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Offline Jockey Randall

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #9705 on: July 22, 2020, 02:12:46 PM »
Another game yesterday where we've limited the opposition to an expected goals total of less than 1. That's the 6th time we've done that since the restart compared to just 2 in the 28 games before.

The defensive improvement since we've come back has been brilliant and is a massive reason why we've got to where we are. Hats off to the coaching staff and all the players for the work they've done in lockdown.

Offline Villan82

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #9706 on: July 22, 2020, 02:16:05 PM »
Oh FFS, just when I was having a good day.
Maybe for Chris’s peace of mind it wood be a good idea if a splinter group should branch out into a separate Punathon thread.....Ok,  Ok , I’ll leaf it alone now.

Don't lumber us with another thread.

Offline Sexual Ealing

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #9707 on: July 22, 2020, 02:28:35 PM »
Oh FFS, just when I was having a good day.
Maybe for Chris’s peace of mind it wood be a good idea if a splinter group should branch out into a separate Punathon thread.....Ok,  Ok , I’ll leaf it alone now.

Don't lumber us with another thread.

I'm not sure I like the timbre of this post.

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #9708 on: July 22, 2020, 02:30:05 PM »
That was a nice thread for a while.

Offline mr underhill

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #9709 on: July 22, 2020, 02:46:37 PM »
i for one won't pine for Dean if he goes.

Offline Steve67

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #9710 on: July 22, 2020, 04:05:29 PM »
I wood love it, love it, if we beat West Ham.

Offline PaulWinch again

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #9711 on: July 22, 2020, 04:18:41 PM »
He got it right last night. Now please get it right again on Sunday.

Offline CT

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #9712 on: July 22, 2020, 05:40:54 PM »
If, and it's a big if, we survive playing as we did last night then it will prove, to me anyway, that the players are behind him which I really thought they weren't.  That, going forward is a big plus.
That's a very good point.  Like you, I thought the poor, listless performances both before and immediately after the break showed that the players had lost faith in him.  But the last three or four games show that even if that was true, he's got them back.  Fair play to him.


Last 3, the one before that was the worst performance under him by a log way.

Yes, the performances were wooden. Or am I barking up the wrong tree?

The last 3 games have been akin to must win games and we've played well in them. Maybe Smith's had a change of attitude.

Don’t be a plank.

Just hoping West Ham are on the beech.

Offline villa `cross the mersey

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #9713 on: July 22, 2020, 07:45:43 PM »
I've only just twigged the punathon

Offline ez

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #9714 on: July 22, 2020, 09:10:45 PM »
i for one won't pine for Dean if he goes.

We would deal with it.

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #9715 on: July 23, 2020, 08:48:35 AM »
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Smith’s game-management was superb, particularly his timing and choice of substitutes to maintain Villa’s supreme enterprise levels
From the Times' Henry Winter on the Arsenal game.
Perhaps he has learned some stuff this season ... or am I barking up the wrong tree?

Offline PeterWithe

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #9716 on: July 23, 2020, 09:01:53 AM »
i for one won't pine for Dean if he goes.

We would deal with it.

We would keep our disappointment at Bay.

Offline PeterWithe

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #9717 on: July 23, 2020, 09:06:31 AM »
If he fails to keep us up I’m happy for him to stay as I think he’s a great candidate for getting us back up. If we stay up I don’t think he’s such a great choice for consolidating a mid table finish next year.

Offline Drummond

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #9718 on: July 23, 2020, 09:31:26 AM »
If he fails to keep us up I’m happy for him to stay as I think he’s a great candidate for getting us back up. If we stay up I don’t think he’s such a great choice for consolidating a mid table finish next year.

I think either way he deserves a chance.

If we stay up, we really have to be pushing on and aiming for a top half finish.

If we go down we should be aiming, and expecting, to go up automatically and disappointed if we're only 2nd.

Offline Lastfootstamper

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #9719 on: July 23, 2020, 09:34:08 AM »
Have we ever been happy with a manager overtly appointed to consolidate a mid-table position? I'll be getting out a bedsheet.

 


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