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It would surely have to be a good offer to take players the chairman listed in his Pulis statement as reasons to be cheerful going into the next year or so. Britt we'll probably cling onto for as long as we can until someone submits a good offer, though we could end up having to accept a lower offer towards the end of the window. Can't see Shotton attracting much interest and we will probably have to accept much less than we paid for Flint to get him off the books. Can see us being more willing to accept lower offers for Friend and Clayton given we didn't pay that much for either and bot

I suspect you'll find that his reputation hasn't been harmed at all. All of his press conferences were designed to make sure of that and you can bet that other clubs will buy into it and he'll be back in work soon enough. I don't doubt he'll find work, maybe even at a level higher than us. Though I suspect it might be as a reactionary appointment during sacking season where he'll come in and attempt to steady the ship. I'd like to say I don't think it will go entirely unnoticed about what caused him to fail with us, especially because of the division he's failed in... but there's no d

I don't think Pulis has damaged the reputation of our club. I think if anything, he's damaged his own reputation by failing twice in 18 months to get us promoted. I think if our reputation has been affected, that lies at Gibson's door. I'm not so sure how much that will have happened though. We're still doing alright all things considered, even if we're not in as strong a financial position as we have been in recently.

No need to apologise for anything, think most are just happy info gets relayed when it's given. We'd speculate either way.

Higgy was DoF at Hartlepool for a while, I'd guess it would be something similar here with Agnew assisting Woody. Though Higgy has managed to squirm his way back into the management hotseat at Hartlepool recently, too.

Yayyy!!! I'm not happy with what we've done so far :disappointed: Randolph's still here, I'm alright for now. :cheese:

Some great odds on here. At least sTUART doesn't look like he's in with a chance, though Afonso Alves is worth a daft quid.

Definitely, I think we would look out for ourselves first and foremost. But I don't think Neville would want to do that. I'm pretty sure his primary focus right now will be on the World Cup. After all, if England win it, I imagine he'll be in greater demand, perhaps even a top flight job offer.

I'd also say if he had a 12-month rolling contract and it did mean you'd have to pay him another 12 months wages regardless of when you got rid of him, it would be very strange to leave it until now to do it. You'd think if we we'd decided to get shot we'd do it ASAP.

Phil Neville isn't a bad candidate, certainly a better one than his brother for me. Ticks a lot of boxes that people have been talking about this season. He's a positive coach, he's got a very positive mindset including in his approach to players, certainly sounds like the kind of person to fully appreciate the hand they've been dealt, he's an optimist and I get the feeling pretty ambitious too. I'm not saying he'd definitely be the top of my list but put it this way; if you want the experienced coaches who have been there and done it, you might as well keep Pulis. The alternative is a Mark

Quedrue is mine, everyone forgets the 2nd 'u'. And everyone who called him Kwed-roo rather than Kuh-druh.

It's strange for the Gazette to change tune from essentially being 'he probably shouldn't keep his job' to 'he's not keeping his job' if they weren't aware of a development indicating the latter. If Pulis gets a new contract, I think they'd have to backtrack on the knowledge that article indicates and after the furore over the past couple of seasons between the club and paper, it would be a strange time to go on a hunch. I think he's going.

Hopefully this is just the start of a bright new chapter of MFC. I hope whoever the appointment is that everyone feels capable of getting behind them and unite as a fan-base once more. Can't say I'd be jumping through hoops for Hughton despite the job he's done in this division but I'm willing to give whoever comes in a chance at giving us something to cheer for. Out of interest, assuming this news follows through and Pulis leaves, how many will choose to renew if you can before we find out who replaces him?

Been a while but I didn't want him out at the time I last posted mid-January. I think every manager needs to be given their chance and we had at least been hovering around the top 6 for most the season. Lot of good players in the squad despite the overall lack of balance and need for wide players, there's more than enough that this team should have finished top 6 with any decent manager. Pulis failed to do that and certainly assuming this is the end of his contract, we should be letting him go. If we have to cut our cloth and need to make changes financially then he should be part of that b

people liked his line-up against Peterborough and liked his half time changes...so that's just absolute *** Wilson. "But we know when we come back to the league, it'll be back to the same old, same old" You expected the Peterborough match to make a difference to this one? I'm calling rubbish.

People literally won't like any of his line-ups. Hanging on the edge of their seat waiting to berate him for his Pulis selection. It's the same, every week. Even though everyone knows the selection won't be attacking, it won't encompass as many attacking players as people want, even if they do people immediately talk about how much of a *** he is for sticking strikers on the wing, etc. etc. Everyone literally knows what's coming but can't wait to kick up a fuss about it when it happens like it's a bloody surprise.

Do you think it’s a positive lineup? Do you think I care what the line-up is before we've seen them play? Funny how people fought for that courtesy for other managers.

I can't wait until we lose to lead a match thread that encompasses more of this pre-match vitriol. :)

Here we go again...

Not sure if it was mentioned but Pulis says we have a massive sell on clause and first option to buy back Ripley. Massive is relative of course, if he expects Ripley to be a top keeper aiming for Prem, even a 15/20% sell on could end up being quite a big deal for us.

The FA won't do anything because it's undoubtedly a practice that has been going on for years in the English game and is just now getting the spotlight. If they punish Leeds, they're setting a precedent. Leeds will collect all the evidence they need to ensure they're not made the scapegoats of a long-running practice unless others are retroactively punished for it. There's more than enough examples popping up on Twitter as a result of the publicity this is getting. And as much as the practice itself is sly and devalues the sporting nature of what we at least want football to be, it's really no

I just find it impossible to have a reasoned discussion because this is what it descends into every time. It's a match thread, the match hasn't even started and people are talking about having a party when the manager of a team sat in the play off spots is gone ffs.

What a question! It's a shame that what I actually want really doesn't matter. How many times I spent telling people what I actually thought on here in the last 4-6 months have I felt better for doing so? Very few. In a very small way, I also can't wait for Tony Pulis' tenure to be over and done with at this club. Not because of the style of football or us not currently hitting our targets. Certainly not from a personal disconnect with him or the club, I'm happy with our position and a lot of things barring recruitment right now. But because I've genuinely never known being so disconnected

I'm not the one who decides what the fans' support or lack thereof means in terms of the manager's job, that's on Gibson. Gibson has to be shown in a form more than just what has happened so far as the evidence shows, he's still got his job. 'What we see' is not what the owner sees. And I'm not overly surprised at that, the team is still in a good position with chances to improve it over the next 20 games. I said after the Burton game I think Gibson will find it tough to keep him in charge, evidently not. Half the fans never turned up, the other half booed the team off and it's been brushed to

How many games have you been to this season and how many have you watched from behind your keyboard as you put it and as it were? I've only been to the game I've told you about. Why?