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Offline Risso

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #4395 on: July 12, 2019, 06:47:43 PM »
Nah, we’ll destroy them. 3-0, and the collective dropping of jaws will be heard from miles away.

Because it should have been 5.

Yup!

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #4396 on: July 12, 2019, 07:16:05 PM »
I'm surprised Dean hasn't added this summer to his coaching team. I appreciate he's very much a hands-on Coach but the fella needs to delegate more before he burns himself out, not now but later on in the season. From what I've seen he's only had a few days holiday. I would hate him to fail, not because he wasn't good enough but because he didn't take care of himself.

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #4397 on: July 12, 2019, 07:18:59 PM »
One team I reckon we can turn over at the park this season is man utd.

And about bloody time too!

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #4398 on: July 12, 2019, 07:24:59 PM »
Hopefully with a couple of new full backs in Guibert and Targett we will be a lot stronger ,certainly at attacking .Of course Elmo and Hause could also play at full back

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #4399 on: July 14, 2019, 01:02:08 PM »
So he has managed...Walsall..Brentford..Aston villa....WBA....spooky

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #4400 on: July 15, 2019, 11:18:03 AM »
So he has managed...Walsall..Brentford..Aston villa....WBA....spooky
Ok, what have I missed this time?

Offline LukeJames

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #4401 on: July 15, 2019, 04:59:58 PM »
Anybody with twitter/instagram will have no doubt noticed the squad doing a bit of white water rafting (and looking like they're loving it). I absolutely love seeing these types of pictures of the team bonding, I remember Wagner being lauded for doing this kind of thing with Huddersfield and boosting there togetherness.

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #4402 on: July 15, 2019, 06:14:06 PM »
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Assistant Coach Richard O'Kelly says Aston Villa will not change their approach to matches in the Premier League this season.

Our No.2 insists the team will simply evolve, and not alter the blueprint as we return to the most entertaining league in the world.

He and Head Coach Dean Smith have a long-standing reputation for an attractive, progressive implementation of style – something that was a key factor in their appointment back in October.

And fans can get ready for more of the same, according to O'Kelly, who admits he's been waiting a long time to coach on this stage.

He said: "The blueprint is the same. We are what we are.

"Dean Smith is who he is. I am who I am also, as is John Terry and the rest of the coaching staff.

"We all believe in the same thing and that's why we're here. We know what we want to do. There's also really good people here. That's important.

"On a personal level, it's the moment I've been waiting for all my life.

"I've been coaching 30 years, so it's taken a while. But I got here eventually!"

On what facets of the game will change notably in the top-flight, O'Kelly believes it will be the 'pressure' while in and out of possession.

That, he says, will be an integral part of the work completed out in Minnesota, where Villa have rounded off day two of their pre-season camp.

He added: "In the Premier League we'll be under pressure, with and without the ball.

"They'll have to keep a cool head, play forwards at the right time and be compact at the right time.

"Those are things that will stand us in good stead. We have to make sure everything we do has an outcome to it. We'll be working towards that this week.

"The running stats are probably the main difference, too. They're higher in the Premier League.

"It's also a belief from the players in terms of what they're doing. All the top sides make mistakes, but you don't realise they do, because of how they react to them.

"They're so supportive of each other and that's what we want Aston Villa to be – a forward-thinking, attacking side."

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #4403 on: July 16, 2019, 05:08:04 PM »
DS interview from Minnesota 




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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #4404 on: July 16, 2019, 06:14:32 PM »
It just makes me warm inside to hear how much the emphasise the style, the ethos, the playing ideas. I know we all have only ever wanted Villa to succeed, but I don't think I've ever wanted a particular Villa team to succeed as much as I want this one to.

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #4405 on: July 16, 2019, 06:29:54 PM »
He says all of the right things pretty much all the time. We go into games now expecting to win, expecting to play a certain way. None of us are so naive to think we will win every game but it’s great to know irrespective of the opponent we will always try to.

Offline Chico Hamilton III

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #4406 on: July 16, 2019, 06:33:22 PM »
Brilliant interview. I was pleased to hear him pronounce "tour" correctly as well -  "too-a". My kids take the piss when I say it properly
« Last Edit: July 16, 2019, 06:35:53 PM by Chico Hamilton III »

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #4407 on: July 16, 2019, 09:24:21 PM »
Brilliant interview. I was pleased to hear him pronounce "tour" correctly as well -  "too-a". My kids take the piss when I say it properly

I thought exactly the same.  Too-a, bless him!  Good interview and 'more business to be done' he said.  I am also interested in his quote 'some of the players we are linked with, we haven't even spoken about'.  I wonder whether this is Butland, Webster, Phillips?  Would love to find out.

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #4408 on: July 16, 2019, 10:16:57 PM »
The players we have signed have Been very short linked withs.

Offline jwarry

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #4409 on: July 16, 2019, 10:21:08 PM »
The players we have signed have Been very short linked withs.

Apart from the loans of course

 


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