Puel Painting and Decorating.

Negativity vs. Nevativity

The Puel Paradox!

It is a problem, though. As in life, many things can look like a mess if they are to be judged on their current state rather than what they are to become.

You give the adage of Rolf Harris in your article. (I don't know whether that's an acceptable adage these days but I'll go with it...) He had a catchphrase of "Can you tell what it is yet?" The pro-Puel argument is essentially the same thing. A masterpiece is being painted but it's only half-complete. The problem is, to us mere mortals, how can you tell whether it's genuinely a masterpiece or a lunatic splashing around? Or anywhere in between?

That's why I'd want to know what exactly we're aiming for, how far along the track we are, whether Puel thinks we're on schedule and where he can be assisted along the way. At the moment there's a load of paint splashed on a canvas and no, I can't really tell what it is yet.

Nev, you speak like you can see what it is yet; can you tell us the style that we're going to be playing in, who we're going to be emulating and how it can work against the high press without exceptional players? Because how else are we supposed to judge a transition period that could be indefinite.

Ktf brilliant
Reads like a python sketch,,,,

I've read it,i still don't understand it,
🤔🙄

Completely agree Dunge in terms of being abstract about the long term plan and I think that is the main confuddlement and simultaneously, the main reason we, I think the owners included too, are persevering on the whole.

Yet, there is the imediate affect as well. Unlike a piece of art that can be added to and created over time, which can sit and wait patiently without repurcussions or like a bottle of fine wine that actually gets better if it’s just left alone for a substantial amount of time, there is a short term plan that must be in place - even if it is one that is to plug the leaks whilst the ship sales to an altogether different destination.

And this is the main concern for me. Even if there is this master plan that is an upper echelon beyond my level of thinking, there is also the stark reality that the immediate and first port of call for Puel’s ship: avoid relegation and/or avoid the sack. Of course, if we look at just ‘this season’ - Nev, you, me, mostly everyone I imagine is right when they say just on game time and results, it’s too early to judge. Yet, I find myself so frusfrated, because irrelevant of the long term voyage, there seem to be other less choppy navigations to follow in the meantime which not only wouldn’t steer us off course but may, through minor deviation, ironically out the wind in our sales towards what Puel wants.


Ps Nev, don’t be offended, I am only being light hearted. Whilst we debate in different ways and have different views I don’t mean to come across like I’m putting you down my fellow fox

Not offended but i will still go with the painted wall or one of my half finished designs. we are five games into a Puel team playing the Puel way if we are still getting four put past after ten games then there is a case for getting a new painter in,but it think Puel will get this season to paint the wall

Well, the next 5 fixtures are relatively favourable. Arsenal away is standout tough; the others there are opportunities to get points from. That then makes 10 league games.

14 points+ after that would (hopefully) be signs of progress.
11-13 would leave a question mark.
10 points- and I think it'll be hard for him to keep his position.

I never thought I would find such great appreciation in the comparison of Claude Puel to Rolf Harris.

Great post KTF - a lot of effort went in to that. I hope that whoever manages the painting, we end up with a beautiful Monet, rather than the Picasso of a football team I’m currently watching!

Eh, that doesn’t make sense. Ahh well.

KTF - what about the painter who's still on the books, lightning fast and highly effective at coverage but isn't doing anything because the rest of the painters can't manage to give him a brush? Surely your house would get painted if he was used properly; you know, like the way he painted a house a couple of years ago - that was a work of art!

comment by nuneaton_fox (U7936)
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KTF - what about the painter who's still on the books, lightning fast and highly effective at coverage but isn't doing anything because the rest of the painters can't manage to give him a brush? Surely your house would get painted if he was used properly; you know, like the way he painted a house a couple of years ago - that was a work of art!


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Good metaphor, well made.