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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #10515 on: October 23, 2020, 10:24:52 PM »
Really good start to the season, but desperately poor tonight both in terms of preparation for the opponent and the lack of response once it was clear it wasn’t working. Dean needs to reflect on that and sort it.

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #10516 on: October 23, 2020, 10:27:59 PM »
I'm sure he will.

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #10517 on: October 23, 2020, 10:32:23 PM »
Really hope this isn't the start of the annual three month winless run, we should be better than that this season.

Problem in premier league you don't win a couple v mid table teams and then suddenly you're on a run of Spurs, Chelsea, Manchester clubs etc and that's how 7-8 match winless runs happen but just looking at fixtures and we've got a decent run up to end of December so would be hugely disappointed if we go into our shells now after a bad defeat which has been a massive problem for us for the last decade.

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #10518 on: October 23, 2020, 10:44:31 PM »
A very poor night for Dean Smith, one like for like sub when it was pretty obvious that we were in serious trouble tactically.

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #10519 on: October 23, 2020, 10:45:02 PM »
The lack of any reaction is the most disappointing whether it’s tactics or subs. Outplayed the last 30 mins

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #10520 on: October 23, 2020, 10:46:32 PM »
The lack of any reaction is the most disappointing whether it’s tactics or subs. Outplayed the last 30 mins
outplayed for 80 odd minutes. He has a habit of not reacting

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #10521 on: October 23, 2020, 10:53:01 PM »
I wouldn't mind but tactically I really liked our shape against Leicester. But that was a complete horror show tonight. All of last year's failings exposed again particularly the inability to change things tactically.

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #10522 on: October 23, 2020, 10:54:45 PM »
What i don't like is that we allowed them to bully us, forcing Martinez to go long with the ball because they did to us what we did to Liverpool by pressing high up the pitch.  Very, very poor defensively tonight, from all over the pitch.  We needed that first goal really, might have made a difference.

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #10523 on: October 23, 2020, 11:21:58 PM »
A very poor night for Dean Smith, one like for like sub when it was pretty obvious that we were in serious trouble tactically.


We have no strength in depth though.  There's literally no other sub that was worth making.  Other than for injuries and suspensions, he'll be swapping Trez and Traore for the foreseeable future.

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #10524 on: October 23, 2020, 11:36:25 PM »
A very poor night for Dean Smith, one like for like sub when it was pretty obvious that we were in serious trouble tactically.


We have no strength in depth though.  There's literally no other sub that was worth making.  Other than for injuries and suspensions, he'll be swapping Trez and Traore for the foreseeable future.

Our reserves aren't great at all but they're capable of coming in for games now and then and contributing, Hourihane showed that in the run in last season.

Leeds won tonight without 2-3 key regulars.

Don't see the sense in just constantly playing the 11 for every minute and then wondering why they're all knackered by March as we always saw in the MON era.

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #10525 on: October 23, 2020, 11:43:36 PM »
A very poor night for Dean Smith, one like for like sub when it was pretty obvious that we were in serious trouble tactically.


We have no strength in depth though.  There's literally no other sub that was worth making.  Other than for injuries and suspensions, he'll be swapping Trez and Traore for the foreseeable future.

Our reserves aren't great at all but they're capable of coming in for games now and then and contributing, Hourihane showed that in the run in last season.

Leeds won tonight without 2-3 key regulars.

Don't see the sense in just constantly playing the 11 for every minute and then wondering why they're all knackered by March as we always saw in the MON era.

April is the new new March.

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #10526 on: October 23, 2020, 11:54:04 PM »
A very poor night for Dean Smith, one like for like sub when it was pretty obvious that we were in serious trouble tactically.


We have no strength in depth though.  There's literally no other sub that was worth making.  Other than for injuries and suspensions, he'll be swapping Trez and Traore for the foreseeable future.

I don't care if Lansbury was our only option on the bench tonight. Any number of our players could and should have been hooked tonight. They simply could not have been any worse. Hourihanes last game for us he scored and got an assist, and I'm not saying he's a world beater by any means.

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #10527 on: October 23, 2020, 11:54:30 PM »
Come on lads and lasses, tonight was just a bad day at the office.

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #10528 on: October 24, 2020, 08:11:30 AM »
It was a really bad night at the office. The key thing I want is for Dean and the coaching staff to show a bit more when we’re facing adversity. We really lack when it comes to tactical changes to respond to a team’s dominance. That hopefully will be thought about and addressed moving forward.

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #10529 on: October 24, 2020, 08:44:59 AM »
Thought his post game analysis was spot on about us being wide open. Post game, Smith generally sums up the game well. But if we are wide open it's his job to correct it during the game with tactical changes.

 


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