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Offline UK Redsox

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #855 on: October 22, 2018, 10:39:01 AM »
Who was the bloke on the bench who was handling most of the clipboard duties, including conveying positional changes to the subs before they came on ?

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #856 on: October 22, 2018, 11:06:06 AM »
Bruce cliche bingo.

‘Some of them didn’t put their boots on.’

‘I made a mistake today not freshening it up.’  Times 14.

‘There or there or there or thereabouts.’  Repeated over 400 times.

‘The ti’kly bit.’

‘We’ve got the makings of a really decent team.’  Fifteen times a season.

‘After a week it’s a crisis and off wi’ me head.’

‘Forestieri’s a real handful.’  At each weekly press conference.

‘I lost 4, 5, 6, 10 of the team that started the play off final.’

‘The owners have breathed new life in’o the club.’

‘We keep a clean sheet against a very decent Rotherham team and I don’t know worri’m doin.’
Why are you posting this same old joke 3 weeks after he has been sacked? 

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #857 on: October 22, 2018, 11:09:39 AM »
Fucking hell, it's like thinks about his job!
Yes but when you know football inside out and you have 50 promotions under your belt there is no need to think. You will always be there or thereabout with a bit of magic now and then....oh and  rolling your sleeves up etc etc.

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #858 on: October 22, 2018, 11:14:05 AM »
Fucking hell, it's like thinks about his job!
Yes but when you know football inside out and you have 50 promotions under your belt there is no need to think. You will always be there or thereabout with a bit of magic now and then....oh and  rolling your sleeves up etc etc.

And you can employ three of your mates to ensure that everyone has their boots on.

Offline kippaxvilla2

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #859 on: October 22, 2018, 01:07:07 PM »
Bruce cliche bingo.

‘Some of them didn’t put their boots on.’

‘I made a mistake today not freshening it up.’  Times 14.

‘There or there or there or thereabouts.’  Repeated over 400 times.

‘The ti’kly bit.’

‘We’ve got the makings of a really decent team.’  Fifteen times a season.

‘After a week it’s a crisis and off wi’ me head.’

‘Forestieri’s a real handful.’  At each weekly press conference.

‘I lost 4, 5, 6, 10 of the team that started the play off final.’

‘The owners have breathed new life in’o the club.’

‘We keep a clean sheet against a very decent Rotherham team and I don’t know worri’m doin.’
Why are you posting this same old joke 3 weeks after he has been sacked?

To piss you off royally.

Offline kippaxvilla2

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #860 on: October 22, 2018, 01:09:04 PM »
Although it sounds amazing to us, him talking about doing coaching without the ball is quite normal for football coaches of a certain quality.  But something we have been lacking for years and years. 

Offline TheMalandro

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #861 on: October 22, 2018, 01:10:59 PM »
Bruce cliche bingo.

‘Some of them didn’t put their boots on.’

‘I made a mistake today not freshening it up.’  Times 14.

‘There or there or there or thereabouts.’  Repeated over 400 times.

‘The ti’kly bit.’

‘We’ve got the makings of a really decent team.’  Fifteen times a season.

‘After a week it’s a crisis and off wi’ me head.’

‘Forestieri’s a real handful.’  At each weekly press conference.

‘I lost 4, 5, 6, 10 of the team that started the play off final.’

‘The owners have breathed new life in’o the club.’

‘We keep a clean sheet against a very decent Rotherham team and I don’t know worri’m doin.’
Why are you posting this same old joke 3 weeks after he has been sacked?

To piss you off royally.

and it's funny

Offline Risso

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #862 on: October 22, 2018, 01:17:02 PM »
And serves to highlight the difference between "pull wor boots up" and proper coaching.

Offline Drummond

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #863 on: October 22, 2018, 02:51:04 PM »
It seems to me that whenever there is a managerial change, the new guy doesn't alter the lineup that much in his first game. Whether that's to see what the ones in the shirt can do, because they haven't had time for wholesale change, because nobody else is better or just because they can't lose by doing it I don't know.

What I do know is that Smith in one post-match interview has given more insight and shown more tactical nous than our last bloke did in 2 years.

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #864 on: October 22, 2018, 02:56:36 PM »
I still want to know what ‘setting traps’ means!

Offline chrisw1

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #865 on: October 22, 2018, 02:59:16 PM »
I still want to know what ‘setting traps’ means!
I presume it means in the way they close down, cutting off certain outlets and pushing defenders to make mistakes.

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #866 on: October 22, 2018, 03:03:39 PM »
I still want to know what ‘setting traps’ means!
I presume it means in the way they close down, cutting off certain outlets and pushing defenders to make mistakes.
What's all this? After years of bruceball this is making my brain hurt
« Last Edit: October 22, 2018, 03:27:13 PM by The Edge »

Offline tomd2103

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #867 on: October 22, 2018, 03:04:40 PM »
I still want to know what ‘setting traps’ means!
I presume it means in the way they close down, cutting off certain outlets and pushing defenders to make mistakes.

Yep.  Usually involves holding off until the ball goes into a particular player or area and then pressing quickly.  Often happens when the opposition play out from the back into midfield.   

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #868 on: October 22, 2018, 03:59:47 PM »
I still want to know what ‘setting traps’ means!

I believe they used fishing nets versus goal nets and dribbled around activated bear traps during their first training session. Any wrong move and we’ll...it’s a leg injury.

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #869 on: October 22, 2018, 04:06:47 PM »
Fucking hell, it's like thinks about his job!
Yes but when you know football inside out and you have 50 promotions under your belt there is no need to think. You will always be there or thereabout with a bit of magic now and then....oh and  rolling your sleeves up etc etc.

And you can employ three of your mates to ensure that everyone has their boots on.

Sleeves, Boots and Laces was Bruce's adaptation of Bibs and Cones.

 


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