Dean Smith - Confirmed

[Des Little]

Yep, they can all get in the same taxi. Save us a few quid.

[passport1]

Yes our Head Coach,Director of Football,CEO structure has been a roaring  success.

[Risso]

My worry now is that the owners have given up already, and think that they've bitten off more than they can chew with English football.  Their complete non action since January is pure negligence.

[Steve67]

The manager sets the tone for pride in the shirt, pride in the club.  Tonight, I saw cowardice, a lack of effort, poor decision making, a lack of energy and quality.  Other than the poor decision making, everything else is down to the manager. I don't see Dean, ever, getting into his players, demanding more from them on the side.  Even at the water breaks, where are the words of motivation or the individual players being inspired?  This is almost as bad as anything I have seen in terms of lack of pride and effort.  They still look unfit, SJM is tubby and ambling round the pitch, very unusual for him. It is broken.  We need two wins just to get out of the bottom three, I just cannot see it.

[TonyD]

Yep.  We might see a for sale sign. 

Are there any more foolish billionaires left...?

[richtheholtender]

My worry now is that the owners have given up already, and think that they've bitten off more than they can chew with English football.  Their complete non action since January is pure negligence.

And it’s not like we haven’t been there before is it

[rougegorge]

The ‘Smith Out’ thread got parked just before lockdown, but looking at the posts after Christmas (around p23 etc), many of us were saying we needed a change then, and you could almost copy and paste comments from then and apply them now.

Nothing changed, we got worse, with the club seemingly hoping the inadequacies of others might save us.

The benefit of hindsight is often used to prove a point. However, in this case, there was foresight from a lot of fans, and the club turned a blind eye and have effectively thrown away all the good work and goodwill from last year.

[Risso]

He's woeful.  I honestly can't wait to see the back of him. 

[LukeJames]

That 4 year contract ffs

[passport1]

The Eygptian economy isn't in great shape not sure about US sub-prime. They could disappear as quickly as they arrived. The joys of foreign ownership.

[Risso]

That 4 year contract ffs

Insanity.  As bad as Lambert getting an extension after beating Liverpool.

[Villan82]

The benefit of hindsight is often used to prove a point. However, in this case, there was foresight from a lot of fans, and the club turned a blind eye and have effectively thrown away all the good work and goodwill from last year.

It was obvious from about October that the management was the weak link. We pissed away so many points. In fact, no exaggeration, we could have spunked away the 8 points that would have seen us safe.

The players dropped badly in December. They lost faith in him.

Purslow you fool.

[aldridgeboy]

At Xmas, I was of the opinion that should we go down , I’d like him to stay and get us back up. The crime of not buying enough upfront, is seen enough for him to hopefully be our manager for the long term.

I was wrong. He has to go. I’d even roll the dice now with 4 games to go. As it stands , I don’t see us scoring, yet alone getting a coupe of wins.

Thanks for getting us back up. But out of your depth Dean sadly.  Wish you all the best, as your one of us. But goodbye.

[sickbeggar]

For me he's really lost it post Covid. With the break i saw this as a month long tournament, not a continuation of the season. And its not the same season in all but name.. He had a chance to re-assess the formation, change things, bring players in from the cold. Other clubs seem to have used that mentality with the extended subs bench and the differing fitness levels. of the player.. Smith seems to have been in suspended amination since April and then just plodded along as before once it re-started

[tomd2103]

Yes our Head Coach,Director of Football,CEO structure has been a roaring  success.

Noone involved with the playing side of things will come out of this season with any real credit. 

The owners and Purslow have been far too slow to act when it was clear that things were going badly wrong around Christmas time.

Pitarch's transfer strategy has been a failure including a seeming over reliance on Belgian football which isn't near the standard of the Premier League.

The coaching staff have looked out of their depth and been inflexible and while the majority of players simply haven't been up to it, they've also shown a real lack of desire and commitment on too many occasions.