Dean Smith - Confirmed

[BoVillan esq]

Employ a bang average Championship manager and what can you expect - he/we got lucky last season
I am disappointed with the owners - I thought they would have been more savvy - extending his contract was a poor move .
He certainly appears to give other teams far too much respect - no wonder the players aren't up to the fight when the manager gives up prior to kick off

Exactly right and said so at the time of Smith being hired, couldn't get my head around what was expected of a manager that at best had achieved very little and if you are a club wanting Premiership and Premiership survival, why smith?.

[curiousorange]

In any other season he'd be gone after this exact fixture. But unless there's a replacement waiting in the wings, there isn't, so why bother now? Make a smart appointment for the Championship in the summer when you're not pressing the panic button.

[Villan82]

I am disappointed with the owners - I thought they would have been more savvy - extending his contract was a poor move .

Yeah. I am disappointed by how amateurish it has been over the past 12 months.

[PaulWinch again]

Dean has to stop making excuses. This squad is capable of staying up, but it requires a coherent tactical plan. His constant repetition of the same things that fail time and time again is the problem.

[Des Little]

Deano’s Ultra cautious tactics make for horrendous viewing, but once this season is over we need to look at our recruitment policy. We have some many inadequate players it’s a surprise we aren’t rock bottom already. I’d like to think that Suso will be getting his P45 without any hesitation.

[BoVillan esq]

In any other season he'd be gone after this exact fixture. But unless there's a replacement waiting in the wings, there isn't, so why bother now? Make a smart appointment for the Championship in the summer when you're not pressing the panic button.

If we lose at Newcastle I would let go of Smith, there and then, no ifs no buts, gone, then give it to Terry, tell him he's got the remaining games, if we get relegated the club would look for another boss, If, Terry keeps us up, you have to let him have his way and back him, no question he's got loads of experience in the Premiership as a player, just perhaps with Smith out the way, he becomes a different person/manager. 

[curiousorange]

I don't really get the Terry theory myself. I think he's as culpable as Smith and O'Kelly in the way we play.

[mr underhill]

an unholy triumvirate who all need to be shown the door.

[Sexual Ealing]

I'd rather bring in a dream team of Bruce, Sherwood and Fred West before I'd have Terry anywhere near the job.

[OzVilla]

Smith’s  been without doubt our poorest performer all season. Tactically inept and appalling game management. Need to win games yet drops Samatta for a player who is maybe Championship at best. Everyone has a crack at Suso but we’ve thrown away so many points and opportunities this season. We never, ever learn.

Too late to change now though with games so closely packed together.

Newcastle is now a must win.

[hilts_coolerking]

I'd rather bring in a dream team of Bruce, Sherwood and Fred West before I'd have Terry anywhere near the job.

He is quite near it now.  Usually stands beside it.

[Sexual Ealing]

I'd rather bring in a dream team of Bruce, Sherwood and Fred West before I'd have Terry anywhere near the job.

He is quite near it now.  Usually stands beside it.

True. Perhaps we need to get him away from it.

[RamboandBruno]

Employ a bang average Championship manager and what can you expect - he/we got lucky last season
I am disappointed with the owners - I thought they would have been more savvy - extending his contract was a poor move .
He certainly appears to give other teams far too much respect - no wonder the players aren't up to the fight when the manager gives up prior to kick off

Not on here to defend smith, already posted on the post march thread that his continuation of the sametactics indicate he’s lost now, but just how did we get lucky last season. We luckily won 10 games in a row? And we’re luckily the far better team in the play off final. Yes we had Grealish come back but you could argue we were unlucky to lose him for nearly half a season.

[LeeB]

Why does every single manager get ruined by us?

I had massive hopes for Deano, JT etc. Brentford had always mullered us, they were quick, incisive and always pressed the action.

Now with the same manager, we’re pedestrian, defensive and cowardly. We have no leaders and look like several players have jumped ship already.

I’m gutted, but have to be honest, if Steve Bruce has served that up, we’d rightly be slaughtering him. Deano has to accept that was appalling.

We're the football equivalent of Lenny from Of Mice and Men, pick up someone 'real purdy' and just fucking break them.

[ez]

I think that's 1 draw and 6 defeats in the last 7 games. That's sackable anywhere else. Why wait until we're down.