Southampton manager Ronald Koeman was sympathetic to his counterpart's cause after the Saints beat former boss Alan Pardew and Newcastle 4-0 on Sunday.
Pardew dodged the press conference after his side were humbled, but Koeman commiserated with the under-fire Magpies coach.
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"I understand how difficult the situation is for them, and for Pardew, the manager," he said. "They have qualities, they showed that as well, and for that reason it was a great result we got.
"It's always difficult because it's part of our job, you have to be concentrated every day. After a nice win, we have to prepare ourselves for next week.
"It's football, it's going fast and if it's going bad you have to wait to win again and if you are winning you have to be prepared over what is going to come.
"That's our job and if we don't like it we have to do something about it."
In the build-up to this game, Pardew pleaded for patience as he looks to blood in a host of summer acquisitions -- a problem Koeman is making light work of.
Graziano Pelle, one of six recent signings starting for Saints, netted a first-half brace, which Jack Cork and Morgan Schneiderlin complemented with efforts after the break.
"We had a great start," Koeman said. "We spoke about it because in our last match at home against West Bromwich we didn't do it in a good way and the tempo was too low. We had a great start, a high tempo and the big difference was we were really pressing in the beginning, we didn't give them the time to build up.
"We scored two fast goals and that gave us the confidence to play in a good way. It was a great performance during the first 45 minutes. We work very hard in every session.
"We know we need time, we know we have a lot of changes in the team but that's the reason you do training sessions to improve the qualities of the players and to bring the qualities of the players together, to have a good organisation in attack and defence. It is going well until now."