West Brom chief Tony Pulis insists his hot-headed past is behind him and he is no longer a dressing room madman.
The Baggies boss believes he has mellowed with age and kept his cool despite last weekend's 4-1 home drubbing to QPR.
Albion host Leicester on Saturday aiming to stay clear of the Premier League relegation zone and Pulis has developed his style to handle players over the years.
"I've mellowed with my age. A few years ago I might have gone mad at half-time," said the 57-year-old. "I didn't go mad at half-time, I just came in and changed a few things.
"The way I've gone and the way the game has gone you have to be more careful. It's the way the world's changed as much as anything, you have to be a little bit more positive in your criticism than maybe I used to be.
"You have different characters in the dressing room. If you have a go at someone, someone might answer back, other people will take it and speak afterwards.
"Generally you have to determine who's running it and who's not running it and for them to understand that. Players want guidance as much as anything today.
"The big thing was you've had a poor 45 minutes, lets go and rectify it. There are 45 minutes to play and you get paid for that. That was my theme.
"I've never thrown things around. I've never had anything in my hand to throw. I've kicked a few things. I'm not a slapper."
The Baggies are seven points above the bottom three and are without the suspended Youssouf Mulumbu and injured duo Ben Foster (knee) and Callum McManaman (foot).
Craig Dawson is back from a ban and Pulis is confident he has got to the bottom of their QPR defeat and they will avoid a repeat against bottom side Leicester.
He said: "I've had a good week to analyse what's gone on and what hasn't gone on. The fact they were away for two weeks, there are lots and lots of factors.
"People drift back in you don't know what they've been doing. We've got a lot of lads who've been away with home internationals.
"It does break the rhythm up and sometimes you actually get players coming back and all the basics we've talked about, all the stuff we've worked on drifts out of the window.
"Unfortunately for us, I don't think they meant to do it, it was more of a mental thing than physical. It wasn't just fitness."
The weekend match will mark Jeff Astle Day at The Hawthorns as the club pay tribute to their former striker who scored the winning goal in the 1968 FA Cup final against Everton and died of the brain condition CTE in 2002.
West Brom will play in a replica Wembley '68 kit.