Pulis attacks defence

Last updated : 15 September 2003 By Rob Stanway
"They were much better than us, all over the park" Tony Pulis told Stoke City World.

"Their front men slaughtered us, the defence wasn't strong enough to battle today. We haven't replaced James O'Connor or Sergie Shtaniuk yet and we need to"

"I'm discusted with some of the player's performances and attitudes and if they think they can just turn up and put on a shirt they've got a rude awakening."

He said: "We created enough chances away from home to have scored four or five goals ourselves but we looked fragile at the back, aside from Wayne Thomas who did well.

"For two or three of the goals we were simply outmuscled out of it and that's certainly not acceptable."