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Online PaulWinch again

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #10530 on: October 24, 2020, 08:45:56 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.

Yes confirming after the game and doing nothing during the game isn’t a great help!

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #10531 on: October 24, 2020, 09:01:08 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.

Or at least have a word with his players to sort it out. Davis for Trez was the sub for me and try at least to change the focus of our attacks.

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #10532 on: October 24, 2020, 09:42:16 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.
If you don't know what's wrong it's understandable if you do nothing about it but if you know what's wrong  and don't fix it it's incompetence.

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #10533 on: October 24, 2020, 09:46:58 AM »
What are our subs for ?direct replacements or Players who could play a different system when the situation called for it, we got hammered down the flanks from the off tonight with no visable attempt  to prevent it. Have we got some unsubable players?  Deans got a lot of credit but tonight was like Rooks Drift.

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #10534 on: October 24, 2020, 09:57:15 AM »
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.

Bit concerning that we’ve spent over £200m in two windows to have that bench.

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #10535 on: October 24, 2020, 11:41:31 AM »
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.

Bit concerning that we’ve spent over £200m in two windows to have that bench.

Squad needed a massive overhaul upon promotion. We had to buy lots of players and spend cumulatively a lot of money. Let's not question everything on one bad result. The boys have done us proud this season. We approached the game tactically wrong and will learn from it.

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #10536 on: October 24, 2020, 12:05:36 PM »
Yes but when you’re two down you roll the dice on the subs bench.  When you looked at there weren’t many great options.  Maybe Conor for a bit more energy. 

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #10537 on: October 24, 2020, 12:10:33 PM »
Thing is we are light up top off the bench. If we need to chase a game our options are poor. If we need to shore up a game our options are pretty good.

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #10538 on: October 24, 2020, 12:15:46 PM »
Thing is we are light up top off the bench. If we need to chase a game our options are poor. If we need to shore up a game our options are pretty good.
agree, the question is how many times do you watch your full backs get overrun and how many chances do you let the opposition have before deciding to do something about it?
This was pre lockdown performance and game management.

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #10539 on: October 24, 2020, 12:52:30 PM »
Thing is we are light up top off the bench. If we need to chase a game our options are poor. If we need to shore up a game our options are pretty good.

Sure, but the guy's built a 4-from-5 first XI in the premier league in two years, with a spectacular turnaround in the middle. You're right that it's a weakness, but sometimes you have to prioritise certain strengths over others.

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #10540 on: October 24, 2020, 01:18:17 PM »
Thing is we are light up top off the bench. If we need to chase a game our options are poor. If we need to shore up a game our options are pretty good.
agree, the question is how many times do you watch your full backs get overrun and how many chances do you let the opposition have before deciding to do something about it?
This was pre lockdown performance and game management.

Matt Cash must have been wondering the same. Smith standing yards away from him all second half and his change to correct the damage on the right side was to swap Trez for Traore. The mind boggles with him at times.

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #10541 on: October 24, 2020, 01:44:57 PM »
When it works it's great but we only seem to have/know one way of playing. 

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #10542 on: October 24, 2020, 02:37:45 PM »
This is the thing with smith that will keep people disagreeing. He has one way of setting the team up and he’s now got the right players for that approach hence our excellent last 4 games. But he won’t or can’t vary tactics in game or change his approach based on the opposition and that means canny managers like Bielsa will make mugs of us.

He’s either single minded or inflexible depending on your take. He’s certainly not the only manager to have one approach.

The funny thing is I thought he had added pragmatism to his skills in the run in. We were winning games a different way. Maybe he has and last night just ‘one of those horrible ones’.


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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #10543 on: October 24, 2020, 03:35:20 PM »
I would’ve thought that was part of the reason Shakespeare was bought in.

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #10544 on: October 24, 2020, 03:50:05 PM »
We altered our tactics at Leicester on 20 minutes and were the better side for the remainder of the game.

 


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