[Slick_Footwork]

The Guy is a Welsh Howard Wilkinson
He might talk like he thinks he`s Van Gaal, Lippi or Guadiola but he`s more Graham Taylor and I dont mean that overly negatively
He`s old school 80`s Football manager, knows how to set up a team, can stop goals being scored, but tactically its mid eighties stuff-thats why every club he`s managed at top flight they whinge how bad he plays Full Backs and spends most of the time practicising set piece goals

He did from the outside fall out very childishly with players at Stoke even ones that he`d bought at quite a cost, he may have bought Stoke players six years ago but also made them one of the top seven clubs in the league in paying out transfer fees, 50k a week to Wilson Palicious never to play?

I think ask Stoke fans if they`d rather have Pulis or Mark Hughes

Pulis took Stoke from the bottom of the Championship and established them the Prem.

The football wasn't particularly pretty, but it's a results business. You're not going to get a team who
clog their way up from the Championship to suddenly play decent football in the Prem. It's a bit like
us under Megson, the transition to a footballing side takes years.

The fans now might prefer Hughes style (I still think Stoke are boring), which is fair enough, but what
they're forgetting is that it's easier to add 1 or 2 good footballers to an already established side than
it is to suddenly make a team of cloggers fresh out of the Championship into a footballing Prem side.

The Stoke fans who prefer Hughes have pretty short memories.