Dickov22 Posted 28 February 2015 Share Posted 28 February 2015 Watched WBA v Southampton today as a neutral. WBA's two best players by a mile were Lescott and Fletcher. Two players with premier league experience. Pulis it pains me to say got his tactics spot on, Southampton only had one real chance. Otherwise, WBA restricted them to long range efforts. It wasn't pretty, but it was far from the long ball 'rugby' style football he's sometimes accused of. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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ScouseFox Posted 28 February 2015 Share Posted 28 February 2015 Watched WBA v Southampton today as a neutral. WBA's two best players by a mile were Lescott and Fletcher. Two players with premier league experience. Pulis it pains me to say got his tactics spot on, Southampton only had one real chance. Otherwise, WBA restricted them to long range efforts. It wasn't pretty, but it was far from the long ball 'rugby' style football he's sometimes accused of. did he have a cap on? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corky Posted 28 February 2015 Share Posted 28 February 2015 He was in demand and likely to have a choice of clubs. When he was available, which seems to be from January, WBA were a better option than us. I think he would've turned us down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gazzer Posted 28 February 2015 Share Posted 28 February 2015 Kahlua's finished Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coley1884 Posted 28 February 2015 Share Posted 28 February 2015 Fair enough question, Roger. Personally I have no doubt we did. There's every likelihood WBA will stay up and a very good chance their supporters will get a trip to Wembley, for the semi's at least. Yes he wears a cap. He's also a very, very good manager. Personally, his sartorial sense [or lack of it] is really no concern to me. He wins matches and consistently gets average teams to punch above their weight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScouseFox Posted 28 February 2015 Share Posted 28 February 2015 Fair enough question, Roger. Personally I have no doubt we did. There's every likelihood WBA will stay up and a very good chance their supporters will get a trip to Wembley, for the semi's at least. Yes he wears a cap. He's also a very, very good manager. Personally, his sartorial sense [or lack of it] is really no concern to me. He wins matches and consistently gets average teams to punch above their weight. dying at this haha well played man Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unabomber Posted 28 February 2015 Share Posted 28 February 2015 Watched WBA v Southampton today as a neutral. WBA's two best players by a mile were Lescott and Fletcher. Two players with premier league experience. Pulis it pains me to say got his tactics spot on, Southampton only had one real chance. Otherwise, WBA restricted them to long range efforts. It wasn't pretty, but it was far from the long ball 'rugby' style football he's sometimes accused of. did he have a cap on? Well? This is the £12.99 question..... Fair enough question, Roger. Personally I have no doubt we did. There's every likelihood WBA will stay up and a very good chance their supporters will get a trip to Wembley, for the semi's at least. Yes he wears a cap. He's also a very, very good manager. Personally, his sartorial sense [or lack of it] is really no concern to me. He wins matches and consistently gets average teams to punch above their weight. Oh man great post. Yes he wears a cap chill out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Horse's Mouth Posted 28 February 2015 Share Posted 28 February 2015 he's a bit of a dry shite, plus his laugh is predatorish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MooseBreath Posted 1 March 2015 Share Posted 1 March 2015 Love how animated Tone gets on the touchline. He puts his hole body into it. Good job he wears trackies because you simply couldn't do that in jeans or trousers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gazzer Posted 1 March 2015 Share Posted 1 March 2015 our owners have decided to stay with mediocre so chill out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danizen Posted 1 March 2015 Share Posted 1 March 2015 If only my granny had wheels, she'd be a bike She is a bike. Well that's what they call her, anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shailen Posted 1 March 2015 Share Posted 1 March 2015 If people do watch us we play well nearly every week. There's nothing the manager can do about individual mistakes and poor finishing. Nearly every pundit has said we are the most unlucky team in the PL, to be bottom atm, because we give everyone a game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NotTheMarketLeader Posted 1 March 2015 Share Posted 1 March 2015 If people do watch us we play well nearly every week. There's nothing the manager can do about individual mistakes and poor finishing. Nearly every pundit has said we are the most unlucky team in the PL, to be bottom atm, because we give everyone a game. Using that logic, you could say we were 'lucky' to win the Championship, which of course we were not. Over a season we were the best team and Pearson received much credit for that. This season we have had misfortune along the way, but after this many games you are bottom because the team are not good enough. The manager has built this team over a period of time, with the goal of not being relegated. If we are relegated he has failed to do his job to the level required. Even if we are bottom because of 'individual mistakes and poor finishing' as you say (which imo is only part of it, almost all can be put down to Nige's mismanagement) Pearson's job has been to assemble a squad of players who don't make the mistakes week after week, and if they do replace them with some else. He's hasn't done that - that's is his responsibility. How anyone can suggest Pearson is blameless for the shambles we have is beyond belief. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Collibosher70 Posted 1 March 2015 Share Posted 1 March 2015 Good luck pulis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MooseBreath Posted 1 March 2015 Share Posted 1 March 2015 If people do watch us we play well nearly every week. There's nothing the manager can do about individual mistakes and poor finishing. Nearly every pundit has said we are the most unlucky team in the PL, to be bottom atm, because we give everyone a game. We don't play well every week, we play just well enough to narrowly lose every week, which sometimes means playing absolutely shit. Any team that can look like a top ten club at arsenal one week and then look like a league one club at Villa the week after has got problems of the type that a good manager would be able to fix. There is also something very simple the manager can do about individual mistakes when they come from the same players week in week out, and if finishing is our problem then it doesn't speak much for Pearson's ability in the transfer market when he's spent nearly £20m on strikers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smudger63 Posted 1 March 2015 Share Posted 1 March 2015 Got Wins at home to, Sunderland, burnley, west brom, and Stoke Better than Pearson then! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ttfn Posted 1 March 2015 Share Posted 1 March 2015 Love how animated Tone gets on the touchline. He puts his hole body into it. He certainly polo-rizes opinion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrsJohnMurphy Posted 1 March 2015 Share Posted 1 March 2015 our owners have decided to stay with mediocre so chill out Pulis isn't mediocre?... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan LCFC Posted 1 March 2015 Share Posted 1 March 2015 I must admit it's very hard to argue with how good he is in these kind of situations. I'm just not convinced he's good enough to take a team any further than ever being midtable, I mean, could you imagine him doing this with Southampton? Saying that, I think it's hard to really make a case for Pearson doing that either if this season is anything to go by. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swiss_tony Posted 3 March 2015 Share Posted 3 March 2015 i think pulis's cap would've done better than nige by itself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Col city fan Posted 3 March 2015 Share Posted 3 March 2015 Using that logic, you could say we were 'lucky' to win the Championship, which of course we were not. Over a season we were the best team and Pearson received much credit for that. This season we have had misfortune along the way, but after this many games you are bottom because the team are not good enough. The manager has built this team over a period of time, with the goal of not being relegated. If we are relegated he has failed to do his job to the level required. Even if we are bottom because of 'individual mistakes and poor finishing' as you say (which imo is only part of it, almost all can be put down to Nige's mismanagement) Pearson's job has been to assemble a squad of players who don't make the mistakes week after week, and if they do replace them with some else. He's hasn't done that - that's is his responsibility. How anyone can suggest Pearson is blameless for the shambles we have is beyond belief. Absolutely spot on. Excuses...The season has been rife with them. They ooze out of every pore. No more excuses... We are either good enough or we ain't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fox Ulike Posted 3 March 2015 Share Posted 3 March 2015 I’m beginning to wonder. WBA 1 defeat in 11 since Pulis took over. I noticed on Saturday as well, WBA played a 451, after an hour and 1-0 up Pulis takes off an attacker (Berahinho) and puts on a midfielder (Mulumbu). Then with 2 minute left Pulis took off his other attacker (Ideye) and replaced him with a defender (Baird). This contrasts Starkly with Pearson leaving 3 attackers on the pitch with 2 minutes left against Everton, and putting on Andy King. Sigh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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