Dean Smith - Confirmed

[brian green]

We don't  want to go back to being in hock to the banks.

[LeeB]

We don't  want to go back to being in hock to the banks.

It holds us back.

[Monty]

We don't  want to go back to being in hock to the banks.

It holds us back.

Good thing we've now got our snouts in the trough.

[brian green]

All this is making me feel hungry can somebody post a sausage link.

[Sexual Ealing]

Brian, you should get Djamon Green to start posting here again.

[john e]

I do have some serious doubts and questions about Dean Smith and here’s why

I remember when Smith first came going down to QPR
We lost that game I think it was one nil but I came away feeling happy
I was happy because we were trying to play football again
We’d had a few seasons of Bruce Ball and this was What I wanted Dean Smith’s aggressive attacking playmaking football wow the future looked good and great

A lot of the players on the night were not good enough to play that way
And I thought and we said on here many times wait till he brings his own players in
Wait until he gets the players brought in specifically to play his way

Drummond who is certainly not a critic of Smith on the previous page says we haven’t got any players who can put their foot on the ball and direct play
Why not !
they are all Smiths players virtually all of them have been bought in on his watch these are his players brought in to play his way and they struggle to string two passes together
It’s pathetic to watch

What happened to the we are going to take it to every team
What happened to the progressive attacking footballing policy
What happened to the gung ho taking a few risks
There is nothing on these games anymore and he’s still putting out fucking Barclay who can hardly move

I mean what’s going on
What’s changed why have we gone from trying to be an attractive attacking football team to no better than WBA
I know I bang on about Grealish and think it’s mostly him thats bought about the success we’ve had in the last two seasons
But even so what’s happened to Smiths football philosophy
Why has he morphed into Bruce McLeish and Lambert

He is a great speaker he talks a good game
I thought his response to the super league was the best I heard from any manager
But he’s losing the plot out there on the pitch
Our form is dreadful against good and bad teams

Then we say well we need better players how many more millions do we need to spend on players
Bielsa has got Bamford playing like Paolo Rossi
People don’t like hearing about the Bielsa all the time and the reason for that is because he’s a bloody good manager
Better than ours at the moment
And the comparisons will always be made as the clubs came up after being in the championship for a while at around about the same time

I don’t think Dean Smith is good enough from what I’ve seen to take us into the top six what we do about that is not for me to decide but I do know the bar is now higher than it ever has been and we need to see signs of hitting it when we haven’t got Grealish in the team

[john e]

Just looked at that and it was a bloody long post sorry

[aj2k77]

We even got beat by a Sheff Utd, one of the worst teams to grace the division, down to 10 men and we still couldn't break them down. He really struggles to think on the fly and make changes that affect the game. El Ghazi for Traore or Trezeguet week in week out doesn't cut it.

[ez]

I wonder how much the change in attitude is down to Craig Shakespeare.  I'm struggling to see anything positive since his arrival.

[john e]

I wonder how much the change in attitude is down to Craig Shakespeare.  I'm struggling to see anything positive since his arrival.

Yet at the beginning of the season we were playing the best football we’ve seen in a decade and a lot of people said it was his influence

[andyh]

I don't get how we can go from excellent.



To really, really bad. It's just too extreme.
 


Only we could go from the top 4 to joint relegation fodder in a few months. If you actually look at the table no other team has tanked so hard this season other than us. It's actually quite astonishing.

What are these tables actually showing. First 16 games of the season in the first. What is the second table showing ?

[Risso]

The last 16 games.

[andyh]

But there are 18’s and 17’s in there against some teams. It’s not exactly a direct comparison for all teams.

[Risso]

Yes, but 16 from 16 is woeful whatever the other teams have done.

[andyh]

Yes, but 16 from 16 is woeful whatever the other teams have done.

Oh, I totally agree but I’m going to share it with a mate who thinks everything is still rosy and will try and rip the data apart. I’m still going to send it though.