Thank you Smith

[mod hero]

Sound bloke I think but some of his team selections were very questionable. We  We’re getting carved open like Turkey on thanks giving routinely and he had us conceding at a rate of -2 a game. 
 

Daka left wing 🤦🏻‍♂️

 

 

[Unabomber]

Should’ve come in earlier and we would’ve stayed up. 

[Old Fox]

No thanks here 

 

he got paid for his work and although he inherited a pile of crap - he made too many mistakes imo and failed ultimately.

 
he conducted himself well but he lost me when he said he didn’t know which players were contracted or not - first thing I would have done is dump those that were not committed and stuck them in the reserves - sadly we were too nice and it cost us !

[pmcla26]

2 minutes ago, Unabomber said:

Should’ve come in earlier and we would’ve stayed up. 

Even though he couldn't engineer wins against Leeds or Everton? 

[phoneticerror]

1 hour ago, elvisfmcfly said:

Big hairy  load of bollocks take. **** Rodgers he relegated us.

He did and I despise the bloke. But getting rid when we did was negligent. Staying with him would’ve been cheaper because we still went down.

[Simoken]

 

[SK3Blue]

Crucially those 2 games when Stowell and Sadler took charge, I think Smith would have got something from those. 

 

He was available so there's no excuse from Rudkin and Co. 

 

I do hope he gets work somewhere as he's clearly got something to offer perhaps in the Championship or League 1. 

 

All the best Deano and thank you for your efforts with the sack of sh1t you had to work with. 

[Paninistickers]

1 hour ago, filthyfox said:

Against Newcastle I saw the best 10 minutes of football i saw for a long time... right at the end of the game after soaking up barrage after barrage.

 

I think Smith did the best he could.  Top and Rudkin are fully to blame for not ditching Phlegmdan earlier

Pity that he didn't figure how to keep us up until Newcastle away. 

 

We shouldve been ultra cautious at Fulham (I said it at the time) and could well have sneaked a win.

 

We shouldve had a default play book when Liverpool took the lead to kill the game for 15 mins. 

 

We shouldve played Souttar v Everton

 

Basic basic stuff. 

[HybridFox]

An impossible job really. One more game might have done it. At least he tried unlike Brendan

[splinterdream]

Had to turn an oil tanker around in a cul-de-sac, nearly achieved it, I thought tielemens and Ndidi let him down, the game against newcastle was masterclass, so close to the 3 points, I don't think without a crystal ball he could have done any better, I said we should we should start 5 at the back and looking at Newcastle I think I was right, but easy to say in your armchair 

[Stadt]

It was a salvageable situation when he took over, can’t attach too much blame to Smith but his management wasn’t good enough. We were far too open against Everton because of the team selection.

[Unabomber]

58 minutes ago, Pete52 said:

Even though he couldn't engineer wins against Leeds or Everton? 

Yeah 

[Samilktray]

He seems like a lovely bloke but he was crap wasn’t he 

[weller54]

2 hours ago, Buzzell said:

All the best to him but he blew the opportunity to keep us up, lets be fair.

Picking Lardi Tielemans and  bombscare Ndidi week after week was Unforgivable!! 

Hardly an improvement on the notebook obsessed Midget!! 

[sm1]

Picked some really strange looking teams, but in the end he was only a penalty miss away from keeping us up. Considering the losing run we were on when he came in, he didnt do too badly. If he had those 2 extra games we wasted on Stowell and Sadler, I've got no doubt he would've kept us up. He'll definitely get another chance at championship level.

[Ted Maul]

Didn't get us over the line but I think you'd be hard-pressed to find a Leicester fan who primarily blames him. Season was a shit-show from start to finish.

[Daggers]

2 hours ago, Raj said:

Doesn't deserve a Thank you thread thats for sure!

How about thanking him for not doing really well and turning Terry into a club icon? That would’ve been horrible. 

[mozartfox]

He will end up at Celtic once they bin off Fraudio with 8 games to go including some tough games against the ‘Dog and Kilt’ and ‘Abercrombie Working Man’s’ Club’.

[Simoken]

 

Get me to 50 Laughs and il delete my FT account.

 

Edited 16 June 2023 by Simoken

[funkyrobot]

2 hours ago, Nod.E said:

He didn't get everything right, but he gave us much needed honesty, accountability and gave the impression that he chucked everything he had at the cause. 

 

Seemed a genuinely nice bloke which was refreshing after years of slime from Rodgers.

 

All the best, Deano.

The lack of laughing emojis to the OP is definitive proof that VK, Souttar and KDH aren’t on Foxestalk. 

Edited 16 June 2023 by funkyrobot

[Tomek]

What exactly are we thanking him for? Yes, he came into a difficult situation, but keeping us up was not an impossible task. We failed to beat either Leeds or Everton, shipped 5 at Fulham, and some of the decisions making was questionable at best. 
 

he was incredibly lucky to get the job in the first place and no doubt got a big pay cheque for taking us down (I know he’s not the main culprit for our relegation). 

[KingsX]

3 hours ago, Nod.E said:

Seemed a genuinely nice bloke which was refreshing after years of slime from Rodgers.

 

[Izzy]

1 hour ago, HybridFox said:

An impossible job really. One more game might have done it. At least he tried unlike Brendan

[Tuna]

Came in, did a job, almost kept us up, had he been appointed just a week or two earlier he would have been successful and been lauded.

[LanguedocFox]

3 hours ago, Simoken said:

Should have kept BR, waste of time. end of

Corrected your English for you. It’s still bollox though.