Dean Smith - Confirmed

[olaftab]

Bollocks. Nominated for September's Manager Of The Month.

Noooooooo. I hope its Arteta.

[Chap]

Dean’s going nowhere. Relax folks

Building the Dean Dynasty!😁😁

[LukeJames]

Bollocks. Nominated for September's Manager Of The Month.

Noooooooo. I hope its Arteta.

I read somewhere (probably on here) that the MOTM curse is bollocks anyway and statistically hardly ever happens.

[Bad English]

I think France will come calling after Deschamps fails to retain the World Cup.

[Demitri_C]

Flopped bad today. This loss was on him.

[Risso]

Agreed. And we didn't even have the excuse of a Thursday night game in Europe like they did.

[Ian.]

I’m not sure you can blame Smith for eleven players playing so poorly. We wasn’t pressing like we can and our passing and movement was woeful. I can’t think of one player out there who shined.

[Ads]

Players have to take a fair share of responsibility. With so many insipid displays and the in particular the heartbeat in McGinn being so inexplicably off with the fundamentals.

[wince]

On the players more than dean although the same complacency as the players. He needs to become a hairdryer as I suspect he is too soft and worried about upsetting the delicate egos.

[ez]

I think we have to play Danny Ings from the bench for now. Watkins up top on his own worked well for us. Even feeding on scraps he was still scoring. Smith shouldn't feel obliged to start Ings every game.

[SoccerHQ]

Tough crowd if we're criticising him after every single defeat. Imagine if H&V had been around in 95/96 when SBL was losing to likes of QPR and Man. City away up to xmas. We know what happened three months later.

I get annoyed with his game management aswell but it's not like Buendia or Traore did much at all when they came in, El Ghazi probably would've been a better bet given he can stretch play when on form and we were getting plenty of space out wide.

Overall happy with what I've seen this season after disaster of first opening 70 minutes at Watford when we did look like a pub team.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

I’m not sure you can blame Smith for eleven players playing so poorly. We wasn’t pressing like we can and our passing and movement was woeful. I can’t think of one player out there who shined.

It may have helped if Dean had a word with the team and asked them politely to try and keep the ball on the deck. As somebody mentioned in the match thread, we looked more like Wimbledon. I'd say that flattered us today, we were clueless.

[Ian.]

I’m not sure you can blame Smith for eleven players playing so poorly. We wasn’t pressing like we can and our passing and movement was woeful. I can’t think of one player out there who shined.

It may have helped if Dean had a word with the team and asked them politely to try and keep the ball on the deck. As somebody mentioned in the match thread, we looked more like Wimbledon. I'd say that flattered us today, we were clueless.

Maybe he did?

Something didn’t click on the pitch and you could see our confidence drain away.

[SoccerHQ]

Get the feeling we generally though Nuno would match us and go 3-5-2 today aswell. Was a surprise to me when I looked at their team and it was 4-3-3. He was bold and it paid off for him in the end.

[RamboandBruno]

Dont want to build Bailey up too much and we don’t want  another situation where there is an over reliance on one player, but from the cameo I’ve seen so far a 3 with him Ings and Watkins  could work and actually create some chances for them. Would mean dropping a CB out, but not sure we should stick rigidly to the 352 every week anyway. I though Targett did ok today, Cash was a bit off like so many, however even when they both play well, it still doesn’t provide the same width as a genuine wide attacker, this is the reason we’ve gone long ball at times today.