[Baggiebob(BBB)]

Pulis and Mugabe gone in 2 days - brilliant! Kim Jong-Un tomorrow. You heard it here first.  

Love it!        

i said that 2 weeks ago.    sorry Vicar with all those sermons you do you must have forgot.

[WBA-Josh]

Óscar García is a very good coach with a good reputation but appointing him would have a risk element to it especially at this stage of the season. This isn't because he has never worked in the Premier League but because of the style of play he brings. He brought into the Johan Cruyff and Barcelona ideology when he was a player there and he implements it into his coaching metheds and tactics.

He likes to play a 4-3-3 formation with a high line and intense pressing off the ball and lots of possession with quick, incisive passing when in possession. The in possession part would suit our players but the out of possession would not. However he is adaptable to the circumstances and will change to suit the players he has. He did that with Saint-Etienne whose centre backs are a slow as ours.

I would love to see him at the Hawthorns in the future and he is still my second choice after Koeman. However even though my heart says yes, my mind says he would probably be a better appointment in the summer rather than in the middle of the season.

[wba1978]

Óscar García is a very good coach with a good reputation but appointing him would have a risk element to it especially at this stage of the season. This isn't because he has never worked in the Premier League but because of the style of play he brings. He brought into the Johan Cruyff and Barcelona ideology when he was a player there and he implements it into his coaching metheds and tactics.

He likes to play a 4-3-3 formation with a high line and intense pressing off the ball and lots of possession with quick, incisive passing when in possession. The in possession part would suit our players but the out of possession would not. However he is adaptable to the circumstances and will change to suit the players he has. He did that with Saint-Etienne whose centre backs are a slow as ours.

I would love to see him at the Hawthorns in the future and he is still my second choice after Koeman. However even though my heart says yes, my mind says he would probably be a better appointment in the summer rather than in the middle of the season.

Hear what your saying Josh and your probably right.  You did allude to the fact that he is adaptable though with what he did at Saint-Etienne, and personally I'd be prepared to risk it to see more entertaining and all-round better football implemented. I see appointing someone like Pardew as just as a risk, as the style of play would no doubt improve, but he's not exactly someone who I perceive as being a successful long-term option, as he tends to do alright for 3/4 of a season then capitulates.  As for the likes of Pearson and Big Sam, give me Garcia any day!  Koeman would be good I agree, its just whether he would see coming to WBA as a step back in his career or not? It was well publicized that he had lofty aspirations before his Everton spell ended badly, with the possibility of managing Barcelona being touted as his next step up.

[drewks]

Yep, the managerial merry-go -round sometimes doesn't seem to recognise that someone's failed - Moyes seems to be a classic example. Great at Everton, not at Utd, failed in Spain and at Sunderland.....but gets the West Ham job 3 seconds after Bilic is sacked.

[silverbaggie]

I reckon that Pulis will be offered the Wales job.

Ideal for him as he can continue to claim he's never been relegated.

[WBA-Josh]

An article about why Óscar García left Saint-Etienne and the problems between him and the upper management. He seems like a man of principle who won't accept mediocrity and boardroom shenanigans. Make of it what you will. - https://www.getfootballnewsfrance.com/20...cias-exit/

I think at the moment, the job looks very likely to go to Alan Pardew. He's interested in the job, has a good friendship and former working relationship with Nick Hammond and has the Premier League experience that John Williams wants.

As for Pulis and Wales, I think he would be silly to reject any future approach they may make. In my opinion his time as a Premier League manager is going to start decreasing now so International Management would be a good change for him. The only downside for him would be the money that he will make. It will a lot less than the £2 million a year that he earned with us.

[drewks]

A bit of an insight to Alan Pardew - sounds spiffing to me

http://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2017/11/22/dea...est-bromw/

[WBA-Josh]

A bit of an insight to Alan Pardew - sounds spiffing to me

http://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2017/11/22/dea...est-bromw/

Looks good to me. I've never really liked Alan Pardew because he is a tit but the more I read about him and the more I think about it, he does look like a good fit.

More forward thinking football as well as defensive solidity is what we need and if he can bring it to the club then he will get my full support.

[bomberbrown1968]

Likewise Josh, never been a fan of Pardew, always came across as arrogant. what he has always shown is some passion for the game (see David Meyler) and he's always played football wherever he's gone and like everyone who's ever taken charge of the Baggies he'd get my support from the off if it does happen.

[Slick_Footwork]

If Pardew was to get the job, be nice if he could sign Hatem Ben Arfa again