Tomaszk

Two sitters as you rightly say. Minds have been made up after less than two years because...we used to win stuff? A miracle promotion wasn't enough. Smith had to become a wizard and turn bargain bucket agent castoffs into a Premier League winning side. Modern football isn't for many of our fans.

Amine Gouiri off to Nice for not much. Would have been a good signing. Celtic were sniffing.

Couple have popped up recently I think, it's weird. Many football forums have a lot of users though, makes sense to try and infiltrate.

Always the victims.

Surprised to see this, impressed me. He seems to be winning loads of 50/50 headers as well. Keep it up Matt. Oh dear. Oh dear dear dear. Oh no. Oh goodness me, no. NO. NO!

Christ, Dyche! Smith hasn't had two years yet and is being hounded out with a promotion, a cup final, a club record run of wins. All this when he's been given a terrible squad to compete. Dyche wouldn't last 6 months trying to get his lump and battle football going. Thought of Wesley trying to do to quite amusing though. You see Burnley now? That's the absolute best you'll ever get under Dyche. We won't even get that far because Burnley have all the best big fat lads who are willing to play that football. Others will simply refuse to do it.

I trust Purslow. More fool me perhaps. He's cocked up getting Suso on board, we'll continue to waste millions if this bloke stays. The ideal scenario to chuck Suso in the sea and shake Smith by the hand and send him on his way with best wishes.

He's brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. Would have been useful at the start of the season.

The lad can play. Alongside Heaton, the only summer signing worth the money paid.

Great to see him back in midfield where he should be.

It's bad when a big fat McGinn is still our best option. I think he's always played in that higher position, he's just usually fit enough to get back in as well. As soon as Smith came in he started making runs in behind full backs if they pushed up and our CBs were on the ball. Grealish made them as well initially but ended up dropping with McGinn pushing on. Struggling yes, but it's not easy been out for six months. Anyone see Harry Kane so far? Oof, stinking the place out. Do I think he had Grealish's ultra professional approach to "getting fit"? No I don't. We need that next season please John.

So effing obvious. Very annoying. Should never be on v Chelsea. He knows he's not good enough and doesn't try to help the team in games like that, it's all about just not being caught losing the ball himself. Today was a game for him but I can see why he doesn't start. He can't move. Must have some sort of long term injury, he didn't used to be this bad.

Harsh IMO. He totally changed the way we played last year. We didn't go from clueless Bruce nothing football to scoring 3/4/5 in games by chance. Before Grealish injury v WBA we were excellent in the five games prior, it was working. I will die on the hill if we had a striker who could play football like Samatta all season we'd have amassed at least 6 more points before January. At least! I reckon 9 or 10 very very likely. Disagree. We had better players then definitely. Correct. The manager has issues, plenty, but this squad is gash. We're definitely going down and the next three games will really drive it home. Had to win that. Two great chances at 0-0, where are we if they go in? We'll never know. Delighted Smith moved Grealish back into midfield. Just imagine if we had some **** wingers who weren't crap. How could we get it so wrong in the summer. Suso screwed us big time. Keep Smith if we go down says I, change if we stay up. In the modern game you can't have a guy who only knows 433. He'll do bloody well to keep any fans onside as the season ends, I see most have gone here already, hold on to your arses because we're going to take some right kickings. I've been convinced it's going to line up Liverpool need 1/3 points against us to confirm the league. They'll win about 25-0. If we sack Smith, any manager coming in will take one look at this squad and say I need about 10 new players if you're going to sell Grealish/Mings. I think Purslow will be trying to salvage the value of some of these wasters we've overpaid for and at least Smith knows them now. Biggest problem at Aston Villa is the charlatan who signed all our players this summer. Not Dean Smith.

It's incredibly clear it's the main issue. People saying they're not worried about going down. I am if Suso stays. Big time.

Question marks over Mings for that price IMO. Getting pretty frustrating watching him scuff or overhit clearances week after week.

They are bringing in so many good young players. Copying Chelsea model. They'll be loaning plenty out and selling them to generate money.

Win or we're down.

Targett been good both games back I think.

Probably as many as his debut.

Every single time I've seen Brighton this season they play exactly like Smith has tried to get us to. Funny what you can do with some good players. Brighton's recruitment has been really good for years. Couple of whiffs but generally excellent and they're building for the future at the same time. Who's in charge of their signings? Get them here. We're down if we don't beat Newcastle. Liverpool, Wolves and Utd after that, that's a big fat zero points.

Nah, not implying that. As I said, they aren't a traditionally run club. Don't think anyone has had a agent outside the club completely in charge of all first team signing before. I'm sure other teams will try it but it sounds like a recipe for disaster when you read it on paper. Obviously it's been great for them because Mendes is heavily invested himself, and his mate is manager. Could turn sour if they fall out and he decides to move their five best players on. Yep, we've cocked up in a huge way with our transfers. Signed some shocking players for five times their price and I'm very unsure if half are good enough for the Championship.

I'm even equally concerned if he watched them and thought they were worth the money paid. Must be a bad judge of player.

Oh God, Wolves?! They'll trash us. Two midfielders in Neves and Moutinho who are as willing as Grealish to get on the ball and ping it around all over the place, they'll have 65% possession. Three forwards who are good enough to play in a front three and defenders who will pass into midfield. We've got five games it's possible to get points in. No chance at all v Wolves, Liverpool or Utd.

Paddy Riley researched players. Suso asked agents who to sign. Anyone could see Gueye and Veretout were incredibly good footballers. Anyone can see Trez and Wes are incredibly bad footballers. Sherwood really **** up the chance to setup a good base for us there.

Mendes brought Nuno in. Did you know Nuno was his first ever client as a player? Their relationship goes back a very long way. Perhaps he thought...if I bring Nuno in, I can get better players. Then said "Hey Nuno, go to this shite little hole in England and I'll bring you loads of great players" I've spoken to Wolves fans, it's always a frustrating conversation because sadly only one of our clubs has a super agent running the show and making them into a Champions League club. Mendes brought Nuno in. Mendes brought the players in. Of course they want to go and play for Nuno, he's brilliant. Mendes brought Nuno in. You can't compare us to Wolves. They have Mendes, we don't. Their success has all come from Mendes, nowhere else. Same people just talking themselves into a circle. They'll read this and still just refuse to even see the point, I find it funny. NO, WE SHOULD BE WINNING. THEY JUST HAVE TO TRY HARDER. Proper boomer mindset. I can't believe people have watched Smith manage us for 18 months, and watch him rip us the shreds with Brentford every time we played them, and think he's telling the team to not pass it and clearing in the woods it long constantly. He has a squad of players unfit for purpose. If the team do what Smith wants, we'll trash Newcastle. One way traffic for the last six or seven meetings between a Dean Smith side with a plan and Steve Bruce side without a plan. There is the caveat here of their players being better, but we can do it if the team will show some bollocks and pass the ball. Stop being cowards and hoofing it because it's easy. Pass and move. It'll take about 3 sequences and Newcastle will retreat back into their box like they have all season and we'll beat them.