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With Ollly coming in, this will allow Pulis to adopt a more attacking side (as per against Accrington Stanley) which seemed to please most of us.I think so more like Palace when he coach them and got manager of the year
I think alot of the problem is the system he is playing in. He has to spend alot of his time covering and tracking opposing forwards which isn't his natural game. I sometimes genuinely wonder how good would Messi look in a Pulis team (and Messi is obviously alot more skilful than Chadli). If Pulis had him in the No.9 role he would have to deal with alot of long balls with probably 3-4 defenders in his back. If he played anywhere else he'd have to spend most of his time covering and tracking opposition players making runs.System or not is no excuse for not hitting the target especially an attacking player even if you are playing centre half.A premiere league player should be hitting the target thats his job.Very ordinary since his recovery.
But I would like to see Chadli get his head down driving at defenders with the ball.
We've had 2 years of being a solid hardworking difficult to beat team .great point but those player wont come cheaply let see what Lai does in summer
Long term I want us to retain these qualities but strive for better quality on the ball.
There are too many occasions under Pulis where the ball is given away cheaply due to the rigid system he employs and lack of flexibility within it .
I am a Pulis supporter but that stat is hard to ignore.
Saw this astonishing stat on the bbc sport page for our game today. Pulis teams record in the prem after reaching 40 points. Played 42 (now 43) won 6.
What's annoys me is the person constantly slagging off our manager after the last 2 defeats, hasn't been bothered to congratulate the team and the manager on today's magnificent result /performance on this thread!!! If I didn't know better I would suggest that some of these type supporters are hoping for a calamity in the hope of strengthening their opinions?? Now, its an opinion yes, but its the wrong opinion and everyone in football knows its the wrong opinion. If our sensible board had listened to a good number of our fan base last season, we'd have just sacked a fantastic manager with a fantastic proven track record. Last year with people like Gardner & sessegnon wide people called him a dinosaur, but he's not looking quite so much a dinosaur now with chadli, Phillips and brunt and Morrison back in the team is he? He keeps telling these people its a slow process and the cogs are evolving slowly but surely, but why listen to that?? When you can just spout off. From the moment he arrived I've trusted him and that's very important in a manager for a fan and player....trust!Amen to that people were discarding Matty after five games,Rome was not built in a day now we have a serious team.
Agree with that chrisabbey. I think what frustrated me was the hammering of him over anything and everything. When we didn't have any shots at goal for a few matches that statistic was rolled out. Then when we had shots we switched to shots on target. Then when we had shots on target, it was goals scored that mattered. Then we score a few and it's clean sheets.and football quality, etc. Throw in complaints like "he shouts too much, you wouldn't work with someone shouting like that at you", and stuff like "he doesn't ever aim to get more than 40 points", "it's impossible for him to finish top half". Nothing that he did was correct, even when you could see the logic behind it.Well said, Pulis is a builder and now the shackles of the sale are off we can see how he has formed a team with defensive discipline and can attack down both flanks and through center.We have a solid team.
It's why I ended up defending him a lot of the time because a lot of the complaints were a bit harsh. I thought he should be given this season and was starting to have doubts early on as I wanted to see improvement and we were struggling a bit. I think Pulis is a better manager than a lot of people (myself included) gave him credit for.
Regardless of what happens for the rest of the season - we might tail off, or pick up a few serious injuries, etc - I think we've shown enough that he's worth sticking with for another year or two.
Got a lot right this season and I'm conitually impressed how he has progressed us and our style of play.Fully agree the Chadli one was baffling no one expected that he was having his best game for a while.We live and we learn Rondon is a beast great game yesterday along with Nyom.
However, I felt he got out of jail today. Every one of his substitutes were unnecessary and invited more and more pressure on our back four.
Does anybody know if TP took training today? The silence from the club & TP is deafeningDont be astonished if they only ask him about Saido😀
The thing that beats me is that I actually like TP. He came to us when we really needed him, saved us from certain relegation, and made us a very difficult to break down. I see him on the touchline getting animated, frustrated, excited and loud. I sit in the East stand and can hear him quite well. He is always encouraging his players to attack, to push, to cross, to 'ave a go', and in a newspaper article I read over the past couple of days he has clearly identified what we have all been talking about with regard to not having much up front, and strengthening the team.Totally agree some folks would blame him for any or everything and if they stop and thinks its rubbish.Like the reason we didnt sign anyone is because noone wants to play for him.Was that the reason Sahko and Schlupp deal fell through?Or I woudnt trust him with another dime our two best players were signed by him Evans and Rondon no they rather highlight Mcmanaman and Lambert.20 mill of good investment verses 4.5 mill no comparison.If we win Sunday silence reign supreme if we lose this thread is on fire.The bias is unprecedented .
For me he needs this transfer window and the season to show us what/where he is trying to get to. Hopefully we won't be going down and I know that at times some of the football won't be pretty, but we seem to be a 'work in progress'.
He briefly showed what he can do with the Palace side a couple of seasons ago, but we also know what happened at Stoke etc
I was there for Woking, Twerton Park,Bobby Gould and all the other dark times then,and I don't want to go back. We are on a journey and we have a few people to thank for getting us to where we are today, JP being one of them. people come and people go, TP is with us now and doing a job, so give him some slack and back him.
Time will deal with everything - we are on a journey. Support your team.
The problem is when we come up against an away side pretty much set up how we are we don't have the know how to break them down granted we got a couple of pens today but it was largely huff and puff . This has to be addressed in the summer .So true we cant break down teams like us most times they beat us its the better teams we do well against thats not good.