Dean Smith - Confirmed

[Des Little]

Two points from the past thirty available. Let that sink in.

[Sexual Ealing]

Waiting until we were 3-0 down until he made changes was pitiful. I've been mildly in favour of replacig him since Leicester; it's too late now, and I'd rather he managed us next season than over the next four games.

Palace is huge.

[kippaxvilla2]

I think he has to go tonight.  But how the he’ll do you even begin to explain the microcosm of our problems that was the pass from Luiz to McGinn tonight that he just left.  Who is responsible for that?    McGinn would never have even dreamed Of doing that a few months ago. And that complete lack of effort isn’t down to his fitness.

[hilts_coolerking]

Sacking him now would be like one of his substitions: should have happened earlier and now too late to make any difference.

[olaftab]

Noone involved with the playing side of things will come out of this season with any real credit.

Tom we are a football club so only thing that matters is playing side so in a nutshell the running of the club has been a total failure.

[andyh]

Two points from the past thirty available. Let that sink in.

Bloody hell, that stings.

[themossman]

Palace is huge.

Is it though?

[David_Nab]

Out of his depth and unable to get the team motivated

Bottom 3 all stuck with managers , those who changed now with 4 games left have a 4 point gap...

[pauliewalnuts]

We we heading straight for the cliff when the season was stopped.

We then got a break of weeks and weeks in which the season was effectively reset and we had time to look at what we had not got right and try to work on it. We had more time to get McGinn fit at the very least, even if it would need games to get him firing properly.

And what happened? We came back even worse, more shapeless, more clueless, and still with a dreadful level of fitness right across the squad.

2 points from the last 30. Remarkable.

[Sexual Ealing]

Palace is huge.

Is it though?

It was before the fire.

[kippaxvilla2]

I’ve changed my mind as well.  We are mid table championship standard.

[rougegorge]

Sacking him now would be like one of his substitions: should have happened earlier and now too late to make any difference.

A very good analogy

[Drummond]

Thank fuck I don't have to rely on many of you being in my corner.

We lacked quality of personnel tonight not tactics. Smith can't be blamed for what happened.

We are, more than likely going down, but in my view we'll be fine next season. It's disappointing to lose again but don't start with the offensive shit he's getting. Please.

We've signed players who just aren't up to it. That we have to play a clearly unfit John McGinn sums it up. He's so far off the pace but there's no one to replace him.

We haven't got a clinical striker.

It's just not Smith's fault.

[David_Nab]

We we heading straight for the cliff when the season was stopped.

We then got a break of weeks and weeks in which the season was effectively reset and we had time to look at what we had not got right and try to work on it. We had more time to get McGinn fit at the very least, even if it would need games to get him firing properly.

And what happened? We came back even worse, more shapeless, more clueless, and still with a dreadful level of fitness right across the squad.

2 points from the last 30. Remarkable.

Reports where he was one game from sack , reported by Percy from Telegraph who is bang on with Villa stories.The break saved his job but looks like it has condemned us to relegation.

The longer the season has gone the worse we have gotten.The improved defence has come from the nullifying of the attack so we rarely threaten teams.Our full backs offer little in the way of attack and the attacking link up in wide area's is criminal at this level.Luiz must have popped back to City for some training during the break as he is the only one who has improved everyone else has gone backwards or at best stayed the same.

Players are not blameless of course but when its more than one not performing then the issue is with the manager.

Stick with him  , he will bring us back up ...Dyche is one of the only managers to manage that the other is Bruce is a rarity that a manger take's a team down and turns around a losing squad.Especially in the current circumstances where the new season is going to start with very little time to prepare for it.



 

[hilts_coolerking]

It's just not Smith's fault.

Not his fault solely, I completely agree, but nevertheless he's been terrible.