He organised us defensively of course, we ceded possession, but he found the best way for us to attack - get the ball as quick as poss to the wingers, and by identifying our most skillful player, Marouane Chamakh, a non-scoring striker, and turning him into a 'number 10' - the football was not boring or route one, although we did basically park the bus and break quickly.

But he took WBA here two seasons back, they sat back did nothing and were ok for an hour b4 we won 2-0. They were dog food but a 0-0 draw and you can justify it, but if you play with no ambition and lose it's unnacceptable for watching fans esp if they've travelled. I went to the Hawthorns last season when we won 2-0 and their team did seem to consist of 30-something navvies who played horrible football. So it's a mixed picture - his football is not all like it was at Stoke, he is a sophisticated intelligent coach, he knows what he's doing and generally buys well. Good choice for you I'd say - he'll get you up if not this year then next year you'll be one of the favourites, and he can keep you up once you get promoted - so it won't be for a fair few seasons that any grumblings will start, already a great win at Preston, so it looks a positive move.

In a way we got lucky. We had him for long enough that he could sort us out, but not so long that he got his signings in too significantly.

We were a team that played on flair and pace, so he had to play with that. As soon as we wanted Zaha, he wasn't interested. Interesting to note where Pulis and Zaha are both now respectively.

He'll do a good job for you. You'll be difficult to beat and provided you've already got some talented players, the football will be fine because he'll have to use it.

That said, I wouldn't be in the slightest bit surprised if your summer signings included Chris Brunt, Fraizer Campbell, Damien Delaney, and that you then picked up Joey Barton after his ban.

As a bloke, terrible.

26th January 2010 - Enter Administration
2nd May 2010 - D-Day 1 - Survival at Hillsborough
1st June 2010 - D-Day 2 - Survival at Lloyds
7th June 2010 - CPFC2010 exchange contracts.

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he organized us and got every drop of what we could be out of us. I think he was very lucky that he had no real choice except to build a team -- offensively at least -- around Bolasie.

if you look at his career, I'm not sure he trusts flair players who do loads of tricks but he had to with Bolasie and it worked.

So he ends up going with sensible and eventually his teams maybe stagnate -- that's what I think happened at stoke and wba anyway.

but if you're disorganised he'll improve you a lot and you'll not be a soft touch if he can get you up.

I'm no fan of him as a man.

If you want to live in a world full of kindness, respect and love, try to show these qualities.

Decent manager who will organise you well defensively. Likes to play four central defenders across the back and 2 holding midfielders that aren’t allowed to go forwards.

He likes his striker to do a LOT of closing down. He used Cameron Jerome who barely scored but did a lot of running. On the TV you could sometimes hear TP’s dulcet tones imploring him to ‘ROOOOOON CAM’, and Jerome would always respond, because that was the only way he would get Premier League football. A small vignette of life under Pulis.

I don’t have any hatred towards him, but as others have said he is somewhat calculating.

Vive le Roy!

He did a great job in making us hard to beat and Dann and Ledley were very good signings in his first window but there was a period when when looked as good as down and he lucked a bit on the form of a couple of individuals.

Not sure he’ll set out to win enough games to get automatic promotion but, contrary to the above, would hate to play against one of his sides in the play offs.

Loves tall players and absolute slag of a bloke. Have a google about his departure from Stoke. Very interesting article about this on the Guardian pages if it’s still there.