Would YOU be happy with Tony Pulis?

[scooter lad]

I believe relegation will result in a court injunction against any fine and a massive FFP court case which we will win because FFP is blatantly illegal.

more drama we don't need. the football under pulis can't be any worse than the pish we've been served up under harry the false messiah. tp over hr and his cronies all day long. IMO.

[dsqpr]

Is that mainly down his 'image' in the media?

He's been a manager in the Premier League for 6 seasons and finished midtable every time. Stoke were known for the long ball and long throw in but they also played some good stuff. Palace didn't have a tall team or a long throw in taker and played some good stuff too. I honestly think a lot of negativity toward Tony Pulis is down to people like Arsene Wenger moaning about him and Stoke in the media.

Just the impression I have, I'm not sure why. Probably some media influence but to be honest I don't read much about Stoke or Palace! My impression certainly could be wrong.

[Ginger Ninja]

Never understood the obsession with 'total football'.You really expect the sort of players we have to play like Barcelona?.You rather we try to play fancy football and get relegated or 'direct' football and stay up?.

We are a Championship team and nothing more.I would take Pulis getting us punching above our weight than some helmet who has been watching too much La Liga and getting above his station and trying to show off.

Youve missed my point totally. My point is people seem to want Harry out because we play sh*t football under him. Yet they want Pulis in, when the football really wont be any better.

[brightonr]

Youve missed my point totally. My point is people seem to want Harry out because we play sh*t football under him. Yet they want Pulis in, when the football really wont be any better.

Winning sh*t is better than losing sh*t though.

[Jimmy Floyd Rabbit]

Youve missed my point totally. My point is people seem to want Harry out because we play sh*t football under him. Yet they want Pulis in, when the football really wont be any better.

Not overly bothered about the style. Palace played some decent football last season under him. I'm more concerned with winning games & coming away from matches knowing my team have tried their nuts off. Unlike the dross we're currently being served up and have been for the last two years almost.

[Geng]

Nope he is another short term appointment like Redknapp

We should do a proper interview process

yup. Loft for words put it well in his Southampton profile:

In the end, it seems that the British football press and pundits have, not for the first time, overlooked the value of a long term plan and strategy. Once you get below the big six or seven clubs in this country it's the clubs investing in youth development, European scouting and training facilities, with aims and targets set years in the future, rather than weeks, that are doing well. You can tell these clubs – Swansea, Southampton, West Brom until recently – a mile away because they're the ones who make apparently leftfield managerial appointments like Michael Laudrup, Mauricio Pochettino and Ronald Koeman rather than rushing to throw money at the latest loud-mouthed flavour of the month i.e. Tim Sherwood.

http://www.fansnetwork.co.uk/football/queensparkrangers/news/36364/beware-the-club-with-the-long-term-plan-%E2%80%93-opposition-profile

For Sherwood read Pulis. I'd rather the latter, but he'd still be a perfect case of the obvious high-profile flavour of the month candidate.

Who is the best manager in the Dutch league right now, for instance? Or Scandinavia? Bundesliga? Or the Championship? If we don't know - why not? That should be Fernandes or Beard's job. It'd be Les' job now in theory, but I can't see him having the same sort of professional relationship with Harry that the various DoFs or equivalents at West Brom, Southampton and Swansea have with their managers. Those three all have replacement managers in mind in the same way clubs scout for players.

We pay more than anyone in those leagues I mentioned with the exception of Bayern and possibly Dortmund; we could take our pick of the managers there. But there is maybe 5% chance we wouldn't go for someone in the top two or three candidates in a snap Talksport "who should be QPR's next manager" poll.

[Suffolk]

Pulis would be the right medication for the ailments we have.

[Lunar Jetman]

Pulis would be the right medication for the ailments we have.

That's like saying amputation is the best curve for a foot with gangrene.....

[BUSHRANGER1982]

No. Fed up with the rubbish being served up to us now, don't want to continually see dull, unexciting football week after week after morale sapping week.

[Ginger Ninja]

Not overly bothered about the style. Palace played some decent football last season under him. I'm more concerned with winning games & coming away from matches knowing my team have tried their nuts off. Unlike the dross we're currently being served up and have been for the last two years almost.

No neither am i, as has been said, winning sh*t is better than losing sh*t. Thats only the point i was trying to make.

[12321]

Haven't read all this thread, so apologies if I'm repeating what's been said.
We have short and long term needs, the obvious one being that we need to avoid relegation. I'm concerned that we could end up in admin if we go down. TF has demonstrated already with Caterham that there comes a point where he throws the towel in if it's not working, and he has put a lot of time and money into project QPR with very little tangible gain.

Pulis I believe is the best man available to give us a fighting chance of survival this season and so I think he should be approached without delay and given a season long contract. Big survival bonus, and at that stage we will talk. In the meantime check out the market for a long term msnsger from Europe as has been suggested and give him the money and the authority to impose himself on the dressing room. Anyone not fully behind him is on the bench and the transfer list.

[Bluehoop]

All rather odd in my mind - people advocating Pulis refer to his aggressive playing style and no nonsense attitude which he has brought through into management. They suggest that he took no crap as a player and takes no crap as a manager and expects the same work ethic from his players as he once had on the pitch. Whilst there's no doubting those as facts, it is as clear as night is day that those same facts applied to (and, it seems apply again now) another former manager that failed miserably at Rangers. Hard, no nonsense, tough tackling, gave it his all and expected the same from his team mates, brought the same attitude into management and kept half decent teams afloat in the PL with his methods = ladies and gentlemen I give you Mark Hughes
So on that basis and with another short term, short sighted appointment being proposed, I suggest it all smacks of out of the frying an into the fire and another message board meltdown in the not too distant future

[12321]

All rather odd in my mind - people advocating Pulis refer to his aggressive playing style and no nonsense attitude which he has brought through into management. They suggest that he took no crap as a player and takes no crap as a manager and expects the same work ethic from his players as he once had on the pitch. Whilst there's no doubting those as facts, it is as clear as night is day that those same facts applied to (and, it seems apply again now) another former manager that failed miserably at Rangers. Hard, no nonsense, tough tackling, gave it his all and expected the same from his team mates, brought the same attitude into management and kept half decent teams afloat in the PL with his methods = ladies and gentlemen I give you Mark Hughes
So on that basis and with another short term, short sighted appointment being proposed, I suggest it all smacks of out of the frying an into the fire and another message board meltdown in the not too distant future

So were Palace wrong to appoint him last season? I don't think they would be in the prem if they hadn't.
We don't unfortunately have the luxury of waiting for the right long term appointment because of the threat of relegation which could be curtains for us as a club.

[dave58]

yes he might whip our bunch of prma dona's, or in Adels case Prima donner into shape, not really the person i want but he certainly wouldn't take any s**t, and he'd get them fit, as seeing as Harry keeps saying they're all unfit,

[Bluehoop]

So were Palace wrong to appoint him last season? I don't think they would be in the prem if they hadn't.
We don't unfortunately have the luxury of waiting for the right long term appointment because of the threat of relegation which could be curtains for us as a club.

Wrong to compare us to Palace IMO. My point is more about the way our Club has literally floundered from season to season for years, probably since the sacking of John Gregory (and that's not to say the place was a bed of roses before that) by bringing in countless managers who brought their own players in, only to last a dog watch and then be run out of town before any sort of harmony could exist. Pulis would be yet another very short term appointment and the wheel would just continue to turn in the same way so that in another 18 months time we are no further forward and then what?
Countless posters on this forum complain daily about the state of the Club, and because TF and HR are the current incumbents, they get the stick, years ago there were others to blame and in years to come there will again be a whole new load of whipping boys and the same complaints will arise - unless we make the right changes and make them now. Otherwise, what's the point of change for the sake of change, it cannot be rudderless again, the whole heart of the Club is non existent and there is no time like the present to change it for the better