Dean Smith - Confirmed

[Villan82]

Going down this time would be heartbreaking. Last time, in 2016, I detested the players.

This time, we have come so far together and we have good players with heart. All through this season I have felt we were not reaching our potential or getting the points we should have been. When you look at the points we have from games where we have played ten men or games where we managed to lose even though we played well, you can't help but have that feeling that we are going to fall short. That is heartbreaking.

I wish we could just show some more intelligence on the pitch and better 'know how'. Very, very frustrating.

[Ads]

Hard to see where the next win is coming from.  Newcastle away maybe.

2-0 at home to Tottenham.

[Aldridge Villa]

I concur

[SoccerHQ]

He's done well since December 28th. Two big wins in the league and also a good point at Brighton on the back of Man. City hammering. Also created a shock result in the league cup, now we need a couple of those in the league in the run in.

Things aren't as bleak as they were in the aftermath of Watford away apart from less games.

How we react will be crucial though. Let's hope we don't treat the two weeks as a jolly and we come out sluggish v Spurs.

[Risso]

Hard to see where the next win is coming from.  Newcastle away maybe.

2-0 at home to Tottenham.

No chance.

[Demitri_C]

I think he’s doing ok too. Play off winners always struggle so this was sort of what I expected.

Play off winners dont spend 150m and be consistently shit most of the season. They can at least do a bit better on the road.

In my view smiths under achieving badly and invested very poorly.

[themossman]

Hard to disgrace with that. We’re not your average playoff winners and in the highly likely event that we go down we’re in a very small group of teams, comprising us and Fulham, who have outspent other promoted teams by shitloads and fucked it all up.

[Big Ming]

Just want to feel proud of the team's performance more than once a month. Is that too much to ask?

And to round off a perfect day and another weekend spoiled, Hogan scores for the Noses......

[Ads]

Hard to see where the next win is coming from.  Newcastle away maybe.

2-0 at home to Tottenham.

No chance.

3-0?

[Risso]

To them, probably.

[David_Nab]

Smith's team can't defend bottom line - where poor performances today individually no doubt but all season its been the same , had issues last year with it as did his Brentford team.

Tuesday he made good subs but today there where shocking , against 10 men leaving on 3 cbs was pointless and never allowed us to make the extra man tell in attack

[PeterWithesShin]

How have we fucked it all up? It's not always as good as we'd like but not one poster on here would have turned down being in a cup final and outside the bottom 3 on the 1st Feb if offered it before the season started.

[SheffieldVillain]

I think he’s doing ok too. Play off winners always struggle so this was sort of what I expected.

Play off winners dont spend 150m and be consistently shit most of the season. They can at least do a bit better on the road.

They do spend £150m if they need to bring in 16 players. As for play-off winners not being consistently shit most of their first season up, the facts would suggest differently:
2013-4 - QPR promoted through playoffs, finished 20th - relegated
2014-5 - Norwich promoted through playoffs, finished 19th - relegated
2015-6 - Hull promoted through playoffs, finished 18th - relegated
2016-7 - Huddersfield promoted through playoffs, finished 16th & 4 points from relegation zone
2017-8 - Fulham promoted through playoffs, finished 19th - relegated
2018-9 - Us promoted through playoffs, currently 17th & 1 point from relegation zone

If you look at it as we were the lowest team at the start of the season - the statistically worst team to come up from the Championship, the goal is to move up from that to at minimum 17th. We are in the battle for that. Not saying that we've been great, or mistakes haven't been made or even that if we want to push on to midtable and then top 6 Smith is the man, but at the moment we are doing exactly what history suggests a team in our position is likely to do, in fact slightly better.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Hard to see where the next win is coming from.  Newcastle away maybe.

Maybe but Crystal Palace at home seems more likely.

[PeterWithesShin]

I think some of his game management has been poor too often but don't see much wrong with his subs today. Konsa needed to be subbed as he was "feeling something" according to DS, then after the red it was 2 attackers for the Nakamba, who was wank today, and AEG who was also ineffective.