The players we have can certainly play, but they need to learn to play in this division. I would have hoped they would have worked that out by now, but they haven't.
one third of our points this season have come against the current (and probably final) top six sides. This tells me that we are a long way from a poor team.
It also suggests that that pardew doesn't have too many issues motivating the team when he needs to. As a team we have been pretty poor since beating Palace at home.
My optimistic side says that if we do alright against the bigger side we should be in with a good chance next season. We have three sides coming down who will financially be bigger fish than we are. If leeds comes up in place of one of the relgated sides that will help as well, as despite their problems they will be considered a big side in the league. Ipswich and QPR both have more cash than we are so, what I am trying to say is there will be far more 'big sides' for us to play next season as we will have dropped down the pecking order compared to this year.
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