Dean Smith - Confirmed

[PeterWithesShin]

My issue is I can't see what we're trying to do. I'd still be a bit pissed off but if we were getting these results but you could see what DS and the coaches were trying to implement i'd be a lot more patient. We just look a mess. Again.

[Risso]

So who was gettable then? We lost out on a LB in the summer because a PL side came in for him.  Do you really think any top half Championship side would allow us to take their best players in January? We haven’t even been able to do this in the past 3 summers.

We did exactly that when we signed Hourihane, Lansbury and Hogan in January 17. All at the time, amongst the better players at their respective clubs.

[KRS]

Anyone else pick up on the dig at the Villa players when speaking about Brentford in post game interview..."they have players that can pass and move". Clearly our bunch of useless fucktards can't even string a few passes to each other together or even co-ordinate a throw in...I feel sorry for him having to manage such a useless bunch of overpaid wankers.

[adrenachrome]

The playoffs are completely beyond us now.

Mathematically we still have a decent chance of the play offs.

Do we bloody hell.  Seven points behind having played a game more.  What mathematical system are you using to come up with that conclusion?!

Reverse Fibonacci Retracement possibly. Can't see it myself

[sickbeggar]

I haven''t changed my opinion. I didn't think we had much hope of going up at the start of the season. You don't when you lose the players who got you to the play-offs the season before and we never very convincing then.. I will wait and see what Smith puts out next season because i really can't see a better alternative at the moment. I don't want another promotion expert arriving and you can bet your life that's what we'll get if they bin Smith.

[Kimaster1976]

If we win the last 14 games we will probably go up automatically nevermind the play offs.

[Risso]

Oh well, 5 easy games coming up for him to reinvigorate us.

[Brassneck]

So who was gettable then? We lost out on a LB in the summer because a PL side came in for him.  Do you really think any top half Championship side would allow us to take their best players in January? We haven’t even been able to do this in the past 3 summers.

We did exactly that when we signed Hourihane, Lansbury and Hogan in January 17. All at the time, amongst the better players at their respective clubs.

Barnsley, forest & Brentford were top half? 

Besides, look how those 3 turned out.

[PaulWinch again]

My issue is I can't see what we're trying to do. I'd still be a bit pissed off but if we were getting these results but you could see what DS and the coaches were trying to implement i'd be a lot more patient. We just look a mess. Again.

And that’s just it. There is literally no sense that there’s any kind of plan or progress. It’s completely unacceptable, and sooner or later he’ll hopefully realise the system is not working.

[VILLA MOLE]

He's Delusional Dean if he thinks the play offs are still possible.

its more I don't want this team anywhere near the playoffs/ premiership it would be more painful than this

[Rudy65]

I am torn between the fact that he has inherited a poor unmotivated squad and the fact that he has insisted in trying to play a system that is not working.

I think we accept there not his players but there has been no discernible improvement. There seems to be no tactical changes during the game or between games. It’s just the same old, same old. If you could see he was trying to change things but not getting the results, he would get some credit.

He needs to improve and fast or he will be gone in the summer. Our owners won’t be patient

[pauliewalnuts]

My issue is I can't see what we're trying to do. I'd still be a bit pissed off but if we were getting these results but you could see what DS and the coaches were trying to implement i'd be a lot more patient. We just look a mess. Again.

This.

We look like we did in 86-7 when we went down. Just no discernible shape, I couldn't see what we were trying to do let alone work out why we were failing to achieve it.

Hourihane persists week after week and shows the same problems every time. How does he not notice that? If he does notice it, why is it still happening?

What bit of being forced to work with players someone else bought explains the inability of our players to string more than two passes together?

He's got them playing for a spell of a few games when he came, so why can't he do it now?

It is just pathetic. I want him to succeed, he's one of our own etc etc but honestly, can anyone really defend the shite we've seen so far?

It's nowhere near acceptable and it looks like it is getting worse, not better.

[PeterWithesShin]

Brentford showed exactly how we fucked up with Bruce. They change manager but they just hire someone to carry on the previous work done. No major squad overhaul needed, no massive difference in playing style and so on. We have a bunch of players signed to play the Bruce way and seem incapable of playing football consistently so it's major overhauls all around. I really hope that even if DS fails we actually try some continuity in thinking when bringing in future managers, coaches and players, rather than this endless starting from scratch again that we seem to have specialised in since Pubehead went.
That said we have enough decent players, certainly going forward, that we should be better than what we've being serving up for a while.

[Pete3206]

In 49 years on this earth, I have never once feared the Villa playing Smewthick. At this point, I'm worried.

Capital W

[Toronto Villa]

I think he's trying to get players to play a certain way and it just isn't working. He's got a sprinkling of truly talented players at the club who are technically gifted enough and intelligent enough to play the way he wants. After that we have a bunch of labourers. This is going to take a while to fix but the end result should look like the team that just beat us and should have beaten us far more comfortably on a fraction of the investment.