Stating the obvious but its a massive summer for the club.
I think both parties need to go into the end of season meeting with an open mind.
Obviously after the meeting things may change but i would offering Pulis a one year extension and setting him a target of 60 points and ideally a decent cup run for next season.
I think the 40 points becomes an obsession and once we hit it, sub conciously the mentality changes, i think if we could of had another 10-12 points to what we have had the target been set, the players have tried but the mentality has changed.
I think this season has progressed from last season, spread the season into four and the the middle two quarters were good, i felt we played some decent stuff, we are not going to be a great footballing side under Pulis but we played good attacking stuff, sadly the last quarter of the season has overshadowed that.
I have no doubt most seasons we could probably hit 40 points because i think some of our players are experienced short term fixes who get the job done, however as owners looking to break into the far east market i would think the target has to be better than 40 points, we wont attract much attention that way.
Whether we like it or not Pulis has a type of player and style, i think defensive minded players have improved a lot under him but attacking players havent.
Although pleased in one way of the signing of Chadli i did wonder at the time if he was really the type of player we would get the best out of, in an ideal world we would be looking for that classy player to improve us, the reality is the way we play we are better with the Phillips, Mcleans, etc. In a different team i have no doubt Chadli would be quality but i just dont think he fits how we play so there is no point us signing players like that.
Like say above Pulis has a type of player and style so we may as well get the best possible players we can who play that way rather than sign players who dont fit the style and convert / waste them.
Same applies to a certain extent with Rondon, in a playing sense i feel sorry for him as he knows most of the game he is fighting a lost cause, he is a very different player to the one we first signed and i think his head has gone, and whoever we replace him with will probably be the same in 18 months time, but you have to milk them for the 12-18 months leading upto it.
Personally i dont think Pulis can change his style or ways but he has steadied the ship and i think deserves another season and if we can buy players, improve certain aspects of our play (we are never going to be Man City possession wise but lately our ball retention is shocking) be more positive in our targets and our playing style and make the those two good season quarters into three good season quarters then thats good.