Why the fuck would he want that job? The only possible explanation I can think of is that Ellis Short is about to sell to someone, either that or he just really hates himself.
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I understand Coleman leaving Wales, he is never going to match what he achieved in 2016 and needs to move on before the lustre of that has faded. But Sunderland look unmanageable. He surely has received feelers for far better jobs than that one. Presumably not Everton though or he surely wouldn't have taken a task of this magnitude on.
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He must have received a massive blow to the head. That's the only explanation for it.
A Premier League club or other international job I could have understood... but SUNDERLAND? A club at almost Blackpool levels of basket-casery?
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Originally posted by Anorak Smith View PostTony Pulis has gone! Oh, happy day!
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It is good news, but I hope Gary Megson will soon be gone as well. The link between him turning up as Pulis' assistant and the start to this season hasn't been properly examined anywhere as far as I can see.
And Gerry Francis found himself frequently on the Sky Sports punditry sofa, leading some to wonder what role he actually held/is holding on the coaching staff. The reasons why Megson's appointment and other factors contributing to West Brom's malaise haven't been properly examined is that most of the punditocracy of Britain's footie media are spending too much of their time thinking up millions of ways to solve Mourinho's and other top club bosses problems, which leaves them with no time to think about ideas that could improve the lot of 'the rest', beyond the usual shit about 'oh, he'll keep them up' and 'be careful what you wish for', the plaintive mumbles of the complacent talking heads who wear their narrow-thinking like a badge.
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You'd think the local media would have given some thought to it though.
But yeah, it's narrow thinking that has people saying (including a lot of our own fans) that Megson is an all-time Albion hero because he got the club promoted to the Premier League for 'the first time' and later won another promotion. He did do some good work for the first couple of years of his spell in charge, but his football was at least as ugly as Pulis' and over a longer period. Bob Taylor and Richard Sneekes were two of our best players who preceded Megson. They also have, to put it mildly, 'interesting' views on the man's managerial and coaching abilities.
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Originally posted by Sean of the Shed View PostI heard someone the other day saying that if you were a club in West Brom's position and Pulis were available then that is exactly the manager you would be going for.
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Originally posted by jameswba View PostIt is good news, but I hope Gary Megson will soon be gone as well. The link between him turning up as Pulis' assistant and the start to this season hasn't been properly examined anywhere as far as I can see.
Megson ground out a couple of promotions, but was found out in the Premier League and eventually fell out with Jeremy Peace. I'd be more interested in understanding the latter's current involvement at West Brom, than Megson's current role. There was an interesting article in the Guardian yesterday about Saido Berahino, I still hold Peace and Pulis, partly responsible for that debacle.
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I had a fascinating discussion at a wedding last summer with an Agent ( not football) who was a West Brom Fan, and he had all sorts of eyebrow raising, nose hair burning stories, which were promptly all washed away in an ocean of bloody booze, and I wish I could remember half of them. West brom should have got rid of pullis almost immediately.
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Originally posted by Anorak Smith View PostI'm not sure there's any great mystery is there? Dave Kemp retired to spend more time with his family in the States. Megson was available, knows the club, and has a lot in common with Pulis' footballing ethos, seems like a natural fit.
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Originally posted by The Awesome Berbaslug!!! View PostI had a fascinating discussion at a wedding last summer with an Agent ( not football) who was a West Brom Fan, and he had all sorts of eyebrow raising, nose hair burning stories, which were promptly all washed away in an ocean of bloody booze, and I wish I could remember half of them. West brom should have got rid of pullis almost immediately.
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