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So pleased to see Deano off to a winning start! Best of luck for the rest of the season Canaries!

It'll be interesting to see how quickly he can improve your defence, as I mentioned in our first PL season I felt like he was a bit naïve on this and it took him a while to get it sorted. He doesn't have the luxury of a lock down (hopefully) to step back and take stock so that something to keep...

Yeah usually 4-3-3. Played it extensively with Brentford and with us for the majority of last season.

The first thing he told Grealish when he arrived was that he wasn't getting his numbers high enough, both from an attacking perspective and goals, that changed him immediately. I think the player you want to watch is Rasicha. The rumour is that in 2020 we wanted to sign him from Werder Bremen...

If you have 20 minutes and can put up with the quality and the sound (it's good enough to hear), listen to this talk from DS which he did at Birmingham University, it's really interesting. You won't learn a lot about him tactically but you will get a feel for his management style.

He did in the beginning when we were promoted to the PL, but changed after Restart and has since kept it this way. Seemed to make a difference last year, less so this year (but I think this is more down to the fact that our central midfielders haven't been offering the defence much protection).

Yeah most likely you won't then in that case.

I think the one coach he may come back for from Villa is Neil Cutler, who is our goalkeeping coach. He seemed to get more involved with training and could be seen giving instructions to the players on match days from the bench, and Smith knows him from his Walsall days. It'll be interesting...

I'm a bit 50:50 on it to be honest. I think the biggest element of risk in the appointment is that we don't know what will happen when he hits a bad run of form, mainly because he's never had a long stretch of losses at Rangers. But equally after hearing his first interview, there are signs...

A Villa fan who comes in peace - sorry, I don't know about the etiquette of rival fans on this message board, but I just wanted to give you some insight into what you can expect from Dean Smith, and (to a lesser extent Craig Shakespeare). You can read yourself about his career history on...