[BaggyBomber]

I ended up going to the game and I really wish I hadn't. First my view of the players. The only real bright spark was Gnabry, who I thought looked really good. Scared them whenever he picked up the ball and ran at them and surprised me a little by tracking back. Lambert was awful aside from a couple of long shots so hopefully he's just a bit rusty. The back four didn't play well; their passing out from the back was woeful and they mostly resorted to aimless long balls. Rondon I thought was unlucky, hit the bar on a couple of occasions and things generally weren't falling for him.

Now, across all the sites we've all posted on over the years, I've never been one to call for the sacking of a manager. Until now. I want Tony Pulis out of this football club. I'm well aware I'm going to get stick for this but I can't take it any more. The standard of football has been atrocious ever since he took over and it's getting worse and worse, just endless long balls and it does my head in. I know they say "football is a results business" but it's surely supposed to be entertainment as well and we're not even getting the results these days! It's entirely possible he'll start to get the odd 1-0, as he does, but I will never be able to enjoy watching a team managed by a guy who gets a hard on at the idea of a centre half playing full back and lumping the ball up to a big striker, repeat ad nauseam. We're about to lose our best player of last year because Pulis insists on playing him at left back, for pity's sake! It's infuriating, dull, soulless and entirely devoid of excitement. I'm genuinely embarrassed by the team I've supported since I was a kid. And to make things worse, he's so staggeringly arrogant that to appease him we've had to destroy the entire structure of the club, the structure that has been the foundation of our success over the last decade so we'll be in a much sorrier state when he leaves than when he arrived. It's maddening.

Did you go Sunday?  Entirely different.  I agree with Aries' comments.

As a matter of interest, your replacement would be......?