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Offline Toronto Villa

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #525 on: October 14, 2018, 04:20:53 PM »
There hasn’t been this level of genuine enthusiasm for a managerial appointment since 2006 and Martin O’Neill. Now we have a man who genuinely loves the club and above all that a very good man and manager. Excited to see what he is able to do.

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #526 on: October 14, 2018, 04:30:14 PM »
He will do us well.

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #527 on: October 14, 2018, 04:33:02 PM »
He will do us well.

For him...for us.. for the club...I really hope it works out well.

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #528 on: October 14, 2018, 04:46:10 PM »
There's a little Villa podcast on youtube that some might of watched/ heard. Has a bloke from Soccer AM on there who's a Brentford fan giving some views and opinions on Dean Smith, quite interesting.

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I listened to this the other day.  You can tell the Brentford fan just loves Smith and he sounds genuinely excited to see what he can do with our squad.  After listening to I feel really positive about this appointment

Really enjoyed that. Thanks for posting

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #529 on: October 14, 2018, 04:58:47 PM »
Welcome Home Dean   :D

I figure .... .that over the coming months you will change THIS SODDEN CULTURE that we.ve had under Steve.

Let's utilise Jack... rather than picking spots to get fouled at, where Steve practised his 'set-pieces'..Jack is better used than that, surely.

And I won't be myself   ;D... if I don't mention ONE CONCERN
DIVING ! At Brentford and Walsall you had a Rep for "diving" players. More Yellow and Red cards against opponents  then any other clubs.

Just telling you Dean... that won't work at Us !

We know that Jack had to endure and invite the tackles that led to Steve's brainwave set-pieces. But NO MORE ! Let him loose ! !

AND... you are at US now.... No more cheating and Diving.

I welcome you, and will be watching your culture. You are with the Big Boys now....

 :)

Wow...I Hope you wouldn't mind if I "BORROWED" a phrase or Two from this?

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #530 on: October 14, 2018, 05:00:52 PM »
https://twitter.com/davidanderson_1/status/1051027246109118466?s=21 Worth a read on Dean Smith Villa fans, from a Brentford fan in peace.

It lost me before I got to read about Dean Smith nearly. So utterly ignorant pish about us and Bruce.

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #531 on: October 14, 2018, 05:11:49 PM »
https://twitter.com/davidanderson_1/status/1051027246109118466?s=21 Worth a read on Dean Smith Villa fans, from a Brentford fan in peace.
I have to agree with criticism of our strategy to replace Bruce. From considering Marquee names like Henry to heavyweights like Rodgers and ending up with salt of the earth smith does seem a bit strange.

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #532 on: October 14, 2018, 05:14:46 PM »
https://twitter.com/davidanderson_1/status/1051027246109118466?s=21 Worth a read on Dean Smith Villa fans, from a Brentford fan in peace.
I have to agree with criticism of our strategy to replace Bruce. From considering Marquee names like Henry to heavyweights like Rodgers and ending up with salt of the earth smith does seem a bit strange.

Alternatively they looked for a manager who'll play a certain type of football and looked everywhere for him? Who gives a shit about the heaviness of the name, there was consistency in what they wanted. Has this guy forgotten the 'Martinez, no, McLeish' summer?

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #533 on: October 14, 2018, 05:16:51 PM »
However we had no evidence on type of football Henry would play.

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #534 on: October 14, 2018, 05:18:32 PM »
However we had no evidence on type of football Henry would play.

Something tells me it won't be two banks of four and long balls. Just a hunch.

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #535 on: October 14, 2018, 05:24:59 PM »
Two things strike me about Brentford. 1) the idea that Smith was somehow underachieving with their squad, constantly picked clean and reinvented when they're a financial minnow in a league of sharks, and (2) the almost complacent adulation for "the system".

With regards to the latter it seems Smith was almost inconsequential given the all powerful "system". Never quite reconciling why Smith needed to turn up mid-way through a season following a Head Coach failing, seemingly despite "the system".

Maybe he's a bit better and played a significant role than they like to admit.

I agree with you Monty. We wanted a Head Coach who could play attacking football and work with a new DoF.

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #536 on: October 14, 2018, 05:31:57 PM »
There's a little Villa podcast on youtube that some might of watched/ heard. Has a bloke from Soccer AM on there who's a Brentford fan giving some views and opinions on Dean Smith, quite interesting.

&feature=youtu.be
I listened to this the other day.  You can tell the Brentford fan just loves Smith and he sounds genuinely excited to see what he can do with our squad.  After listening to I feel really positive about this appointment

Really enjoyed that. Thanks for posting

Me too. Wasn’t sure about Smith at all in the summer but Seeing this gives me some real hope we have got the right man for change

Offline clash city rocker

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #537 on: October 14, 2018, 05:40:42 PM »
He can't change us overnight but if he can change us over weeks and months then that will do for me.

Offline Dante Lavelli

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #538 on: October 14, 2018, 06:06:14 PM »
https://twitter.com/davidanderson_1/status/1051027246109118466?s=21 Worth a read on Dean Smith Villa fans, from a Brentford fan in peace.
I have to agree with criticism of our strategy to replace Bruce. From considering Marquee names like Henry to heavyweights like Rodgers and ending up with salt of the earth smith does seem a bit strange.

The article does raise some good points.  However thinking about it, there was consistency in our approach because all people targeted (if the speculation was correct) were coaches first and foremost, even Brendan.

He also asked what has changed from the summer to now, well if a coach based strategy was being prioritised then a DoF or a "system" to fit into is necessary.  That takes time to build and now we now have people in the right places for that to happen. 

None of the above guarantees success and I agree that we have been a basket case for too long, but with a fair wind, what the new owners have built in a short space of time is pretty decent (and about ten years too late).

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #539 on: October 14, 2018, 06:57:39 PM »
https://twitter.com/davidanderson_1/status/1051027246109118466?s=21 Worth a read on Dean Smith Villa fans, from a Brentford fan in peace.

Sorry, but I also gave up before reaching the Dean Smith section. The Bruce discourse was so inaccurate that it debases the entire article.

 


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