Dean Smith - Confirmed

[Toronto Villa]

To suggest he was really proud of the players in a game we barely touched the ball means he was proud that they did what he asked them to do. Fucking embarrassing approach to the game if that’s the case.

[Three Spires Villa]

Marc Van Bommel if we stay up

[aev]

I think that's 1 draw and 6 defeats in the last 7 games. That's sackable anywhere else. Why wait until we're down.

And the draw was pretty fortuitous.

[curiousorange]

I don't think we ruin managers. They have a shelf life here just like at any other club. But we do seem to have settled at a particular station since we got ditched by O'Neill.

[Three Spires Villa]

Employ a bang average Championship manager and what can you expect - he/we got lucky last season
I am disappointed with the owners - I thought they would have been more savvy - extending his contract was a poor move .
He certainly appears to give other teams far too much respect - no wonder the players aren't up to the fight when the manager gives up prior to kick off

Not on here to defend smith, already posted on the post march thread that his continuation of the sametactics indicate he’s lost now, but just how did we get lucky last season. We luckily won 10 games in a row? And we’re luckily the far better team in the play off final. Yes we had Grealish come back but you could argue we were unlucky to lose him for nearly half a season.

Not really with Tammy, Mings, Jack, Axl, plus the squad including El-Ghazi, Conor etc that is a team a decent manager could get up

[Steve67]

Employ a bang average Championship manager and what can you expect - he/we got lucky last season
I am disappointed with the owners - I thought they would have been more savvy - extending his contract was a poor move .
He certainly appears to give other teams far too much respect - no wonder the players aren't up to the fight when the manager gives up prior to kick off

Not on here to defend smith, already posted on the post march thread that his continuation of the sametactics indicate he’s lost now, but just how did we get lucky last season. We luckily won 10 games in a row? And we’re luckily the far better team in the play off final. Yes we had Grealish come back but you could argue we were unlucky to lose him for nearly half a season.

Not really with Tammy, Mings, Jack, Axl, plus the squad including El-Ghazi, Conor etc that is a team a decent manager could get up

I think that squad needed a tweak in terms of coaching and Smith did that.  He also got the best player the Championship had in Grealish back in the fold and it all came together brilliantly.  Sadly, that is a much easier standard than the Premier Division and Smith is found wanting. Why can't we appoint a manager who pulls the whole club together? Someone actually good enough because the last ten years, other than last year has been crap. Massive club, rich owners but a deficient management team.

[Walmley_Villa]

Summer recruitment will and is costing us. Without sounding all Brucey we needed more Prem experience. As I've said before going into the  season with Wesley, Keinan and Kodja as strikers was always going to put us in the shit. If that was the Suso strategy he does indeed need shooting, if Smith went knowingly along with it then he is just as culpable.

[Legion]

Kodjia went to Al-Gharafa.

[Toronto Villa]

PL experience means fuck all when the tactics are to not lose the game and drop deeper and deeper. To try and nick a goal. But if you need some we could always throw in experienced player and PL winner Danny Drinkwater.

[Legion]

Kodjia went to Al-Gharafa.

Ignore. Mis-read post.

[The_ads]

I’ve been a real Smith sympathiser and desperately wanted him to succeed but this week has been piss poor.  I get it’s not ideal circumstances but we were bang average on Wednesday and probably should have lost and today we were as bad as any of those games pre COVID. It ain’t working and he won’t be in charge next year so I’d let him down gently now and give it Terry until the Summer

[PaulWinch again]

Dean isn’t going to be fired, so he needs to lose his trepidation and fear and send out a team that is set up to try and win.

[Jon Crofts]

I’ve been a real Smith sympathiser and desperately wanted him to succeed but this week has been piss poor.  I get it’s not ideal circumstances but we were bang average on Wednesday and probably should have lost and today we were as bad as any of those games pre COVID. It ain’t working and he won’t be in charge next year so I’d let him down gently now and give it Terry until the Summer

I think most people were right with you, right up until the last sentence.

[Legion]

No to Terry.

[CT]

No to Terry.

Same. He’s just as involved.

Or would the players magically start showing passion and energy if he was the boss?