[Archived] Tony Pulis

[Guest Norbert]

He'd do the job if he could sign a few 7 foot brutes to beef up our defence and midfield, but his tactics would not get that much out of Rhodes. That is unless we have a big battering ram up front with him to skittle defenders out the way.

[chaddyrovers]

uh!! here we go again, let me guess, bowyer is the man for you, u have a bowyer fixation

Bowyer is my man for the job.

If Zola would be my choice if he would come.

I would have accept Holloway even tho I cant stand the guy with his comments about everything but would have done a goodish job

I wanted Adkins when Kean left cos the rumours were that He was close to the sack from Southampton when we were searching for a manager for 5 weeks. and aswell want Adkins after Appleton sacking. but we never move for him and miss out on him.

Also would have look to bring in McDermott aswell but yet again we didn't go for him.

Another manager I would look would be Phil Parkinson. done a great job at Bradford

[Tom]

Was Adkins available after Kean left?

[Guest Norbert]

No, I don't think so. I think he was sacked in December/Janurary, and we were busy failing under Berg.

[McClarky]

Stoke are a great bet for relegation next season. They will appoint someone else who won't be able to get anything out of Pulis's players and it will all go horribly wrong.

Classic case of being careful what you wish for, a bit like BFS at Rovers really.

[Rover_Shaun]

Pulis has not been sacked but more or less admitted he is not up to it

[Philly13]

Didn't really do a good job at Stoke. Had a huge budget relative to the teams he was competing against and still didn't really make any progress. Not a fan. Rather have Bowyer

[Stuart]

Arsenal... Arsen...

Man City... Manci...

Stoke... St... K...

Please!

[McClarky]

Arsenal... Arsen...

Man City... Manci...

Stoke... St... K...

Please!

N'zonzi will be pleased

[roverandout]

Bowyer is my man for the job.

If Zola would be my choice if he would come.

I would have accept Holloway even tho I cant stand the guy with his comments about everything but would have done a goodish job

I wanted Adkins when Kean left cos the rumours were that He was close to the sack from Southampton when we were searching for a manager for 5 weeks. and aswell want Adkins after Appleton sacking. but we never move for him and miss out on him.

Also would have look to bring in McDermott aswell but yet again we didn't go for him.

Another manager I would look would be Phil Parkinson. done a great job at Bradford

I wanted adkins but there are better options out there than gary bowyer

[BlueMonday]

Can see Stoke going for Hughes. Think he would do well there.

[chaddyrovers]

I wanted adkins but there are better options out there than gary bowyer

like who???

please give me three managers who would come to rovers given the current boardroom problems and Venkys as owners???

[pontyrover]

Didn't really do a good job at Stoke. Had a huge budget relative to the teams he was competing against and still didn't really make any progress. Not a fan. Rather have Bowyer

This is the stupidest thing I've read in a while. Didn't make any progress?! Thanks to Pulis, Stoke are now an established Premier League team, they reached an FA Cup final, they've played in Europe and they regularly beat the real big spenders in the league.

I suggest you grab yourself a dictionary and look up the term 'progress' - try 'deluded' as well, you might have an epiphany...

[Salgado Is A Hero]

They didn't make any progress since they were promoted, I think that's what he meant. I'm aware of where they came from and all that, but considering they've spent quite a bit of money, and they came closest this season to being relegated than any other so far, he kind of has a point.

[McClarky]

This is the stupidest thing I've read in a while. Didn't make any progress?! Thanks to Pulis, Stoke are now an established Premier League team, they reached an FA Cup final, they've played in Europe and they regularly beat the real big spenders in the league.

I suggest you grab yourself a dictionary and look up the term 'progress' - try 'deluded' as well, you might have an epiphany...

In football now if you don't do better than you're previous season you're viewed as a failure no matter how far you've come in previous years. It's a crazy way to carry on but seems to be the norm now. Would have meant Ferguson getting sacked in 95 and Shankly in the late 60s etc.

[Rover_Shaun]

like who???

please give me three managers who would come to rovers given the current boardroom problems and Venkys as owners???

Don't kid yourself. Managers are an arrogant self confident bunch. There would be plenty of applicants. Send me the almanac of out of work managers and I'll pick a few. after first reading their minds of course

Bowyer being the only option is a Venkied outlook

[Majiball]

no thanks.

done a great job at Stoke but don't want him here.

wouldn't play to Rhodes strengths and doesn't develop young talented players from Academy.

this is what we need a manager to do.

just played 1 way which is Long ball football to a big target man

but stokes academy is not the best in the grand scale of things. It's also the chairmans baby and I know there are issues between Pulis and those running the academy. Pulis will lose as the chairman likes what he's got.

Absolutely stupid move as it's been flying round all year but with academy staff going not him.

[pontyrover]

In football now if you don't do better than you're previous season you're viewed as a failure no matter how far you've come in previous years. It's a crazy way to carry on but seems to be the norm now. Would have meant Ferguson getting sacked in 95 and Shankly in the late 60s etc.

Spot on. In my opinion, Stoke have just made the same mistake we did when we sacked Big Sam.I also think that their fans have got Pulis sacked as a result of him building a team around a philosophy that, lets face it, is painful to watch but got results. I remember watching us lose 3-0 at Stoke a few years back and it was hideous on the eye but that's the price we pay for following a small club who fight to stay in the top flight every season, 40 points is all that matters - which in itself highlights the sorry state of football at the moment. Pulis raised expectations so much at Stoke that sadly he's paid the price. Stability = progress = success... sadly money,greed and a necessity to avoid relegation has blurred that simple equation which I think is why managers are being sacked all the time and is why many people are falling out of love with the beautiful game. It's madness. Might put a tenner on Stoke to go down next year!

[T.J.Newton]

but stokes academy is not the best in the grand scale of things. It's also the chairmans baby and I know there are issues between Pulis and those running the academy. Pulis will lose as the chairman likes what he's got.

Absolutely stupid move as it's been flying round all year but with academy staff going not him.

Only a stupid move if he's replaced with muppet like kean or another lesser manager, if they aim to get a higher calibre of manager like Hughes, Martinez, Rafa .. then its the right decision.

[Majiball]

But it is the 1st team manager doesn't produce the kids from the academy. That's what I'm told the chairman wants and the man running it is a dinosaur. Hughes stock is gash at present after QPR, I'd rather have Pulis, Martinez is by all accounts going to Everton. Rafa I think he'll be going elsewhere. It's a rash decision he's done them very well over the last 7 years and has them comfortably established which is about the best they can hope for.

I'd put money on MONiell.

[T.J.Newton]

Spot on. In my opinion, Stoke have just made the same mistake we did when we sacked Big Sam.I also think that their fans have got Pulis sacked as a result of him building a team around a philosophy that, lets face it, is painful to watch but got results. I remember watching us lose 3-0 at Stoke a few years back and it was hideous on the eye but that's the price we pay for following a small club who fight to stay in the top flight every season, 40 points is all that matters - which in itself highlights the sorry state of football at the moment. Pulis raised expectations so much at Stoke that sadly he's paid the price. Stability = progress = success... sadly money,greed and a necessity to avoid relegation has blurred that simple equation which I think is why managers are being sacked all the time and is why many people are falling out of love with the beautiful game. It's madness. Might put a tenner on Stoke to go down next year!

sorry, but for every allardyce, pulis there is a Laudrup, steve Clarke, hughes(that play good-reasonable football and still get results on modest budgets), I think its more to do with getting the best out of the players available and playing to their strengths.

[Amo]

Spot on. In my opinion, Stoke have just made the same mistake we did when we sacked Big Sam.I also think that their fans have got Pulis sacked as a result of him building a team around a philosophy that, lets face it, is painful to watch but got results. I remember watching us lose 3-0 at Stoke a few years back and it was hideous on the eye but that's the price we pay for following a small club who fight to stay in the top flight every season, 40 points is all that matters - which in itself highlights the sorry state of football at the moment. Pulis raised expectations so much at Stoke that sadly he's paid the price. Stability = progress = success... sadly money,greed and a necessity to avoid relegation has blurred that simple equation which I think is why managers are being sacked all the time and is why many people are falling out of love with the beautiful game. It's madness. Might put a tenner on Stoke to go down next year!

I was by no means a fan of Allardyce's "football", but to compare him to Pulis, who's spent some £80m in the PL, and achieved the same mid-table obscurity that Sam did here on a shoestring, is a massive miscalculation.

[Majiball]

I was by no means a fan of Allardyce's "football", but to compare him to Pulis, who's spent some £80m in the PL, and achieved the same mid-table obscurity that Sam did here on a shoestring, is a massive miscalculation.

I still get a sharp pain in my neck every-time I look up, thanks Sam.

[blueboy3333]

I was by no means a fan of Allardyce's "football", but to compare him to Pulis, who's spent some £80m in the PL, and achieved the same mid-table obscurity that Sam did here on a shoestring, is a massive miscalculation.

Pulis made a few bad buys in the last couple of years but he had to build a team from nothing. Allardyce walked into a club that had been in the Prem for most of the last 15 years and had players like Jones, Nelsen, Samba and Friedel already there. Pulis did a great job at Stoke but i can understand the fans being bored rigid with what they had to watch every week.

[Salgado Is A Hero]

Personally I don't think it's a given that Pulis would have continued to keep them up. Reading and QPR were shocking this year, we've recently lost two perennial relegation battlers in Wigan and Wolves and they came fairly close this year.

Newcastle and possibly Villa and Sunderland won't battle relegation next year, Norwich and the promoted clubs probably will.

I think Stoke could have gone down next year under Pulis. They're about to lose Begovic it seems as well.