Quote from: Nunkin1965 on December 29, 2019, 10:33:25 PMQuote from: Chipsticks on December 29, 2019, 09:53:54 PMI cannot believe you lot are onto this thread.I'd rather go down with Smith than sack him, to be honest - and I'm confident the club share that mentality. If you've paid attention to any of Purslow's interviews, you'd know that we've begun a long-term project, with Smith at the heart of it. We need some key additions in January and a plan B, not another several years of managerial roundabout.AgreedI bought into the long term project idea because I was fed up of Aston Villa being on the bloody managerial merry go round for years on end.Haven’t you seen that there is no plan B?Haven’t you seen there is no reaction to events in the pitch?Haven’t you seen our key player played out of position to the point of it frustrating him?If you are looking forward to relegation with Smith in charge, then you are looking forward to relegation with our best midfielders in a long time leaving us.
Quote from: Chipsticks on December 29, 2019, 09:53:54 PMI cannot believe you lot are onto this thread.I'd rather go down with Smith than sack him, to be honest - and I'm confident the club share that mentality. If you've paid attention to any of Purslow's interviews, you'd know that we've begun a long-term project, with Smith at the heart of it. We need some key additions in January and a plan B, not another several years of managerial roundabout.AgreedI bought into the long term project idea because I was fed up of Aston Villa being on the bloody managerial merry go round for years on end.
I cannot believe you lot are onto this thread.I'd rather go down with Smith than sack him, to be honest - and I'm confident the club share that mentality. If you've paid attention to any of Purslow's interviews, you'd know that we've begun a long-term project, with Smith at the heart of it. We need some key additions in January and a plan B, not another several years of managerial roundabout.
Quote from: Nunkin1965 on December 29, 2019, 10:33:25 PMQuote from: Chipsticks on December 29, 2019, 09:53:54 PMI cannot believe you lot are onto this thread.I'd rather go down with Smith than sack him, to be honest - and I'm confident the club share that mentality. If you've paid attention to any of Purslow's interviews, you'd know that we've begun a long-term project, with Smith at the heart of it. We need some key additions in January and a plan B, not another several years of managerial roundabout.AgreedI bought into the long term project idea because I was fed up of Aston Villa being on the bloody managerial merry go round for years on end.Jack Grealish is our future. We go down, he leaves. Long term project finished.
That's what I don't get in the argument that if we go down it's okay because we have a long term plan. Immediately we lose our best player in many years in Grealish then McGinn will be away followed by Mings how long do you think it would take us to recover from that?If we go down we will be down for a good while possibly years unless anyone has a better plan than avoiding the drop I've yet to hear it.
Quote from: Small Rodent on December 29, 2019, 10:41:09 PMQuote from: Nunkin1965 on December 29, 2019, 10:33:25 PMQuote from: Chipsticks on December 29, 2019, 09:53:54 PMI cannot believe you lot are onto this thread.I'd rather go down with Smith than sack him, to be honest - and I'm confident the club share that mentality. If you've paid attention to any of Purslow's interviews, you'd know that we've begun a long-term project, with Smith at the heart of it. We need some key additions in January and a plan B, not another several years of managerial roundabout.AgreedI bought into the long term project idea because I was fed up of Aston Villa being on the bloody managerial merry go round for years on end.Haven’t you seen that there is no plan B?Haven’t you seen there is no reaction to events in the pitch?Haven’t you seen our key player played out of position to the point of it frustrating him?If you are looking forward to relegation with Smith in charge, then you are looking forward to relegation with our best midfielders in a long time leaving us.Precisely, all of the same problems existed in the championship. This isn’t a new set of issues, they’re the same issues that were repeated week in, week out last season before he had a player who was way too good for the division come back and save him. If he had made tactical alterations or changes when we needed him to before Derby at home fair enough, but he did nothing. Just having Grealish available from then on masked all of Smiths weaknesses and he got out of jail. Smith gets a huge amount of credit when he actually didn’t really do very much. If Grealish had been out for the rest of last season, the dross that was served up from Leeds at home onwards would have carried on until the end of the season because there was no evidence of whatsoever of Smith having any idea of what to do. Basically, exactly the same as what is happening now.It’s worth giving a manager time if you’ve got the right one. Dean Smith most definitely is not the right one
Quote from: Small Rodent on December 29, 2019, 10:41:09 PMQuote from: Nunkin1965 on December 29, 2019, 10:33:25 PMQuote from: Chipsticks on December 29, 2019, 09:53:54 PMI cannot believe you lot are onto this thread.I'd rather go down with Smith than sack him, to be honest - and I'm confident the club share that mentality. If you've paid attention to any of Purslow's interviews, you'd know that we've begun a long-term project, with Smith at the heart of it. We need some key additions in January and a plan B, not another several years of managerial roundabout.AgreedI bought into the long term project idea because I was fed up of Aston Villa being on the bloody managerial merry go round for years on end.Haven’t you seen that there is no plan B?Haven’t you seen there is no reaction to events in the pitch?Haven’t you seen our key player played out of position to the point of it frustrating him?If you are looking forward to relegation with Smith in charge, then you are looking forward to relegation with our best midfielders in a long time leaving us.Precisely, all of the same problems existed in the championship. This isn’t a new set of issues, they’re the same issues that were repeated week in, week out last season before he had a player who was way too good for the division come back and save him. If he had made tactical alterations or changes when we needed him to before Derby at home fair enough, but he did nothing. Just having Grealish available from then on masked all of Smiths weaknesses and he got out of jail. Smith gets a huge amount of credit when he actually didn’t really do very much. If Grealish had been out for the rest of last season, the dross that was served up from Leeds at home onwards would have carried on until the end of the season because there was no evidence of whatsoever of Smith having any idea of what to do. Basically exactly the same as what is happening now.It’s worth giving a manager time if you’ve got the right one. Dean Smith most definitely is not the right one
Does anybody think Grealish will go at the end of the season regardless of which division we’re in?
Quote from: Nunkin1965 on December 29, 2019, 11:07:55 PMDoes anybody think Grealish will go at the end of the season regardless of which division we’re in?No. He'll go if we go down and stay if we don't.
It's a disgrace. I think my nan might be the only person in Birmingham who still buys the paper version. It's just an online "service" which operates on the basis of clicks for trolling.
I can not understand why anybody would rather us go down than Sack Smith. It would be a disaster.