@owlstalk Posted November 21, 2020 Share Posted November 21, 2020 When he was employed Tony Pulis claimed that he's been pidgeonholed into an image of long hoofball manager that tries to scrape a 1-0 win in dull dire footballing games He also said that he will try and put together and approach using the players we have at the club, playing to their strengths, before he phases into the style that he prefers and wants to play. So... Do you think he will surprise us today with the style/standard of football we get to watch? Also - do you think that he will go down the route of pretty much every Wednesday manager of starting off playing attacking football then getting hit by the same disease that all Wednesday managers do, where they start to tighten up, play more cautious defensive football before failing and getting fired? It happens to them all, Carlos, Megson etc - all started off firing on all cylinders and giving us hope but then changing and evolving into timid, dull, boring football that led the chairmen to make the change and bring in a more forward thinking approach again. I hope we get exciting, attacking football today, but more than that. I hope we get exciting, attacking football for years to come and that Pulis can deliver this ongoing. If he can, and with his approach and honesty from a communication point off view - he could go down as an absolute legend at this football club What are you expecting today? 1 Owlstalk Shop Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flat Owl Posted November 21, 2020 Share Posted November 21, 2020 Is it a surprise after waiting 9 months knowing it will arrive sometime? More of ‘relief’ than surprise to be honest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobowl Posted November 21, 2020 Share Posted November 21, 2020 I'm pretty sure it's gonna be the same as we were getting under monk, i doubt he can change much in a week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ANDY Posted November 21, 2020 Share Posted November 21, 2020 Rhodes hat trick Westwood to make a string of world class saves. anything less is a failure 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
horny owl Posted November 21, 2020 Share Posted November 21, 2020 Absolutely spot on about our recent managers starting with attacking football then reverting to negative, defensive rubbish. Jones was another example of it Im hoping Pulis doesn’t carry this recipe for disaster forward and has learned from their mistakes Especially the mistakes of ‘calamity carlos’ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flat Owl Posted November 21, 2020 Share Posted November 21, 2020 I expect us to compete not just in the first or last 15 minutes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
@owlstalk Posted November 21, 2020 Author Share Posted November 21, 2020 1 minute ago, GlasgOwl said: Settle for winning football. 11 dull 1-0 wins until the January window be just fine here. I think people believe this, but in reality will definitely moan about the attractiveness of the football sooner or later (nothing wrong with that by the way - it's the way of the football fan to want to be entertained) Owlstalk Shop Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest whowantstoberich Posted November 21, 2020 Share Posted November 21, 2020 No I think he will play to our strengths and win. If we had good attacking players he would. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hodgyowl Posted November 21, 2020 Share Posted November 21, 2020 He will no doubt play to the teams strengths, Rome wasn't built in a day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beloved_aunt Posted November 21, 2020 Share Posted November 21, 2020 He says he’ll asses the squad and play to our strengths. In my mind one of our strengths is a potentially quality midfield three of Brown/Luongo/Bannan. So I hope he sticks to his word, recognises that and plays quickly through midfield - not smashing it over their heads. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
@owlstalk Posted November 21, 2020 Author Share Posted November 21, 2020 6 minutes ago, GlasgOwl said: I will never moan how a win is achieved mate, those precious 3 points every time is paramount. Honestly, can have us playing ol' Wimbledon style if the wins rack up. I just want us up this league and then out it, next season at latest. Always attractive when the goals fly in for us remember. Again - that all sounds noble and great on paper but in reality after watching game after game of dire football even if we win people won't be happy That's been proven in times gone by There's never been a time when dire football has been celebrated or even accepted by Wednesday fans - it just never happens - what happens is that initially of course it's great we're winning but after a while it gets unacceptable to many to play that way Owlstalk Shop Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
@owlstalk Posted November 21, 2020 Author Share Posted November 21, 2020 Just now, GlasgOwl said: Never get my head round that mentality. In any league the world over, you're lucky if a team plays 10 exciting games a season. Most league games are dull, the world over. If we have 6 exciting games between now and seasons end I will be happy. The rest can be boring 1-0 wins and dull draws. The points rack up. Better to be effective than exciting. Effective clocks them points up. Even so - it's still the truth that fans will only tolerate dire 1-0 wins for so long before getting unhappy it's what happens Owlstalk Shop Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
@owlstalk Posted November 21, 2020 Author Share Posted November 21, 2020 Just now, GlasgOwl said: Let them moan. If The Owls are soaring, only complainers are Blunts. Simple, Oh dear Owlstalk Shop Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
agentwalker Posted November 21, 2020 Share Posted November 21, 2020 Bannan to get sent off in the first 10 mins. Lump on !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
@owlstalk Posted November 21, 2020 Author Share Posted November 21, 2020 1 minute ago, GlasgOwl said: If you are complaining how those wins rack up and success beckons, are you really a Wednesdayite? Genuine question to all. WOW You just doubled down on it Amazing Owlstalk Shop Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest everydays_wednesday Posted November 21, 2020 Share Posted November 21, 2020 21 minutes ago, Hodgyowl said: He will no doubt play to the teams strengths, Rome wasn't built in a day. And Gibbons “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire” wasn’t read in one! (one for fans of Tony Hancock”) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
@owlstalk Posted November 21, 2020 Author Share Posted November 21, 2020 1 minute ago, GlasgOwl said: Give us your answer mate. Unattractive, winning, successful football that will see us up there and promoted to be sacrificied for some excitement? Nobody mentioned sacrificing anything other than dire football mate Owlstalk Shop Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
@owlstalk Posted November 21, 2020 Author Share Posted November 21, 2020 Just now, GlasgOwl said: If TP's brand of football is dire and gets us the required results to motor up the league, are you complaining? Again you're missing the whole point of the argument as you immediately shot off to call Wednesday fans Blades if they wanted to be entertained whilst we won games. Owlstalk Shop Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adifferentgame Posted November 21, 2020 Share Posted November 21, 2020 Amazing that people can still talk as if "attractive football" and "winning games" is a rigid dichotomy after watching us fail to get points with some of the most turgid football in our history under Monk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SallyCinnamon Posted November 21, 2020 Share Posted November 21, 2020 1 minute ago, adifferentgame said: Amazing that people can still talk as if "attractive football" and "winning games" is a rigid dichotomy after watching us fail to get points with some of the most turgid football in our history under Monk. Different world some fans mate. We need to start winning ugly again, finding a winning mentality and being difficult to beat. Once we’ve got that foundation back which we had under Stuart Gray, we can start thinking about adding quality and playing pretty football. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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