Dean Smith - Confirmed

[olaftab]

We'll beat Man Utd, Arsenal and West Ham, draw with Palace and Wolves and stay up. If I'm wrong I'll donate £1000

I agree with you. By the way what do you normally smoke?

[Sexual Ealing]

We'll beat Man Utd, Arsenal and West Ham, draw with Palace and Wolves and stay up. If I'm wrong I'll donate £1000

I agree with you. By the way what do you normally smoke?

I vape meth.

[ChicagoLion]

We'll beat Man Utd, Arsenal and West Ham, draw with Palace and Wolves and stay up. If I'm wrong I'll donate £1000

I agree with you. By the way what do you normally smoke?

I vape meth.

Explains a lot.

[Meanwood Villa]

Will you donate if any of your predictions don't come in SE or just the staying up one?

EDIT-  just seen your other posts on this!

[Drummond]

It's not nice being where we are, if (big if etc) we'd only lost by a goal to Man City we'd be out of the relegation zone. We can still do this, it's in our hands.

He'll make mistakes, he's a young manager. He inherited one squad, achieved something few thought possible and is now hanging on in the top division with a bunch of players thrown together last thing before the season started.

Whether he was involved in the transfers or not, the players we signed have shown potential. I believe we can still do this, Bournemouth and West Ham have not been great either.

[Axl Rose]

We'll beat Man Utd, Arsenal and West Ham, draw with Palace and Wolves and stay up. If I'm wrong I'll donate £1000

I agree with you. By the way what do you normally smoke?

I vape meth.

Now you're talking, mate. Something I miss about living in Cambodia. It definitely took the edge off Villa defeats when I was living there during the McLeish season.

[Axl Rose]

It's not nice being where we are, if (big if etc) we'd only lost by a goal to Man City we'd be out of the relegation zone. We can still do this, it's in our hands.

He'll make mistakes, he's a young manager. He inherited one squad, achieved something few thought possible and is now hanging on in the top division with a bunch of players thrown together last thing before the season started.

Whether he was involved in the transfers or not, the players we signed have shown potential. I believe we can still do this, Bournemouth and West Ham have not been great either.

He has been woeful this year, Drummond. What area of his management can be defended in all honesty?

[AsTallAsLions]

He's criticized Konsa publicly for failing to track Gayle's run without mentioning either of the CBs who were drawn completely out of position (especially Mings). Wtf is that about?

Yes Konsa absolutely should have reacted more quickly but if I was in his shoes I'd be pissed off at being publicly called out for failing to cover two wayward CBs who didn't even get mentioned in the interview.

[Axl Rose]

He's criticized Konsa publicly for failing to track Gayle's run without mentioning either of the CBs who were drawn completely out of position (especially Mings). Wtf is that about?

Yes Konsa absolutely should have reacted more quickly but if I was in his shoes I'd be pissed off at being publicly called out for failing to cover two wayward CBs who didn't even get mentioned in the interview.

I'd be pissed off too, mate. Smith showing his utter ineptitude once again. Should be sacked for his third rate performance this season.

[Des Little]

It's poor form to single out any player by name in an interview, and always strikes me of a manager really feeling the heat.  I thought better of Deano than that.

[Ian.]

Well Smith chose Konsa while Gary Cahill was also available.

[hilts_coolerking]

It's not nice being where we are, if (big if etc) we'd only lost by a goal to Man City we'd be out of the relegation zone. We can still do this, it's in our hands.

He'll make mistakes, he's a young manager. He inherited one squad, achieved something few thought possible and is now hanging on in the top division with a bunch of players thrown together last thing before the season started.

Whether he was involved in the transfers or not, the players we signed have shown potential. I believe we can still do this, Bournemouth and West Ham have not been great either.

He has been woeful this year, Drummond. What area of his management can be defended in all honesty?

Dean appears to have learned fuck all after 31 games.

[Luke8]

It's poor form to single out any player by name in an interview, and always strikes me of a manager really feeling the heat.  I thought better of Deano than that.

Happens fairly often. Chris Wilder did it to Dean Henderson earlier in the season.

Without the context, I wouldn’t be too bothered by it. Smith has signed him twice, so obviously knows and rates him, so I’d trust that he knows how to manage him.

[Luke8]

Well Smith chose Konsa while Gary Cahill was also available.

I think it’s been well covered by it’s not as simple as that. Much bigger cost in wages, no resale value, player wanting to live in London etc.

[AsTallAsLions]

It's poor form to single out any player by name in an interview, and always strikes me of a manager really feeling the heat.  I thought better of Deano than that.

Happens fairly often. Chris Wilder did it to Dean Henderson earlier in the season.

Without the context, I wouldn’t be too bothered by it. Smith has signed him twice, so obviously knows and rates him, so I’d trust that he knows how to manage him.

The point is more that he called him out by name while choosing to leave the other two alone (bigger culprits in my view because at least Konsa has the excuse of being played out of position). Either say nothing at all or acknowledge that the entire defence shit the bed for the goal, there's honestly nothing to be gained from criticising a player that's doing a job for you at RB because you don't fancy either of the others in this formation (Smith said himself Guilbert was back in contention).