Dean Smith - Confirmed

[LeeB]

You talk some shite.

As I've said believe what you want but deep down you know I am right

You're not right, you're an idiot. In fact you're very likely the biggest idiot we've ever had on here and God knows, there's some competition for that particular title.

When words like Smith gets a free bye this season (when Bruce didn't) maybe I'd think you weren't talking shit yourself

You don't think Bruce got a free bye in his first half a season?

One of the main reasons Bruce came was the promise of a free bye. Only he thought they said free pie.

They told him the club had a wealthy doner

[paul_e]

You talk some shite.

As I've said believe what you want but deep down you know I am right

You're not right, you're an idiot. In fact you're very likely the biggest idiot we've ever had on here and God knows, there's some competition for that particular title.

When words like Smith gets a free bye this season (when Bruce didn't) maybe I'd think you weren't talking shit yourself

You don't think Bruce got a free bye in his first half a season?

One of the main reasons Bruce came was the promise of a free bye. Only he thought they said free pie.

They told him the club had a wealthy doner

He heard something about Chinese and stopped listening.

[mike]

He had some brilliant results before our injuries. He was easily outperforming Bruce with the same squad. Losing Grealish, Tuanzebe and Taylor (not everyone's cup of tea but he was a left back playing at left back) bollocksed him. I'm disappointed we didn't sign a great centre half on Jan 1st and I fear for us next season if we lose Grealish, Abraham and McGinn, which is entirely likely. But none of this makes Smith anything other than an improvement on Bruce.

[chrisw1]

Having seen the transformation Smith made in his first few games, whilst I’m pretty disappointed by the last few weeks I’ve still got confidence in him getting it right sooner rather than later.

[ChicagoLion]

He had some brilliant results before our injuries. He was easily outperforming Bruce with the same squad. Losing Grealish, Tuanzebe and Taylor (not everyone's cup of tea but he was a left back playing at left back) bollocksed him.

Yes, this is how I see it,.
I also think the Leeds game had a phsyscological effect.

[Ads]

Possibly.

Either way, it's utter garbage to use an FA Cup game to define a Villa manager, given we've been largely shite in it for 60 years.

[robleflaneur]

Af8

He had some brilliant results before our injuries. He was easily outperforming Bruce with the same squad. Losing Grealish, Tuanzebe and Taylor (not everyone's cup of tea but he was a left back playing at left back) bollocksed him. I'm disappointed we didn't sign a great centre half on Jan 1st and I fear for us next season if we lose Grealish, Abraham and McGinn, which is entirely likely. But none of this makes Smith anything other than an improvement on Bruce.

I don't fear for us.It would be a great disappoinment not to see Grealish and McGinn perform in a Villa shirt but with this manager and owners I feel that progress will be made. The money gained,hopefully will be spent wisely,although it's not good to sell your most talented players.
Quite correctly,everyone is down after a 3-0 thumping by Swansea but Smith did the double over them in the league,so hopefully this is a wake up call and a realisation over some players' abilities and their place in the squad.

[Jockey Randall]

I think O'Hare and Hogan can be effective in a team that presses high and forces teams back by dominating the ball. Unfortunately today Swansea gave us a bit of a footballing lesson and showed us that we probably don't even have half a team that are capable of playing that way.

[Ad@m]

re Mcleish - that was because he was shit though, not because of the Blues thing

Eventually...yes. But there was antipathy from the off (from some).  He was shit though. 

Yeah, because he'd just got a team relegated. Hardly the best interview for the managers job at Aston Villa!

[mike]

re Mcleish - that was because he was shit though, not because of the Blues thing

Eventually...yes. But there was antipathy from the off (from some).  He was shit though. 

Yeah, because he'd just got a team relegated. Hardly the best interview for the managers job at Aston Villa!

It was utterly bizarre, appointing a relegated manager to a relegation threatened team.

[Risso]

re Mcleish - that was because he was shit though, not because of the Blues thing

Eventually...yes. But there was antipathy from the off (from some).  He was shit though. 

Yeah, because he'd just got a team relegated. Hardly the best interview for the managers job at Aston Villa!

But imagine what he could do with the backing of a man like Randy!

[aj2k77]

Shit today, poor first half performance, should have changed the midfield around at half time, sent them back out for more of the same and was game over 2 minutes later.

[Matt Collins]

I think O'Hare and Hogan can be effective in a team that presses high and forces teams back by dominating the ball. Unfortunately today Swansea gave us a bit of a footballing lesson and showed us that we probably don't even have half a team that are capable of playing that way.

Except we did play that way for a period earlier on. That's what I'm finding it hard to get my hear around. I was impressed and surprised about how quickly we'd transformed into a side that knocked the ball around so well. I don't doubt that tuanzebe and grealish were instrumental, as was playing hourihane rather than whelan deep. But even so, yesterday it was like a bad Steve Bruce perfomance

[JJ-AV]

I think there were probably 3 players he’d keep from yesterday’s outfield; Adomah, McGinn and El Ghazi.

Our four best players missing from the team (Chester, Axel, Grealish and Tammy), it’s no surprise that the momentum has dropped and it was that bad yesterday. The guy desperately needs players and the board need to back him.

The squad is littered with slow players who can’t press or do not move the ball quick enough, they have no chance of being effective in Smith’s system: Hutton, Elmo, Jedinak, Bree, Hourihane, Taylor, Hogan (in a Villa shirt)

Can see the difference someone who can pick a pass out and move it quickly when Lansbury came on.

That’s a lot of resource and if those guys are replaced with players suited to his system we’d be better off. He’s yet to play an outfield player he’s signed remember.

[alftitimus]

This Thread still about Dean?

Or the Swansea  match ?

DS had little choices but ... imo.... mis-stepped in his selections v Swansea 

BOT

Dean - imo - is a man without Charisma / Personality or potential media  celebrity 

He's not the image we need to project,,, in fact he's like an
ANTI - MANAGER... like Allardyce / Warnock / Pullis ... the guys that play percentages with HOOFBALL

 Probably another toxic  post from me, BUT my honeymoon is over.....

A Man out of his depth  with the 2nd most expensive team in the Champiionship... what gives ?  ?? ??