Dean Smith - Confirmed

[Ads]

Smith taking full responsibility for the way we played last week and holding his hands up saying the performance and result was his fault.

Bit rare a manager taking responsibility.

[Allan C]

I've said all season we lack: fitness, good ball retention and the speed of thought to distribute quickly and accurately from the back to players making runs (Mings is particularly guilty of this).

I totally agree with all of this and Mings isn’t the only one guilty of the latter.

[Drummond]

I've said all season we lack: fitness, good ball retention and the speed of thought to distribute quickly and accurately from the back to players making runs (Mings is particularly guilty of this).

I totally agree with all of this and Mings isn’t the only one guilty of the latter.

I think they are still getting used to each other. By now you'd think it would come more naturally, but when teams are pulling us about, moving and closing as quickly as they do in this league, it's harder to know instinctively what your teammates will do.

[Nev]

Fucking hell, I can't remember a manager being as candid as Dean has about last week, whatever happens I admire him for his honesty and hope his courage brings just reward.
Too many managers are cowards, meekly trotting out platitudes with one eye on self preservation.

[Damo70]

I remember us losing to Small Heath in what I think was SGT's first competitive home game as manager in 1987. He slaughtered the players and said they played like a "bunch of schoolgirls".

[Toronto Villa]

Where is everyone seeing the press conference? The one on YouTube is a 1m 40sec long. Where's the rest of it?

[Risso]

On the AVFC TV bit of the OS.

[Toronto Villa]

On the AVFC TV bit of the OS.

I've been trying to login to that for the past 20 min and I've had that circly thing suggesting once again you can't connect because at Aston Villa we don't do technology very well.

[Lastfootstamper]

On the AVFC TV bit of the OS.

I've been trying to login to that for the past 20 min and I've had that circly thing suggesting once again you can't connect because at Aston Villa we don't do technology very well.

The app wasn't having it, but the club had handily that minute sent me an email with a bit more info and a link that worked first time of asking.

[Risso]

Is it this one?  Working fine for me.

https://video.avfc.co.uk/video/dm9kJTdDMF9sdGg2emU2MiU3QyUyRnNlY3Rpb24lM0ZzbHVnJTNEaG9tZSU3Q2hvbWUlMkZoZXJvX2Nhcm91c2Vs?lang=en

[Toronto Villa]

Hasn't let me sign up to it. Keeps telling me registration has failed.

[dave shelley]

Me neither.

[Lastfootstamper]

Dunno. Signed in with my normal avfc official site email/password combination, got straight in.

[cdbearsfan]

Same.

[Toronto Villa]

I'll try in a bit. Maybe just some technical bugs.