Club legend and fantastic person,but please lets be honest a football manager he is not,it will all end in tears,we still have no cohesion or fluidity to our play,we totally rely on individual moments of brilliance and Harvey Barnes,with someone like Dean Smith in charge we would be 10 points clear,the ridiculous 3 at the back play it out experiment cost us many points and ground,the subsitutions aren't great or just don't happen,ie taking off Barnes at boro,keeping Morrison on so long he cant close down,apart from Leeds and Qpr,we really haven't been very good at all,im not sure what is happening on the training ground
It's all good using those examples, but on the swing side you could also say that 99% of fans would have replaced Rodriguez for Sako in the villa game, which in hindsight would have meant Rodriguez wouldn't have been there to score his 'hand of Rod' and we would have lost the game.
I think some fans (not yourself) always want/need someone to moan about. Last year it was Pulis, then Pardew, then we looked at moaning at players, this season HRK became the one everyone laughed at, then he played well so it moved to Brunt, now hes out the team its DM getting the stick with subs.
Cant we just enjoy the ride. We have seen many teams this season drop points in unexpected games, I don't care who you are you wont walk away with the league by December. Leeds and Norwich have a little gap now from 3rd place yet I guarantee all their fans are still worried their form will drop off and they'll slip up.
We score goals for fun, we concede goals at a higher rate than we probably should, but you know what, its entertaining. Last season we all cried out to be entertained and to enjoy watching us play again and I can hand on heart say I would rather watch us play now than at any point over the last 2/3 years.
DM is a club legend, has the clubs best interest at heart, basically had to run the club on his own in the summer, has hardly had any real backing from the owner in regards to money etc, and we are still sitting in 3rd with a couple of winnable games coming up.
With some of the comments on here, anyone would think we are mid table and struggling.