Speroni, Ward, Mariappa, Dann, Bolasie, Dikgacoi, Puncheon, Jedinak, Delaney, Gabbidon, Moxey, Ledley, Chamakh, Bannan, Jerome.

These were the players that Pulis attained a 11th place finish with. No Zaha, Cabaye, Benteke, Townsend etc etc.
Hodgson inherited a decent squad, including later signings Sahko, Milivojevic, Schlupp, Van Aanholt, Riedewald. Let's add a few of his own signings: Kouyate, Ayew, Cahill. Notable mention also for Eze and the timely coming good of Wan Bissaka and Mitchell. How is it that he hasn't been able to better Pulis's finish with a squad he says is his best?

Edited by southnorwoodhill (10 Jan 2021 6.28pm)

'The season is not over yet!'

Really? It feels as if it is. Great Cup run. Top half finish? Dream on. The usual scramble to get to 38 points is what awaits us. Oh, and it would be good if we could beat Brighton. That's all anyone at CPFC's really bothered about (apart from the fans).

SouthNorwoodHill's excellent point about what Pulis achieved with what he had to work with is still to receive a convincing answer.

'The season is not over yet!'

Really? It feels as if it is. Great Cup run. Top half finish? Dream on. The usual scramble to get to 38 points is what awaits us. Oh, and it would be good if we could beat Brighton. That's all anyone at CPFC's really bothered about (apart from the fans).

SouthNorwoodHill's excellent point about what Pulis achieved with what he had to work with is still to receive a convincing answer.

I'd retire. Even Fergie had retried by his age. I'd hope to be retired a long time before that. Maybe go out and pursue other passions, travel the world, spend time with grandkids?

£4.5m a year is a lot of money, but when you are already a multimillionaire surely there's better stuff you can do with your time than go to a freezing cold training ground in Beckenham every day. He can't take it with him and only has one child to give it to. Surely, you get to a point when you don't need the money anymore. Maybe Mrs Roy wants a Sunseaker?

Given he's in the twilight of his career. Why's he satisfied with such a low level of ambition. Friday night may have been his last opportunity to win a major trophy and we didn't even chase the game.

He had one season to prove a point after his England failure. Now, I cant really see what would motivate him. He's done this all before and isn't going to try anything new. He has got a track record of being stubborn though.

What would you do if you were a 73 year old multimillionaire who'd already had a long career?

Edited by jeeagles (10 Jan 2021 5.03pm)

That's not really answering my question.

Clearly Roy is not going to retire at least until the end of the season.

So again, would you change a formula that has previously worked for you if you were him ?

You do have to bare in mind though what it takes to be in the top 1%. I’m referring to the richest people in the World broadly speaking but okay if Roy falls short of that you can break it down into several other categories - top 1% of Football Managers, top 1% of 74 year old rich people that didn’t grow up rich etc etc.

Point is, to make it to the top 1% without inheriting anything is so extremely hard and aside from pure luck takes such a level of hard work and dedication that it’s probably impossible for Someone to just switch off and relax just because they’re ‘a 74 year old millionaire with everything they need’.

The key to these people is a trait in personality that they can’t relax. A beach holiday for 2 weeks is hell, so the idea of doing that for all of retirement/rest of your life is probably agony.

Could be coincidence but Alex Ferguson had a brain aneurism and nearly died a couple of years after retiring to relax as Man Utd Manager. Physically speaking he should’ve been much more likely to suffer a stress related illness whilst at Man Utd but psychologically it may well be he manages stress a lot better in a highly stressed workplace environment.

When you take a look at a lot of other professions that fall into the top 1% - acting for example, you can get away with having a mini project once a year where the Director and Stunt Doubles can make Robert DeNiro look good still so people don’t notice as much.

But you of course can argue the same thing for them - when your mind is aged and fragile, your body is stiff but you have the money to live on a Beach for eternity then why wake up in the morning to learn lines, travel to film shoot destinations around the Country/World, spend hours uncomfortable in makeup under hot lights, promote your film on late night chat shows?

Surely they have all the money too like Roy? Well yes and they also have the same personality of never being able to rest. It’s a blessing and a curse. Reverse it and people like us dream of being rich beyond our wildest dreams so we can live on a beach or a Mansion. Sadly that’s the very reason we never will because we take breaks and enjoy relaxation time, most of us probably far too much to ever be SUPER successful. (Don’t take that as an insult or send you into a depression, I only mean a healthier work/life balance usually means you don’t achieve the top 1% in your field or of Humanity).

I’m sorry I’m sure this has been a boring ramble but it was just in relation to you guys going back and forth with ‘what would you do in Roy’s shoes?’ It broadly doesn’t matter because what you would do is the very reason you won’t be in his position in the first place. So it’s moot.

Edited by leejaneagles (11 Jan 2021 12.35am)