[Sir Megson]

The other thing people have to remember is that a change of manager doesn't guarantee a better style.

Everyone talks like the football was great before Pulis, but it was absolutely dross under Irvine. At least under Pulis we are competitive at home, under Irvine we were dross to watch and weak.

There has been a lot of teams playing terrible, defensive football in the Premier League for the last 2 or 3 years and good football from anyone outside of the top 6 is the exception to the norm. I guess it's a coincidental time because we've just played Watford, but Marco Silva is the only new manager in the last 2 years I can remember coming in and playing football with a 'lesser' side.

I mean people give Bournemouth a lot of credit for good football, but when I watch them, I don't see it. Yes, they have a fair share of the ball, but they don't have players that excite you, beat a man, thread balls through. When we played them at home on the opening day they huffed and puffed but didn't create anything.

Swansea brought in Clement, who had been at all the big clubs and they are terrible to watch now. Southampton have had 2 foreign managers at in last 2 years, both successful abroad, but barely look like scoring. Boro were absolute dross last year with Karanka in charge, once a cracking player at Real Madrid. West Ham are just as boring as us under Bilic, who has spent a lot more money. Even Everton, having spent probably 4x the money that we have in the summer play with multiple defensive midfielders, no width, no pace and are absolutely shocking to watch.

Palace brought in De Boer, who was apparently a footballing coach and didn't score a goal in 5 games... Then they brought in another 'dinosaur' in Hodgson to try and save the day.

We need to be careful what we wish for. The grass isn't always greener.

The fact is, this is Premier League. It's a league where teams at the bottom defend for their lives, foreign manager or not. It's all about money, clubs couldn't care less about entertaining.

Another accurate description of the current state of the Premier League, especially your comments about Bournemouth. They were a fantastic side to watch in their promotion season but since their days in the PL they have become one of my least liked teams. Diving/Play acting to waste time and not the most entertaining football to watch either.

This poll and the reaction in general since the Watford game is a hideous overreaction. 

Conceding a last minute goal to scupper what would have been a good result is definitely annoying, however I don't recall calls for Pepe Mel's head after the 3-3 at home to Cardiff. His football was also shite to watch.

The comments in this thread are not a reaction to the Watford game, they're a reaction to 3 years of mind-numbing boredom of watching Albion under Pulis. I also don't agree with your comment re Pepe Mel - the results may well have been shite but most games I saw (and those were my pre-Pulis season ticket times) had at least some entertainment, even if some of it was of the comical variety. We scored goals and we conceded goals and, guess what, we stayed up.

Sorry but this is a reaction to the Watford game. If we'd have held on for 2-1, this thread and poll would not have been posted. 

Yesterday was also anything other than a boring game, although I'd probably be bored just watching the football via streams on a laptop as well. The point of going up the Albion isn't just about the 90 minutes on the pitch, it's the meeting up with friends, watching the early KO, having a drink and some banter. 

To be honest I cannot wait until the eventual day when Pulis does leave just the same as you; because he won't be here forever, however I'm not naive enough to think that just because we change the manager our style of football will improve.