Pulis is bottling it

[bayernoatcake]

Stevie Wonder could see that the team he picked tonight was the wrong one.

Cort over Shawcross-wrong decision
Pugh over Dickinson-wrong decision
Mama over Fuller-wrong decision
Taking Mama off and not Obe Wan Kenobi-wrong decision

Not Tones fault but it still pissed me off-Cresswell MOM-wrong fucking decision.

That team selction was woeful and has showed that he is bottling it like we did at QPR last season. Griffin needs to be shifted to left back or dropped. Cort missed enough chances to win 18 games never mind 1! Cresswell did bugger all. The force was not strong with Obe wan.

Pearson impressed me though, as did Bothroyd. The midifield for the next match if Lawrence is injured should be

Delap Whelan Pearson Bothroyd

[sportsman]

Taking mama off instead of Ameobi wrong decision? You're having a laugh aren't you? Agree with the other points but not that one. When the pressure is piled on like the second half, and the ball is played into the box Ameobi is more likely to turn and create something out of nothing. You can play Mama all night and he wouldn't score.
Now the players have to stick together, get pissed off with whatever they want to get pissed off with and bloody go for it.

[icelandpotter]

Taking Mama off was another of Pulis' thicko tricks tonight. Ricci expects Mama to flick everything to him, and Ameobi had nothing left in the tank.

[mamathestriker]

All week I've read on here....Ameobi and Fuller should play upfront.

And now I come on and when they were given the chance, people slate TP for it.

Laughable.

[CrazyPotter]

Pulis - you got completely wrong tonight. Everyone knew it when the team news came out aswell. ABSOLUTELY GUTTED!

[bayernoatcake]

Ameobi was awful and when Mama went off we still played like he was there. In the air looking for flick ons. Mama I thought was head and shoulders above Obe Wan tonight. (I don't rate Mama)

[PulisCameraAction]

Agree with everything you say bayern. But I'd like to add taking Pearson off instead of Cresswell to the 'wrong decision' list.

[bayernoatcake]

mamathestriker said:

All week I've read on here....Ameobi and Fuller should play upfront.

And now I come on and when they were given the chance, people slate TP for it.

Laughable.

Not really. You make changes to how the game is going. Mama was playing better therefore Obe Wan comes off, preconceptions don't come into it. It's about the there and then judgement call. He bottled it.

[smokeyjoe]

puliscameraaction said:

Agree with everything you say bayern. But I'd like to add taking Pearson off instead of Cresswell to the 'wrong decision' list.

Cresswell was poor again tonight, no crosses getting through, shaken off the ball time and time again, not one attempt at goal, single paced

[mamathestriker]

Not really. You make changes to how the game is going. Mama was playing better therefore Obe Wan comes off, preconceptions don't come into it. It's about the there and then judgement call. He bottled it.[/quote]

The difference is, Mama has been given a chance. And has proved time and time again he isn't good enough.

Shola and Fuller for me, every time.

[bayernoatcake]

Yes but when he is playing better than his partner why bring him off? Ameobi did nowt and was breathing out of arse after 60 minutes. He should've come off.

I agree though Fuller and Obe Wan should've started but our Tone didn't see it that way-who's fault is that?

[mermaidsal]

TP's problem at the moment is that he's trying to be too clever and managing too bloody much. If we're to have any chance at all now we just need a settled team, shut the fuck up and let them play.

[serpico]

I actually thought Ameobi looked better up front with Fuller than he did with Mama, showed some nice touches, ... should have buried that close range effort though, i think he'll come good in the last 4 games.

[dazthestokie69]

i think he's just reverting to his negative and 1-1 draw grinding games that have kept his teams up so many times

[bayernoatcake]

serpico said:

I actually thought Ameobi looked better up front with Fuller than he did with Mama, showed some nice touches, ... should have buried that close range effort though, i think he'll come good in the last 4 games.

I would start with Obe Wan and Fuller in the next game no doubt but I think today we needed Mama to battle for it.

[Hiram]

"TP's problem at the moment is that he's trying to be too clever and managing too bloody much. If we're to have any chance at all now we just need a settled team, shut the fuck up and let them play. "
great post, totally agree with that. also no coincidence that LL has been missing for the last 4 games ???

[Davef]

TP obviously had it in his mind tonight that he could count on a pretty fresh-ish Fuller to come off the bench after an hour and win the game for him, possibly thinking back to the Cardiff game last season when he took them to the cleaners after coming on in the second half.

What he didn't count on was the abysmal record we have at home just recently of not being able to keep clean sheets and conceding soft goals.

If he could only get an hour out of Ricardo, then he should have given him the first hour to win the game. Palace could still have won the game, shit happens, but nobody could have accused him of not being positive in a game that we simply had to win.

I think his decisions tonight and their consequences could haunt TP for some time to come.

[wolfieboy]

Its not that he's bottlin it present tense, he's already bottled it tonite and your last few games. Your players are worth more than this crap