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Wolf said:
Hand on heart how many thought Redknapp would get us playing like we did though.
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I did.

When we signed Redknapp my immediate response was "WTF!?!" and then very quickly I realised I quite liked Pompeys style, the team was generally balanced and went out to try and win games. It wasnt long at all before I had high hopes...
 
Lister said:
I did.

When we signed Redknapp my immediate response was "WTF!?!" and then very quickly I realised I quite liked Pompeys style, the team was generally balanced and went out to try and win games. It wasnt long at all before I had high hopes...
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Can't say I did, I thought he would stop the rot , but I didn't expect the team to play with that amount of style/pace/flair.
 
Éperons said:
(In Pulis's favour, however, when looking for a correlation between league position and percentage of HG players, r is only .42. Some relationship, maybe, but not a confident one:
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Stat porn...

Must... not... fap...
 
Éperons said:
Fair enough. Though I was ambivalent about him until I noticed a thread of xenophobia in his comments.

Looks like the (FOREIGN!!@!) Stoke board sniffed that in his actions, as well. Stoke's squad was 67% HG last season. The only clubs to finish higher than they w/ a similar proportion of HG players were West Ham and Norwich, two clubs that had recently plied their trade in the HG-heavy Champo. Maybe he'd still be at Stoke if he'd looked past Britain for players…

(In Pulis's favour, however, when looking for a correlation between league position and percentage of HG players, r is only .42. Some relationship, maybe, but not a confident one:
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so you see a British manager at a British club, trying to encourage the club to be as British as possible to be a bad thing?

As a British person, and a British football fan, I see it as being a positive thing for British football.
I also think that all leagues should be forced to operate quotas, to protect their homegrown talent from being cuckolded by cheaper foreign imports. That statement would be true(r) if it wasn't someone with Pulis's footballing philosophy of course, but boring negativity worked for the Greeks (once)

However, British football has pretty much whored itself out to the rest of the world, so pragmatically - I don't see much chance of there being any regression.

I was just making a gentle jibe in the first place though, I wasn't trying to catch you out or score any points.
 
Crystal Palace is now Stoke version 2.0.
Well done to the south London lads for shoving a stake through the Scouser's black heart.

I doubt we could have pissed away a 3-0 lead late game, even on one of our 'off' days. :lennonlol:
 
Éperons said:
With his tracksuit, cap, and meticulous grooming, Pulis always reminds me of a suburban crypto-fascist. The kind of guy who gets a bit too excited at his kids' football matches, but saves the real emotional outburst for the privacy of his home, where he has untrammeled access to an "antique German" paddle he bought off eBay that he can take to his underperforming 10 year old midfielders.

The model tory pillar of the community who shovels his considerable salary into funding various hate groups that sow discontent in council estates a world away.

The smiling patron of the small suburban shop who is always gracious (but never jokey) with the cashier, regardless of his national origin, but immediately assumes the worst should any youth come in who does not meet his rigorous cultural norms.

Etc.

I'm not saying Pulis is these things. I'm saying that when I look at him, this is what my imagination tells me about him.

(Watch he ends up being a trotskyist keeping the naxalites in clover)
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Also... THIS. :contesmile:
 
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