Dean Smith - Confirmed

[Toronto Villa]

And he’s massively fortunate we didn’t lose all three games by a hatful. Tom Heaton pulled rabbits out of his hat all game and we had that block on the line from Luiz. Three straight games we’ve been completely outplayed by the worst teams in the division.

[Legion]

That makes us the worst team in the division.

[Toronto Villa]

It certainly does now Leeg

[SoccerHQ]

Just heard him kn radio. He is sojnding like bruce more and more.  Blaming the refs aaying wasnt a pen balm shoukd ahve been kicked out. Why we olayjng two games in 48hrs blah blah.

Pathetic from him

Moaning about 2 games in 48 hours?  Like it is every other Christmas then?  He sounds like someone who knows hes close to getting a tap on the shoulder from Sawiris,  Edens and Purslow.

I really want Dean to succeed here, but hes making it harder and harder to defend him, and coming out with a post match interview like that does him no favours.

48 hours turnaround isn't great but it's actually longer than Watford had given they kicked off at Sheffield United at 3.10pm on Boxing day. All very marginal.

Leicester didn't even have that long and Wolves have even less playing Liverpool away at half 4 tomorrow so we're far from the team with the worst schedule over xmas.

[Risso]

Yes his comments today didn't sound a world away from Bruce's after the Preston game.

[Roysmert]

Here we go, blame the officials.

This is really sad actually. When Dean joined us people commented on how he cut out the bullshit and just described what he saw. It was a breath of fresh air at the time to hear honest appraisals of games.

It is clear that he has retreated to his bunker with a siege everything is against us mentally. It won't go well from there.

Give Dean a break it's the supporter in him !
He's a proud villa man.

Ian we all want/wanted him to succeed and love that he's one of us. But...it's dire mate, and we need results pronto

[hilts_coolerking]

Ready the cabbage, fellas. Be careful when you roll it though. If it goes on the pitch Targett will likely fall over and hurt himself as it glides by.

Never mind the cabbage, if this goes on much longer a fan is going to run on and throw Wesley at him.

[villa `cross the mersey]

Ready the cabbage, fellas. Be careful when you roll it though. If it goes on the pitch Targett will likely fall over and hurt himself as it glides by.

Never mind the cabbage, if this goes on much longer a fan is going to run on and throw Wesley at him.

But we all know that Wesley will miss.........another one  of those "Wesley Snipes"

[mr underhill]

If we are honest, he deserves the cabbage treatment as much as Bruce did - simply because he has morphed into Bruce by doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. The only reason we're not advocating that is because he's 'one of our own.'

[Demitri_C]

The thing is do we want the new guy in by city a gsme we are most certainly going to lose ?

[Clampy]

If we are honest, he deserves the cabbage treatment as much as Bruce did - simply because he has morphed into Bruce by doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. The only reason we're not advocating that is because he's 'one of our own.'

I don't think any manager should have a cabbage thrown at him, especially one that got us promoted last season. That's all a tad childish really.

[VinnieChase84]

3 points v Burnley or he’s gone. Owners will be sorting out the new man right now

[JJ-AV]

I think the riot act stuff is his last roll of the dice. If we lose against Burnley then he's gone as with the cup games and Man City it's 17 days until our next big games.

Lose to Burnley and it's likely we'll be on 18 points from 22 played, going in to Brighton and Watford double-header needing two wins, they won't let Smith do that.

I like Smith and would love him to get a result against Burnley and keep us up, maybe re-assess in the Summer. I just hope they're sounding out managers now. Purslow's burned his bridges with Rafa and his two appointments at Liverpool were atrocious so I am a little concerned.

Saying that, they got the sacking of Bruce and appointment of Smith very right.

[OzVilla]

3 points v Burnley or he’s gone. Owners will be sorting out the new man right now

This is where I think he’s at too. Burnley is his must win, lose and he’ll be potted. They’ll have been some sounding out of candidates already I’d say.  Just the way it works.

[ChicagoLion]

If no announce today then he gets Turf Moor I suspect.
I said before time zones will play apart as Edens in 6 hours behind, only 4.30;am here.
Cairo is 2 hours ahead of UK.