| Smith confirmed as budgies boss on 09:35 - Nov 15 with 2902 views | timothyeo |
Really surprised him (and Shakespeare for that matter) agreed to go to them. Especially when they'd have had a good Villa payout. Clearly love football to go straight back in for a relegation battle.
For what it's worth, I think they're still going to go down but they're going to be in a great spot for going straight back up again. |  | |  |
| Smith confirmed as budgies boss on 09:39 - Nov 15 with 2881 views | NthQldITFC |
"I was brought up in an era when Norwich were competing in Europe"
He spelt "couple of weeks" as "era"! |  |
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| Smith confirmed as budgies boss on 09:41 - Nov 15 with 2868 views | bluejacko |
| Smith confirmed as budgies boss on 09:39 - Nov 15 by NthQldITFC |
"I was brought up in an era when Norwich were competing in Europe"
He spelt "couple of weeks" as "era"! |
He must have noticed THAT goal then 😂 | | | |
| Smith confirmed as budgies boss on 09:47 - Nov 15 with 2851 views | NthQldITFC |
| Smith confirmed as budgies boss on 09:41 - Nov 15 by bluejacko |
He must have noticed THAT goal then 😂 |
Pardon my ignorance, but what goal? | |
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| Smith confirmed as budgies boss on 10:08 - Nov 15 with 2779 views | hoppy |
| Smith confirmed as budgies boss on 09:39 - Nov 15 by NthQldITFC |
"I was brought up in an era when Norwich were competing in Europe"
He spelt "couple of weeks" as "era"! |
And he spelt ‘participating’ as ‘competing’ too… |  |
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| Smith confirmed as budgies boss on 10:16 - Nov 15 with 2760 views | monty_radio |
I read today that Norwich are a club that likes to give its managers time. Looking over that claim, it certainly seems to be true of managers that have brought them a degree of success, but in general, it's not particularly noticeable. Since the war, excluding caretakers, Smith will be their 31st manager, during which same period Town have had 17.
Smith will have more pressure than most of them, in the first place the doubtful task of keeping them up, and, if not, the more difficult task than perhaps it's been before of a swift return, especially if Webber were to depart. | |
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| Smith confirmed as budgies boss on 11:17 - Nov 15 with 2607 views | BlueBlood90 |
Unfortunately I think that's a superb appointment for them and a much better option than Lampard would've been.
Shakespeare joining Smith is a coup as well. He' s a really good assistant/coach. |  |
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| Smith confirmed as budgies boss on 11:29 - Nov 15 with 2549 views | ArnieM |
We shall see. Villas squad is much better than narwich’s. |  |
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| Smith confirmed as budgies boss on 12:11 - Nov 15 with 2463 views | FrankMarshall |
| Smith confirmed as budgies boss on 11:17 - Nov 15 by BlueBlood90 |
Unfortunately I think that's a superb appointment for them and a much better option than Lampard would've been.
Shakespeare joining Smith is a coup as well. He' s a really good assistant/coach. |
Norwich haven't made many mistakes in the last few years. And this definitely is not a mistake. A superb appointment but still think they will get relegated and back season after.
Hopefully we will get a chance in the next couple of years to play them again and finally win a derby game. It's been so long since we beat Norwich that I've forgotten the memory. We are on the up, if not this season then next. |  |
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| Smith confirmed as budgies boss on 12:12 - Nov 15 with 2456 views | Freddy |
| Smith confirmed as budgies boss on 11:17 - Nov 15 by BlueBlood90 |
Unfortunately I think that's a superb appointment for them and a much better option than Lampard would've been.
Shakespeare joining Smith is a coup as well. He' s a really good assistant/coach. |
Sad to say a great appointment for them and really rate Shakespeare as a coach. Gives them a chance I guess | | | |
| Smith confirmed as budgies boss on 12:19 - Nov 15 with 2430 views | hoppy |
| Smith confirmed as budgies boss on 12:12 - Nov 15 by Freddy |
Sad to say a great appointment for them and really rate Shakespeare as a coach. Gives them a chance I guess |
Let’s see how good they are at polishing turds. | |
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| Smith confirmed as budgies boss on 12:21 - Nov 15 with 2427 views | ArnieM |
if Dean Smith is regarded as a” superb appointment”, ( by some ), it’s interesting to note that his record as manager is actually below that of Paul Cooks (points per match) .
https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/paul-cook/profil/trainer/8661
Obviously, You’ll have to search under dean smith to get his record up to compare.
Lampards is better still. But I’d suggest these figures are beneficially skewed for Lampard due to his time with a decent squad at Chelsea, as Cooks is negatively skewed in his time with us due to the bunch of fluckwits he inherited that decided to down-tools, and the new squad this season finding their feet for the first 8 games. | |
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| Smith confirmed as budgies boss on 12:31 - Nov 15 with 2395 views | JimmyJazz |
| Smith confirmed as budgies boss on 12:21 - Nov 15 by ArnieM |
if Dean Smith is regarded as a” superb appointment”, ( by some ), it’s interesting to note that his record as manager is actually below that of Paul Cooks (points per match) .
https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/paul-cook/profil/trainer/8661
Obviously, You’ll have to search under dean smith to get his record up to compare.
Lampards is better still. But I’d suggest these figures are beneficially skewed for Lampard due to his time with a decent squad at Chelsea, as Cooks is negatively skewed in his time with us due to the bunch of fluckwits he inherited that decided to down-tools, and the new squad this season finding their feet for the first 8 games. |
I think what you're trying to say is these stats are meaningless
Smith did well at Villa overall, although it does seem to have been unravelling for most of this year. Similar to Keane at Sunderland maybe |  |
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| Smith confirmed as budgies boss on 12:41 - Nov 15 with 2347 views | bournemouthblue |
| Smith confirmed as budgies boss on 09:47 - Nov 15 by NthQldITFC |
Pardon my ignorance, but what goal? |
The Jeremy Gos goal against Bayern which they celebrate like it won them the trophy
In actual fact, it got them to the UEFA Cup 3rd round? |  |
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| Smith confirmed as budgies boss on 12:44 - Nov 15 with 2337 views | giant_stow |
Looks good to me. He's got a team promoted and kept them up - two things we need.
Still on for my 3 wins 2 draws and 1 loss prediction, from 2 games ago. I shall sing like a little birdie if it turns out to be correct. |  |
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| Smith confirmed as budgies boss on 12:47 - Nov 15 with 2316 views | Oldboy |
He has to fail somewhere, lets hope it's there. |  | | |
| Smith confirmed as budgies boss on 12:51 - Nov 15 with 2290 views | bournemouthblue |
| Smith confirmed as budgies boss on 12:44 - Nov 15 by giant_stow |
Looks good to me. He's got a team promoted and kept them up - two things we need.
Still on for my 3 wins 2 draws and 1 loss prediction, from 2 games ago. I shall sing like a little birdie if it turns out to be correct. |
Albeit having spent about £50 million squeezing into 17th? | |
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| Surprised that you were.... on 12:54 - Nov 15 with 2273 views | Bloots |
| Smith confirmed as budgies boss on 09:35 - Nov 15 by timothyeo |
Really surprised him (and Shakespeare for that matter) agreed to go to them. Especially when they'd have had a good Villa payout. Clearly love football to go straight back in for a relegation battle.
For what it's worth, I think they're still going to go down but they're going to be in a great spot for going straight back up again. |
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Not. |  |
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| Smith confirmed as budgies boss on 12:54 - Nov 15 with 2273 views | giant_stow |
| Smith confirmed as budgies boss on 12:51 - Nov 15 by bournemouthblue |
Albeit having spent about £50 million squeezing into 17th? |
That was just his warm up task for the big job he has now. | |
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| Smith confirmed as budgies boss on 12:57 - Nov 15 with 2262 views | hoppy |
| Smith confirmed as budgies boss on 12:41 - Nov 15 by bournemouthblue |
The Jeremy Gos goal against Bayern which they celebrate like it won them the trophy
In actual fact, it got them to the UEFA Cup 3rd round? |
Their European record still reads as:
P6 W2 D2 L2 GF6 GA4
First round v Vitesse Arnhem 3—0 (H), 0—0 (A)
Second round v Bayern Munich 2—1 (A), 1—1 (H)
Third round v Inter Milan 0—1 (H), 0—1 (A) | |
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| Smith confirmed as budgies boss on 13:07 - Nov 15 with 2221 views | ArnieM |
| Smith confirmed as budgies boss on 12:31 - Nov 15 by JimmyJazz |
I think what you're trying to say is these stats are meaningless
Smith did well at Villa overall, although it does seem to have been unravelling for most of this year. Similar to Keane at Sunderland maybe |
In a way, yes , they probably are. But people love to use stats don’t they …and football seems to be run by them these days, both for players and managers. | |
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| Smith confirmed as budgies boss on 13:13 - Nov 15 with 2203 views | chicoazul |
| Smith confirmed as budgies boss on 09:35 - Nov 15 by timothyeo |
Really surprised him (and Shakespeare for that matter) agreed to go to them. Especially when they'd have had a good Villa payout. Clearly love football to go straight back in for a relegation battle.
For what it's worth, I think they're still going to go down but they're going to be in a great spot for going straight back up again. |
Don’t you have websites to fail with rather than bothering us Bilverstone? |  |
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| Smith confirmed as budgies boss on 13:45 - Nov 15 with 2103 views | Vic |
| Smith confirmed as budgies boss on 12:57 - Nov 15 by hoppy |
Their European record still reads as:
P6 W2 D2 L2 GF6 GA4
First round v Vitesse Arnhem 3—0 (H), 0—0 (A)
Second round v Bayern Munich 2—1 (A), 1—1 (H)
Third round v Inter Milan 0—1 (H), 0—1 (A) |
So they don’t even have an undefeated home record? |  |
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| Smith confirmed as budgies boss on 13:49 - Nov 15 with 2093 views | ElderGrizzly |
| Smith confirmed as budgies boss on 11:17 - Nov 15 by BlueBlood90 |
Unfortunately I think that's a superb appointment for them and a much better option than Lampard would've been.
Shakespeare joining Smith is a coup as well. He' s a really good assistant/coach. |
It certainly gives them a much better chance of coming back up next season than they would have done under Lampard.
This season is a write off |  | | |
| Not racist enough for Bilverstone. (n/t) on 13:58 - Nov 15 with 2065 views | Bloots |
| Smith confirmed as budgies boss on 13:13 - Nov 15 by chicoazul |
Don’t you have websites to fail with rather than bothering us Bilverstone? |
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