Believe me, I'm no fan of any manager who leaves a Tony Pulis type mark on a club that they usually have to live with for years after their departure. But strictly from a fire fighting point of view, I'd go as far as saying he's probably one of the best at what he does in the world.

If Wales do decide they'd rather not have the national team playing the footballing equivalent of rugby, then we should be worried. Because a fellow relegation rival will pick him up at some point, and there is no doubt they'll end up staying up.

For the record I wouldn't take Pulis back for the reason originally quoted by Kermit in another thread about this: standards and principle. Sometimes these things are bigger than just Parish-esque worming your way out of everything then claiming glory.

I think it's about time we stop just doing whatever it takes for artificial success that won't ever last and start building the club from the bottom up, regardless of if we go down or not.

We're the Arthur over ere!

I assume that with his severence pay he can now pay us back in full

Will be managing Swansea by Christmas.

be careful what you wish for baggies fans, we're a prime example of looking too far up and having higher expectations instead of just being happy with what you've got

It's a pity we didn't scramble something from our first four matches. Had we done some of these clubs might think that de Boer was merely a poor fit for us and was actually reasonably decent. Then one of them might have hired him and promply imploded.

Of course if that happened to Seaweed it would be hilarious.

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To be fair to Willo he's always said he's not ITK, he's proved it on this thread.