Dean Smith - Confirmed

[ChicagoLion]

You do not reward failure unless you want more failure.

[brian green]

Why do we always get managers who are incurably stubborn?  One after another we pay fortunes for managers totally devoid of flexibility or vision or imagination or creativity.  When other clubs recruit managers they choose peach melba or crepes Suzette or strawberries and cream.  We get managerial suet pudding, roly poly, spotted dick or stewed prunes.  After boiled cabbage for main course.

[KevinGage]

I know some people are pointing to Burnley and Dyche as a reason to stick with Smith through relegation and a possible journey back. But the difference is that Dyche made Burnley a decentish proposition

I initially read that as a dentistish proposition.  Which is also accurate.

[DB]

He doesn't have the know how to improve, change or get a performance of note. Hopefully he will realise he cannot go any further and walk for the club he loves.

[AsTallAsLions]

Anyone have his post match comments to hand ?!
I could not sit thru a TV spectacular of analysis from Sven and Carra but would like to hear or read any soundbites or insights to how he saw the game.

Judging by the bemused, slightly glazed over look he appeared to have whenever the camera cut to him on the sideline, I'd say 'blurrily'.

[phantom limb]

I’d give him a chance to get us back up next season. Of course he has his faults, and he has talked some bollocks after games at times but I feel our major problem has been the gamble of chucking in a load of inexperienced players and hoping that things worked out. Some key injuries haven’t helped either, and here we are.

[ez]

Like it or not I think the owners have made it clear he's got immunity this season whatever happens.

That in itself is a poor decision.

It is, and a very strange one. They were quick enough to bin Steve Bruce.

[Legion]

They gave him a second chance after losing to Fulham.

[ChicagoLion]

I’d give him a chance to get us back up next season. Of course he has his faults, and he has talked some bollocks after games at times but I feel our major problem has been the gamble of chucking in a load of inexperienced players and hoping that things worked out. Some key injuries haven’t helped either, and here we are.

Madness

[themossman]

Anyone have his post match comments to hand ?!
I could not sit thru a TV spectacular of analysis from Sven and Carra but would like to hear or read any soundbites or insights to how he saw the game.

Usual crap about individual errors.

[brian green]

Dean Smith trotting out his shtick about "individual errors"  brings to mind Steve Coogan's swimming pool attendant.  The defence that only one or two people drowned.

[Sexual Ealing]

I have always been, and remain, pro-Smith but he can have no complaints if he's out on his ear tomorrow.

[AsTallAsLions]

I’d give him a chance to get us back up next season. Of course he has his faults, and he has talked some bollocks after games at times but I feel our major problem has been the gamble of chucking in a load of inexperienced players and hoping that things worked out. Some key injuries haven’t helped either, and here we are.

A small fortune down the drain, 19th in the league, 17 losses out of 28 games, the worst defence in the top flight, and a goal difference of -22.

And you want to keep this man in the hopes he might get us back up again?

They don't seem interested in busting a gut for him, this lot, and since most of them are his signings, that tells me he needs to go, ASAP.

[pauliewalnuts]

Anyone have his post match comments to hand ?!
I could not sit thru a TV spectacular of analysis from Sven and Carra but would like to hear or read any soundbites or insights to how he saw the game.

Usual crap about individual errors.

As if they're nothing to do with him.

[Flin5tone]

All the Teams around us compete and will go down respectfully

Dean has to go but fear he won't, Grealish got us up not smith.

He's managed Walsall and Brentford and been bang average, never finished in play offs with Brentford just fuck him off