Morning/Afternoon Palace fans,

Boro fan here who comes in peace, I'm well aware of the acrimonious nature of his departure but I'm genuinely interested in the impact you felt Pulis had on your club, how was he received? How was the football? I recall enjoying watching you shock teams on MOTD and seemed to play with some flair at times.

I'm expecting dull but ultimately effective. Honest and preferably not too heavily tainted opinions?

Cheers all and good luck for with the season 👍

Pulis is an interesting one. There is no doubt he did a great job for us in keeping us in the premier league. He inherited a team full of pace and utilised it, making us an effective counter attacking side.

Unfortunately, it became clear from what he was asking for from the transfer market that where he utilised the pace of a bolasie for instance, he didn't like players like him who were unpredictable. Pulis much prefers a James McClean type player.

When it became clear we could get Zaha back pulis wasn't happy. Clearly, it is now proven that pulis was wrong to suggest we ignore such an oppprtunity. He was also looking to get out the club dishonestly, demanding we pay his bonus in full so he could buy a property, before fcuking off as soon as the funds were in his bank. This isn't speculation, a court of law agreed and he had to pay the club 3m in damages.

So in short, decent manager, doesn't like flair players and over time the football you play will reflect this and a dishonest Cnut who tried screwing our chairman and lost big time.

laddo

"People say, live fast, die young. I say live fast, die old. That's me, the non-conformist".
David Brent.

As others said did a good job with us. His departure from us suggested that he is strong willed in relation to owners, so may have a future rocky road with Gibson.

“ [T]here are known knowns; there are things we know that we know.There are known unknowns; that is to say there are things that, we now know we don't know.But there are also unknown unknowns – there are things we do not know we don't know. ”
—United States Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld

Impossible to overstate how amazing our turnaround was under him. We had the weakest team in the division by a long way, and really lacked any quality. Not just to escape, but to finish 11th was miraculous.

The football wasn't awful hoofball (the same can be said for our time under Allardyce). Bolasie was a crucial outlet, as much for his ability to carry the ball up the pitch as anything else. In defence the wingers would drop back so that we effectively had a back 6, and defenders like Ward played better than they ever did before or since.

How it'll work with a team like Boro looking to dominate the league and gain promotion, I'm not sure - we played pure counter-attacking football, and I think that in subsequent seasons, Pulis would have experienced what every subsequent Palace manager has: when teams come to Selhurst to play against our pacy counter-attacking side, they just sit back and nullify us completely.

Won't comment on the departure or transfer rumours in the summer, as it's all very murky. Suffice it to say that walking out when he did was a dick move, and the guy is clearly very dodgy (e.g. at Gillingham).

Great manager, greedy, manipulative despicable person.
Google 'Pulis Gillingham court case' - we weren't the first to be screwed over by him, and I doubt we will be the last.

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Boro will climb the table with Pulis.

now go and do us a favour. Kick lumps out of Millwall.

thanks

Kayla did Anfield & Old Trafford