Dean Smith - Confirmed

[Brassneck]

Pathetic transfer window. Needed a dynamic midfielder and we got an injured one. Needed an excellent left back and we have a rubbish centre-half playing there.

I'm not in the Smith Out camp just yet, but a bad month including poor results against Albion and Blose could swing me.

Who exactly do you think he should have signed?

We’re mid table in the championship.  Who do you realistically think was gettable?  Nobody in the top 2 divisions that’s for sure.

What trees do these dynamic midfielders and left backs grow on?  I must be sure to let Smith know.

[ez]

I want Smith to succeed but these poor performances are racking up now.

[ChicagoLion]

Job has to be under pressure now, if only for persisting with Hourihane. If there is no one good enough to fill that midfield slot, switch him out for a 2nd striker and 442.
No way we’re going to even get playoffs now, and our only half decent players will be packing their bags in the summer. We’d better get used to this shit hole of a league cos we’re not going anywhere for the foreseeable. 😔

Your point about Holigram is spot on, most of us can see that he is a total passenger jogging around the park yet Smith starts him every game and every game we are getting over run in midfield.

[Risso]

The trouble is, we'll get to the end of the season, lose Tammy, Jack and McGinn, and we'll have to start again, plus the likes of Albert and Kodjia.  We'll then have the excuse that he'll be bedding in at least 6 new players, and another season will go begging.

[stubbsyandy]

Its not working

[ChicagoLion]

The playoffs are completely beyond us now.

[Nelly]

Our better players will always get picked off though, that's nothing new. It's up to the club to have a decent recruitment policy married to a good academy to keep a succession and push forwards. Dare I say it, a bit like sodding brentford.

[themossman]

I basically agree in principle with the give him time argument. But like I said in the match thread he is making it hard to stick to this position with his decision making around team selection and tactics.

[PaulWinch again]

I want Smith to succeed but these poor performances are racking up now.

I’m sure everyone does, or at least everyone sensible. However he’s making it very hard to give him any credit at the moment.

[Grocer]

This whole project needs time and we need to hold our nerve as fans. The quick fix has failed us for the last twenty years.

Absolutely spot on. It's easy to spout 'Smith out' etc in the heat of the moment. We have to give him time to build and hold our nerve.

I'm struggling to see any positive signs that he knows what needs to be done.

Fair enough, I get that. But we have to hold on to his track record of building teams over time. Also, we have to stop switching managers and constantly rebuilding, changing styles etc. We'll never build a successful team that way.

[Nelly]

We've wasted three years with the wrong managers and wrong approach and we're paying for it now. It's a bit of a shite no man's land whichever way we look at it.

[Risso]

I still hope he turns it round, but showing improvement this season is vital.  Otherwise this summer will seem like starting from scratch again. 

[Rigadon]

Hmm.

[andyh]

The point about the transfer window is a difficult one.
If I understand correctly, the set up of the club is that ‘suso’ identifies and brings them in and Smith has to coach them?
If he has identified Hause and the kid from Swansea’s treatment room, then I am not overly confident about the summer.

[themossman]

Sometimes managers just can’t replicate their success at another club. No shame in that. He looks increasingly lost. When we were getting pissed on in the second half did anyone feel like smith had a decisive change in him?