To my dying day I am thankful to TP for allowing me to take my sons to see Stoke in the Premiership.
Unfortunately their first two season going to games (with a season ticket) were TP's last two seasons.
They should have been going to see exciting passionate football. Instead they were board shitless - as was I. In the end I had to bribe them to attend, and they told me they enjoyed the 350 mile round drive more than the games.
To my dying day I am thankful to TP for allowing me to take my sons to see Stoke in the Premiership.
Unfortunately their first seasons going to games (with a season ticket) were TP's last two seasons.
They should have been going to see exciting passionate football. Instead they were board shitless - as was I. In the end I had to bribe them to attend, and they told me they enjoyed the 350 mile round drive more than the games.
My grandson had a ST with me from 2010/11 to 2012/13. I managed to catch him and introduce him to the club the season before - just in time to head him off from developing an unhealthy interest in the shit.
We went to Wembley both times, caught all the domestic Europa games and had some great times together but 2012/13 killed his interest in the game. He missed 3 games that season, 3 wins of the 9 total including the exciting Boxing day win against Liverpool. Poor kid! At the end of the season he just said he didn't want to come again.
His favourite player was Glenn Whelan. Now I like Glenn and appreciate his qualities but I ask you! Not exactly the sort of galactico magician you would ideally hope for to inspire a pre-teen lad. Not a Bojan or Shaqiri!
He's just now showing an interest again and is coming with us to the Chelsea game.
To my dying day I am thankful to TP for allowing me to take my sons to see Stoke in the Premiership.
Unfortunately their first seasons going to games (with a season ticket) were TP's last two seasons.
They should have been going to see exciting passionate football. Instead they were board shitless - as was I. In the end I had to bribe them to attend, and they told me they enjoyed the 350 mile round drive more than the games.
My grandson had a ST with me from 2010/11 to 2012/13. I managed to catch him and introduce him to the club the season before - just in time to head him off from developing an unhealthy interest in the shit.
We went to Wembley both times, caught all the domestic Europa games and had some great times together but 2012/13 killed his interest in the game. He missed 3 games that season, 3 wins of the 9 total including the exciting Boxing day win against Liverpool. Poor kid! At the end of the season he just said he didn't want to come again.
His favourite player was Glenn Whelan. Now I like Glenn and appreciate his qualities but I ask you! Not exactly the sort of galactico magician you would ideally hope for to inspire a pre-teen lad. Not a Bojan or Shaqiri!
He's just now showing an interest again and is coming with us to the Chelsea game.
And that's what Pulis does best. Kills any enjoyment you might have in watching a game of nogger . He very nearly killed me off from ever wanting to go football again and I had been going for 40 years when I nearly packed it in so for the "kiddies" who couldn't put Pulis's diatribe of anti football in perspective it must have been much easier to stop.
My grandson had a ST with me from 2010/11 to 2012/13. I managed to catch him and introduce him to the club the season before - just in time to head him off from developing an unhealthy interest in the shit.
We went to Wembley both times, caught all the domestic Europa games and had some great times together but 2012/13 killed his interest in the game. He missed 3 games that season, 3 wins of the 9 total including the exciting Boxing day win against Liverpool. Poor kid! At the end of the season he just said he didn't want to come again.
His favourite player was Glenn Whelan. Now I like Glenn and appreciate his qualities but I ask you! Not exactly the sort of galactico magician you would ideally hope for to inspire a pre-teen lad. Not a Bojan or Shaqiri!
He's just now showing an interest again and is coming with us to the Chelsea game.
And that's what Pulis does best. Kills any enjoyment you might have in watching a game of nogger . He very nearly killed me off from ever wanting to go football again and I had been going for 40 years when I nearly packed it in so for the "kiddies" who couldn't put Pulis's diatribe of anti football in perspective it must have been much easier to stop.
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He's showing an interest again now as I say. Ironically he got into rugger for a bit!!
Like you, it got a bit wearing for me at the end but the good will always drive out the bad and with a few more years perspective I'm sure we'll be able to laugh off the defending of 0-1's, Shotts on the wing and the Palacios enigma and just remember the good times. It's all good character building stuff anyway!
I don't get why it has to be either or, can't we just respect him for what he did for us and leave it at that, fucking hell how long has it been, and we've still got idiots on both sides giving each other shit over him.
I don't get why it has to be either or, can't we just respect him for what he did for us and leave it at that, fucking hell how long has it been, and we've still got idiots on both sides giving each other shit over him.
Feels to me like its calming down somewhat now. There will always be outliers on either side of the argument but not so long ago this thread would have easily been 23 pages long rather than 3.
To my dying day I am thankful to TP for allowing me to take my sons to see Stoke in the Premiership.
Unfortunately their first seasons going to games (with a season ticket) were TP's last two seasons.
They should have been going to see exciting passionate football. Instead they were board shitless - as was I. In the end I had to bribe them to attend, and they told me they enjoyed the 350 mile round drive more than the games.
My grandson had a ST with me from 2010/11 to 2012/13. I managed to catch him and introduce him to the club the season before - just in time to head him off from developing an unhealthy interest in the shit.
We went to Wembley both times, caught all the domestic Europa games and had some great times together but 2012/13 killed his interest in the game. He missed 3 games that season, 3 wins of the 9 total including the exciting Boxing day win against Liverpool. Poor kid! At the end of the season he just said he didn't want to come again.
His favourite player was Glenn Whelan. Now I like Glenn and appreciate his qualities but I ask you! Not exactly the sort of galactico magician you would ideally hope for to inspire a pre-teen lad. Not a Bojan or Shaqiri!
He's just now showing an interest again and is coming with us to the Chelsea game.
Like goals, a new generation of supporters is irrelevant.
My grandson had a ST with me from 2010/11 to 2012/13. I managed to catch him and introduce him to the club the season before - just in time to head him off from developing an unhealthy interest in the shit.
We went to Wembley both times, caught all the domestic Europa games and had some great times together but 2012/13 killed his interest in the game. He missed 3 games that season, 3 wins of the 9 total including the exciting Boxing day win against Liverpool. Poor kid! At the end of the season he just said he didn't want to come again.
His favourite player was Glenn Whelan. Now I like Glenn and appreciate his qualities but I ask you! Not exactly the sort of galactico magician you would ideally hope for to inspire a pre-teen lad. Not a Bojan or Shaqiri!
He's just now showing an interest again and is coming with us to the Chelsea game.
Like goals, a new generation of supporters is irrelevant.
I see your point. Tone was ever the pragmatist and largely only interested in the here and now, surviving season to season. We will likely never know what was in the dossier. It will remain a mystery. Like the signing of Ritchie de Laet.
If Tony relegated them it would be the funniest thing ever.
Though we wouldn't be able to laugh out of respect.
Pulis will walk before the seasons out, to ring fence the ' never been relegated' tag....
I don't think so. He'll almost certainly keep them up and in doing so will reckon he's done a good job even though there will be zero entertainment for the fans. Eventually the Baggies will achieve a safe but low level in the league and the owners will then decide it's time to get someone in who can move the club to the next level.
Pulis will walk before the seasons out, to ring fence the ' never been relegated' tag....
I don't think so. He'll almost certainly keep them up and in doing so will reckon he's done a good job even though there will be zero entertainment for the fans. Eventually the Baggies will achieve a safe but low level in the league and the owners will then decide it's time to get someone in who can move the club to the next level.
Post by bringmesunshine on Oct 5, 2015 9:33:05 GMT
Puils has already fired the starter’s gun in a war with Jeremy Peace by claiming that the summer signings were all made with little or no upfront transfer fees paid and that the club is full of people who are less than committed to the cause, from TOP to bottom. I’ve got a mate whose a West Brom season ticket holder and they’re already sick of the capped one, he says Peace will sack Pulis the second they are safe this season, he’s only there to make sure of the TV money for next season and if it look likes they may be in a relegation fight he will be gone before. Interestingly one of the apparent reasons for the fall out is that Pulis wants control of all club matters and is ostracising anybody and everybody who dares to have an opposing opinion, allegedly. Sound at all familiar!
Are we going to have this thread every time TP loses a game? The anti TP mob are a confused bunch, they impugn other people's loyalty to Stoke , but are forever starting threads about a rival club. Sad lot.
I don't get why it has to be either or, can't we just respect him for what he did for us and leave it at that, fucking hell how long has it been, and we've still got idiots on both sides giving each other shit over him.
But for quite a few long term supporters the last 2 years saw them almost ditch going to their beloved club. Respect is a two way thing, he showed little respect towards fans, which is being repeated at WBA.
Like goals, a new generation of supporters is irrelevant.
I see your point. Tone was ever the pragmatist and largely only interested in the here and now, surviving season to season. We will likely never know what was in the dossier. It will remain a mystery. Like the signing of Ritchie de Laet.
I think what was in the dossier (if it existed) is open to interpretation, a bit like the film Eraserhead, or the briefcase in Pulp Fiction.
Personally, I think it contained photographs of the Rendlesham Forest UFO incident, and a receipt from Mr Big Deal in Tunstall, which has subsequently burned down......
Are we going to have this thread every time TP loses a game? The anti TP mob are a confused bunch, they impugn other people's loyalty to Stoke , but are forever starting threads about a rival club. Sad lot.
Not sure what your point is, there have been plenty of threads about Liverpool and Brenda too.
I don't get why it has to be either or, can't we just respect him for what he did for us and leave it at that, fucking hell how long has it been, and we've still got idiots on both sides giving each other shit over him.
But for quite a few long term supporters the last 2 years saw them almost ditch going to their beloved club. Respect is a two way thing, he showed little respect towards fans, which is being repeated at WBA.
Absolutely spot on and he had a go at Bojan, now that you just don’t do.
Before TP became our manager in 2002, a supporter from a team he had previously managed (Bristol City?) visited The Oatcake message board. The supporter wrote that TP was brilliant when only having a shoestring budget, but he also wrote something like: 'Whatever you do - just don't give him [TP] any money. He just waste them'.
No Bristol City fan has ever said TP was brilliant. They hate him to a man. The only fans who had a good word to say about him prior to joining us were Gillingham's.
BM
I might be wrong here but didn't a Gillingham fan come on here and warn us that the fan bases will be split 50/50 about Pulis one day ??
168 pages of thread tells you all you need to know about the bloke. Splits the fanbase right down the middle. As most have said, greatful for everything he helped us achieve, but he stayed 2 seasons too long. That last one was fucking dreadful. I never want to resent going to football on a Saturday afternoon like I did then. Every home match was like a Monday morning.
No Bristol City fan has ever said TP was brilliant. They hate him to a man. The only fans who had a good word to say about him prior to joining us were Gillingham's.
BM
I might be wrong here but didn't a Gillingham fan come on here and warn us that the fan bases will be split 50/50 about Pulis one day ??
It was foretold... In the Prophecy. He was the chosen one
No Bristol City fan has ever said TP was brilliant. They hate him to a man. The only fans who had a good word to say about him prior to joining us were Gillingham's.
BM
I might be wrong here but didn't a Gillingham fan come on here and warn us that the fan bases will be split 50/50 about Pulis one day ??
There was more than one fan warned us about that.
I warned us about that myself having seen him in action at Pompey from close quarters.
I don't understand why some dislike him still after he's left the club. The negative thing was his approach to games, and I can understand people disliking that but the rest aside from that was good stuff. In every other regard things were fantastic as a fan of the club.
When it comes to Pulis he's one of the best in his field, the kind of manager who can be trusted to come in and sort a dressing room out, bring in players with a solid, dependable character and turn a club around. That may very well be the limit of his abilities but at Stoke at least, he had earned the right by getting us promoted to be given the chance and time to see if he could also move on to that next level and become a manager who built teams with ambition to push on.
It didn't work with us, instead we were left with some tremendous foundations to build upon.
I don't understand why some dislike him still after he's left the club. The negative thing was his approach to games, and I can understand people disliking that but the rest aside from that was good stuff. In every other regard things were fantastic as a fan of the club.
When it comes to Pulis he's one of the best in his field, the kind of manager who can be trusted to come in and sort a dressing room out, bring in players with a solid, dependable character and turn a club around. That may very well be the limit of his abilities but at Stoke at least, he had earned the right by getting us promoted to be given the chance and time to see if he could also move on to that next level and become a manager who built teams with ambition to push on.
It didn't work with us, instead we were left with some tremendous foundations to build upon.
Don't be daft, he's shit, every single game was an atrocity and he's a total wanker as well.