Selective but I'll address all the points for you.
'two points from four tough games is acceptable so he is getting results '
Nope its not acceptable, they're all tough games and at that rate of 0.5 pts per game, we will be down, so tell me how the holy fuck is that acceptable?
On this irrelevant value of players crap - tbh I couldn't give a fuck until we actually sell them, I want to see performances in Claret and Blue not worry about what some journo talks our players up as.
But I'll take issue with some of your assumptions anyway!
'Jack Grealish has gone from being famous for ditching Ireland for England to being an 80m rated player'
How long has it been since he ditched Ireland to be relevant. Also as good as Jack has been this season it is Smith that has insisted on playing him out of position for most of it, and surely if he had he'd be worth even more, so Smith has effectively devalued him.
'Mings has gone from being out on loan from Bournemouth in the championship to playing for England'
Largely on the back of his performances in the Championship where lots of commentators credited him for his leadership. In the PL he's been a liability at times and overplayed and made silly mistakes - Smith hasn't exactly coached that out of him has he, although he has taught him this 'rest defending' bollocks though clearly so I'll credit Deano with that!
'McGinn has gone from being a 1.5m championship player to being a 40m rated midfielder'
McGinn's value went up the moment he left Scotland and pulled on a Villa shirt. His first few performances were full of energy and drive - you can't credit Smith for that if he already had it as soon as he arrived. In the PL he's found it harder to have the same impact, I've no idea where these silly valuations come from and no interest either.
'So yes, the team is improving'
This is my favourite comment and the one that is furthest from reality, hence the La La Land description.
You could say based on your own assessment that
players have improved, and even that is debatable. Even more debatable to credit Smith for it.
But the biggest problem is conflating
team with the alleged player improvement suggested. The
team has been plainly fucking awful from start to finish. The
team is getting worse not better. Smith started out with plan A, to naively play open pressing football against better opposition and the
team conceded shit loads of goals, and has now regressed into parking the bus and of course now we carry fuck all goal threat (and still concede...).
The
team started off the season applying themselves with a decent workrate, but now the
team can't be bothered and Smith can't motivate them to put the required work in.
The team are not fucking improving
Look I don't mind a bit of debate and support for Smith to bring a bit of balance, but please base it on some semblance of logic and reality in the real world.
Some of you must have little tweezers to be able to so tightly grasp at the straws that you are, ha ha!