Zatman Posted October 23, 2023 Share Posted October 23, 2023 28 minutes ago, villa4europe said: I bet Smith loves it, disappointed that it's not himself who did it but at the same time buzzing his tits off jsut like the rest of us I think was a time during interviews you could hear how bitter he was about being sacked and it was probably more to what replaced him. With somebody like Unai in charge he can not really complain about the management Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Follyfoot Posted October 23, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted October 23, 2023 11 hours ago, BleedClaretAndBlue said: When Unai first shakes his hand and says “Thank you for everything” The bloke is so respectful and knowledgeable. He knew what Deano did and what he means to us lot, he’s just a top top bloke and you can tell how happy Dean is seeing us in great hands now despite what came immediately after him. brings a tear to my eye 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strog Posted October 23, 2023 Share Posted October 23, 2023 In time, I hope Deano will come back to the club in some kind of ambassadorial role. Legend! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post OutByEaster? Posted October 23, 2023 Moderator Popular Post Share Posted October 23, 2023 With Dean, you always got the feeling that he was a nice bloke, there's something plainly warm and humble about him. 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyblade Posted October 23, 2023 Share Posted October 23, 2023 5 hours ago, villa4europe said: More than that, he got the buzz back, he brought the fans back, it was his villa team that got the ST waiting list on the go Gerrard tried his hardest to put a huge **** dent in that but there's still a huge amount of feel good around the place that stems from deanos villa I honestly just about lost hope before he came. Almost a decade of suffering through Alex McLeish, Paul Lambert, Sherwood, Garde etc. And then when we were meant to reset in the Championship and spent a boatload of money we were still playing ass-backwards football and invariably falling short. He completely transformed our fortunes and had us playing the best football I'd ever witnessed from Villa up til that point. The whole vibe around those promotion times was immaculate and it was the snowball effect that got us to where we are. I'll never forget 2018/19. My favourite season in all of sports (my Toronto Raptors also won their first every championship that season). 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted October 23, 2023 Share Posted October 23, 2023 (edited) 1 hour ago, OutByEaster? said: With Dean, you always got the feeling that he was a nice bloke, there's something plainly warm and humble about him. The players loved playing for him. Got Mings career going, followed through the recommendation to sign Martinez. Developed Luiz nicely albeit more in DM role. Huge influence in Ollie's career. I remember his interview after we beat Palace with 10 men and he said he wouldn't have any other forward in the league playing for us that day. Konsa aswell played for him in two spells and developed into a good top half CB. DS probably isn't the type of manager who can take the next step but he's a very good at building blocks and constructing well balanced line ups. Did it at Walsall on a meagre budget and that got squandered after he left and positioned Brentford as a well drilled comfortable top half championship team and Frank took that on. He can be proud of what he achieved here. Next step is to find another club that gives him time to develop rather than just fire fighting to save them from relegation. Edited October 23, 2023 by VillaChris 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted October 23, 2023 Share Posted October 23, 2023 Of those clubs that played a comparable amount of Premier League games as us whilst Dean Smith was manager, only Burnley, Crystal Palace, Southampton, Wolves, Everton, West Ham, Spurs, Leicester, Man Utd, Chelsea, Liverpool, and Man City, took more points than us in that special time. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mykeyb Posted October 23, 2023 Share Posted October 23, 2023 Gave JJ his chance too 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingman Posted October 23, 2023 Share Posted October 23, 2023 1 hour ago, mykeyb said: Gave JJ his chance too Yep, Clocked his untapped potential over the experience of Connor H. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post ThunderPower_14 Posted October 24, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted October 24, 2023 Legend. Made supporting Villa fun again for the first time in a long time, and turned the culture of the club around and signed some of our best players. He laid a brilliant platform for Unai to build upon. And he's one of us! So nice to see the interaction between him and Unai and the mutual respect there. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tayls Posted October 24, 2023 Share Posted October 24, 2023 Lots of love for Deano. Would be great to have him back at the club in some capacity, think he is brilliant with the younger players and helping to find talent. However I suspect he will want to continue coaching first teams. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dodgyknees Posted October 24, 2023 Share Posted October 24, 2023 23 hours ago, mykeyb said: Gave JJ his chance too Nah, Ramsey was given a chance by Gerrard! Thats what we are told. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted October 24, 2023 Share Posted October 24, 2023 On 23/10/2023 at 21:09, useless said: Of those clubs that played a comparable amount of Premier League games as us whilst Dean Smith was manager, only Burnley, Crystal Palace, Southampton, Wolves, Everton, West Ham, Spurs, Leicester, Man Utd, Chelsea, Liverpool, and Man City, took more points than us in that special time. So . . . 12 teams? In other words, basically all of them? Don't get me wrong I love Deano but I'm not sure this is the stat to boost him. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tinker Posted October 25, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted October 25, 2023 8 hours ago, HanoiVillan said: So . . . 12 teams? In other words, basically all of them? Don't get me wrong I love Deano but I'm not sure this is the stat to boost him. Smith took us from 15th place in the championship to promotion in the same season, list the teams that have matched that achievement. Premier league......you have to take into account the fact we was newly promoted for his first season, remove the established Premier league teams from that list and it becomes more of an indication. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingman Posted October 25, 2023 Share Posted October 25, 2023 14 hours ago, Dodgyknees said: Nah, Ramsey was given a chance by Gerrard! Thats what we are told. Southgate already claimed it 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCJonah Posted October 25, 2023 Share Posted October 25, 2023 4 hours ago, tinker said: Smith took us from 15th place in the championship to promotion in the same season, list the teams that have matched that achievement. Premier league......you have to take into account the fact we was newly promoted for his first season, remove the established Premier league teams from that list and it becomes more of an indication. Exactly took us over sitting near relegation in the championship. 2 full seasons later we are 11th in the prem with 55 pts. Not many clubs progressed to a similar level during that time frame. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pinebro Posted October 25, 2023 Share Posted October 25, 2023 10 minutes ago, DCJonah said: Exactly took us over sitting near relegation in the championship. 2 full seasons later we are 11th in the prem with 55 pts. Not many clubs progressed to a similar level during that time frame. How on earth did we sit that close to relegation in the championship with all those money spent... Bruce should be charged for murder 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted October 25, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted October 25, 2023 On 04/10/2023 at 15:26, Villatillidie95 said: 9th october 1976, he would have been 5 so maybe! 47 year anniversary next week. I was thinking of the history of William McGregor, a Scottish Draper who was a Rangers fan and his wife who was a Hearts fan and then he merged the 2 colours to create the claret and blue of villa. Thats why we apparently have the lion rampant, similar to the scottish royal banner and rangers badge. Someone on VT posted it in one of the threads, was quite interesting as i didnt know that about villa but always thought there was a lot of similarities to rangers Hearts didn't exist when Aston Villa was formed and didn't play in claret until 1877/78. Either way, McGregor and his family moved to Birmingham in 1870, years before either Rangers or Hearts existed. And previously they'd lived in Perthshire. So it's hard to imagine they'd have any connection to Rangers or Hearts to be honest. I imagine that story about the colours is completely made up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Albrighton Posted October 25, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted October 25, 2023 14 hours ago, HanoiVillan said: So . . . 12 teams? In other words, basically all of them? Don't get me wrong I love Deano but I'm not sure this is the stat to boost him. Just at a glance, Arsenal seem to be missing from that list of teams too. I know they weren’t great but they finished ahead of us in Smith’s two full premier league seasons and were ahead of us when he was sacked so not quite sure how they would have fewer points in a comparable amount of premier league games. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingman Posted October 25, 2023 Share Posted October 25, 2023 Can see Sheffield Wednesday and QPR looking before Christmas, Wonder if JT would assist him at QPR? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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