I think its good to sit in different areas of the ground as it does give you a different perception of how we are playing - you know how we question what game the same set of fans are at - perception is reality and all that!
In relation to TP I have never seen a manager moan and whine as much as he does, he continues with the most stupid of comments and statements to the players like "try and score" etc..and the way he yells and yells and yells and yells and yells and yells like a broken record demanding that they stand on a particluar blade of grass - FFS they are proffesional footballers who work on set plays all the time - they are not kids!
I could give you a list as long as my arm, but the key issues for me is that you can see the man panic under pressure, cant make a decession or renaid on it because of an incidient in the game. His negativity in selecting subs (like a rabbit in the headlights) is so amateurish and is failure to change soemthing that is obviously broke is so frustrating when you are trying to be positive and support the team. For me the biggy is the way he singles out and brakes down a player over weeks and weeks. he shuns them with his body language and speaks to them like the lowest of the low. However, when the manager shakes his head when the crowd sings a players name, or that said player scores a goal - that is a disgrace and thats when I lost all respect for him as a man. What do we get in return for these flawed traits - we get to listen to him priase his favourites week in week out and shout at and blame other players for their failures! He offers no consistencey or principles except the old dictatorship view of "I'm big your small" and if you dont like it then fuk off!
Like I've said on another thread I could recognise only a handful of season ticket holders at the end of last season compared to the championship campaign - those were the real fans! Not these token idiots who have bought a season ticket in the last couple years and never once went to a lower league game! I know hundreds of fans who went to the Wembley games and some who went to Valencia who are not season ticket holders, never have been - yet coment on how far we have come? They didnt go for the football or the club - they went for the piss up! Just like the idiots at the home games who always come in 10 minutes after kick off (pissed) block your view and then leave 5 minutes before half time! They then come back 10 minutes into the second half (even more pissed) blocking your view again and then leave before the end of the game so they can get to the pub or stand outside the away end and hurl some abuse! Oh but its all right, because they sing their hearts out and ask TP to give them a wave?
The true fans will be the ones who sit there (like alot of us did on here well before the prem days) and watch them in the cold when we no longer have TP or Coates or premership football. However, I hope that day never comes, for the sake of the club and the city!
I've never sat close enough, enough times to notice that, although I do get annoyed sitting behind the bench sometimes, like you say when he's repeating the same thing over and over, combined with how loud his voice is, starts to go through me after a bit!
And I know what you mean about him seeming to target certain players, I'd like to know what's gone on behind the scenes to cause things like that. From what I've seen it's all about attitude, there have been a few fallouts and "troublemakers" about, but only some of them get the full on Pulis treatment, I think it must be down to their attitude and how they've reacted to their bollocking.
On the whole, I don't think his (as you've put it) "dictatorship view" is a bad way of going, but Pulis takes it to an extreme, which can be damaging to some players' morale.
I think I'm quite lucky where I usually sit, I'm about halfway back, so I get to hear all the pissheads gathered up there having a sing song, but infront of me is mainly groups of families, who tend to stay sat, so my view isn't blocked. Personally I prefer to stand at the match, but the bloke behind me doesn't so I have to respect that.
Oh, and r.e "try and score", one of my old coaches used to use that one!
. It sounds daft, but it was an instruction from free kicks/ corners, directing a certain player to go for the ball, rather than block defenders runs, or even running the opposite way, in hope you can take a defender with you.
