Dean Smith - Confirmed

[Steve67]

No to Allardyce or Dyche.  Their brand of football will have us pissing our pants. 

[David_Nab]

No to Allardyce or Dyche.  Their brand of football will have us pissing our pants. 

I think Dyche plays a pragmatic style based on having pretty limited resources ,keeping Burnley safe every season is a minor miracle considering he a first choice midfield that include Ashley Westwood !

But regardless. in terms of brand of football its not like we are playing some great stuff is it .We are playing with an old school type Target man who we are trying to hit the ball early too and play off.Engels and Hause were hitting long hopeless balls all match

[kipeye]

Please stick by the man who got us here a little longer.

[levico]

Please stick by the man who got us here a little longer.

Tempting but he’s in the process of arranging the return journey, so no thanks.

[Flin5tone]

Same old story at Villa, this reminds me very much of the Lambert appointment, someone the fans all wanted who is way out of his depth.

The football is shit yet people turn there noses up at Dyche,Big Sam etc that's the level we're at , i've not seen any good football this season anyway the odd 15 mins

he isn't good enough,the players look lost and his decisions are shocking, we needed 442 today


4 more years of this SHIT

[KevinGage]

This is a test - the second biggest test of Deano's Villa stint- and a big part of me feels we just have to ride it out.

But performances have been dire for the best part of a month, and the way we casually tossed away points from promising positions earlier in the season is starting to bite.

Norwich Sheff Utd etc go down (and Sheff Utd won't even be involved, by the looks of it) and it could be spun as a minor setback in the bigger overall plan.  I'm pretty sure they'd keep their managers in that situation.

With what we've invested in the summer, I don't think our owners are looking at it that way. All our business was looked to be with a view to staying up -and staying up with a degree of comfort. If that is under threat, he's toast.

[CT]

Please stick by the man who got us here a little longer.

I'd agree. I just think with the direction we seem to be heading, the owners won't go beyond another three games if this carries on.

[rougegorge]

Please stick by the man who got us here a little longer.

Tempting but he’s in the process of arranging the return journey, so no thanks.

We can't afford to go back down. We will lose Grealish, Mings , McGinn etc and we will have to start all over again and who knows what our finances will be like. The idea of letting Smith run a project or develop the work in progress doesn't hold water in this league. Look at the players he has brought in and how they are performing.  We were really poor this time last year, but Grealish rescued us, but asking him to do it on his own at this level is wishful thinking in the extreme.

[LukeJames]

The biggest thing for me is the lack of anything that resembles a plan on how to play against different types of teams. Were going our way against every fucker, no matter who they are, very admirable when you're Barca or Liverpool but not when you're us.

Our lack of preperation and antention to detail is killing us, leaving Wolves best striker of the ball free on the edge of our area at a free kick,  playing a high line against Leicesters pacy front two and then preceeding to play the exact same way against Southamptons pacy front two, no pressure to stop crosses against Liverpool Man Utd and Chelsea, its basic stuff and its pissing me off.

He took us on a brilliant adventure last season and arguably got us up a good year ahead of what most of us expected, I just feel he's been massively found out at the moment. I hope for Deans sake and ours that he can adapt.

[David_Nab]

The biggest thing for me is the lack of anything that resembles a plan on how to play against different types of teams. Were going our way against every fucker, no matter who they are, very admirable when you're Barca or Liverpool but not when you're us.

Our lack of preperation and antention to detail is killing us, leaving Wolves best striker of the ball free on the edge of our area at a free kick,  playing a high line against Leicesters pacy front two and then preceeding to play the exact same way against Southamptons pacy front two, no pressure to stop crosses against Liverpool Man Utd and Chelsea, its basic stuff and its pissing me off.

He took us on a brilliant adventure last season and arguably got us up a good year ahead of what most of us expected, I just feel he's been massively found out at the moment. I hope for Deans sake and ours that he can adapt.

Today he says the 2nd goal was because the marking was wrong as the message on who to mark hadn't got to the players ...this after the Mings fiasco and its all very amateur

[Risso]

He's a decent Championship boss floundering hopelessly out of his depth in a league that is way too big for him.  He can't handle the players or the expectations.  Time to put him out of his misery.

[themossman]

Taking us up in his first season was dreamland for him. If we change things now he’ll be a legend forever but if he takes us straight back down, it’s tainted. I don’t think it’s necessarily the decent thing to keep backing him.

[LukeJames]

Taking us up in his first season was dreamland for him. If we change things now he’ll be a legend forever but if he takes us straight back down, it’s tainted. I don’t think it’s necessarily the decent thing to keep backing him.

I think this is were im at at the moment.

But with the new contract I just cant see anything happening.

[ChicagoLion]

Taking us up in his first season was dreamland for him. If we change things now he’ll be a legend forever but if he takes us straight back down, it’s tainted. I don’t think it’s necessarily the decent thing to keep backing him.

I think this is were im at at the moment.

But with the new contract I just cant see anything happening.

The cost of his contract compared t the cost of relegation?

[Jon Crofts]

Taking us up in his first season was dreamland for him. If we change things now he’ll be a legend forever but if he takes us straight back down, it’s tainted. I don’t think it’s necessarily the decent thing to keep backing him.

I think this is were im at at the moment.

But with the new contract I just cant see anything happening.

The cost of his contract compared t the cost of relegation?

There will undoubtedly be break clauses, no way we’d be paying off a 4 year contract term.