If we don't gain promotion this season....

[Cabby_Shunt]

should Pulis walk, or indeed should Coates get rid? Would it be worth trying again for another season?

Would a change of manager destroy the seemingly strong dressing room atmosphere?

[BuzzB]

no and no, he would stay and finish the job.

[Deleted]

Yeah, the guy that's taking us forward over the last couple of seasons, lets get rid of him if he doesn't take us up this year. What the f***?

What would we gain from that? Risk getting another Kamara in and taking us 10 steps back?

[CillaBlacksPissFlaps]

TP is our leader and going nowhere, as buzzb says he would stay and finish what he started.

[tazi]

Firstly. If we do not get promotion this year then it will become ever increasingly more difficult to achieve because the likes of those teams that get relegated from the Premier League shall have £££££££ upon £££££££ in parachute payments to attract so called better players due to them being in a more advantageous financial position which in turn enables them to offer a bigger pay packet then we could ever hope to offer.

Secondly. Also the likes of Q.P.R will also have a big advantage over us too due to their financial backing from not only millionaires but billionaires and whose to say that other investors are not going to come forward in an attempt to invest in other Championship clubs.

Thirdly. Stoke have got to take advantage NOW of the position that we currently find ourselves in by attempting to achieve promotion because this is going to become evermore increasingly difficult as seasons progress.

Fourthly. No matter who our manager is then this does not make the position that football finds itself in anymore easier, which is why i believe that Tony Pulis continues and will continue to be our best option/manager in order to achieve promotion.

Last but not least, Tony Pulis has worked absolute wonders for Stoke City Football Club and i would absolutely loathe should it ever be considered for him to walk should we not achieve our aim of promotion this season.

Top man Tony Pulis.

[onlyonesirstan]

Tony Pulis should only go if Stoke finish lower than we did last season. As in any business, he would not be taking us forward, but backwards.

[lordb]

not reaching the play offs would be a disaster from the current position.

if we miss out on auto promotion & then lost the play offs then we'll take it on the chin & go again next year.

with just 1 or two additions I think we would be potential champions.

[y_oh_y_delilah]

Tony Pulis should be our manager FOREVER!



Amen.

[Deleted]

Can't believe I am going to say this....

I would like Pulis to stay regardless of what now happens this season. I originally thought that any manager (reluctantly including Pulis) should be given three years to show us what he could achieve. Less than two years in he is doing well. The football is better than it was. We have better players and the results are better than they have been for a long time.

I cannot bring myself to declare him a saviour and I would choke if I tried to utter the syllables 'Super-Tone' but if he makes the playoffs, then I would have him on joint third best manager in my life-time behind Waddo, Durban and alongside Macari.

[basingstokie]

I agree with Malvern, Tone has done fantastically well this season, our squad in August looked awful, he somehow managed to make them achieve great things and is now signing even better players.

There is no way he should go this season, if we don't get play off's as a min its the players fault, not his, he definitely deserves another crack of the whip next season

[Titan Uranus]

In my opinion he should be given at least another five years to get us to the promised land. He is the man for the job.

Don't forget..... Rome wasn't built in a day !

[Scanner]

no1stokefan said:

Tony Pulis should be our manager FOREVER!



Amen.

Just got a vision of a corpse proped up on the sidelines

Still it would be a vast improvement on Sinnett ;D

[Pugsley]

After spending the best part of £5million quid (I admit we have sold a lot of players as well) during his spell at Stoke the MINIMUM we should expect is playoffs. If we don't get to the play offs he should go. It would would be pretty clear he is not up to it.

If we finish in the play offs but don't go up then he should stay on for another year.

[Titan Uranus]

Pugsley

It's pretty clear that the guy is building for the future.

Give the bloke a break.

I reckon Pulis and Coates have got a five year roadmap to get us into the Prem.

Be patient.

[WurstBoy]

I actually agree with Pugsley.


The minimum acceptable has to be play offs. Anything less is not taking us forward.

[baystokie]

With all the backing he's had from the chairman, if the club finishes in a lower position than was achieved by the previous manager, the honourable thing to do would be to 'fall on his sword'.

But then, I'm not sure that 'honourable' is a word known to many in the modern game

[Travis]

TP and coates go? they've done half the job superbly and proved most wrong?!?!?!?!

i'll just do what i always do. Blame Thatcher

[japwba]

If you get promoted Pullis wont be the man to keep you there. You dont stay up on red cards and route one.

[The Toxic Avenger]

Bolton would beg to differ.

[japwba]

unfortunatley bolton have had a bit of class in there team over the years.

Campo, Djorkaeff (spelling), Diouf, Anelka.

[Pretty Little Boother]

It's a good job that we've only had one red card all season then, isn't it?

[The Toxic Avenger]

There main tactic, in spite of this, was to hoof it to Kevin Davies - something Sam Allardyce happily admitted to during the Newcastle - Boro game last Sunday.

[Stick It On Cort's Head]

WHAT??

HE SHOULD FUCKING STAY!!

[japwba]

We wouldnt have had any if the pea sized intellect Paul Robinson had a brain cell....
:>

[Stick It On Cort's Head]

japwba said:

If you get promoted Pullis wont be the man to keep you there. You dont stay up on red cards and route one.

check the discipline table bafoon