OFFICIAL - TONY PULIS APPOINTED SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY MANAGER

[swfc-dan]

Do we actually know the length of the contract yet? I haven't seen or heard anything regarding that, bizarre.

 

Also who are the coaching staff coming along with him?

[Chris Apolon]

I'm not anti-Pulis in much the same manner I wasn't anti Monk. Time will tell but based on Pulis' previous appointments I'm hoping he will achieve the same win % 

 

However there is a part of me that thinks the budget used to get rid of Monk and ALL his coaching staff and the amount spent to bring Pulis in could have been better spent on a striker before the window closed

Edited November 14, 2020 by Chris Apolon

[m77owl]

The most depressing uninspriring choice. I have seen some Black Days at Wednesday and this is another one.

[Lord Snooty]

Well, we could hardly have kept Beattie after Pulis head butted him that time. 

[shandypants]

Many are hacked off, many feel indifferent and a few are happy with Pulis’s appointment but the fact is that he’s here now. We haven’t seen any games yet so we cannot yet write him off. Like it or not, we have to give him a chance because he is our teams manager and we want our team to prosper. 
 

I, for one, am going to try to reserve judgement until he’s had a realistic chance of changing things - doing otherwise is just a futile exercise. 
 

 

Edited November 14, 2020 by shandypants

[Lord Snooty]

Let's hope we get off to a good start at Preston and take it from there.

 

 

[ERIMUS1876]

13 hours ago, pazowl55 said:

Did you enjoy it more when Woodgate was there.? 

Not being funny or anything. But you were flirting with relegation. did you just think i am glad Tony has gone.

Not particularly. I was pleased when Pulis left but expected a better appointment than Woodgate.

 

I think expectation played a big part.

 

Pulis was very experienced, knowledgeable, had good contacts at other clubs (for buying / loaning players), had achieved some decent success as a manager and had a playing squad more than capable of comfortably making the top 6. 

 

Woodgate had never managed before, talked a good game but was unrealistic, had never been involved in transfers, had had no success and the squad was weaker than what Pulis had and Woodgate had a cost-cutting agenda.

 

[@owlstalk]

1 hour ago, shandypants said:

 we have to give him a chance

 

 

YEY!!!!!

[FightLikeAGirl]

18 hours ago, Athelwulf said:

 

Yes, it's usually the likes of Pulis, Colin and Six Fingers who're having our trousers down instead.

Thanks for that mental image. 

[Athelwulf]

1 minute ago, FightLikeAGirl said:

Thanks for that mental image. 

 

[ERIMUS1876]

14 hours ago, Bez said:

 

Oh and I watched the first leg game earlier today.  You dominated Villa and created a bunch of chances.  Better finishing and you would have won.

 

 

I think 'huffed and puffed' is the common expression.

[Growl67]

Well we know now that Paul Cook was never in the running. He’s just been on Sky Sports and confirmed he wasn’t contacted by the club. He did genuinely seem disappointed.

[VictoryBell]

Life lands a crushing blow

And, once again, a heart is broken;

And, as history repeats itself,

These few words are, sadly, spoken:

"I've passed this way before -

And I've felt this pain before"

(Jimmy Ruffin)

 

I think that sums up your sentiments  (mine, too, actually, after all these years!)

 

Let's not be quick to judgment, eh?

[Athelwulf]

1 hour ago, Growl67 said:

Well we know now that Paul Cook was never in the running. He’s just been on Sky Sports and confirmed he wasn’t contacted by the club. He did genuinely seem disappointed.

 

In spite of my support for Pulis, as we were 2-3 years ago then I think Cook would have been a great appointment.

 

Too much quality/firepower to go down and so breathing space for him to shape us as he would have liked.

 

But in this mess it's just too risky.

 

We've spent over £100 million, the fans have been beggared, and we just cannot afford to go back down to the Third.

 

Once you're down, you never know when you're coming back.

 

Relegation on the back of all that investment would be an all-time low, even for us.

 

Like Pulis or not, the overwhelming odds are that we'll still be a Championship club at the end of the season - and that's all that matters.

[WalthamOwl]

Derby just sacked their manager. Be interesting who they are able to attract. 

[pazowl55]

Just now, WalthamOwl said:

Derby just sacked their manager. Be interesting who they are able to attract. 

Be Rooney won't it.

[WalthamOwl]

Just now, pazowl55 said:

Be Rooney won't it.

would have thought so, been the plan all along since they signed him I reckon. 

[Guest LondonOwl313]

3 minutes ago, WalthamOwl said:

Derby just sacked their manager. Be interesting who they are able to attract. 

Would laugh if it’s Monk

[mcmigo]

I said when monk was fired he was lined up at derby, someone told me a few weeks ago monk had spoken to them.

 

 

[brando]

6 minutes ago, mcmigo said:

I said when monk was fired he was lined up at derby, someone told me a few weeks ago monk had spoken to them.

 

 

******** hell.Derby redone then...great..