Dean Smith - Confirmed

[dave.woodhall]

Absolutely no chance of us finishing top 6 with gormless in charge. Get rid.

Nice to see you making up for lost time.

[Abbeyfealeavfc]

Absolutely no chance of us finishing top 6 with gormless in charge. Get rid.

Oh dear!

[SoccerHQ]

We're going to finish bottom half aren't we?

This despite having 3rd/4th best defence in league.

Certainly not saying DS out at all but I have the feeling just like MON had the limit of 6th DS will have limit of 8th even if we give him 100s of millions to spend over next 2-3 years, he simply just dosen't tweak it well enough at times as the game goes on.

Not too bothered about today's result as Liverpool are still a good team but our record in 2021 really hasn't been that good so just frustrating another promising season is just fizzling out, been a major problem in last 20 years.

I'd have been fine with 11th in September but I don't see what's wrong with wanting a little bit more with how we've generally played for most of this season.

[ChicagoLion]

Another one down to Smith.
Poor team selection, even though we were extremely lucky to go in a goal up, he did nothing to help the team. Stubbornness and lack of game management are  his major failings and I don’t think you can get to the top 6 with those traits.

What game management should we have done?

Where do you start, getting a better structure to the team at half time instead of waiting for them to score, getting Traore off who was close to useless.
I don’t think Smith made one good decision from selection, to structure to subs.

[ez]

Absolutely no chance of us finishing top 6 with gormless in charge. Get rid.

I think you are a year ahead of time with that comment.

[Ads]

Trez played well second half and was a square post away from scoring.

How did game management lead to them winning? They had a lot of the ball, didn't really dominate territory, didn't make the keeper make any saves, didn't put us under any sustained pressure what so ever. So how did the manager and their absence of "game management" lead to that winner?

[Axl Rose]

Yes, let's sack a manager because we haven't gone from 17th to 6th in a season.

I agree with you.

By the way, you don't have to defend him in every post that he's condemned. You aren't friends.

[ChicagoLion]

Another one down to Smith.
Poor team selection, even though we were extremely lucky to go in a goal up, he did nothing to help the team. Stubbornness and lack of game management are  his major failings and I don’t think you can get to the top 6 with those traits.

Can’t agree with this, we were the better team after they equalised, in fact the two shots that led to the winner, are the only ones I remember them having in the last 30 minutes. I’ve never felt so comfortable watching us at Anfield as the 2nd half.
Two subs were forced by injuries, I’m not sure what you expected him to do.

you were watching a different game to me, we looked confused without structure for pretty much the whole game.

[Ads]

Yes, let's sack a manager because we haven't gone from 17th to 6th in a season.

I agree with you.

By the way, you don't have to defend him in every post that he's condemned. You aren't friends.

Thanks for the advice, step up from crying and calling me a twat.

[brontebilly]

Another one down to Smith.
Poor team selection, even though we were extremely lucky to go in a goal up, he did nothing to help the team. Stubbornness and lack of game management are  his major failings and I don’t think you can get to the top 6 with those traits.

Not one of Smiths biggest fans but I thought taking off Nakamba helped the team a lot. Traore definitely shouldn't have seen longer than half time though.

[Axl Rose]

Absolutely no chance of us finishing top 6 with gormless in charge. Get rid.

Nice to see you making up for lost time.

I don't know why you take any criticism of Smith so personally. You like him, I don't. He's still in charge, so you're winning, technically.

[ChicagoLion]

Trez played well second half and was a square post away from scoring.

How did game management lead to them winning? They had a lot of the ball, didn't really dominate territory, didn't make the keeper make any saves, didn't put us under any sustained pressure what so ever. So how did the manager and their absence of "game management" lead to that winner?

if you think Barkley and AEG was the right call and playing Ramsey right wing  is the answer then I have no idea what the question is.

[dave.woodhall]

Absolutely no chance of us finishing top 6 with gormless in charge. Get rid.

Nice to see you making up for lost time.

I don't know why you take any criticism of Smith so personally. You like him, I don't. He's still in charge, so you're winning, technically.

Says the man who a couple of posts ago said he was giving his opinion.

[Lastfootstamper]

Another one down to Smith.
Poor team selection, even though we were extremely lucky to go in a goal up, he did nothing to help the team. Stubbornness and lack of game management are  his major failings and I don’t think you can get to the top 6 with those traits.

What game management should we have done?

Recognising at h-t that despite being ahead we were lucky and that Traore and Trezeguet were offering nothing.

Our defence is fantastic and so is Watkins but our midfield is piss weak.

Shore up the midfield and make it hard for Liverpool to play through us.

Everyone on here wants Villa to be successful. Giving our opponents the run of the midfield game after game and not even trying to change it is a problem.

Playing wingers who do nothing  is a problem.

Fuck shoring up the midfield. They hadn't had a threatening kick for half an hour. I'll admit to jinxing it. At 4.40, I messaged my brother.

I'd rather watch this and have us end up with maybe no points than try to hang on and definitely get no points.

I've not changed my mind.

[Ads]

We're going to finish bottom half aren't we?

This despite having 3rd/4th best defence in league.

Certainly not saying DS out at all but I have the feeling just like MON had the limit of 6th DS will have limit of 8th even if we give him 100s of millions to spend over next 2-3 years, he simply just dosen't tweak it well enough at times as the game goes on.

Not too bothered about today's result as Liverpool are still a good team but our record in 2021 really hasn't been that good so just frustrating another promising season is just fizzling out, been a major problem in last 20 years.

I'd have been fine with 11th in September but I don't see what's wrong with wanting a little bit more with how we've generally played for most of this season.

Possibly, but the issue I suppose is there's not a great deal of attacking cards to shuffle. I'd have started Davis, but he hasn't scored a league goal since Burton Albion, so with respect to my meaningless suggestion, Smith would rightly point out others who contributed a lot more since.

Somebody of Ollie's quality to compete and a wide player to improve on the Trez/AEG axis will be vital to.improve again next season.