,mine have always been kept to themselves,now they will kill anything,but love kids,will drag you a 100yds to lick babys in prams ect,they are highly recomended by everybody to be good with children

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  19. icedog
    Posted March 12, 2011 at 8:51 PM

    “will drag you a 100yds to lick babys in prams”

    Sounds like Jay Jay 🙂

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  20. Toonsy just aswell Jay isn’t as big then 😆
    Ice I take it you bred from yours ? Mine would be brill with kids, everytime mine see’s dede coming out to play with him he gets all excited and runs straight into him knocking him over 😆

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  21. Dave – Same as mine (dig). Mine loves kids, other dogs, everything, nut because of her 60kg weight I always have to keep an eye on her.

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  22. You gotta laugh at Paul Scholes like….two horrendous tackles today against those poor Arsenal boys, and he never even got a yellow card…hilarious really…

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  23. jay jay don’t let them get at you mate…there’s nowt wrong with being small…I heard that the women like small cuddly men……

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