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Viking Chat => Viking Chat => Topic started by: essexrover on October 07, 2015, 06:22:29 pm

Title: Dean Smith
Post by: essexrover on October 07, 2015, 06:22:29 pm
Doesn't look like we've got any chance of getting him now, if we had any to start with !
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/34464292
Title: Re: Dean Smith
Post by: Copps is Magic on October 07, 2015, 06:34:35 pm
Walsall the club are going to want to keep him - but it doesn't stop us approaching him or his agent. We should have moved in there straight away, now Rotherham are after him it makes it less likely.
Title: Re: Dean Smith
Post by: godlike1 on October 07, 2015, 07:27:27 pm
We never stood a chance of getting him
Title: Re: Dean Smith
Post by: IDM on October 07, 2015, 07:33:24 pm
Walsall the club are going to want to keep him - but it doesn't stop us approaching him or his agent. We should have moved in there straight away, now Rotherham are after him it makes it less likely.

How does anyone know that we didn't?
Title: Re: Dean Smith
Post by: bobjimwilly on October 07, 2015, 07:35:22 pm
For all we know GB might have travelled down to Walsall and met Dean in private, which is the way these things should be done.
Title: Re: Dean Smith
Post by: Copps is Magic on October 07, 2015, 07:50:37 pm
Walsall the club are going to want to keep him - but it doesn't stop us approaching him or his agent. We should have moved in there straight away, now Rotherham are after him it makes it less likely.

How does anyone know that we didn't?

Well, we're 4 weeks on since we sacked Dickov so what became of it if we did? I am pretty sure we didn't anyway because the club was initially set on the application process it released. The talk of candidates already in a job only came with the last statement.
Title: Re: Dean Smith
Post by: dickos1 on October 07, 2015, 07:51:14 pm
If they've rejected an approach from Rotherham why would they accept an approach from us
Title: Re: Dean Smith
Post by: IDM on October 07, 2015, 07:52:22 pm
I wouldn't expect the club to reveal everything that they have done during this process.  They may well have approached Walsall, but kept it quiet.

As has been said before, we kept our summer signings quiet, so why not the manager recruitment?
Title: Re: Dean Smith
Post by: Copps is Magic on October 07, 2015, 08:02:26 pm
I'm afraid some might be clutching at straws. If we approached Smith it would have come out somewhere. Just like Rotherham approaching him has come out in the media. Walsall are kicking up a fuss because they don't want him to leave - it would have been the same with us.
Title: Re: Dean Smith
Post by: IDM on October 07, 2015, 08:13:02 pm
Depends how it was done?  Or alternatively we haven't headhunted anyone and it would have been down to Smith to apply.

Not clutching at straws, just offering an understanding of how the club may have gone about its business.  It is all speculation anyway.
Title: Re: Dean Smith
Post by: bobjimwilly on October 07, 2015, 11:24:02 pm
I'm afraid some might be clutching at straws. If we approached Smith it would have come out somewhere.

Not sure I 100% agree with that Copps; the club have done well at keeping things under wraps recently concerning the signing of players so it wouldn't surprise me if they can do the same with talking to managers, even if they are currently in a job.

Title: Re: Dean Smith
Post by: dickos1 on October 07, 2015, 11:29:45 pm
It's Walsall that have said they've rejected Rotherham though, why would they keep quiet about us but not them?
Title: Re: Dean Smith
Post by: RobTheRover on October 07, 2015, 11:32:33 pm
Because even Walsall hate  Rotherham?  ;)
Title: Re: Dean Smith
Post by: RoversAlias on October 07, 2015, 11:50:51 pm
I doubt we'd approach Walsall when it's unlikely he would want to come here, and the board already have/had 100+ applicants to look over. I also think it's clear Walsall would have put our bid for him in the press if there were one, since they've done exactly that with Rotherham.
Title: Re: Dean Smith
Post by: dknward2 on October 07, 2015, 11:56:42 pm
Maybe we want people to apply to sgow they want the job if they dont apply then they surely dont want the job or dont think they are good enough.
Title: Re: Dean Smith
Post by: Sammy Chung was King on October 08, 2015, 01:19:54 am
As good a job as Smith has done at Walsall, There are still fans on their forum not happy with him, It shows the manager whoever he is won't please everybody, He needs to be singleminded and do it his way, Whover he may be.
Title: Re: Dean Smith
Post by: big fat yorkshire pudding on October 08, 2015, 06:32:15 am
It's Walsall that have said they've rejected Rotherham though, why would they keep quiet about us but not them?

Potentially if they have a couple of interested parties they would want it known to stoke up the fee and bring things to a swifter conclusion.