Spopt on. I think he is less effective when played right up front because we don't have another good central attacker to link up with him. So a lot of those superb touches - how good is his chest control, by the way! - go to waste.

Nevertheless, as I said earlier in the thread he was great today and put in a real shift for us, standing ovation from the crowd to prove it.

Time for us to sing his name? He deserves it/ TP's RednBlueARMY.

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If he were to keep us up this season, from the position we were in when he took charge...he should really get the manager of the year award.

With the combined media dislike of Palace and TP, there's a cat in hell's chance of that though!

Watching Pulis do interviews, you can tell that he knows what he is going. He is credible. IH was like a vaguely irritating and somewhat pissed best man at a bad wedding..

"The course of true love never did run smooth"

I had a lot of reservations about Pulis but i've got to say i've been hugely impressed by what hes done so far, he just looks like somebody who knows exactly what hes doing. This is the same squad that Ollie didn't have a clue what to do with, yet TP has organised them and most of all given them self belief. When IH left we were a laughing stock amongst the media but nobody is laughing now. Out of all the names that were bandied about for the job i honestly believe he is the only manager capable of keeping us up.

I was all for TP coming in. He did a great job at Stoke, getting them into, and keeping them in, the Prem. For me, of the names linked to the vacant manager's job, he was the one who I thought had the best chance of keeping us in the Prem.

Keith Millen deserves a lot of credit for what he did during the period between managers. He tightened the defence, and had the team working in a way not too dissimilar to how they play under TP.

Chatting to some Stoke fans before the match, they referred to TP as "The King", and they had no doubts at all that we would stay up with him in charge.