[Zinman]

Can't understand the hate for TP on this thread, infact its a joke. He has all but guaranteed survival in less than 3 months after we looked doomed to relegation under clueless Irvine, also I don't get where this idea of him signing centre backs in every position and only signing giants comes from - McManaman is 5'9" and Fletcher is 6'0". Yes the away performances have been pretty boring but at home we have been excellent.

Would people rather we had Irvine back, got relegated and spent years in the championship missing out on the TV money and the chance to grow our club? Because that is what would have happened.

What "hate"? From my own perspective Pulis has been effective and played some good football -at home. Away, we've been dreadfully negative and yes, he has a habit of playing central defenders as full backs and surely even his most fervent supporters can see that Lescott is not effective at full back. My complaint is that why he can't see that our form and results have been excellent at home, so why not try to replicate it away where our results adopting his approach have been poor? I now understand why my Stoke supporting colleagues at work liked him so much and I didn't - simply they watched Stoke at home while I just endured his away performances