Quote from: Newby on December 15, 2019, 09:26:50 PMQuote from: Risso on December 15, 2019, 09:07:44 PMQuote from: Newby on December 15, 2019, 09:03:51 PMBegs another question: how about we yo-yo for a couple of years until we find out feet?No ta. We've seen already what a slog the Championship is and how hard it is to get out of. Go down and that's the last time we'll see jack in a Villa shirt. I hope that Smith keeps us up, but the next three games are enormous and if he doesn't sort it out then he needs to be sacked before January.If I'm honest Risso, I think the optimum time to sack him will be tomorrow so they can bring someone in to have a quick look at the squad in readiness for making a few smart signings in January. It's such a gamble either way. Ridiculous. Suggesting sacking a manager we've just handed a new contract to, on the even of a cup quarter final? Yes, we are in a bit of a slump and yes things do we need to improve but the lack of patience is truly staggering.
Quote from: Risso on December 15, 2019, 09:07:44 PMQuote from: Newby on December 15, 2019, 09:03:51 PMBegs another question: how about we yo-yo for a couple of years until we find out feet?No ta. We've seen already what a slog the Championship is and how hard it is to get out of. Go down and that's the last time we'll see jack in a Villa shirt. I hope that Smith keeps us up, but the next three games are enormous and if he doesn't sort it out then he needs to be sacked before January.If I'm honest Risso, I think the optimum time to sack him will be tomorrow so they can bring someone in to have a quick look at the squad in readiness for making a few smart signings in January. It's such a gamble either way.
Quote from: Newby on December 15, 2019, 09:03:51 PMBegs another question: how about we yo-yo for a couple of years until we find out feet?No ta. We've seen already what a slog the Championship is and how hard it is to get out of. Go down and that's the last time we'll see jack in a Villa shirt. I hope that Smith keeps us up, but the next three games are enormous and if he doesn't sort it out then he needs to be sacked before January.
Begs another question: how about we yo-yo for a couple of years until we find out feet?
I'm as frustrated as anyone but this talk of sacking Smith is highly premature IMO.He has 3 huge winnable games coming up with which to set things right. Win them all and we could be comfortably mid-table. Win two, draw one, we're still in good shape. Etc. etc.If we're down in the bottom 3 after those games, I could forgive the talk of sacking him, but does he really deserve to lose his job at this present moment in time? I don't think so.
Quote from: Clampy on December 16, 2019, 06:56:45 AMQuote from: Newby on December 15, 2019, 09:26:50 PMQuote from: Risso on December 15, 2019, 09:07:44 PMQuote from: Newby on December 15, 2019, 09:03:51 PMBegs another question: how about we yo-yo for a couple of years until we find out feet?No ta. We've seen already what a slog the Championship is and how hard it is to get out of. Go down and that's the last time we'll see jack in a Villa shirt. I hope that Smith keeps us up, but the next three games are enormous and if he doesn't sort it out then he needs to be sacked before January.If I'm honest Risso, I think the optimum time to sack him will be tomorrow so they can bring someone in to have a quick look at the squad in readiness for making a few smart signings in January. It's such a gamble either way. Ridiculous. Suggesting sacking a manager we've just handed a new contract to, on the even of a cup quarter final? Yes, we are in a bit of a slump and yes things do we need to improve but the lack of patience is truly staggering.Given what we spent in the summer, any manager with 15 points after 17 games would be under serious pressure. Particularly one who is simply not learning from his mistakes. Next three games are huge and we go into them on the back of dreadful performances in recent games. If Smith wasn't a Villa fan there wouldn't be a single poster suggesting we back him all the way back to the championship.
If Southampton turn us over I think attitudes could change.
Lets just remember the first season back in the old First Division after Graham Taylor got us promoted, we stayed up by goal difference over West Ham. If he had been sacked then we would not have had the following season of being runners up to Liverpool. Dean Smith is still the same manager that we were all praising last May so we need to show a bit of class as supporters and give him time.