Quote Originally Posted by baggiematt View Post
People forget that not only did we lose our main output in terms of goals in Diagne and Perreira but we also had to turn to players humiliated by Big Sam in Diangana and Grant. Val had to find a way of getting goals in the system from all positions, which he's done pretty well. We don't have a single player that Val can rely on for goals.

We could have (or should have) easily been in Sheff Utd's position given the state Big Sam left us in.

You slate Val constantly but seriously underestimate the job he's had to do.

Fat Sam didn't humiliate that pair in the Prem, they managed t do that all by themselves by being constantly s h y t e.

You constantly dig out Allardyce......WHY FFS!

He organised us, made us competitive and gave us a sniff of a chance of staying up at one point.

The bloke gets a bad press all the time from some yet it was likely because of him we even spotted and got in Yoksulu and Diagne, the two best quality players to wear our sad f u c k I n g kit last season!

I didn't much care for Pullis football and I'd prefer Ron Atkinson football to that of Allardyce or Val but lets be very clear about something here..........although it didn't go against his CV we all pretty much know Pullis dodged having a relegation on his CV and Fat Sam got his first relegation in 30 years of managing whilst at the Albion.

I wonder what the common denominator might be.......Mmm, strokes chin and thinks for about a nano second before the vision of a 4 foot Chinese runt comes to mind.

What a coincidence that two of the most solid and reliable ( if unspectacular ) managers finally crash and burn at B71.

Do me a f a c k I n g favour and smell the coffee!

Under Pullis we needed a creative and dynamic midfielder to cover the hole James Morrison had left with his constant injuries and we needed a 15 goals a season centre forward who wasn't Ideye Brown or f u c k I n g Rondon, if Lai had stumped up £25 million at that time we'd never have been relegated in that period.

Same investment needed last summer along with keeping Sam and we'd be going up this year.

FOL!!!!!