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Author Topic: Dean Smith - Confirmed  (Read 1522714 times)

Offline passport1

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #10620 on: November 01, 2020, 04:44:12 PM »
The disappointing  thing is that after eight days preparation we turn in a first half performance  like that. Southampton  looked dangerous  in possession  every time they moved forward in the first half we , on other hand , looked clueless.

Offline Bobby Boy

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #10621 on: November 01, 2020, 05:01:34 PM »
Interesting from DS's post-game press conference that at half-time players thought that they were being done tactically by Southampton which DS disagreed with.

Maybe some indication that players are concerned by our tactics. Doesn't excuse their lack of tempo or general lethargy recently though even if they might have a point.

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #10622 on: November 01, 2020, 05:03:43 PM »
Back to his deluded best in the post-match comments.

Offline passport1

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #10623 on: November 01, 2020, 05:03:49 PM »
That if true is not good.

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #10624 on: November 01, 2020, 05:08:11 PM »
Does seem odd that he's specifically mentioned the players disagreeing with tactics, definitely not one you'd thought you'd want to be sharing publicly.

Offline Mellin

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #10625 on: November 01, 2020, 05:10:46 PM »
No, but I do like the honesty of talking openly about it. Not seen the interview, but was he taking ownership of it? If lessons continue to be learned then we'll keep moving in the right direction.

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #10626 on: November 01, 2020, 05:19:52 PM »
Back to his deluded best in the post-match comments.

Some of it made sense. Some of it was worrying. Don’t give away stupid free kicks against a team that’s good at free kicks isn’t unreasonable.

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #10627 on: November 01, 2020, 05:55:00 PM »
Interesting from DS's post-game press conference that at half-time players thought that they were being done tactically by Southampton which DS disagreed with.

Maybe some indication that players are concerned by our tactics. Doesn't excuse their lack of tempo or general lethargy recently though even if they might have a point.

Stevie Wonder could see we were being done tactically. the fact the manager didn't see the issue and it required the players to tell him is very troubling.

Offline mr underhill

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #10628 on: November 02, 2020, 07:16:17 AM »
agreed but if they recognized it, they should have had the  strength to change it.

Offline dave17

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #10629 on: November 02, 2020, 07:43:47 AM »
Smith has met all his goals or even exceeded them on paper

Promotion unexpectedly
Stayed up plus a cup final

Despite the chronically bad performances other than Liverpool he has 4 wins from 6. I guess the owners will persist until he falls behind schedule - so outside the top 10 or flirting with relegation.

He doesn’t seem to be learning and I have sympathy for the lack of options from the bench but Hourihane deserves a shot at getting his place back and nakamba was very good when he first came over. We’re a much better side but we still lean heavily on grealish. Mings has been poor to indifferent in patches. Engels deserves a shot also. Any injury to Targett, grealish, Watkins or Luis could cause us some bother 

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #10630 on: November 02, 2020, 08:12:18 AM »
"Chronically bad performances other than Liverpool..."

You mean beating Sheffield United, declaring after an hour at Fulham and deservedly beating Leicester, who are tipped for top four? Those chronically bad performances?

Offline Allan C

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #10631 on: November 02, 2020, 08:12:21 AM »
He needs to be able to set the midfield in different formations and styles.  Unfortunately apart from CH there is nobody decent on the bench.  We need to sign at least two midfielders in January and one of them need to be a real hard ass.   We also need another a striker and left and right back.  Only 5 more signings......

Hourihane got a goal and assist against Fulham and hadn't played a single minute since. That's despite McGinn and particularly Barkley being absolutely useless in the last two games.
Why “particularly Barkley”  McGinn has been equally as bad if not worse. A few others too. Hourihane isn’t as good a player as either of them.

Offline sid1964

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #10632 on: November 02, 2020, 08:28:59 AM »
The law of football is "Every player who does not play is suddenly better than the guy on the pitch"

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #10633 on: November 02, 2020, 08:41:49 AM »
He needs to be able to set the midfield in different formations and styles.  Unfortunately apart from CH there is nobody decent on the bench.  We need to sign at least two midfielders in January and one of them need to be a real hard ass.   We also need another a striker and left and right back.  Only 5 more signings......

Hourihane got a goal and assist against Fulham and hadn't played a single minute since. That's despite McGinn and particularly Barkley being absolutely useless in the last two games.
Why “particularly Barkley”  McGinn has been equally as bad if not worse. A few others too. Hourihane isn’t as good a player as either of them.


Because he has. Miscontrolled the ball terribly on a number of occasions. Yesterday his miscontrol led to the ings goal. His delivery of the dead ball was woeful. Hourihane for the last 20 of yesterday’s game and the Leeds debacle might have added something. Hourihane is the obvious replacement for RB, I think that’s why “particularly Barkley”.

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #10634 on: November 02, 2020, 08:45:12 AM »
Back to his deluded best in the post-match comments.
Some of it made sense. Some of it was worrying. Don’t give away stupid free kicks against a team that’s good at free kicks isn’t unreasonable.
You mean, as we did away at Bournemouth last season? - the team that had scored the most from set pieces?
Hmmm, yes, we're learning and continuously improving ....
Same issue, same outcome.

 


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