Dean Smith - Confirmed

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Can we assume the honeymoon is over?

[aj2k77]

There shouldn't be a honeymoon anyway. I couldn't give a fuck if the manager is from Great Barr or the Faroe Islands, if he keeps churning out a team that play so open they concede 2 a game week in week out then they can fuck off.

[OzVilla]

That was a poor penalty decision against us imo but that in no way can detract from the utter shit show the rest of the game was.  He can hide behind the penalty decision all he likes , maybe to shield the players who knows, but we know better.  Supporters are not idiots. We should have been 2/3 down by then anyway and the lack of resolve was worrying. Even though the 4th goal was well worked but we were still statuesque.

I feel for him because he's out of his depth with players that really aren't good enough right now - plenty of promise and the makings of a decent Championship side but not a PL team that can compete, no where near.

He should have been potted post Watford away but once that passed the plan was always to see it through with Smith for the remainder of the season. We're going down.

[Toronto Villa]

He's talking the absolute shite of someone who has lost the plot totally.  "I thought we were well organised defensively, but we kept giving away free headers from set pieces."  THAT DOESN'T SOUND VERY WELL ORGANISED TO ME THEN!

All we need him to say now is that he thought we were excellent after again and that we need to go again. He’s fucking deluded. He can show he loves the club by resigning and giving us (his club) a fighting chance to stay up. But he won’t.

[Three Spires Villa]

He's talking the absolute shite of someone who has lost the plot totally.  "I thought we were well organised defensively, but we kept giving away free headers from set pieces."  THAT DOESN'T SOUND VERY WELL ORGANISED TO ME THEN!

All we need him to say now is that he thought we were excellent after again and that we need to go again. He’s fucking deluded. He can show he loves the club by resigning and giving us (his club) a fighting chance to stay up. But he won’t.

Spot on

[tony scott]

This is the dilemma, who would you replace him with, and the club has stated his here long in spite of results

[olaftab]

The day that Dean accepted Purslow’s advice to take on Terry as part of his coaching staff was the day he compromised himself as a pure football coach. A compromised Coach loses respect very quickly.  Now he’s is drifting aimlessly in a rudderless boat smashing from rock to rock with ultimate disaster around the corner. Feel for him but he has fucked up massively and we need to put him out of his misery. However I don’t trust our version of Swiss Tony that is Purslow to do anything  worthwhile for the club. We are fucked.

[brian green]

Agree 100% aftab.  The old, old Villa curse of the club owners being stupefied into the belief that resistance to the decline of the club is futile.  The "steady as she goes" stiff upper lips on the bridge of the Titanic.

[eamonn]

He was grasping at straws in his BBC WM interview after the game last night. "Villa Park was always going to be important for us..." I was hoping the interviewer would reply "What about Covid-19 and the prospect of playing games behind closed doors?".

[brian green]

Picking up on Risso's point about Smith's selective critical faculties I made the point elsewhere that it is just like Steve Coogan's famous sketch as a swimming pool attendant defending his position by stressing that only one or two people had drowned in his pool.

[Mister E]

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'.

He felt we were in the game and 1 nil down and the pen killed us off ...not sure what game he was watching but other than the first 8 mins we didn't threaten them at all.Them only having one goal at the point of the pen doesn't make it a close game , it really wasn't

Technically, he is right; at 1-0 we did have a cahnce to come back.
In reality, he is delufded if he beleives what he said.

[Footy-Vill]

Thanks always interesting to hear about Smith views on how he saw the match.

I would add if Hourihane or Samatta connected with their efforts would have been a goal ahead inside 10 minutes or so.

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And they could have been 3-2 up inside 25 based on their chances from corners and that header they ought to have buried.

[Risso]

And they could have been 3-2 up inside 25 based on their chances from corners and that header they ought to have buried.

Agreed, they were first to every ball from a corner or free kick.  It really is back to the bad old Lambert days of Cornalties.

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We're just so staggeringly disorganised. There's no desire to alter it either and it's actually getting more chaotic.