Dean Smith - Confirmed

[Sexual Ealing]

If things are to take on a Salopian* flavour then I guess I have to be in favour.

*Graham Turner notwithstanding

[Three Spires Villa]

If Dyche was appointed, would Villa Park be full every game?

If we won games it would be.

[kippaxvilla2]

If he did join then as soon as we went on a bad run the razor blades (usually the ones he swallows) will be out.

[Risso]

There's no reason at all that finishing around 12th should have been beyond us.  Everybody from say, Burnley in 11th down is eminently beatable, and it's really just down to shit scouting, and even shitter coaching that we are where we are. 

Burnley's midfield this season has mostly been Ashley Westwood, Jack Cork, Jeff Hendrick and Dwight McNeil.  Pretty bloody ordinary by anybody's standards, but coached into an effective unit by Dyche.

Smith has pointed out in recent games we have been harder to beat , if we had been like that from the start we would of been boring maybe but gotten some draws along the way.Palace are not far off top 6 and are one of the lowest scorers in the league but they keep goals out.

Liverpool have been great this season but overall I thing the league has been very ordinary with alot of the top teams United , Chelsea , Spurs and Arsenal all having issues putting runs together and yet we haven't taken points of any of them.

I suspect by "harder to beat" he just means we're not getting horsed 4 or 5 nil with the players barely breaking a sweat, like the game against Leicester just before lockdown.  In terms of ctually making it difficult for teams to beat us, I haven't really noticed much of a difference.  No attacking play from us, and customary mistakes meaning that we give away goals far too cheaply.

[hilts_coolerking]

"Harder to beat" possibly but it's still not exactly difficult is it.

[Steve67]

Harder to beat and yet it still happens. Two points from four games since the restart. 19 for a whole season if we continued that trend. And yet he still spins it.

[Axl Rose]

I was hoping he'd have been sacked by now, and was hoping the owners to be a little more ruthless. Please axe that slimy Purslow, too.

[mr underhill]

Burnley looked diabolical when we beat them and they are now in with a shout at European qualification. i certainly wouldn't turn my nose up at froggy Dyche.

[Axl Rose]

Burnley looked diabolical when we beat them and they are now in with a shout at European qualification. i certainly wouldn't turn my nose up at froggy Dyche.

I would. I'd prefer someone a bit more exciting. Ancelotti at Everton, Nuno at Wolves, calibre. I want to see good football with players full of energy, speed, passion and skill.

This current team are dreadful to watch, full of lazy, slow, hoofball fuckers. After a possible initial upturn with Dyche, we'd be back at the above within 6 months. No thank you. Could have kept Bruce if Dyche is the target.

[Footy-Vill]

Let's dispell the idea that changing manager for a promoted team is so successful. Another fallacy like the 40pts thing.

Since the premier league went to a 20 team league back in 95 there have been 71 promotions

And 19 out of 71 promoted club got rid of their promotion wimning manager in a effort to stay up but only 6 times did a new manager keep the club up .

So really it did makes sense to stay with Dean Smith. And the reality in changing manager hoping for change of fortune isn't so great actually.

[mr underhill]

let's not footy, His managerial skill set this season could've been written across a gnat's bollock with room to spare for War and Peace.

[Risso]

If things are to take on a Salopian* flavour then I guess I have to be in favour.

*Graham Turner notwithstanding

All of the very best posters on here are from Shropshire

[hilts_coolerking]

And 19 out of 71 promoted club got rid of their promotion wimning manager in a effort to stay up but only 6 times did a new manager keep the club up .

That's a bit misleading though.  I'm sure that in some of the cases the previous manager had fucked up so badly that relegation was inevitable, or that the new guy simply didn't have enough time.  But you have to try nonetheless and as you say it does work sometimes.

[Risso]

Let's dispell the idea that changing manager for a promoted team is so successful. Another fallacy like the 40pts thing.

Since the premier league went to a 20 team league back in 95 there have been 71 promotions

And 19 out of 71 promoted club got rid of their promotion wimning manager in a effort to stay up but only 6 times did a new manager keep the club up .

So really it did makes sense to stay with Dean Smith. And the reality in changing manager hoping for change of fortune isn't so great actually.

Hmmmm, I'll take that with a pinch of salt, but could you answer the following:

How many teams who didn't change their manager stayed up?
How many teams in the bottom three with 8 games to go have avoided the drop?

[Des Little]

If things are to take on a Salopian* flavour then I guess I have to be in favour.

*Graham Turner notwithstanding

All of the very best posters on here are from Shropshire

Typical Vile.  Not from Brum.  SOTV etc