(03-03-2018, 18:03)Beefy 1965 Wrote: Burke should come on for Phillips in IMHO done nothing again today
Christ Rondon's missed a 1 on 1 and a free header from 6 Yards in the 2nd half
How can he score volleys from 25 yards and miss two sitters from 6 Yards
Rondon, with all the golden chances he’s missed this season, has cost Albion more points than any other player. He’s either been found out as crap, a one hat-trick wonder (v. Swansea a couple of seasons ago) or he’s got zero confidence. I’m going for he’s crap.
(03-03-2018, 21:15)SomersetBaggie Wrote: How long will it be before the 'experts' say that we got what we deserved for wanting Pulis out.
Alan Shearer has been a big critic of Albion for sacking Pulis, but he’s all about cliches. What he doesn’t seem to remember is that, since we beat Bournemouth at home last season in Round 26 of the Premier League fixtures, Pulis’s record from that match to the 4-0 home defeat by Chelsea this season read: P24 W3 D6 L15 Points 15.
Our last 12 games last season went P12 W1 D2 L9 Points 5.
Our first 12 games this season went P12 W2 D4 L6 Points 10.
A rhesus monkey could have worked out that is relegation form, but Alan Shearer evidently could not.
Pulis signed Salomon Rondon, James McClean, Jonny Evans, Matt Phillips, Nacer Chadli and Jake Livermore, all ostensibly better players than we had in our squad previously, yet he could not and would not make the transition from dour defensive tactics to attacking football, and his speciality was to persevere with playing players out of position.
Put all that to Alan Shearer and any of the 92 chairmen in the league, and I bet only Alan Shearer would still say we should have kept Pulis.
As poor as Pardew has been in terms of results, the blame for our impending relegation and lack of development rests squarely on the shoulders of Tony Pulis, and the players on the pitch, for the zero progress we made over last season and this. The current season and our players were already shot by the time Pulis was sacked.