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  1. Seoane looks like exactly the type of guy who should be right at the top of our shortlist. Clear style, good pedigree. Fluent in 6 languages including Spanish and portugese which could be useful with South America becoming an important recruitment market for us moving forward.
  2. Good, shut up was the right option when you've got nothing to support your ludicrous assertions. If we're above midtable at the end of the season, then that's progress above where Smith was taking us.
  3. That doesn't even make sense. I've asked you what facts I'm missing, you can't give me a single one. Not one. I build my opinions based on facts. I've outlined very clearly what my opinion is and why I think it. You have repeatedly attacked it with no explanation or counter. Either put up or shut up, it's boring. I'm happy to listen to your opinion, the "facts" that support it and discuss reasonably. I'm not prepared to sit here listening to you whine about me being wrong with literally nothing to support or substantiate your assertion. But we all know you won't offer any facts, as you have no interest in sensible debate, just a bizarre attention seeking crusade to disagree with everybody else in the room. Again, happy to discuss with you if you do want to discuss, but either put up something worth discussing, or shut up.
  4. Seems like a decent bloke, I dont think anyone will be suggesting him for the coaching role though
  5. I havent seen them. Ive asked you several times to point them out, but you wont for no clear reason. Little yellow Boris. Worse off than what? We're 20th in the form table over the last 13 games (about 30% of the season) and have been playing turgid hoofball with no plan for 12 months now. We weren't doing anything except slipping to midtable obscurity under Smith so unless we get relegated, how will it be worse? Maybe you should show some humility and realise that Occam's razor suggests that your isolated viewpoint might not be right?
  6. Soooo there aren't any then. Jesus christ you're not very good at trolling.
  7. What facts am I missing? I'm very open to hearing what you have to say, you just don't actually say anything at all. Youve offered nothing to support any alternative viewpoint, just attacked mine... politicians you say... 🤔
  8. So they are facts then? So we shouldn't use facts to construct a narrative but instead should just ignore the facts, not use them to form opinions and not have an opinion at all unless it's one you agree with? Glad we've cleared that up. Bizarre. On a related note, I've looked up how Brentford fans reacted when he left... pretty much they liked him as a bloke, thought he was limited and didn't care one way or another and were happy to just trust their structure as they didnt see smith as being essential to progress... almost like he was a beneficiary of their recruitment team and structure or something... where have I heard that before? https://griffinpark.org/forums/threads/dean-smith-unattached.130937/
  9. What is unjust? I have stated facts. Brentford have one of, if not the best recruitment teams in UK football.... fact Brentford shot up the table/leagues after Smith left and Frank took over... fact Villa had one of the best squads ever in the championship... fact He spent 200 million but they still only stayed up because of a dodgy no-award of a goal that had crossed the line... fact So again, which bit do you disagree with? Which bit is my "jaundiced opinion"? Which bit is an "unsubstantiated attack"? Please highlight it very clearly, because at the moment, you look like you're on some bizarre Trumpian crusade to come up with alternate facts
  10. What has Smith got over you that your obsessively defending him? The football was ****. He failed to keep us up. He had one good run of 10 games and then the wheels fell off. No system, no formation, no clue. At Brentford, he left, they got a proper coach and shot up the league. At villa, he had a good 10 game spell to get them up with probably the best squad thats ever been in the championship, he then spent 200 million and scraped staying up by virtue of the goal line system failing and not awarding a clear goal. He left, they shot up the league. Why exactly would anybody want Smith to be Norwich manager at this point? You seem very vocal saying we're wrong for wanting rid of the useless dinosaur but can't seem to explain why.
  11. Many others including myself had to really talk ourselves into any kind of enthusiasm for Smith because it felt like abjectedly the wrong appointment. No hindsight needed on that one. I'm in total agreement with you on most of what you say, I just think "experience of prem or champs" is essentially a synonym for failure somewhere else. I want somebody who is on the the upward trajectory of their career, not the the downward slope. I'm not bothered what League they come from. Look at the scum, couldn't get out of League 1 with "experienced" and seemingly good for their level appointments but now flying high with a guy who has no experience of being a first team manager, let alone experience of the league - he had only ever managed spurs and man utd u18 teams before and was an assistant to mourinho. That's "experience" I would get behind, rather than a championship retread. Speaking of which, we could do a lot worse than poach McKenna off the scum....
  12. Sorry, my reply re: Smith was steeped in sarcasm - that was the point I was making, experience isn't important. I agree entirely with what you say, Smith benefitted from Brentford having imo pound for pound the best recruitment department in UK football, and villas wealth of riches at champs level. Look how far Brentford have come since the guy with "experience" of English football left, and they appointed a decent foreign coach. I disagree on Warburton, I think he was also benefactor of that recruitment department.
  13. Robins has done well the last few years but he's had some pretty unsuccessful stints everywhere he's been for 10 years prior to the last 3. Never managed a club with anything close to our budget or our calibre of players. His teams have historically faded and ended seasons with a bad run of form to miss out on promotion. He's as much of a gamble as a South American coach. You say "after the last appointment" we need someone with experience in English Leagues, preferably champs or prem... maybe like someone who managed Walsall and kept them up in league 1 after taking over when they were 9 points adrift, took over at Brentford and turned them into the championship's "entertainers", before moving to villa where he took them up through the playoffs after 10 consecutive wins and then kept them up in the prem...? Experience of any specific league doesnt mean very much. The coach is either good enough or they're not. Playing style is a far bigger concern for me.
  14. Don't think champs or prem experience is requisite, at least not for me. Lambert, Farke, Neil all took us up with no experience of managing in the champs or the prem. Obvious flaw in my argument is only Lambert kept us up with any level of success, but you have to get up there to stay up there. I dont want Parker, Dyche, Wilder etc, and don't think Robins or Hassenhutl would be bad choices at all, I dont think they are the only options though. I'd rather be looking abroad. Even with the constraints of Brexit, there are great coaches available, Celtic plucked Postecoglou from Japan for example.
  15. One of my mates knows a family member of someone within the club and has done for a number of years. Family member told him 12 months ago that they didn't expect webber to still be there in 18months. Unclear if that was idle speculation based on an educated guess or whether it came from inside knowledge. Either way, seems like they at least don't expect to see him here next season.
  16. 1000 followers. Nah. Not reliable. Doesn't even appear to be a journalist, just someone playing at it.
  17. Dyche's style is hoofball. It's a no from me
  18. I hope not, its not. Dycheball is essentially the same as Smithball
  19. Absolutely no. What's the point jumping from one manager who serves up turgid **** Football, to another who serves up the same. We went 4 consecutive games under Hughton without a shot on target. 4 games. I know things are bad with Smith, but at least his tenure is ending. Starting another round of this **** with Hughton does nobody any good. Can you stomach another 18 months of this rubbish?
  20. If he's not getting a Glasgow kiss from webber in a minute, I would love an explanation
  21. Okkkkk, bit personal but thanks for sharing. Hope you find a partner soon mate 😉
  22. Dean Smith is the managerial form of Chlamydia.
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