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Dean Smith's call to Aston Villa fans: Stick with us

Dean Smith has urged supporters to stick with Villa and vowed performances will improve.

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Villa host in-form Hull on Saturday aiming to bounce back from last weekend’s sorry 3-0 defeat at Wigan.

The desperate performance at the DW Stadium saw players loudly booed by an away following which made up a third of the total 13,800 attendance.

Smith said: “If I have a message for the supporters, it is stick with us. Wigan will be the bottom of where we will be.

“The support we bring with us is fantastic and they didn’t deserve to see a second half performance like that.

“We will work very hard now to turn it round. Hopefully come the end of the season, the fans are singing the players’ names.”

The club have handed a first professional contract to teenage forward Michael Tait.