Dean Smith - Confirmed

[aj2k77]

He's got to get them playing. I'm sorry but if he hasn't got the players to play ''his way'' then he has to go another way for the rest of the season because you can't keep not winning games, falling down the table and blame the players. It's his job to be adaptable and to find the best way of playing each hand he is dealt, if he can't do that and it's one way or bust then he's no good.

I'm not advocating sacking him btw just stating that not having the players he wants isn't really a valid excuse. Win the next 2 games and believe it or not we will probably be back in with an outside shout of the play offs. The division is that way this season.

[Villa75]

We won't be getting Brendan Rodgers in the summer then

Obviously not as there will be no vacancy.

You can't possibly know that?

What if a major Premier League/European club comes and makes Smith an offer he can't refuse?

Well, If he's doing as poor a job as you say he is, then that probably won't happen.

Aha! We have a winner!

😂

Its hard to tell sarcasm through the misery sometimes.

Oh, come now.

Someone suggesting a big club might be interested in Smith, the way we're performing, and being taken seriously?

Fuck me. There's claret and blue tinted glasses, and there's total, undiluted, delusion. 😂

[Risso]

If the next two games go badly he will be under all kinds of pressure. Let's hope Grealish can propel us back up the table and we can forget we ever had any doubts in the manager.

Hear hear.

[chrisw1]

Gone to Leicester. Wow. Brendan must have been truly desperate to get out of Scotland.  I reckon he'd have walked to VP had we offered him the job.

I suspect pretty much all all managers and players would pick Leicester over us right now.  I get that this hasn't quite sunk in for lots of us though.

[Steve67]

Gone to Leicester. Wow. Brendan must have been truly desperate to get out of Scotland.  I reckon he'd have walked to VP had we offered him the job.

I suspect pretty much all all managers and players would pick Leicester over us right now.  I get that this hasn't quite sunk in for lots of us though.

No, my point is two fold.  Celtic to Leicester City? Really?  Secondly, I suspect, had we offered, he would have come to us earlier on on in the season.  I am not making a Villa vs Leicester debate.

[Ad@m]

Gone to Leicester. Wow. Brendan must have been truly desperate to get out of Scotland.  I reckon he'd have walked to VP had we offered him the job.

I suspect pretty much all all managers and players would pick Leicester over us right now.  I get that this hasn't quite sunk in for lots of us though.

No, my point is two fold.  Celtic to Leicester City? Really?  Secondly, I suspect, had we offered, he would have come to us earlier on on in the season.  I am not making a Villa vs Leicester debate.

There's two ways of looking at that.  Either he's bored of winning everything in sight without any sort of challenge, such is the lack of competition in Scotland.  Or, now that Rangers are back in the top flight he sees the days of having no competition are numbered and he's ran for the hills.

Or, and more likely the driver, Leicester offered him an enormous pay rise and he's greedy!

[eamonn]

Mad Tom (Elphick) thinks a run of ten wins will see us right for the play offs.

[Des Little]

Mad Tom (Elphick) thinks a run of ten wins will see us right for the play offs.

I’d settle for a run of two

[adrenachrome]

Mad Tom (Elphick) thinks a run of ten wins will see us right for the play offs.

That is the right attitude and I would not be surprised if he really believes it. That's the way he rolls.

Most of us are just hoping we can beat Small Heath.

[Ads]

One foot in front of the other, let's beat Derby.

[pauliewalnuts]

The problem with Brendan is i can't shake off the fact that I saw Tim Sherwood tactically outclass him at Wembley, and even Paul Lambert managed it twice against his Liverpool team at Anfield.

I'm massively unconvinced.

[cdbearsfan]

Lambert also got the better of Mourinho. Sherwood beat Pochettino. Whoever is Wigan manager, I can't be arsed to check, defeated Guardiola last season. One-off results don't prove or disprove a manager's credentials.

[XXVilla]

Mad Tom (Elphick) thinks a run of ten wins will see us right for the play offs.

We don’t call him Mad Tommy for nothing

[Villa75]

The problem with Brendan is i can't shake off the fact that I saw Tim Sherwood tactically outclass him at Wembley, and even Paul Lambert managed it twice against his Liverpool team at Anfield.

I'm massively unconvinced.

Relating to the thread we're on, and the team I support, I'm massively unconvinced with Dean Smith.

At the moment, I'd swap him with Brendan Rogers in a heartbeat.

[Clampy]

I've never been overly convinced by Brendan Rogers either. I can't quite put my finger on why because he's done ok wherever he's been.

As for Smith, I'm really looking forward to seeing what he does in the summer.