Dean Smith - Confirmed

[Demitri_C]

I'm sorry but that's just more vagueness with no specifics at all.

52 goals conceded is the most in the PL. I’d say that makes us the worst defence in the PL wouldn’t you?

And that defence cost over 40m to assmble. They thing is they are not bad players he just haa no idea how to setup a defence.  It wss the same when he had brentford in the championship.

Difference is in championship you dont have to be great defensively. At pl you cant get away with it as we are finding out

[aldridgeboy]

That can’t be good

[AlexAlexCropley]

That can’t be good

Fake news.Keep up

[aldridgeboy]

Oh well good. Seemed a decent source really, a strange thing to make up. But glad it’s not real!!

[VillaBoy_23]

One thing I didn't expect this season - to be almost as bad as the last Villa team in this division.

Christ alive!  Don't be so melodramatic.

We won 3 games that season.  We've more than doubled that 2/3rds of the way through this season.

Today was as bad as anything seen in 15/16

[Risso]

Smith in his post-match excuse-fest is blaming the players, and saying that several have played their way out of Wembley contention.  Also says the players' mentality doesn't match his.

Dead man walking.

[colin69]

How easy is it to sneak a cabbage into Wembley?

[PeterWithesShin]

[nevillain]

Smith in his post-match excuse-fest is blaming the players, and saying that several have played their way out of Wembley contention.  Also says the players' mentality doesn't match his.

Dead man walking.

Beginning to look like it

[themossman]

He shouldn’t have got past January. It wasn’t justified or fair or smart to keep him on.

[hilts_coolerking]

There's still 33 points to play for but Smith just isn't getting anywhere the best out of his players.  I know most of them are, at best, average at this level but they're not even achieving that at the moment.  Even a couple of new manager bounce wins could make the difference.

[villa `cross the mersey]

From hero to zero in just 9 months ........but so predictable
The guy talks a good game but that's about it
I think the owners have shown some naivety in thinking a manager without premier league experience would have the nous to get us the points tally we need to stay up - having said that I guess it's worked for Burnley, Saints and Sheffield Utd - but they seem to have players who are willing to fight for survival - it's all a bit of a disappointment and I fear relegation will have huge ramifications for our future

[PaulWinch again]

It’s not just fight though Dean. It’s the utter blindness to clear tactical deficiencies.

[Risso]

And we almost certainly will play that badly again. 

[colin69]

If the players showed some fight and got relegated I could forgive them, but to show nothing (especially away) is unforgivable. Smith simply cannot motivate them.