Dean Smith New Interim Manager - Official

[Babylon]

Amazing, a manager who made a common sense change at half time.

[StriderHiryu]

16 minutes ago, LCFC_Iceland said:

The balls to come out with that lineup when if it went wrong the fans would have blamed him directly. 

 

The changes and seeing it out at the end is what we missed this year.

Also having the humility to see it wasn't working and changing it appropriately.

 

And to be fair to him, it did work in the first 10 minutes, and we probably should have scored with Vardy / Tete. We conceded due to a player mistake, and the team got nervous, but I don't feel like Wolves carved us open too many times.

[Shane]

Hopefully this is the start of our transition away from playing it out from the back so much. I really enjoyed our direct approach today, instead of the meaningless passes between CB's.

 

[Tom12345]

Thanks Dean for having a go today. Even if we had lost, we cannot blame you and the team for trying.

 

Immensely better than Rodgerball and negative mentality.

[coolhandfox]

Guy talks sense post match which is refreshing:-

 

A lot of the goals we have given away, loking back at them, have been individual mistakes. From then up until the penalty their movement was sharper and brighter than ours. We played the ball into the space at last and Vards has done done brilliantly to win the penalty. We created the big chances in the second half

 

On the winning goal: "It was a really good move, it was a great cut back and our left-back crossing for our right-back in the penalty box. We dropped off too deep but defended our box really well.

[Hamilton Fox]

Was amazed by the line up to start with but people been moaning about not attacking all season and we needed to win so can’t blame him. Didn’t particularly work first half but he makes changes which is a refreshing change

[shailen]

Was at the game today, that line up was something you'd see in a Pearson team but it worked wonders. 

 

Bringing on an extra midfileder second half helped us to control the game more but what a goal that was. 

 

Definitely more progressive, I'd like to see us keep the ball better at times but not at the expense of creating chances. 

[LCFCJohn]

Really pleased for Dean, Shakey and JT. Actually resembled a football team! 
 

Hopefully kick starts a little run!

[yorkie1999]

If we stay up, I really hope the club gave them the gig full time. You can see the seeds being planted on how football should be played.

[Harry96]

DEANOOOO

[winteriscoming]

If we stop up he’ll get next season. Can see us looking elsewhere if we go down. 

[StanSP]

 

 

 

[HybridFox]

True Nigel Pearson vibes with this guy. I love him already

[Chelmofox]

Today I’m happy to call him Deano. 

[Joe90lcfc]

1 minute ago, winteriscoming said:

If we stop up he’ll get next season. Can see us looking elsewhere if we go down. 

If we go down fighting I think we should do all we can to keep him for promotion, well all 3 tbf 

[Unabomber]

4 minutes ago, winteriscoming said:

If we stop up he’ll get next season. Can see us looking elsewhere if we go down. 

I think we will keep regardless if CS and JT stay with him should we go down. 

[ARTY_FOX]

We didn't need the world's greatest coach or the world's greatest tactician.  We need someone to come and give the players some confidence and they seem to have done it. Fair play. 

[Unabomber]

Just now, ARTY_FOX said:

We didn't need the world's greatest coach or the world's greatest tactician.  We need someone to come and give the players some confidence and they seem to have done it. Fair play. 

Just someone who doesn’t put their ego and personal issues ahead of what is best for the club. 

[Arriba Los Zorros]

3 minutes ago, HybridFox said:

True Nigel Pearson vibes with this guy. I love him already

Yes. If we can't have Nige we'll have a tribute act. Great to have a proper character back as manager rather than the soft and wishy washy Rodgers. 

[winteriscoming]

3 minutes ago, Unabomber said:

I think we will keep regardless if CS and JT stay with him should we go down. 

Maybe. If we go down and cov don’t go up I’d like us to go for Robins. 

[Wymsey]

Wonder why Rodgers had left things to rot after the FA Cup triumph.

[Stuntman_Mike]

He's just more likable ain't he? 

 

KDH was poor when he came on but it was the right change at the right time rather than waiting and waiting or not making any changes at all.

[The Quick Brown Fox]

Would be nice if he can start leaving a player or 2 up the pitch when we are defending corners. Not picking really, they've done well to turn it around. The manc game was a roll of the dice and see who they have and what they offer. 

 

Beat Leeds and watch us flourish. 

[Tom12345]

1 hour ago, LCFCJohn said:

Really pleased for Dean, Shakey and JT. Actually resembled a football team! 
 

Hopefully kick starts a little run!

The football team was always here. We have a decent and big squad. Let’s not forget if Rodgers didn’t coach them into lesser players, we would still have Albrighton and Perez. Today was a game that Perez could have flourished in place of Daka. He cannot play lone striker nor on the wing. But with the attacking lineup and more players around him, he would have linked up well with Nachos and Vardy.

 

Always said we have a very good squad. Just needed to select the right players and play positively. Under Rodgers we regularly leave good players like Nacho on the bench so we can play an extra mediocre defender or defenders while Soyuncu sits on the bench.

Edited 22 April 2023 by Tom12345

[Tom12345]

2 minutes ago, browniefox said:

Would be nice if he can start leaving a player or 2 up the pitch when we are defending corners. Not picking really, they've done well to turn it around. The manc game was a roll of the dice and see who they have and what they offer. 

 

Beat Leeds and watch us flourish. 

Corners only occur occasionally. But high balls happen very often. Would be nice if players can be told to head it down to a teammate or even to trap it themselves instead of always head it up aimlessly and turn over possession. Contrast Wolves today: they tried to head to a teammate everytime.