[Slick_Footwork]

Trouble is Ska'd, Pulis' buying record at Sjoke wasn't exactly what you would call successful.
In fact a lot of expensive failures interspersed with the odd good signing. Whilst TP can probably keep us up playing PTB football, I do fear for the long term quality of the type of play we will see at The Hawthorns.
These people who only a season or two ago were berating Pulis for his hoof ball thuggery tactics now regard him as the Messiah. Stoke got rid as it was so bad to watch and now people believe he's walking on water for us. Hmmmm.....

I hear a lot in football about 'long term' and 'projects' and to be honest, I don't believe in them.

Regardless of the style of play, the only thing we can build on, as a club, is staying in this league. Plus was the man with the most experience of that.

Staying up gives us a better platform to play good football long term. We could've got a manager in with no experience of the relegation dogfight who tries to play football now, but it would've been more of a risk than TP. If you do go down, you lose all of your best players, then the football could be dross and it's against the likes of Rotherham, Scunthorpe and Yeovil...

So while I agree that long term, it might not be great to watch. I'd rather see us 'park the bus' and stay up than try to go toe to toe with teams and go down. I must admit though, ideally, I'd have liked Pulis on a shorter term, so his primary job was just to stablise us.

Still, it could be worse, I've seen teams with far better players than we have (Eden Hazard and co) be set up to park the bus...