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I have said many times that Dean was never my choice. I am also behind the decision of the board today but my goodness I feel so sad right now. Genuinely never wanted a man to prove me wrong so desperately. Given us some special moments but more importantly he has made me love my club again in a way that I haven’t since I was a young boy. Thank you Dean for making me believe again. Good luck you lovely man.
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I like this formation but we don’t have the players to play it effectively. To play 4-2-3-1 you need 2 absolutely top class DM’s and 2/3 really hard working AMs. Luiz is probably good enough with the right person next to him to compliment his weaknesses. SJM is woeful in that position. I think Buendia can play that position with the right people behind him but the other two are way too poor defensively. I think we have to go 4-3-3 with a narrow front 3. I would bring in Young for Targett otherwise I would stick with your back 5. A midfield 3 (6 and two 8’s) of Luiz, SJM and Sanson. A front three of Buendia, Ollie and Bailey. Until we address our terrible midfield though, we will have issues with all formations.
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The fact that we are saying things like that about Brighton is so depressing! That statement should be reserved for the likes of Chelsea et al. Brighton at home we should be expecting to win. How we have fallen
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There’s no way they will be waiting to see what happens in the next match. Win he stays, lose he goes! That’s just nonsense. They will have made their minds up by now. If he is in charge against Brighton it’s because they are either working towards getting his replacement or they are sticking with him for a bit longer. I can’t believe it’s the latter personally. I suspect they know who they want and they are working on a plan to bring that person in. It may just take a bit of time.
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That could work!
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Would rather eat Big Sam’s mouldy toenails on a fresh nest of Warnock’s greying pubes!
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Was thinking an external appointment. Maybe an older coach on a final big pay day.
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Dear Dean. Please excuse my son from PE today. He has a poorly tummy. Best, Madame Sanson xx
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Maybe. If that’s true I would look at an interim solution until the end of the season. If we do nothing we are in big trouble.
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It’s all gone very quiet. Now is the perfect time to sack Dean. If they don’t do it now, I suspect he will be given until the end of the year at least. I can’t think of a single rational reason that an ambitious owner would do that but there you go. It’s certainly one way of tackling the waiting list.
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There’s plenty of statistical data to support my position.
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In my view Smith is a poor tactician and coach. His strength is that he manages to galvanise the stakeholders and create a really good culture. When he joined we were an absolute shambles. The whole club was splintered. Dean has bought everyone back together. He has stabilised our club. He has done his job. We now need someone who can build on his foundations. He has 100% taken us as far as he can but his role in re-establishing us will be remembered fondly by most, as it should be. I actually think that Dean would make an exceptional Director of Football. I would be happy to see him move upstairs and for us to bring in a new head coach/manager. It’s unlikely to happen but I think he could be an elite Director of Football. Sadly he will only ever be an average manager.
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The Henry rumour was bs I think. We never had any interest in him.
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I have eyes. It’s not impressive it’s just seeing!
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Agreed. JT is the only spine this club has had in the last 10 years. Without him we are a wobbly mess of gutless wimps.
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I don’t understand this. It has always been the same. Deliver or move on. Our owners have been really supportive of Dean. Much more so than most owners. You obviously don’t remember Doug. He would have fired Smith about 2 years ago! I agree that there are aspects of modern football that are distasteful but managers getting fired for doing a poor job for a prolonged period of time has forever been so. The only difference now to 30 years ago is that they walk away with a fortune in compensation. That’s the distasteful bit.
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I see it the other way. Bailey and Buendia are both good signings who will likely come good and really add to the squad. I just never understood why we signed Ings. If he was bought as genuine competition for Ollie and we followed it up by addressing our woeful midfield, then fair enough. That doesn’t appear to be the case. Trying to shoe horn Ings into the team has totally destroyed everything. Ollie looks a shell of a player. Our wide forwards are blowing after 15 minutes due to the work expected of them. Our already powderpuff midfield is under even greater pressure and incapable of doing anything well. This creates pressure on the defence. We cannot sustain possession in the opposition half which makes it difficult to create anything and thus we resort to hopeless hoof ball! There just does not seem to be a plan!
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During the summer window, I did wonder whether the owners decided not to over invest because they were uncertain of Dean. They wanted him to prove himself before parting with anymore money, enabling funds in future windows for a new manager should Dean fail. That could be crucial to not only attracting a new manager but also giving him the tools to improve our team. I still think that we have enough good players but we are totally unbalanced. A couple of carefully selected midfielders will transform the team.
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I agree mate. The balance of our team is very poor. We all can see that our midfield is not working and never really has whilst Dean has been in charge and yet nothing is done about it. Our forwards and defenders are made to look poor by the midfield. Bailey just looked totally perplexed last night. Our defenders and attackers are totally overworked due to the lack of control in midfield.
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I still can’t get over the old passing of the piece of paper before attempting to defend a corner. It just didn’t feel right to me. It actually felt staged as if the players were trying to make a point. Very odd indeed.
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A bit unfair. I’m sure Grealish had his part to play in setting the agreed amount. £100m for him is looking like good business now to be fair! We might be able to buy him back for about £20m in the summer
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Does anybody think that he might survive? Genuine question. We all seem to think that tonight was his last chance but who knows? Whatever happens ( I think he should go 100%) let’s hope it never gets nasty in any way. I still love Dean Smith even though I never wanted him in the first place. Bloke is a treasure.
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Dean has always neglected the physical requirements of the league. We are totally powderpuff physically and Targett is the worst of them. He is a tidy footballer with no mental or physical strength whatsoever
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He was great second half. Our best player. Get the balance of the team right and he will be class. Our awful midfield is killing us. If someone offered me £15m plus for McGinn I would (regrettably) accept it. He is a top bloke and a decent player but he totally unbalances us.
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We were actually doing ok second half until Buendia went off. From then we were just rubbish again. I feel for Dean. The players let him down tonight but sadly it’s time. Surely he can’t survive this.
