Sorry to gatecrash your forum but this is all so familiar. The threads on The Oatcake used to read just like this. I totally agree with Dangermouse, I'd rather watch entertaining football in a lower division than Pulisball. £60m or £2m what does that matter to the fan? Is it your money? We go to football to be entertained.
The game against Southampton sounds like most of the games we had to suffer last season. This is why Stoke fans were so glad to be rid of him. He is a poisoned chalice - yes he's good at avoiding relegation, but at what price to your club's soul?
And it already sounds like he's started patronising you by telling you to remember where you came from and telling you you're not as big a team as others around you. This is what becomes so infuriating. Even after spending £90m at Stoke, the fourth highest amount in five years in the prem, he was still telling us that we were minnows and weren't good enough to take the game to teams like Hull and Reading!!! I totally sympathise with you. You need to keep him until the end of the season, hope he keeps you up and then get rid quick, before you're all gnawing your own arms off in boredom next season, because he only gets worse as time goes on.

Forgive my ignorance, but who is Pep?

"You can feel the stadium jumping. The stadium is actually physically moving up and down"
FA Cup MOTD 24/4/16

Oh that's strange they won so easily when they actually hardly had a shot on target apart from the goal and didn't trouble Speroni except when they hit the post. They are soooo good that they laboured to a win. We didn't look like winning this one but you must have brown stuff in your eyes (and a lot of it) if you think Southampton were ever nailed on for the win until they scored.

Watching the game from the start,it soon seemed clear, that we were huffing, and puffing, without really knowing what to do, when we did get the ball...and yet, the 'Saints',always seemed to have a plan, didn't panic, or give away the ball to often..

Take the free kicks.. we, when we did have them,wasted good clear changes, and yet, they, had it all worked out, AND, had a set play, on what to do with the ball..

We seem to like just 'farting', about with the ball when we get it..very frustrating..make stupid passes, usually to them, or pass it BACK, instead of attacking forward..

With this stye of play, it is, going down to the wire lads..make no mistake..seen it all before..sadly.

Here since 81...(LAST CENTURY !!).. x-Dunraven School, early 1960.... Palace 'nut' since 58....

The thing is mate the football has not been that bad we lost at home to Man UTD drew away at Swansea and lost to a better Southampton side. Our anti Pulis lot seemed to make there mind up about him before he was manager and disappear when we win which has been a lot. They reappear after a bad game like they expect us to win each game. The football is not bad at all.

Sorry but the football is very poor, and one goal every two games is scant reward for paying Prem prices. I've been a season-ticket holder since 1984 but am struggling to justify paying nearly £500 for 19 games of this standard next season.