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Author Topic: Dean Smith - Confirmed  (Read 1914222 times)

Offline Ads

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #8115 on: June 27, 2020, 07:19:36 PM »
Did put much of shift in back in early October.

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #8116 on: June 27, 2020, 07:21:01 PM »
We're better than Norwich.  Score!

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #8117 on: June 27, 2020, 07:21:18 PM »
We deserve to go down but the team below us don't?

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #8118 on: June 27, 2020, 07:26:26 PM »
If you want to believe G.Evans, he says Dean Smith is safe...

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #8119 on: June 27, 2020, 07:30:16 PM »
We deserve to go down but the team below us don't?
All I’m saying is will we put out a performance like Norwich are against Manure in our game against them?

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #8120 on: June 27, 2020, 07:30:54 PM »
Depends on what you read. Some other suggestions that he is on the edge of being fired

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #8121 on: June 27, 2020, 07:33:08 PM »
If you want to believe G.Evans, he says Dean Smith is safe...

The same Greg Evans who say's 'Dean Smith has a knack of pulling off results'?

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #8122 on: June 27, 2020, 07:34:03 PM »
We deserve to go down but the team below us don't?
All I’m saying is will we put out a performance like Norwich are against Manure in our game against them?

But will they do the same in the next league game? They need do and they haven't so far.

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #8123 on: June 27, 2020, 07:34:28 PM »
Seems to be on Twitter that he’s on verge of going. But I don’t trust twitter.  Will probably limp on til end of season as I reckon it’s too late now anyway.

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #8124 on: June 27, 2020, 07:40:20 PM »
Seems to be on Twitter that he’s on verge of going. But I don’t trust twitter.  Will probably limp on til end of season as I reckon it’s too late now anyway.

It is too late, we should have been brave during the months of the lock down and made a change. It was blind faith to stick with him, we've been getting progressively more shambolic as the season has gone on.

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #8125 on: June 27, 2020, 07:45:21 PM »
Optics wouldn't have been good - and you have to think how it would look to other prospective managers as well.

Sacking a hometown manager months after got us promoted and whose father died of Covid.

In other circumstances I'd say there's a good chance he'd have walked the plank.

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #8126 on: June 27, 2020, 07:46:55 PM »
How is it too late? Despite how unbelievably shite we’ve been in 2020, especially last 4 games, the situation is still salvagable

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #8127 on: June 27, 2020, 07:51:02 PM »
Optics wouldn't have been good - and you have to think how it would look to other prospective managers as well.

Sacking a hometown manager months after got us promoted and whose father died of Covid.

In other circumstances I'd say there's a good chance he'd have walked the plank.
Ideally it wouldn't happen, but I'd be alarmed if that was the thinking at a professional football club which, if swift action was taken, could still save itself from relegation.

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #8128 on: June 27, 2020, 07:52:35 PM »
Optics wouldn't have been good - and you have to think how it would look to other prospective managers as well.

Sacking a hometown manager months after got us promoted and whose father died of Covid.

In other circumstances I'd say there's a good chance he'd have walked the plank.

Leicester sacked a manager months after winning the league. If you want to be successful then sentiment has to be put aside. He tried, he failed, we were in the bottom 3 and looking abysmal.

Offline Three Spires Villa

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #8129 on: June 27, 2020, 07:55:13 PM »
Unfortunately Dean should have been released from his duties at around Christmas, the Burnley result on New Years Day saved him, then the League Cup run saved him, then COVID-19 saved him. Just before Christmas was the time, the owners didn’t do it and now we look odds on to be relegated

 


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