Dean Smith - Confirmed

[themossman]

Yep same I don’t think there’s much in way of gritted teeth really. A small minority putting emphasis on the enforced changes (or, on the other side, weirdly keen to dig other people out) but most folk just seem very happy with an unexpected win and a great shot at staying up, as it should be.

[exiled on the wirral!]

Yep same I don’t think there’s much in way of gritted teeth really. A small minority putting emphasis on the enforced changes (or, on the other side, weirdly keen to dig other people out) but most folk just seem very happy with an unexpected win and a great shot at staying up, as it should be.

Well Smith stumbling across a winning formula through luck rather than good judgement sounds like gritted teeth to me, but each to their own. I agree everyone sounds happy which is fantastic.

[Three Spires Villa]

For me has achieved two things, get us up and stay up, we are on course to do both. Debates and opinions are just that, opinions. If on Sunday we stay up and anyone is not happy, more fool them. I haven’t been a fan of Dean, I can only comment on what I see at the game or on tv. If it’s luck, keep being lucky.

[dave shelley]

If, and it's a big if, we survive playing as we did last night then it will prove, to me anyway, that the players are behind him which I really thought they weren't.  That, going forward is a big plus.

[paul_e]

I was 50/50 on Smith up until the United game when I thought he’d utterly lost it and needed to be replaced. Huge thanks to him for what he’s achieved in the last few games to get us where we are but I’m still falling on the side of upgrading if that’s possible and we stay up. If we stay up and we couldn’t upgrade then he would stay. If we go down then he should go.

It was the United game for me as well but I'm on the fence of him staying or going. I was worried that the penalty decision had broken him but to his credit we've been better since and, importantly, so has he. He made a mistake not making a sub or 2 to break up against Everton but other than that the last 3 games have been much closer to what we all thought we'd get from him this season rather than the passive stuff we'd seen too often before that.

[hilts_coolerking]

If, and it's a big if, we survive playing as we did last night then it will prove, to me anyway, that the players are behind him which I really thought they weren't.  That, going forward is a big plus.

That's a very good point.  Like you, I thought the poor, listless performances both before and immediately after the break showed that the players had lost faith in him.  But the last three or four games show that even if that was true, he's got them back.  Fair play to him.

[paul_e]

If, and it's a big if, we survive playing as we did last night then it will prove, to me anyway, that the players are behind him which I really thought they weren't.  That, going forward is a big plus.

That's a very good point.  Like you, I thought the poor, listless performances both before and immediately after the break showed that the players had lost faith in him.  But the last three or four games show that even if that was true, he's got them back.  Fair play to him.

Last 3, the one before that was the worst performance under him by a log way.

[Alex77]

If, and it's a big if, we survive playing as we did last night then it will prove, to me anyway, that the players are behind him which I really thought they weren't.  That, going forward is a big plus.

That's a very good point.  Like you, I thought the poor, listless performances both before and immediately after the break showed that the players had lost faith in him.  But the last three or four games show that even if that was true, he's got them back.  Fair play to him.

Last 3, the one before that was the worst performance under him by a log way.

Yes, the performances were wooden. Or am I barking up the wrong tree?

[dave shelley]

Wait for it...

[ez]

If, and it's a big if, we survive playing as we did last night then it will prove, to me anyway, that the players are behind him which I really thought they weren't.  That, going forward is a big plus.

That's a very good point.  Like you, I thought the poor, listless performances both before and immediately after the break showed that the players had lost faith in him.  But the last three or four games show that even if that was true, he's got them back.  Fair play to him.

Last 3, the one before that was the worst performance under him by a log way.

Yes, the performances were wooden. Or am I barking up the wrong tree?

The last 3 games have been akin to must win games and we've played well in them. Maybe Smith's had a change of attitude.

[Fred Crump]

Wait for it...

Don’t worry Dave. I don’t think anyone will have twigged that there is a Punathon opportunity

[chrisw1]

Oh FFS, just when I was having a good day.

[LeeB]

If, and it's a big if, we survive playing as we did last night then it will prove, to me anyway, that the players are behind him which I really thought they weren't.  That, going forward is a big plus.

That's a very good point.  Like you, I thought the poor, listless performances both before and immediately after the break showed that the players had lost faith in him.  But the last three or four games show that even if that was true, he's got them back.  Fair play to him.

Last 3, the one before that was the worst performance under him by a log way.

Yes, the performances were wooden. Or am I barking up the wrong tree?

The last 3 games have been akin to must win games and we've played well in them. Maybe Smith's had a change of attitude.

Don’t be a plank.

[Fred Crump]

Oh FFS, just when I was having a good day.

Maybe for Chris’s peace of mind it wood be a good idea if a splinter group should branch out into a separate Punathon thread.....Ok,  Ok , I’ll leaf it alone now.

[hilts_coolerking]

If we stay up we need to conduct a root and branch review of our recruitment process.