Ask your average Premier League fan to list off their Tony Pulis stereotypes and they will fire them back at you with ease. Long ball. Not many goals. Lower mid-table. Set pieces. Baseball caps.
A decade in the top flight has left Pulis as little more than a caricature of himself in the eyes of most fans. Through Stoke, Crystal Palace and West Brom he has seemingly found a brand of football and stuck with it to safety.
But this season, things at the Hawthorns have changed. After a summer in which he bemoaned the club’s recruitment amid a takeover, Pulis has seemingly decided to take a radical approach to the campaign.