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Post by padders01 on Jan 4, 2015 17:24:38 GMT
Absolutely not, but you must try to change/improve when the football was getting as tideous as it was for both clubs. Both boards backed their managers. Sam's transfers this summer have been light years ahead of Pulis, bearing in mind the style if football both managers play. This thread along with the majority of the Pulis posts are pathetic. Pulis did a great job for us. Spent a hell of a lot of money doing so. It was absolutely the correct thing to do sacking Pulis when we did. Crowds were at a all time low since promotion and the football on offer was embarrassing and horrendous to watch. Appointing Hughes was a genius appointment. Can't fault it all. I can tell you this for certain, Pulis would never have been able to attract a player like Bojan. However we would never have been looking for a player like Bojan if it wasn't for Pulis grinding out results in those first two seasons. Only read the first two lines and you're correct. I'm always correct
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Post by tazi on Jan 4, 2015 17:26:13 GMT
Only read the first two lines and you're correct. I'm always correct Indeed you are.
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Post by alster on Jan 4, 2015 17:28:14 GMT
Big sam seen by everyone on here as an even bigger footballing dinosaur than Pulis and yet when he was losing matches in a manner of dinosaur football it certainly wasn't the end for him was it when the results went shit. Ah! Sam knew he needed to improve his strikers, he did that with some fantastic signings in the summer. Also added Alex Song into midfield. Pulis spent millions on strikers with very little pace and refused to exploit the foreign market! He never replaced Fuller and he spent over £30m trying to. He resorted to big tall strikers and lump it up to. I don't think Pulis is alone as a Stoke manager who's struggled with buying decent strikers. If Hughes had been successful with his £7M bid for Diouf I'd have been wondering what he'd seen to justify the fee. Over the years our major striker transfers have not been very good. About £150,000 for Stein, swapping another flop in Keith Scott for Sheron and a £500,000 gamble on Ric and his dodgy knees being the major successes the rest have been totally underwhelming. Maybe Bojan will be our next hero dragged from the bargain bucket but it would be really nice to see us get it right for once and actually invest in a striker that goes on to justify his big fee.
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Post by MarkWolstanton on Jan 4, 2015 17:41:28 GMT
So it's not actually the end for a manager then as Eley tried to make out?. Absolutely not, but you must try to change/improve when the football was getting as tideous as it was for both clubs. Both boards backed their managers. Sam's transfers this summer have been light years ahead of Pulis, bearing in mind the style if football both managers play. This thread along with the majority of the Pulis posts are pathetic. Pulis did a great job for us. Spent a hell of a lot of money doing so. It was absolutely the correct thing to do sacking Pulis when we did. Crowds were at a all time low since promotion and the football on offer was embarrassing and horrendous to watch. Appointing Hughes was a genius appointment. Can't fault it all. I can tell you this for certain, Pulis would never have been able to attract a player like Bojan. However we would never have been looking for a player like Bojan if it wasn't for Pulis grinding out results in those first two seasons. I think that is an excellent post with which to close down a now tiresome thread. No one is going to agree with everyone else on the subject matter but that looks like a pretty decent view most can compromise on.
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