Tony Pulis: Critics don't know what they're talking about
Tony Pulis has leapt to passionately defend his players on the eve of Albion’s final home game of the season.
The Baggies have been in eighth place throughout 2017 but a run of one win in nine games has allowed several of their rivals to bottleneck behind them.
With a trip to Manchester City following tonight’s visit to The Hawthorns of champions-elect Chelsea, Albion are in danger of falling out of the top half.
But Pulis says anybody knocking his team doesn’t know what they’re talking about.
“If we’d been struggling all season and won at Burnley and gone into eighth position, where we are now, everybody would be doing somersaults,” he said. “The season ebbs and flows. For us we have good periods and bad periods.
“That’s what happens outside the top six or seven clubs. We’ve had a poor period at the back end of it so people get frustrated and annoyed but the big picture is where we are in the Premier League with the resources we’ve got.
“This club is doing fantastic. The players have been wonderful.”
Albion have scored a league-high 20 goals from set pieces this season, but Pulis is proud that his side has threatened in front of goal this season when he’s only had Salomon Rondon and Hal Robson-Kanu to call upon.
“I see people talk about us on set plays and this and that,” he said. “What other club in the Premier League has only had two strikers to work with?
“That’s how well this club and this group of players has done. For anybody to knock them, they just don’t know what they’re talking about.
“This team has been absolutely wonderful, and I think the real supporters appreciate that.”
Although owner Guochuan Lai is unable to attend tonight’s match, he is sending several members of his investment group, Yunyi Guokai Sports Development Ltd, in his place.
