They have now gone 20 games without keeping a clean sheet, and their defensive inadequacies go some way to explaining why Pulis chose to field Tommy Mooney as a lone striker.
That explains why Austin, home to Dell Computer, the University of Texas and the Lone Star state's government has an annual GMP growth prospect of more than 6%.
That is why we need more radical welfare reform, getting more disabled people, more lone parents, more on unemployment benefit, into work, not to destroy the welfare state.