Dean Smith - Confirmed

[PaulWinch again]

Christ I’ve just looked at our remaining fixtures. We’re going to have either reverse our trend against the top 8 or our trend in away games if we’re going to survive.

[Ads]

They're at home, which is where it will be won and lost. You play everybody twice, so save the top two back to back, meh, bring them on.

[ChicagoLion]

We're shit a lot more time than we're ace.

You don’t even need to be ace to stay in this league. We just need to be shit a lot less often.

Yep do the basics as we have better players than a number of teams around us, but we set up to give the opposition plenty of chances.

[Axl Rose]

We need a better manager.

[Ads]

I think he is doing ok.

[walsall villain]

I feel very uneasy about the relationship between Smith, Suso and Purslow. Perhaps it’s paranoia from the last few regimes.

My gut feeling, Smith will be gone within a year. 

Well that would be into his third season, what’s the average stay? Less than that I imagine. So it would hardly be a shock in the modern game.

[walsall villain]

I think he’s doing ok too. Play off winners always struggle so this was sort of what I expected.

[Ads]

I was really worried we would be cannon fodder.

[brian green]

Ok is not good enough in the Premiership. Too many you go head to head with are ok.  It makes it a lottery.  You have to be able to hold your own, home and away whatever the opposition.  That is what the top flight demands.  There is no room for Bruce's 'there or thereabouts'.  That is a recipe for thereabouts.

[Ads]

If the season ended now it would be good enough for another season at it.

[PaulWinch again]

Yes but it doesn’t end now. If we put in more performances like today then it won’t be ok when all is said and done. Losing twice to Bournemouth is really poor whichever way you look at it.

[cdbearsfan]

I didn't see the game, I can never be arsed searching for virus-ridden, stop-start streams. But I'm struggling to see why you leave five defenders on the pitch when you are desperate for a goal and the opposition have had a bloke sent off. Can anyone who was actually watching it explain the logic to me?

[chrisw1]

Yes but it doesn’t end now. If we put in more performances like today then it won’t be ok when all is said and done. Losing twice to Bournemouth is really poor whichever way you look at it.

It's dissapointing today, a big loss.  But it's just as easy to say if we put in more performances like we did against Leicester we will be fine.

The reality is it's tight at the bottom and pretty much everyone can beat everyone.  I'm massively pissed off by todays result, but there's a long way to go.  And we've got McGinn.

[cdbearsfan]

Need a Leicester type performance against Tottenham. I'm not writing off Deano again, not yet anyway. COYVB.

[Risso]

Hard to see where the next win is coming from.  Newcastle away maybe.