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Author Topic: Dean Smith - Confirmed  (Read 1814049 times)

Offline N'ZMAV

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #15000 on: October 22, 2021, 08:48:43 PM »
The tide is turning against Smith.

Once this happens it only goes one way.

Offline SoccerHQ

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #15001 on: October 22, 2021, 08:54:06 PM »
Disgrace he didn't have the bottle to change anything.

Going in 2-0 down is pretty lucky, should be 3 or 4 down.

Offline N'ZMAV

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #15002 on: October 22, 2021, 08:56:46 PM »
Remi Smith tonight

Offline Hillbilly

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #15003 on: October 22, 2021, 09:00:45 PM »
Gone by Christmas at this rate.

Offline villabear

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #15004 on: October 22, 2021, 09:00:54 PM »
What were him and Shakespeare talking about together for so long.

Lucky to be only 2 down. Awful.

Offline Demitri_C

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #15005 on: October 22, 2021, 09:01:34 PM »
Dean bruce tonight. Pathetic

Online LukeJames

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #15006 on: October 22, 2021, 09:06:09 PM »
Should have gone after last weeks embarrasment, looks like he's trying to go one better tonight.

Offline supertom

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #15007 on: October 22, 2021, 09:07:09 PM »
He's lost the plot. 60 million spent on wide players. Two already at the club who scored 17 last season...and he keeps playing the 3-5-2, which makes us defensively weaker and absolutely hopeless going forward. The midfield can't find any space or spread the play and again, we have two front men, neither of whom is moving to link midfield and attack. But well, it worked against Utd, it must be effective. I'm sick of seeing this fucking formation. I've been sick of seeing it since it stopped being effective for John Gregory. No one has used it successfully since. Unless he's going to spend 100 million on players who can play the system, he needs to stop because he's shooting himself in the foot. We were heading down with it for a time in our first season back, until Deano switched the system to be more offensive, and we stayed up. We played some good stuff last season, playing predominantly 4-3-3.

Offline Villan82

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #15008 on: October 22, 2021, 09:08:23 PM »
Look at the clubs who are ruthless and go after a top manager when they have to. When did we last do that? You could argue November 1994?

Not saying I want Dean Smith sacked but I think I have concluded he isn't going to be taking us into the top half any time soon (if ever).

Offline danno

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #15009 on: October 22, 2021, 09:17:46 PM »
Five minutes of the second half gone he needs to consider whether Tuanzebe is worth losing his job over.

Offline PaulWinch again

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #15010 on: October 22, 2021, 09:22:13 PM »
I’m now genuinely worried he doesn’t understand tactics. He obviously stumbled across the 3 centre halves it worked for a couple of games, but he had no clue it wasn’t sustainable. Terrible stuff and the likes of Emi will leave if this continues.

Offline ozzjim

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #15011 on: October 22, 2021, 09:22:14 PM »
Firmly out now. He's had more money than most managers dream of, a good amount of time to plan for the loss of Joe, and succeeded to make us look like the team that came up minus our best player. The formation doesn't work.

Offline Toronto Villa

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #15012 on: October 22, 2021, 09:22:34 PM »
Done with him. Thanks for getting us up. But he is simply not getting us to the next level. Time to go.

Offline ChicagoLion

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #15013 on: October 22, 2021, 09:31:56 PM »
It was so obvious that the system was not working, any one who witnessed the Wolves defeat knew that it wasn’t working and yet he played the same team with the same tactics. It does  not take a genius to work out the stupidity of going again.
Thanks for everything he has done but it’s over.

Offline OzVilla

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Re: Dean Smith - Confirmed
« Reply #15014 on: October 22, 2021, 09:36:48 PM »
We’ve flattered to deceive all season but the manner of the Wolves defeat immediately put Smith’s job under pressure. To then follow it up with this performance could be fatal.  If not a follow up performance against West Ham will be.

 

 


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