Dean Smith - Confirmed

[Risso]

“We’ve had a plan for each of our last 10 games.”

Written in green crayon on the back of a fag packet I bet.

[PaulWinch again]

There’s enough quality in the players to be better than this. That doesn’t absolve recruitment at all, there are clear mistakes, but this team is less than the sum of its parts. That is down to the manager and his team.

[andyh]

Trying to be slightly positive, when the inevitable happens and we sell off the family silver at least the club will be on a hugely solid financial footing.
Player sales and parachute payments should mean we are able to attract a decent manager ( Rafa ?)  who could bring a style of play and approach to the game that starts to modernise the playing side of the club.

Maybe? Eh?

[Sexual Ealing]

apparently we're hard to beat!?

Just heard that. Laughable.

[pauliewalnuts]

It looks to me like he's lost the changing room. It looked that way before the covid break and it still looks that way now.

The moaning about refs, the ridiculously self-serving summaries of matches, the passive looking on as we produce nothing, the persistence with a shape and side that does not work, the total failure to understand game management.

All of those things are pretty depressing to watch.

He should have gone ages ago. Seven games left now and we are not yet cut adrift. Get shot today, absolute last chance, and hope for a new manager bounce because carrying on like this is definitely going to end in relegation.

[itbrvilla]

All that bullshit last year: 'we're Aston Villa, we organise open top bus tours when we win a trophy, not when we gain promotion', 'we won't be there to make up the numbers' etc. etc.

Yet, we accept utter shite and haven't taken action to preserve our premier league status. Fuming.

Purslow: We'll sign players with character.

He's a fucking charlatan too. His job is to make the big decisions and he's done nothing this season

[pauliewalnuts]

Trying to be slightly positive, when the inevitable happens and we sell off the family silver at least the club will be on a hugely solid financial footing.
Player sales and parachute payments should mean we are able to attract a decent manager ( Rafa ?)  who could bring a style of play and approach to the game that starts to modernise the playing side of the club.

Maybe? Eh?

Purslow was considered as having driven Benitez out of Liverpool. There's no way that's going to happen.

[PaulWinch again]

“We’ve had a plan for each of our last 10 games.”

Written in green crayon on the back of a fag packet I bet.

It’s worked spectacularly well. I wonder how many points we’ve accrued across those 10 games.

[Walmley_Villa]

He has been let down with the recruitment certainly but I think the coaching levels required at this level are higher and none of them have the experience. Lack of experience on and off the pitch is hurting us.

Ultimately we have no goal threat, no pace and the worst defence in the league. We are where we deserve to be. 

[David_Nab]

“We’ve had a plan for each of our last 10 games.”

Written in green crayon on the back of a fag packet I bet.

He has gone from we will attack and try to beat every team to trying to be overly clever and change tactics every game.He has tried to play for a draw twice and failed and drawn when we should of been winning.

Had enough of him , Brentford are doing better without him he has been found out at this level and his pot match interviews have descended into the same shit we have herd from previous manager's before they got the sack

I have zero faith he would get us back up after relegation , he has star quality in Grealish ,Mings and Tammy last time he won't have that again

[themossman]

As I said at the time, if he’d gone at Christmas, which made complete sense, he’d have been the lovely bloke who got us up and had a decent go in the premier league. I don’t think it was smart or principled to keep him on, it’s just meant he’ll leave under a cloud like all the others.

[eamonn]

We have had our fair share of shit charlatan managers for years.  But at least most of them had some kind of a system or could at least motivate.  Smith has nothing, nada, ziltch, sweet FA.   We have also been cursed with dreadfully negligent owners. 

Thank God for those dreadfully negligent owners, otherwise we might have been wound-up as a club less than two years ago. They appointed Purslow to be Dean's boss, it's up to him to make recommendations.

[Ger Regan]

I do wonder if it's purslow that's the one fighting smith's corner in the boardroom. Edens in particular doesn't strike me as the sort that would accept such consistent underperformance. I'd have no confidence going into next season with smith still in charge, regardless of which division we're in (although i know which one i'd be betting on).

[passport1]

“We’ve had a plan for each of our last 10 games.”

Written in green crayon on the back of a fag packet I bet.

No the bloke who looks like vagrant has a notebook.

[David_Nab]

As I said at the time, if he’d gone at Christmas, which made complete sense, he’d have been the lovely bloke who got us up and had a decent go in the premier league. I don’t think it was smart or principled to keep him on, it’s just meant he’ll leave under a cloud like all the others.

I'm sure he would of been chopped if the season hadn't been suspended , the break has kept him in a  job for now.