GrahamC Posted April 13, 2018 Report Share Posted April 13, 2018 Unless you are at least 30, (which nowadays means probably half our support), you will have little understanding of our history with him. I’ve watched City for approaching 50 years now (bloody hell!) and honestly have never seen anyone (not Osman or any of the incompetents, like Lumsden or Fawthrop) anywhere near as unpopular as that vile bloke. Gas, Welsh, he played boring long ball shit, 0-0 after 0-0, masses of expensive, injury prone signings, an assistant manager who was even more Gas than him, and incredibly who was seen wearing a Rovers shirt whilst he was employed by us. Whatever happens in the other three games I really hope we beat that fucker tomorrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUSSEL85 Posted April 13, 2018 Report Share Posted April 13, 2018 Agreed, but a good manager, and he will make Boro hard to break down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Popodopolous Posted April 13, 2018 Report Share Posted April 13, 2018 I remember his reign well- people were very happy when Portsmouth poached him! Would add to that OP, showed little interest in playing the youth either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EmissionImpossible Posted April 13, 2018 Report Share Posted April 13, 2018 2 minutes ago, GrahamC said: Unless you are at least 30, (which nowadays means probably half our support), you will have little understanding of our history with him. I’ve watched City for approaching 50 years now (bloody hell!) and honestly have never seen anyone (not Osman or any of the incompetents, like Lumsden or Fawthrop) anywhere near as unpopular as that vile bloke. Gas, Welsh, he played boring long ball shit, 0-0 after 0-0, masses of expensive, injury prone signings, an assistant manager who was even more Gas than him, and incredibly who was seen wearing a Rovers shirt whilst he was employed by us. Whatever happens in the other three games I really hope we beat that fucker tomorrow. Him and Osman were the worst managers in my lifetime and that’s saying something. As clueless and boring as Osman was, we did beat Liverpool, Lumsden gave us Jacki and Fawthrop took us to Wembley. Pulis did nothing other than set the club back god knows how long. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lew-T Posted April 13, 2018 Report Share Posted April 13, 2018 Is he Gas genuinely? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PHILINFRANCE Posted April 13, 2018 Report Share Posted April 13, 2018 1 minute ago, RUSSEL85 said: Agreed, but a good manager, and he will make Boro hard to break down. I'm not even sure about that. He does seem to have had a knack in making teams more secure defensively, but this has come at the expense of some pretty boring football: I suppose it depends on how you define a 'good manager'. Of course, in so far as it concerns our own relationship with Mr TP, there was always the Rovers connection and the underlying suspicion that he was receiving 'personal financial benefits' from his transfer dealings that might not have been beneficial to the club. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin phantom Posted April 13, 2018 Admin Report Share Posted April 13, 2018 7 minutes ago, Lew-T said: Is he Gas genuinely? @Lew - T Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richwwtk Posted April 13, 2018 Report Share Posted April 13, 2018 20 minutes ago, GrahamC said: Unless you are at least 30, (which nowadays means probably half our support), you will have little understanding of our history with him. I’ve watched City for approaching 50 years now (bloody hell!) and honestly have never seen anyone (not Osman or any of the incompetents, like Lumsden or Fawthrop) anywhere near as unpopular as that vile bloke. Gas, Welsh, he played boring long ball shit, 0-0 after 0-0, masses of expensive, injury prone signings, an assistant manager who was even more Gas than him, and incredibly who was seen wearing a Rovers shirt whilst he was employed by us. Whatever happens in the other three games I really hope we beat that fucker tomorrow. he was manager for something like 16 home games, never lost one but drew (I think) 7 of them 0-0. Danny Wilson lost the first three when following him, but was treated like the messiah. TP was that bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesBCFC Posted April 13, 2018 Report Share Posted April 13, 2018 Im 22 now. Looking at timescale its quite possible my first City games were under Pulis' management. (Otherwise it was the season before, so Benny.) If it was under Pulis then it's a miracle I stayed interested in the bloody game! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silvio Dante Posted April 13, 2018 Report Share Posted April 13, 2018 I genuinely walked out of a game 30 minutes in at 1-1 because the football was so bad under that bloke. It wasn’t just that game, it was the culmination. When Pompey were mug enough to take him it was like a cloud was lifted from our club. IIRC next game was Bmuff away, we played some of the youngsters and attacked, and won 3-2 having tried to spend the season defending against the likes of Cambridge and pumping long balls from Lavin to Tango man. Absolute Belter. And baseball caps at the age of 60. Have a ****ing word with yourself man. Only saving grace is that unlike elsewhere we didn’t have to employ his son Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daored Posted April 13, 2018 Report Share Posted April 13, 2018 18 minutes ago, PHILINFRANCE said: I'm not even sure about that. He does seem to have had a knack in making teams more secure defensively, but this has come at the expense of some pretty boring football: I suppose it depends on how you define a 'good manager'. Of course, in so far as it concerns our own relationship with Mr TP, there was always the Rovers connection and the underlying suspicion that he was receiving 'personal financial benefits' from his transfer dealings that might not have been beneficial to the club. Didn’t Gillingham take him to court for this ? I’m sure it was reported when he joined us ? Agree about everything said about him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silvio Dante Posted April 13, 2018 Report Share Posted April 13, 2018 5 minutes ago, daored said: Didn’t Gillingham take him to court for this ? I’m sure it was reported when he joined us ? Agree about everything said about him. Being careful here in the way I word this... My recollection is that Pulis has in his contract (allegedly) that he realised a percentage of the fee received on players his club sold as acknowledgement for his part in their development. It’s more common now but he was certainly one of the first alleged to have that clause. The Gillingham issue I think was alleged to concern Akinbiyi. You may remember AA was here when Pulis was appointed (and indeed it was alleged that one of the reasons we chose him was to try and persuade AA to stay). Shortly after arrival, we sold AA to Wolves for I think £3.5m. Gillingham were due a cut of that, and the allegation was that Pulis asked for a percentage of that cut in the Wolves sale. As he’d left under a cloud at Gills, if true, that wouldn’t have gone down well!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rudolf Hucker Posted April 13, 2018 Report Share Posted April 13, 2018 Appointing Pulis as manager and Lyndsay Parsons as his assistant left me speechless as we embarked upon the worst period I've ever experienced watching City (and I'm up to c 55 years now). I'm a pretty even tempered gigalo but I hate and despise Pulis with a passion. I hope that we stuff 'em by ten tomorrow, resulting in his immediate dismissal. I notice btw @GrahamC that OTIB approves the use of "fucker" when its used as an adjective to describe Pulis! Good to know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lew-T Posted April 13, 2018 Report Share Posted April 13, 2018 30 minutes ago, phantom said: @Lew - T I had no idea! His playing days were a bit before my time... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrahamC Posted April 13, 2018 Author Report Share Posted April 13, 2018 16 minutes ago, daored said: Didn’t Gillingham take him to court for this ? I’m sure it was reported when he joined us ? Agree about everything said about him. Will try to avoid any possibility of saying something litigious. It is a matter of record though that whilst manager there he went into a meeting with Gillingham’s chairman with a microphone concealed in his trousers to try and secretly record the conversation. Clearly a totally honest sort of bloke.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rudolf Hucker Posted April 13, 2018 Report Share Posted April 13, 2018 2 minutes ago, GrahamC said: Will try to avoid any possibility of saying something litigious. It is a matter of record though that whilst manager there he went into a meeting with Gillingham’s chairman with a microphone concealed in his trousers to try and secretly record the conversation. Clearly a totally honest sort of bloke.. The microphone in his trousers was merely to amplify Pulis' voice because as we know, he talks out of his arse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1bristolcity Posted April 13, 2018 Report Share Posted April 13, 2018 Knows the game inside out, and I fear will know too much for Lee and Co: Very good coach, despite what some say, you don't manage at the top level for so long unless you have something, the fact that he is ex Gas and was pants with us shouldn't be an issue. Would take a draw right now.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BRISTOL86 Posted April 13, 2018 Report Share Posted April 13, 2018 In ‘true to his nickname’ form, the one inch microphone was apparently the biggest thing in his trousers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1bristolcity Posted April 13, 2018 Report Share Posted April 13, 2018 1 minute ago, Rudolf Hucker said: The microphone in his trousers was merely to amplify Pulis' voice because as we know, he talks out of his arse. Really? This is classic OTIB... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northern Red Posted April 13, 2018 Report Share Posted April 13, 2018 The one manager who genuinely made me consider packing in watching City. Statistically we've had worse managers than him, but none of them served up 'football' that was so consistently soul destroying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedRoss Posted April 13, 2018 Report Share Posted April 13, 2018 14 minutes ago, 1bristolcity said: Knows the game inside out, and I fear will know too much for Lee and Co: Very good coach, despite what some say, you don't manage at the top level for so long unless you have something, the fact that he is ex Gas and was pants with us shouldn't be an issue. Would take a draw right now.... You would think that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stawey Posted April 13, 2018 Report Share Posted April 13, 2018 ive said it before and i say again i wouldnt pee on him if he was onfire..horrible nasty type Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rudolf Hucker Posted April 13, 2018 Report Share Posted April 13, 2018 18 minutes ago, 1bristolcity said: Really? This is classic OTIB... T'riffic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrahamC Posted April 13, 2018 Author Report Share Posted April 13, 2018 1 minute ago, Rudolf Hucker said: T'riffic. Thought the “lads” worked really ‘ard.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EmissionImpossible Posted April 13, 2018 Report Share Posted April 13, 2018 I remember booing Osman when as manager he scored for us, which I regret but If Pulis had scored I think the whole stand would have emptied and gone home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abingdon Red Posted April 13, 2018 Report Share Posted April 13, 2018 It's still hard to believe that we appointed him over David Moyes and Peter Taylor, both of whom were rising stars at the time and respected by many in the game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigAl&Toby Posted April 13, 2018 Report Share Posted April 13, 2018 Who remembers the mural? If it was good enough for Frankie Howerd it’s good enough for Tony Pulis. Or is my failing memory playing tricks? Up there with that other horrible man - Osman. He was another fucker. Gave me shit for 90 minutes when I was 4th official. Bastard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PHILINFRANCE Posted April 13, 2018 Report Share Posted April 13, 2018 1 hour ago, Silvio Dante said: Being careful here in the way I word this... My recollection is that Pulis has in his contract (allegedly) that he realised a percentage of the fee received on players his club sold as acknowledgement for his part in their development. It’s more common now but he was certainly one of the first alleged to have that clause. The Gillingham issue I think was alleged to concern Akinbiyi. You may remember AA was here when Pulis was appointed (and indeed it was alleged that one of the reasons we chose him was to try and persuade AA to stay). Shortly after arrival, we sold AA to Wolves for I think £3.5m. Gillingham were due a cut of that, and the allegation was that Pulis asked for a percentage of that cut in the Wolves sale. As he’d left under a cloud at Gills, if true, that wouldn’t have gone down well!! No particular need to be careful - much of TP's 'dodgy dealings' is a matter of public record. I think you will find this also involved Jim Corbett, a Gillingham player sold to Blackburn, but the issue also involves Paul Scally (Gillingham's Chairman at the time) and, regrettably, our own SL! A fellow poster on here would be able to provide more details, though you may find the following articles interesting. https://www.theguardian.com/football/2001/apr/27/newsstory.sport1 http://www.kentonline.co.uk/medway/sport/scally-ill-never-forget-116642/ Should you read the articles, you will no doubt form your own opinion, but my own opinion is that Paul Scally emerges with his reputation intact and, to a large extent IMO, this also explains his apparent dislike/distrust of BCFC and his disinclination to sanction/support the sale to City of Bradley Dack. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Major Isewater Posted April 13, 2018 Report Share Posted April 13, 2018 1 hour ago, Lew-T said: I had no idea! His playing days were a bit before my time... You just didn't recognise him without the Roland Rat baseball cap . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazooka Joe Posted April 13, 2018 Report Share Posted April 13, 2018 11 minutes ago, Abingdon Red said: It's still hard to believe that we appointed him over David Moyes and Peter Taylor, both of whom were rising stars at the time and respected by many in the game. True; its even harder to understand why we appointed him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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