[May68]

Havnt posted since old bbc days but am a silent watcher, but all this winging and moaning has incensed me over the last few weeks. Can't anybody see we are a team in massive transition from what should have been a Champo team this season to a team trying to get rid of the shite we have bought for 2 seasons now. In doing this Pullis is rightly starting at the back hard to beat wins points at the moment.
So support the club and shut all the negativity up.
I'm not a Pullis lover or hater but an see what a mess he walked into.
There I have said it, feel a lot better now!!

Welcome to the boards Baggiebailey. 

I have to disagree that Pulis inherited a champo team. Yes we've had a habit of buying a lot of dross ever since Ashworth left, but for a long while now we have had a fairly settled squad full of players with years of international and premiership experience. The problem is that we haven't really added much quality to the generally very good business we did between about 2007-2011. I don't think Pulis is a miracle worker because he got a squad containing Foster/Myhill/Lescott/Brunt/Mulumbu/Mozza/Berahino etc to stay up.

I do agree that we are transitioning. The reason for the moaning is that a lot of us don't like what we are transitioning into. It seems that Pulis has pretty much been given free reign to sign whoever he likes by a chairman who either a) has too much trust in him, or b) allowed him this free reign as a condition of his arrival.  There is no long term strategy other than bringing in a load of domestic-based journeymen who Pulis thinks to be 'good lads in the dressing room' rather than the sulky foreigners we've tended to go for more recently i.e. Poco/Samaras/Sess/Varela. If you think the standard of football we are seeing is just a temporary blip while Pulis tries to sort things out, then I hope you are right but I just cannot share your optimism.