Dean Smith - Confirmed

[OzVilla]

We didn’t match Wolves at all. I’m sorry but they had gears left to go through, you could see that. We were stuck in neutral.

But the chance to bin him off was January, we didn’t. The next chance was after Leicester. We didn’t again. He’s here till seasons end now whatever happens.

[LukeJames]

Smith: "We're disappointed. It looked as if it was going to be a 0-0 game. I felt we matched a top 6 team today."

Rancid comment.

[PaulWinch again]

We need a manager/coaching team who can actually coach, plan, and adapt to situations. Keeping him whatever the outcome of this season, which looks pretty obvious now, is a waste of time.

[Risso]

He’s lucky the fans aren’t there. He’d be getting dog’s abuse.

[aj2k77]

Dean, shite mate. A low intensity game where we looked devoid of ideas and the will to win. Unless someone fucks up against us I just can't see how we break a team down.

January has finished us off. Reina, Drinkwater and Samatta. Never going to keep you up. Piss poor. We needed some points out of Newcastle, Sheff Utd and Wolves. We've ended up with 2. We need 38/39 to stay up I reckon, that's 4 wins. Goodnight Vienna.

Smith, Suso, Terry and the other bloke. None of them have done what is required, we actually look a worse team than the one in September. The recruits have been over priced and under skilled, we've added much of a muchness in numbers but what have they brought to the squad? Konsa, £12m? Targett the same? Nakamba and Wesley. Between just those four alone you've near £60m and it goes on and on.

We might do Ok in the Championship but the underlying problem of buying massively over priced players with very little skill, strength or pace still plagues us.

[Toronto Villa]

He’s lucky the fans aren’t there. He’d be getting dog’s abuse.

I wonder how Purslow would feel if 40k fans were screaming for his head? Of course it shouldn’t be required to fire him from doing such an abject job. Fans or no fans.

[PaulWinch again]

The worst thing of it all is that it’s so crushingly predictable under Smith now. We know we won’t win, we know we won’t play well, and we know a load of nonsense will be spouted post-game. He’s had a fair chance to turn things round, and it’s clearly not happening. Time is up.

[aj2k77]

Newcastle kept Benitez when they were relegated. Wolves picked up a coach who had done well in the best league in Europe. If we are serious, we need to show it.

Brentford managers and bits and pieces players from midtable Belgian sides aren't good enough and we are paying for it big time.

[tomd2103]

Dean, shite mate. A low intensity game where we looked devoid of ideas and the will to win. Unless someone fucks up against us I just can't see how we break a team down.

January has finished us off. Reina, Drinkwater and Samatta. Never going to keep you up. Piss poor. We needed some points out of Newcastle, Sheff Utd and Wolves. We've ended up with 2. We need 38/39 to stay up I reckon, that's 4 wins. Goodnight Vienna.

Smith, Suso, Terry and the other bloke. None of them have done what is required, we actually look a worse team than the one in September. The recruits have been over priced and under skilled, we've added much of a muchness in numbers but what have they brought to the squad? Konsa, £12m? Targett the same? Nakamba and Wesley. Between just those four alone you've near £60m and it goes on and on.

We might do Ok in the Championship but the underlying problem of buying massively over priced players with very little skill, strength or pace still plagues us.

Not that I can see it mattering, but can’t see us, Bournemouth or West Ham winning four games from here on in.  Two wins might even be enough considering how poor the teams down there seem to be. 

[rougegorge]

He should have been shown the door after the 3-0 at Watford in December.

Exactly. The football and results were terrible even then.

The league cup saved him but he should have been replaced after Leicester as well.

If the owners were doing the maths of relegation, they should have acted far sooner.

Since restart,  the team has been bereft of ideas, pace, movement, tactics ..the lot, and no sign of.any improvement.

I can understand the large swathe of goodwill on here wanting him to succeed, but his Villa affiliation has definitely given him more leeway than other managers would've had.

Our run of three wins on expected goals also came to an end. He can't even say that today, as it was 0.4 to 0.7.

[myf]

apparently we're hard to beat!?

[CT Villan]

Dean is a lovely lad, but his time is up (and really has been for a while). We should be on the phone to Sam and offer him a contract to finish the season with a massive (multi-million) bonus for keeping us up.

Regroup after we know our fate - I wouldn't be opposed to keeping Sam for another season if he is successful to stabilize a mid-table position in the Premier League.

[hilts_coolerking]

I think that's it for Dean.  He's shown nothing whatsoever to indicate he's PL class, which is what we need, and he's shown no signs of learning or adapting.  We can't appoint lower level managers and just hope they turn out to be good in the PL. 

And the whining about officials and luck and all the rest of it really really gets on my tits.

[themossman]

Coward.

[themossman]

More seriously, Players aren’t good enough is the only sensible defence of him of the moment. Get it to a degree but what about those early games where we threw points away because of tactical naivety.

What I think we’ve got is a mixed bag player wise but they’re all playing within themselves because they don’t trust the tactics or coaching and their confidence is shot because they have seen so many results thrown away following hard work.

Whatever you think of Dean I admire anyone who’ll try and argue he’s got the most out of the players however good or bad you think they are.