Dean Smith - Confirmed

[Richard]

As long as we don't stay stationery in the table we will be fine under Smith

[Mossie Hennebry]

He's got to put his stamp on this team.

[Sexual Ealing]

As long as we don't stay stationery in the table we will be fine under Smith

Fair play to you. If you believe it, post-it.

[ROBBO]

The next league game will tell the story if the players come out perform well and win the game the short term pressure subsides but lose and the panic buttons will be pressed.

[algy]

He's got to put his stamp on this team.

A frank assessment

[Mister E]

He's got to put his stamp on this team.

A frank assessment

endorsed.

[Border villan]

He's got to put his stamp on this team.

A frank assessment

endorsed.

Good posting.

[sid1964]

lets hope for a first class performance tonight.

[dave shelley]

I phil-ately refuse to accept he is not fit for the job.

[Damo70]

I actually think there is a reasonable chance that all three promoted sides could stay up.

I think you could make a group of the three promoted teams and probably at least four or five other teams where there isn’t a huge amount of different in quality in either the playing squad or manager.

Big time, Newcastle, Palace, Watford, Brighton, Southampton are all bang average.

Every season one team who you thought were at least half decent and comfortably established in the Premier league struggles. This year it looks like being Watford. Newcastle are not very good and Palace don't offer much apart from Zaha. Brighton will probably struggle again but I think Southampton will be okay. I fancy Sheffield United to have a better season than Norwich because Norwich concede a lot of goals (even last season) whereas Sheffield United are quite solid and don't concede so many.

[Luke8]

I just personally don’t think we will see a season where you have you have one (or sometimes two) teams that are very obviously cut a drift at the bottom like you quite regularly do e.g Huddersfield, Sunderland, us (sadly)

You’ve only really got two teams that you would comfortably back to win the majority of their games now (compared to four or five not so long ago) which is think will make the rest of the league more tightly contested in general, but also lead to a group of about six or seven teams the will end of battling pretty closely against relegation.

Also, in regards to established teams struggling, Everton have a pretty low key poor start to the season given their (presumably quite high) aspirations and the opposition they have faced so far.

[PaulWinch again]

Can’t agree with Dean that in the 8 games we’ve played “only Tottenham have been better than us”. Might have been phraseology, but I think we’ve had good spells on games but also been really poor at stages of most games.

[paul_e]

Can’t agree with Dean that in the 8 games we’ve played “only Tottenham have been better than us”. Might have been phraseology, but I think we’ve had good spells on games but also been really poor at stages of most games.

It sounds like you are agreeing with him to me. We've been on top for a bit and the opposition have been on top for a bit is a great way of saying there wasn't much between the teams. It was true agianst Tottenham for a long time as well, with Eriksen being the only meaningful difference between us (in my opinion).

[Luke8]

Guess you could say it was two poor teams (or performances at least) so maybe fairly even, but I think it would be difficult to argue that we had a spell in the Palace game where we were the dominant team.

[Holy Trinity]

I like Dean but he is out of his depth and we cant fanny around much longer before we have to look at his position.

There are plenty of managers around the world who play Dean's brand of football but have tactical nous and a plan B. Today is the first time since hes been here that I have totally lost hope that he is the one for us.