Two points.

Firstly the fact Allardyce took bungs or explained how to get them, is no reflection on his ability as a manager. George Graham, Herry Redknapp, to name but a few have shady pasts, and I am certain that if we were to scratch the surface with AP we would find the same, it's not right but it happens.

Allardyce in recent years has been brought in to save clubs that were already in some cases doomed like Newcastle, the last time he was given any length of meaningful time at a club was Bolton, who with limited resources and f*** all money managed to turn them into a side to be taken very seriously by the big boys.

Sorry three points..

I think your kind of missing my point, which is I don't think we have bad players, I think our first eleven is a match for most if not all sides in the prem, however we have gone backwards since Pulis left. I'm not saying Big Sam (crooked or not) is the next Alex ferguson far from it, but what I am saying is with him in charge, there is no way we lose to Burnley, West Brom, Leicester or Wet Spam, we may still have lost to Liverpool, but it wouldn't have been to free headers in the 6 yard box.

Come back Pulis all is forgiven

"It's not the bullet that's got my name on it that concerns me; it's all them other ones flyin' around marked 'To Whom It May Concern.'"

but have we gone backwards? we stayed up for 2 more seasons, got to a cup final and have a stronger squad which indicentially all acheived under pardew. pulis wanted to sign crouch & walters, pardew wanted to signcabaye & benteke. so pardew has actually improved the clib since joining regardless of the current form last 6 weeks.

‘Football isn’t instant coffee. You have to work at it. You must grow the bean, grind it.’ Ian Holloway

Edited for accuracy

If and I say a big IF ... because I think AP can still do a job for us ... I would want Chris Coleman as the next eagles manager.
I would want SP to try everything to get him.

Record crowd 51,482 - The Whitehorse was rocking - Second Div Champs 1978 - 79 ... 'wot a night !

I would say on the pitch a resounding and unequivocal YES ! think about it, you said it yourself, we have better (arguably) players now, than under Pulis, however we have won only 5 games in 33 attempts, losing in some incredibly naive circumstances, no matter how much you like the bloke those are the facts.

Then there's the obvious fact that we can apparently only play his football for one half of the 90 mins, give the opposition a goal or two head start, then we start playing. I have never seen a team be so utterly out classed in one half, then look like they could beat Arsenal with 9 men the next.

We are not playing football that we are good at. We are playing football he wants us to play, it isn't working. So change it, or jog on.

Edited by dannyh (24 Nov 2016 12.27pm)

"It's not the bullet that's got my name on it that concerns me; it's all them other ones flyin' around marked 'To Whom It May Concern.'"

I couldn't eat a whole one

All good. Nothing bad.