Dean Smith - Confirmed

[dave.woodhall]

every game we’ve played since the restart we’ve had the opportunity of getting out of the bottom 3 with a win or sometimes even a draw

we have failed on every occasion to get the required result

it’s not looking good

Every other club around us can say the same.

[hilts_coolerking]

every game we’ve played since the restart we’ve had the opportunity of getting out of the bottom 3 with a win or sometimes even a draw

we have failed on every occasion to get the required result

it’s not looking good

Every other club around us can say the same.

Yes but we're the ones who have to make the running.  They're all above us, except Norwich obviously, and we're the ones playing catch up.  We can't just match them, we have to outperform them somewhere along the line.

[Sexual Ealing]

Technically, we have.

[hilts_coolerking]

Technically, we have.

And yet there we sit in the bottom three, with an inferior goal difference and all the teams around us having a game in hand.

[Sexual Ealing]

Technically, we have.

And yet there we sit in the bottom three, with an inferior goal difference and all the teams around us having a game in hand.

Hence the “technically”. We’ve made up two points on them. It’s not enough but we have.

[Steve67]

We have also played four games to their two. Our goal difference is now worse and we still haven’t won a game! Spin it either way and it still comes out the colour of brown.

[Sexual Ealing]

I’m not spinning anything. I think we’ve been shit. We’re also two points better off than we were, having restarted having played a game less than the others.

[Steve67]

Sorry Sexy, I wasn’t saying you are spinning it. It was the Royal we, collective thing. (Although it’s still shit! 🤪)

[Neil Hawkes]

Please remind me what Dean Smith has actually ever done as a manager.

Broken a club record of 10 wins on the trot & before you wheel out the standard of the opposition, note this had not been achieved during our previous stints in the 3rd & 2nd divisions, with supposedly superior managers.

To be honest I couldn’t give a toss about last season at this point as it was this season that mattered. We could have gone unbeaten last year but given we haven’t carried a run of form into this year, it means very little. If he stays, then we need a miracle, if he goes we need a miracle. Looking back at that interview going on about Norwich last season looks very small time now.

The question was asked & I answered the question

[eamonn]

Sorry Sexy, I wasn’t saying you are spinning it. It was the Royal we, collective thing. (Although it’s still shit! 🤪)

Cansei de Ser Sexy - CSS. Mid-00s Brazilian pop band, they were good fun.

[Risso]

That is very weird, I was playing their album earlier.

[Drummond]

We play West Ham, and it could very well come down to that match. Bournemouth are just as bad as we are form wise.

With Watford losing to Southampton, I'd say it's all still to play for. We just need a sneaky last gasp bundling of a ball over the line we don't have to be amazing.

[Hookeysmith]

Despite the obvious fact that we are crap, we’re not actually down yet and the teams around us, including Pearson’s Watford, that is Pearson who lots were raving about when he took over their, are just as crap. Watford may have had a spectacular win over Liverpool but its the only win they’ve had in 10, that’s how long their new manager bounce has lasted. If after Liverpool and Man Utd, we are 3 or 4 points behind Bournemouth, West Ham and Watford then I think we are gone, if it’s 1 or 2 points and we have palace, Everton, arsenal and West Ham to play, then it’s all to play for.

And Dyche, I like Sean Dyche and his growl, but the irony that he got relegated with Burnley and they stuck with him, seems to have by passed a lot of Smith outers on here.We’re they heralded for then barnstorming football the year they last went down?
I’m almost past caring whether smith stays or goes, I’ve not enjoyed a game since Watford in January and that nearly gave me a heart attack. What I do know is, a lot of supporters would of realistically took 17th as an achievement this season after the way we came up and the rushed squad rebuild. Coming 17th invariably means you lose a lot of games, but this seems to have by passed a lot of people. However shite we are, and we are really hard to watch at the moment, coming 17th is not exactly the impossible given we’re on the same points as Bournemouth and West Ham and one behind Watford.
If the internet had existed in April and May 1989, it would of been interesting to see if SGT would of been getting this vitriol, as his Villa escaped an immediate return to Div 1 as it was,  by 1 point with a 1-1 draw with Cov on last day of the season. Just saying like.

excellent post

[hilts_coolerking]

Despite the obvious fact that we are crap, we’re not actually down yet and the teams around us, including Pearson’s Watford, that is Pearson who lots were raving about when he took over their, are just as crap. Watford may have had a spectacular win over Liverpool but its the only win they’ve had in 10, that’s how long their new manager bounce has lasted. If after Liverpool and Man Utd, we are 3 or 4 points behind Bournemouth, West Ham and Watford then I think we are gone, if it’s 1 or 2 points and we have palace, Everton, arsenal and West Ham to play, then it’s all to play for.

And Dyche, I like Sean Dyche and his growl, but the irony that he got relegated with Burnley and they stuck with him, seems to have by passed a lot of Smith outers on here.We’re they heralded for then barnstorming football the year they last went down?
I’m almost past caring whether smith stays or goes, I’ve not enjoyed a game since Watford in January and that nearly gave me a heart attack. What I do know is, a lot of supporters would of realistically took 17th as an achievement this season after the way we came up and the rushed squad rebuild. Coming 17th invariably means you lose a lot of games, but this seems to have by passed a lot of people. However shite we are, and we are really hard to watch at the moment, coming 17th is not exactly the impossible given we’re on the same points as Bournemouth and West Ham and one behind Watford.
If the internet had existed in April and May 1989, it would of been interesting to see if SGT would of been getting this vitriol, as his Villa escaped an immediate return to Div 1 as it was,  by 1 point with a 1-1 draw with Cov on last day of the season. Just saying like.

excellent post

Although, according to the poll on here, 98.4% of H&Vers thought - realistically - we'd finish 17th or higher.  45% thought we'd finish 12th or higher.

[ChicagoLion]

Also struggling with the SGT Smith comparison.