jacketspuds Posted November 5, 2021 Share Posted November 5, 2021 Dean will always be a hero for everything he has done, but he can't stay on now. 5 defeats in a row, plus what happened after Grealish got injured last season, is terrible. We will go down if we don't make a change. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
est1874 Posted November 5, 2021 Share Posted November 5, 2021 He's cutting a really sad figure out there now, camera lingering on him. He looks like he knows he's done I'm afraid. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WHY Posted November 5, 2021 Share Posted November 5, 2021 Time for him to go, seems a decent bloke but never been convinced by him as a manager. Him and the players have been riding the Grealish train for too long. Needs someone to show them how to play without him. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyblade Posted November 5, 2021 Share Posted November 5, 2021 Looks like this is the end. It was a good ride. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blasterpocket68 Posted November 5, 2021 Share Posted November 5, 2021 Here we go Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jim Posted November 5, 2021 Share Posted November 5, 2021 Time to go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Rodders Posted November 5, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted November 5, 2021 Very sad way to go, but I can't see any way back at all. I also want to flog half the players too (not sell, literally flog ) 4 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wurzel Posted November 5, 2021 Share Posted November 5, 2021 If your going to sack him, now is a very good time to do it. Two weeks to get someone, two months for the new manager to evaluate the problems, than a transfer window. Much as I want to support Dean it makes sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jareth Posted November 5, 2021 Share Posted November 5, 2021 Perfect storm of events to spell out his downfall. I don't know if recruitment has been good enough either, but the man in danger right now is Dean Smith - he'll get other work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farlz Posted November 5, 2021 Share Posted November 5, 2021 I think this is the end for Smith now, something somewhere has just gone completely wrong. I'm gutted. He's given me the best moments as a Villa fan, that playoff final day will never ever be topped. Genuinely sad it's likely going to end this way. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bose Posted November 5, 2021 Share Posted November 5, 2021 **** sad it’s ended this way. Love the guy and genuinely gutted how it’s gone but we really, really need a change 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ingram85 Posted November 5, 2021 Share Posted November 5, 2021 (edited) I keep repeating that I'm not Deans biggest fan and he really doesn’t help himself at all but he is using players that have all but given up on him. They aren’t even trying. There’s no coming back from that. He’s lost them. It’s sad but mostly anger inducing. Something at this club has just dramatically changed really quickly for the worse. There’s no feel good at all. Edited November 5, 2021 by Ingram85 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted November 5, 2021 Share Posted November 5, 2021 Just to confirm...there's really no available manager in world football currently that could get us playing better than this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avfc1982am Posted November 5, 2021 Share Posted November 5, 2021 (edited) I think nobody can argue anymore that Smith has been the architect of his own downfall. Too busy pissing around with formations rather than try to settle the players brought into their new surroundings. I think if he'd kept with what the team knew we might have more points on the board and he might not be hanging by the skin of his teeth. Times up now. Edited November 5, 2021 by avfc1982am Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted November 5, 2021 Share Posted November 5, 2021 This is a sad one, and I will always have a soft spot for Dean; there have been a number of happy memories and good times and I think he can be proud of some or even most of what he has done here. But there is no more room for complacency, we are rapidly crashing out of this division. We are the 2nd worst side in the league right now, and soon enough the table will reflect that. The whole management and coaching team need to be removed, immediately, and we had better hope that Purslow et al have got a rabbit up their sleeve in terms of who is coming in because make no mistake, we are in big big trouble. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattVillaPortsmouth Posted November 5, 2021 Share Posted November 5, 2021 Second half was better, but it was still piss poor - never ever looked like getting back on terms. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiwivillan Posted November 5, 2021 Share Posted November 5, 2021 I blame Gresford Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bose Posted November 5, 2021 Share Posted November 5, 2021 2 minutes ago, est1874 said: He's cutting a really sad figure out there now, camera lingering on him. He looks like he knows he's done I'm afraid. Sad isn’t it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrassyNoel Posted November 5, 2021 Share Posted November 5, 2021 Us getting relegated last time was a travesty for a club like ours - it happening again with these owners would be a war crime. I hate this part though. Hate it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
picicata Posted November 5, 2021 Share Posted November 5, 2021 Now is logically the ideal time to replace him with the international break upon us. Of course, we're Villa so which ever manager we get to replace him will stink the place out soon enough as well! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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