Dean Smith and Craig Shakespeare's Blue Army!

[Hammo]

(Silly) beggars can’t be choosers.

[Dusty]

There must be a hefty bonus in there for him to only sign on for 9 games. 

[ARTY_FOX]

3 minutes ago, bennytwohats said:

We tried that one. Didn’t go well

Imagine how bad it will be with Dean Smith. 

[Guest Mee-9]

I bet you now, he'll take us down and the owners will think 'We might as well keep him as he's cheap,' in the Championship.

 

Guaranteed. 

[PaddyS]

Please Dean Smith, do NOT follow Craig Shakespeare's advice of picking Jamie Vardy and 'getting it up to Vards' as your tactics.

Play Iheanacho in every remaining game. Please. Just do that and we might be ok.

[MPH]

I’ll take anyone at this stage…

[Guest nathan.]

His record isn't that bad.

 

As long as Shakey comes with him im ok with this.  

[Finnegan]

It's an interim manager. What's everybody expecting. 

 

It's a fairly decent decision. Certainty better than roping ourselves to a shit manager for two or three years. 

[Lesta Legend]

2 minutes ago, PaddyS said:

Please Dean Smith, do NOT follow Craig Shakespeare's advice of picking Jamie Vardy and 'getting it up to Vards' as your tactics.

Play Iheanacho in every remaining game. Please. Just do that and we might be ok.

As long as that doesn’t mean playing on his own. Equally as ineffective. 

[Guest Mickyblueeyes]

No, just no. 
 

 

[kingfox]

This what happens when you’re sitting in 19th with 8 games to go.

 

We’re left scraping the bottom of the barrel over managers who have recent scar tissues.

 

Norwich fans were desperate to see the back of him. Only potential positive to take from this is that he’ll bring Shakespeare with him.

[Old Fox]

10 minutes ago, Jakemoore said:

I think this is good news. 
 

Am I alone in that? 

Yep disastrous appointment 

[Guest Manini]

If he kept us up the owners wouldn’t have the bottle to get rid of him and pass it off as “loyalty” is the concern from me. If it’s until the end of the season, whatever, the board have completely shafted us with their incompetence so I didn’t expect much more. 

Edited 10 April 2023 by Manini

[themightyfin]

Forget SAS it's time for an SOS

[lcfcsnow]

3 minutes ago, kingfox said:

Norwich fans were desperate to see the back of him. Only potential positive to take from this is that he’ll bring Shakespeare with him.

Why is it a positive? He was there at Norwich with Smith and been sacked everywhere (three jobs in three years, four if you include his brief stint as manager here) all within a year without Pearson.

[HankMarvin]

So the players are lacking in confidence and they bring in 2 men that oversaw the demise of promotion favourites with 3 wins in 13 in the Championship and losing 3 of their last 4 games in charge. Sounds familiar.

 

Seem like just the guys to turn round a bad run.

[Foxxed]

Great thread

[Swalshed]

If you look at his signings at Villa, many of them are still strong first team today

[Guest]

1 minute ago, Swalshed said:

If you look at his signings at Villa, many of them are still strong first team today

Excellent, let's hope he can make plenty of good signings between now and the end of the season then. Things are looking up.

[Bryn]

Could be worse in our situation.

[kingfox]

5 minutes ago, lcfcsnow said:

Why is it a positive? He was there at Norwich with Smith and been sacked everywhere (three jobs in three years, four if you include his brief stint as manager here) all within a year without Pearson.

Because he knows the club and respect is surely still there after what he achieved with Pearson and our Champions League run.

 

We’re at a point where a familiar face in some aspect could be ideal.

[fazzyfox]

Relegation - To be, or not to be, that is the question.

[sdb]

I'd liquidate the club at this point to be totally honest. 

[Tuna]

Smith is "Preferred choice" according to talkSPORT.

[evil jack]

I only hope he's unveiled in front of the media, with Susan taking questions...