I had and still have no problem with him , If you don't know who he really is and what he really does then you follow the wrong sport .
He was one of few people capable of saving us after the Irvine / Burton mess that Peace created on top of the Pepe Mel episode , you don't appoint Pulis and expect to play like Brazil .
You also don't keep him on too long once he's steadied the ship and unlike John Williams you don't let him spend money left , right and centre!
I am in your camp.
If you read my posts when he was appointed, I welcomed the appointment after such an horrendous appointment in Irvine, simply put, we needed him to come in and keep us afloat because we had wasted a transfer window in signing the likes of Gamboa, Davidson, Gardner etc. However, you know when you make that appointment that once you have reached the safety mark, it becomes time to move on from him and that is what we should have done and is what I called for quite vociferously as people will undoubtedly recall
Getting rid of him in the May of the final year we survived and bringing in someone else at that point whilst our stock was quite high was the way forward, instead Williams gave him another contract despite it being quite clear that his message was not getting through to the players any longer who had managed to survive three years of his antiquated methods. Instead, we backed him in the transfer market, waited until it was too late to bring in a manager of any worth and ultimately cost ourselves Premier League status.
