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I do not put Big Sam in the same bucket as Tony Pullis and I for one am happy with his appointment.

Accepted he would not be my number one choice but you can only look to managers that are available and can't (at this time of season) go tapping up a manager from another club. Choice is limited and in such a group his track record for keeping clubs up is second to none.

I then look only as far back as Everton where he did a tremendous job in changing their fortunes (bottom half to 5th?) during his time. He assesses the squad and works with what he has. He will shore up defence, as always, first and try to stop us leaking goals and he will look to the flair players to see if there is anything we can do tactically to take the fight up field and score goals.

Plus I guess he will have a budget to add something more to the squad (defensively I expect).

It has been depressing, end of last season and all of this one so far and so I am hoping the man can put some teeth into the team and get the fighting.

He has my support.