He is not here to love the club, he's here to make us a competitive unit and keep us in the PL. Peter Taylor and Ian Holloway loved the club, but....

When he's interviewed, win, lose or draw, he always seems have his feet firmly planted on the ground. He knows he can't get carried away, or be over-expectant.

It's his levelheaded-ness and pragmatism that will keep us up. If the results aren't going our way, then by all means question his commitment, but he is delivering the results and is fully committed to the job at hand. He may learn to love the club, but as long as he continues to provide results, I don't think we can complain! Many of us treated Dougie being our manager as a fairy tale waiting to happen, and look how that turned out?

He is unbelievably professional, and that's what matters at the end of the day. You can't expect someone to join a club and instantly buy into every aspect of it, but he has an opportunity here to become a historic manager and who knows where he will lead us. If we stay up, he has to be retained for aslong as he delivers results, because he can help grow the club like he did at Stoke.

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Tony Pulis is an excellent manager, and probably close to achieving a Palace historical achievement - Remaining in the premiership, despite being handed a team that were rightly written off as relegated.

It might not be the most attractive football, but its tactically asute and adept, based on exploitation of strengths and minimising of weaknesses. A lot of managers could learn a thing or two about adaptability in football from him, and Martinez. Other managers talk tactics, but they base their theory on what they know. Martinez and Pulis have an almost mathematical approch to a game where 'possession' is vaunted as the ideal, they play a guerilla football.

Pulis's achievements in the premier league are probably only eclipsed by Wenger and Ferguson. Other managers have achieved more, such as Muarino, but they did it backed by huge cash reserves and the pick of the worlds best.

Pulis is the Viet Cong to the Premier League 'American US Military'. The very fact he's got us in competition for premiership survival should be greated with applause and respect. If he achieves it, then he should be raised up to the same kind of status reserved for the likes of Ferguson.

It might not be the prettiest, but its not about how good you look, its entirely about points.

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I don't really understand those who denigrate Pulis. The purpose of football is to win matches and reach, then remain in, top flight. The size of your budget can either aid or abet this goal. Pulis has consistently led his teams to both success and survival. Surely it is those outcomes that define his position as an absolutely top-class manager?

Playing "Arsenal-style" possession football versus "Pulis-style" power football certainly involves two different kettles of fish but why is one better than the other and who is to say it is, anyway? No one says Monet is a better artist than Leonardo is a better artist than Picasso because one group of people finds one's style more aesthetically pleasing than another's. They are all world-class artists who just depict things in different ways; not better or worse, just different. The same with music; no one can say Mozart is better than Beethoven is better than Mahler. They all compose music recognised as sublime in vastly different styles. Did someone appoint Alan Hansen or whoever the definitive arbiter of taste while I was out of the room?

The "Pulis football is coarse" argument is absolutely pathetic. His teams are organised, powerful, near impossible to break down, well coached, responsible and, dare I say it, even exciting. I don't know about you, but winning on a regular basis in the Premiership is pretty exciting in my book, and with two genuine wingers at that. The fact that without a big-four budget, Pulis is doing it by making a silk purse out of a sow's ear makes it even more impressive.

In reality, any idiot can manage a team with a Chelsea-sized budget. Even Moyes, who is pathologically useless, has Man. Utd. in the top seven in spite of his lack of competence rather than because of it. I don't see that we're playing a brand of football that's any better or any worse than any other team in our area of the table except possibly Swansea. And with better players having come in during the last window, I'm sure Pulis will have us playing a more attacking brand of football too. Anyone want Holloway and his "prettier football" back? Thought not.

Edited by sydtheeagle (10 Feb 2014 1.27pm)

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Glad to see the majority are appreciating TP.

You can understand why he still has a soft spot for Stoke. His achievement with us was nothing short of miraculous and it looks like he may achieve a miracle at Palace as well. You were dead and buried before he joined and now youre level with us (didn't want him to do that well but never mind). Like people have hinted in terms of what he does hes every bit the manager that Mourinho, Wenger and Ferguson are. In reality do you believe any of them could have turned your season around ? Don't think he ever won a manager of the month in ten years, which says more about how the awards are distributed rather than anything about TP

Ok his football isn't always that good to watch but in the situation youre in surely its better than watching pretty tippy tappy stuff but losing every week.

Just to correct a couple of misconceptions though

I don't think that he was sacked. Rumour is he had a strong disagreement with a couple of clowns who took charge of our transfer policy and it was genuine agreement by both parties that he left.

Althuough at the beginning he worked on a very tight budget the last two years saw us spend near on £80million.

Anyway I genuinely hope he keeps you up (goodbye Fulham, Cardiff and West Brazil). Would really like him to bring you back to the Brit, Im sure he would get a fantastic reception