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It's not over yet folks


Remarkably even though we've been doing so horrifically bad (especially in the recent games) this division is so poor that despite our form, and despite us having six points taken off us, thanks to the work that Garry Monk did in pulling those points back we still remain only 4 points away from safety!

So there's everything still to play for and more than enough games to get to safety


So for those saying Pulis needs time - he's had/got plenty of time. He's got so many games between when he walked into the club and the end of the season a manager of his calibre should have no problems at all pulling us out of this mess.

For those saying we won't recover just take a look at the league table. Just four points between us an Nottingham Forest - and thanks to Garry Monk who had us as the fifth best defence in the division our goal average is better than the teams above us.

So it's all on Pulis now.

He has the same squad Monk was doing ok with

He has more than enough time to get to know his squad, instill his ethics, his style, his tactics

He has a transfer window to do business in even.


It's 100% all on Tony Pulis and a manager of his calibre (and wages) should be able to pull this off with ease.

Just four points away from safety!

 

And think about this also


From arriving at Sheffield Wednesday to the end of this season Tony Pulis will have had 33 games in total, and a possible 99 points to play for.


It's not over yet folks

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Its not over 

 

I remain optimistic

 

Then the game kicks off

 

Unfortunately having watched football for years you can smell a club that will get relegated. This one from the owner downwards is like a 300 day old French cheese

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2 minutes ago, @owlstalk said:


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It's not over yet folks


Remarkably even though we've been doing so horrifically bad (especially in the recent games) this division is so poor that despite our form, and despite us having six points taken off us, thanks to the work that Garry Monk did in pulling those points back we still remain only 4 points away from safety!

So there's everything still to play for and more than enough games to get to safety


So for those saying Pulis needs time - he's had/got plenty of time. He's got so many games between when he walked into the club and the end of the season a manager of his calibre should have no problems at all pulling us out of this mess.

For those saying we won't recover just take a look at the league table. Just four points between us an Nottingham Forest - and thanks to Garry Monk who had us as the fifth best defence in the division our goal average is better than the teams above us.

So it's all on Pulis now.

He has the same squad Monk was doing ok with

He has more than enough time to get to know his squad, instill his ethics, his style, his tactics

He has a transfer window to do business in even.


It's 100% all on Tony Pulis and a manager of his calibre (and wages) should be able to pull this off with ease.

Just four points away from safety!

It's not over yet folks

I get that, the thing that worries me is that we've lost to all the "poor" teams that you expect to be down there so effectively gifted them points. Yes you could flip it and say we beat bournemouth, held Watford and Reading but I'd have rather have lost to them and beat the likes of Rotherham, Wycombe, Huddersfield and Barnsley. They are now 3 points closer to safety and making our battle so much harder. Its the teams around us we have to get results against and we're not capable of doing that at the moment - It might be too late by the time we are. 

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4 minutes ago, JOCOWl said:

I get that, the thing that worries me is that we've lost to all the "poor" teams that you expect to be down there so effectively gifted them points. Yes you could flip it and say we beat bournemouth, held Watford and Reading but I'd have rather have lost to them and beat the likes of Rotherham, Wycombe, Huddersfield and Barnsley. They are now 3 points closer to safety and making our battle so much harder. Its the teams around us we have to get results against and we're not capable of doing that at the moment - It might be too late by the time we are. 

 

 

Look how many games we have left though

 

And if Pulis had won just ONE game we'd only be one point from safety


Monk has left him in a position of strength - it's up to Pulis now to continue the work Monk was doing and take us to safety


He's got more than enough time/games to do so

If Pulis failed with everything he was left with, the number of games, the number of points to play for (he's had 21 points to play for just in the games he's played since he arrived!!) then it would be a failure of monumental proportions!


He's got this

Stick with it - It's not over yet folks

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The very last gasp equaliser against qpr was a big blow. Without that we would have had 14 points from first 11 matches ( not including the 6 point deduction ) , the same form as 12 placed  Blackburn  over those first 11 games (after which monk was sacked ).

 

the squad can perform at mid table levels. It has finished mid table between about 56 and 65 points for every season we have been in this league since promotion apart from the spendageddon two years under Carlos.  We were showing mid table form under monk this season before he was sacked.  
 

tony Pulis can do it , no doubt about it, a manager of his standing I am sure will ultimately our perform the likes of Dave jones, Stuart gray, jos luhukay, snake Bruce and Garry monk who all finished mid table.
 

 

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15 minutes ago, @owlstalk said:

He has more than enough time to get to know his squad, instill his ethics, his style, his tactics

 

He hasn't though, has he?

 

Unfair to say when there's so many mid week matches and the players need to recover.

 

He still needs training time to organise and to see one or two players...

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I find it unbelievable that even without a point deduction we would only be 4th from bottom. There is some real crap in this league, the sad thing is we are one of them. already it looks like there will be a mini league at the bottom, the gap between us and 18th is terrible. Also Barnsley are now 16 points ahead of us. Embarrassing. Barnsley ffs. January is massive, we need 4 or 5 players to come straight in to the first team. Will it happen? I doubt it. 

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Just now, slinger208b said:

 

He hasn't though, has he?

 

Unfair to say when there's so many mid week matches and the players need to recover.

 

He still needs training time to organise and to see one or two players...

I agree with this, it is completely out of order for the league to ask Tony Pulis to play mid week games right now when he needs to look at players. It’s another sign of the EFL ruining the game.

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Just now, WalthamOwl said:

3 points from 21. Can’t imagine many new managers at any other club has had that type of return. Honeymoon period? Not here.  

Very early days.

 

as has been said, TP needs 3 or 4 years as he had at Stoke city to mould and shape the team.  Can’t judge him until, earliest, 2024.  

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2 minutes ago, mattitheowl said:

Obviously it's not over,  we've still got to endure another 26 games of this sh*t. 



So let's do the maths

That's 7 games Pulis has had so far (21 points he could have got there)

26 more to go


That's 33 games in total that Pulis will have managed Sheffield Wednesday this season 

 

99 points to play for in total for Pulis from arriving to end of the season

 

Easily more than enough time for any manager to do what they need to do

 

Pulis has got this folks

 


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1 minute ago, @owlstalk said:



That's 7 games Pulis has had

26 more to go


That's 33 games

 

99 points to play for

 

Easily more than enough time for any manager to do what they need to do

 

Pulis has got this folks

 

And we need 40 of those 99.  11 wins and 7 draws.  From our remaining 26 games.  We need to win over a third and get a chunk of draws.  It's utterly dismal.

Just not bothered...

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