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No. I was concerned after the 0-0 against Swansea on the opening day, that there was no clear difference between the performance and the ones that people criticised Puel for instigating. Whilst one game was too early to judge, I thought a manager with 'exciting, attacking football' would stand out pretty quickly.

I didn't say they were all good signings... just that there were similarities in his methods at Stoke, to how we like to operate. Young stars who have gone stale at big clubs. Also regarding above, I have been bemoaning for years that we are too nice, we get bullied all over the pitch and players get away with murder against us. I don't recall us having a red card all season, which is great of course, but I don't recall us even getting away with a near miss or anything close, we never stamp our authority on a game at the moment. I don't want us to be dirty, but i'd like us to be able to if it's needed.

I realyl don't think we need much, just a manager who encourages the side to go out and try and win the game. We have the players, despite how frustrating they are at times. We have had a manager all season who is scared to try and win the game, we don't need Pep Guardiola to be able to improve on that. Any other season I would not want Mark Hughes, but considering the situation we find ourselves in, I would be satisfied with his arrival. I saw someone say on Twitter that Hughes only knows how to sign 6 foot 5 players to suit his style. I must be thinking of a different Mark Hughes than the one who signed Shaqiri, Bojan, Jesé, Afellay, Van Ginkel, Joe Allen, all in the name of trying to implement a more cultured brand of football than what Stoke had previously been known for. He isn't some lump-it-long Pulis type, he has attracted some pretty decorated players who have played for some huge football clubs, but haven't quite lived up to expectations. In some ways, his transfer dealings are rather similar to our own, and it's probably no coincidence that half the players we have signed have been linked to Stoke at some point (Cedric comes to mind, in particular). He's probably not a bad fit, in reality, just not particularly fashionable. I think we need to just appreciate the fact that we won't have Pellegrino in charge anymore, his replacement is not particularly important to me, personally.

Mad that if we were to beat Wigan on Sunday (big IF) then we'd have won just one less game in the FA Cup than we would have in the league. Presumably it's because this massive dunce realises that you can't draw an FA Cup game, so no choice but to try and win it.

Clubs normally jump at the chance to throw the manager under the bus and blame them for everything that's gone wrong. There's always so much criticism of the role of DoF's and Chairman etc. in that they pick the manager/players but don't take responsibility and the manager gets sacked. Yet here we are, not sacking arguably the worst Premier League manager ever when it would be so easy to just blame him and move on! Really really ****ing weird.

Want to go but holding can't decide whether to gamble that it goes to general sale or not. Buying memberships could get me tickets tomorrow but don't want to give the club anymore money. Especially given the farce with the membership system and the cup final last year, was hoping they wouldn't make a penny off them this year but if we beat Wigan they'll be able to repeat the fraud that they pulled last year.

He also did really well to create Sims’ brilliant shot that drew an unbelievable save

Said when he came that I couldn’t give a flying **** if he didn’t score a single goal for us, if it meant he brought goals out of others instead. So far looks like he might have that ability, but he’s not gonna do it up front on his ****ing own you useless **** Pellegrino

BT have announced theirs, apparently Leicester v Chelsea is 4pm on Sunday. Are they doing 1 a day? If so it would suggest we’re the Monday night wouldn’t it?

Brighton heading to Old Trafford for a 7:45 kick off on a Saturday night! Glad we can rule that one out. Could go to extra time and penalties, good luck to them getting home!

If he kept us up narrowly and won the FA Cup he’d be able to avoid being classed as our worst ever manager. But he should still get a gentle boot because he is simply not good enough, the tune he’s got out of this group of players is an utter disgrace.

Not delivering at all. Needs a good coach, doesn’t have one. Decision making is beyond poor, and i’m a big fan. Sad Puel never got a full season with him (without constant injuries like last year), he loves this kind of player.

We competed just fine with them last season and we didn’t lose anyone in the summer. Van Dijk didn’t play in 3 of the clean sheets against them. We’ve also gained a very good CM in Lemina and a pretty good CB in Hoedt. It’s the manager, he’s just ****.

Koeman in for the last 12 games, keep us up, go take the Netherlands job at the end of the season. He buries the hatchet with us, his stock returns to a respectable level in the Premier League meaning he’s got a possible job after international football, and he takes on his country like he’s always wanted to. He also gets to take us to Goodison and stick two fingers up to those inbreds. Everybody wins! Get it done!

Surely at some point the fans need to start chanting against Pellegrino. At the moment we’re just going through the motions. I appreciate some see it as counter productive during the game but if it’s not going our way tomorrow it’s about time everyone in the away end started making it clear, and not through jeering misplaced passes.

Nah there's plenty that you can tell straight away are full of ****, and normally I'm sceptical of all. I just seem to recall Tom28 gaining some kind of credit from the VVD debacle, so benefit of the doubt n all that.

In my opinion Puel got an average squad to almost its limits (could've done better, no doubt). He did do a good job. Could've done better as I said, but surprised people don't think he did a good job, even more so now they've seen what a **** manager really is!

If only, my sweet French prince

I miss him every day

Wasn’t Tom largely right throughout the Virgil saga? (called the transfer request about a day before if i remember rightly). Clutching onto any tiny shred of hope I can!

Really painful viewing, would rather they'd just say 'we never watch the small teams so we don't have much to say'

His first action was a softly cushioned header behind him, expecting someone to run onto it. Very Pelle-esque. If Gabbi and him could ever make it onto the pitch at the same time from the start of a game, Gabbi is the sort of player who would love to play off a flick on like that i'd imagine.

Genuinely, leaving the Swansea game on the opening day I was perplexed by everyone I could hear leaving the ground convincing themselves it was 'better than under Puel' despite the game having been almost identical to our worst performances under Puel. But in terms of when I felt he'd had the time to prove me wrong, I was happy for him to be sacked after Brighton away, where his idea of how football should be played became abundantly clear. beating Everton 4-1 was probably the worst thing that ever happened to us to be honest, as it gave the impression he might know what he's doing.

Well yeah duh, hence why Pellegrino will play him there. Minimise the risk of him being tempted to do anything reckless like playing a ball that doesn't have a 100% chance of reaching a teammate. We can't afford to carry luxury players like JWP who try and attack, it's too risky in our current predicament.

Please please please can we go and get Koeman :( :( :( We've just signed a big CF like he would use, he will get us organised and give the attacking players a bit of freedom, maybe even get a win against a big side like we used to, and he gets to go to Goodison with a point to prove.