Hands up - Pulis...

[Malandro]

As we have another shame thread, who thought we should have appointed Pulis?

I'm embarrassed to say I did but then we did look doomed at the time. That man could probably get a new job every jan/February if he wanted.

In my defence I thought he'd be good as a temporary appointment.

[dekko]

*Raises hand*

He would've kept us up too.  Obviously I'm happier the way it worked out.

[Risso]

Nothing to confess here really, he would have done a better job than Lambert.

[Toronto Villa]

Nothing to confess here really, he would have done a better job than Lambert.

Yep, no doubt. Beyond keeping us up we'd have been left with years of lumping it forward horrible football. I was advocating Allardyce because the football would have been better and there would have been a little more creativity in the transfer market.

[SoccerHQ]

Short term Pulis would've had us on as many points as Sherwood has imo.

Long term I'm far more excited by what Sherwood could potentially do with this team. Pulis is a manager I respect but he's a poor man's MON.

[JJ-AV]

Yeah, I wanted Pulis. He's a very good manager though to be honest, but Sherwood is clearly the better option.

[PeterWithesShin]

I'm pretty sure I said something along the lines of having Pulis as manager would be one of the very few things that could keep me away from VP. I also called him a baseball cap twat nozzle on a thread, which is still a valid opinion of him.

[Damo70]

I wanted Pulis for a good while in the last year or two of Lambert. On the basis he would keep us up and we could see how it went from there. He is at the wrong club for him now. Same as Allardyce at West Ham. For two of the main yo-yo clubs between top and second flights in my lifetime 'the two Wests' talk as if they    have spent their history swatting every other team away in great style.

[LukeJames]

I genuinly didn't want him anywhere near our club, even when we were at our most awful under Lambert.... But then again I didn't want Sherwood anywhere near our club either 

[eamonn]

Would have had us win at Old Trafford instead of losing. Sherwood out!

[passitsideways]

In the final couple of months of Lambert, as an "anyone but Lambert" sort of option, yes; but at no other time, even at the end of last season when most of us were up for a change.

I do admit that I was very eager for us to get in touch with Moyes once it became clear that our start was a complete mirage (sometime around Everton/QPR away.)

[john e]

never in my lowest times have I ever wanted Pulis or Alardyce

they represent the total opposite to everything I want to see from a football team I support

[Chris Jameson]

No. Never.

[Chris Smith]

never in my lowest times have I ever wanted Pulis or Alardyce

they represent the total opposite to everything I want to see from a football team I support

Same here.

[Toronto Villa]

never in my lowest times have I ever wanted Pulis or Alardyce

they represent the total opposite to everything I want to see from a football team I support

Desperate times wasn't it though I think Allardyce plays better football than he is sometimes credited with. That said neither were ideal and certainly not the cap wearing bell end.