Dean Smith - Confirmed

[john e]

if he can build something for the long term whilst playing some football worth watching he’ll do for me

[Hinckley Dave]

Very pleased with this, I like the bloke and what he's done at his previous clubs. Let's all get right behind him and together make this club proud again. Just hope the players get their arses in gear now and show some professional pride themselves. I don't blame everything this season on Bruce myself, players need to take a long hard look at themselves too. Terry as assistant, as long as it was partly Smith's idea too, I think will also work well.

[cdbearsfan]

I wonder if we will start playing Dexys' "Geno" again?

[Pvb1968]

32000 already sold against Swansea, get that upper tier open now and keep it open.

[PeterWithesShin]

I know nothing about Pitarch, so difficult to feel too strongly about him.

He was very good when in charge of the Enterprise.

[Dave P]

With respect to Walsall and Brentford, expectations are going to be way different at a club like ours. He's going to have to up his win rate considerably if he wants to be a success. I hope this job isn't too big for him, as it has been for a lot of others.

Good luck Dean. You'll have 35,000 of us at Villa Park, in just over a week's time, roaring you on!👍

It’s not like he doesn’t know the expectation. He was expecting it himself 30 years ago. This is why we cannot underestimate the Villa fan angle.

[Lizz]

Happy with that. Also very happy to see sky sports news look like fucking idiots. Was watching it at around seven today and the line was "we understand that there's been no contact".

I love how SSN effectively report speculation (which often sounds like someone's been Googling) as though it's news. Tossers.

[Nunkin1965]

Over the moon.
Brilliant pairing as far as I’m concerned.
Can’t wait for the next game.

[DaveD]

Well. I was not expecting this. Very happy indeed. A complementary combination IMHO. It may work. It may not. But it's been a fine process, well executed and we should applaud that.

[PeterWithesShin]

Sky Sports News understands that we've spent the last few days talking even more bollocks than usual. And sack that Sources fella he's even worse at his job than Bruce was at his.

[The Left Side]

Well done Villa, welcome Deano.

[Ads]

Clear they've been in contact for a while.

The whole process and all the names thrown into the mix has gradually made me open my eyes to Smith.

Very pleased. Feels the safe choice, the right choice and the progressive choice.

It's going to take a while for methods to set in, but I think a simple bit of sensible planning (I.e. what will Swansea do) and both attacking and defensive organisation will see us lick up a little.

Let's have a sell out for Swansea.

[leylandalbion]

Right, next announcement... get that fucking upper tier opened for the Swansea game!

Totally dependant on the stay at homes putting their hands in their pockets.  Get behind the boys and sell out the rest before next Wednesday and it will be opened

[footyskillz]

Love it all !

And the head coach approach is superb .
Dean Smith knows exactly what to do and fair play to Brentford letting him go .
Maybe he was the one all along ?!

Also he must be super excited and I can him like Wilder who is a blade at Sheff u  and now Smith as one of our own coaching and running first team will get the best out of this team .

Excellent Brentford  centreback chris mepham will be in January too I predict.
Check him out for Wales over this international break
He won't want to turn down villa Smith and working with JT but that's a side issue !

Welcome Smith especially .
Get ready for tactics thread
Possession football with a short passing game !

4-2-3-1 formation .

One thing Brentford did struggle to hold on to leads so let's see how we clear that up .

But really enthusiastic and good luck to Brentford moving forward and fair play to what they have done let Smith get going .
Brilliant stuff!!
Up the villa

[PeterWithesShin]

His first 5 fixtures. Hard to see past 5 wins and us scoring 87 goals.