Dean Smith - Confirmed

[Toronto Villa]

He’s proving a lot of people wrong. Myself included. He had to do this without Jack Grealish. Nobody here gives a flying fuck about him now. And Dean Smith is becoming a better manager for it. We are starting to see a settled system, coaching emerging in terms of a plan on how to play and certainly how to attack and defend set pieces including throw ins. But we now have players who can legitimately change games and allow us when needed to play different ways. That’s critical if we want to push on.

[Lastfootstamper]

He is a god, and I will forever have to live with the shame of allowing my own mortal frailties to lead me down a path of briefly doubting that fact about 15 months ago. Come to think of it, possibly around the time we lost to these cheating ******.

[OCD]

You can see our club improving before our eyes in so many ways. Fantastic to see the team/squad evolving and making progressive steps.

[SoccerHQ]

Probably not his most important win as manager (that was play off final) but easily his best as a premier league manager.

He's arrived as top half prem manager now with that result and general performance. Well done DS.

[wince]

Dean at his best today. His post match interview was top notch. Been a critic of his but he is building something special and we are improving more and more

[Deano's Mullet]

My local Waterstones has two separate books about that football genius Bielsa and his time at Leeds. Meanwhile Dean seems to slip under the radar time and time again. I know who I'd rather have in charge. Leeds look screwed this season.

[simboy]

Probably not his most important win as manager (that was play off final) but easily his best as a premier league manager.

He's arrived as top half prem manager now with that result and general performance. Well done DS.

Doesn’t beating the previous champions 7-2 qualify? Both good victories though …

[London Villan]

I wonder if his plan all along was a three man midfield?

[Drummond]

I'm chuffed for the man. He's doing things we've not done for a long, long time.

And now we're better than we were with Ratboy.

[LeeB]

King Dean.

[West Derby Villan]

Deano is building his team, the way he wants to play. He had to accommodate the unique Joe (for obvious reasons) but now he has two players for each position, a plan A and a plan B. Onwards and upwards well done Deano

[mike]

I've never been sure one way or the other about Dean, mainly because I'm a bit dim about the finer points of football, but he seems to be flourishing in the absence of You Know Who. Which is odd given he used to flounder without him. Maybe it actually suits him to have a talented squad rather than a stand out player. I'd still like Leon Bailey to be fit for an entire match.

[Dante Lavelli]

I wonder if his plan all along was a three man midfield?

I hope so (mainly because that is what I want).  I’d still prefer our extra player to be an attacking player (Bailey/Buendia) rather than Hause/Axel but today is probably not the day to shouting that too loud.

[colin69]

I still think the lock down saved Dean….but thank God it did.
This is the season we see the best of him I think.

[Risso]

I wonder if his plan all along was a three man midfield?

I'd say almost certainly not, given that he spent c.£70m on wide players who now appear to not fit into the system.