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Reply | Richard Montague appointed as football director at Swansea City : Joel Cotteril
at 07:24 12 Feb 2025
Because Notts County have spent bonkers amounts of money in recent years, something their fans don't want to acknowledge because they prefer the narrative of "poor" them Vs "rich" Wrexham, when in reality both had budgets that almost everyone else at their levels couldn't get near.
Also puts Williams achievements there into perspective. |
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Reply | Thoughts on O'Brien?
at 22:11 9 Feb 2025
He often got way beyond the halfway line, he just did jack shit when he was there. Risk free, tedious passing. |
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Reply | A woke policy agenda now emerging?
at 21:47 9 Feb 2025
We have a Government led by people who hate the nation they ostensibly lead and have no problem in blaming it for many of the World's ills. It's not going to end well. |
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Reply | Wales' 2025 Six Nations squad ...
at 21:27 9 Feb 2025
This may not go down well on a thread such as this, but to me it seems fairly obvious that one of the reasons for Welsh Rugby's current malaise is the relative success of the football teams since 2010.
If you were a sporting mad kid in Wales during the last fifteen years, then you're not going to grow up wanting to be Alun Wyn Jones. You're going to want to be Gareth Bale, or Michu. Or Aaron Ramsey, or Joe Allen. Rugby simply isn't going to register. The talent isn't coming through the ranks because interest in Rugby Union just hasn't been there.
I don't doubt that potentially excellent Rugby players who have never considered becoming so can be found in the stands at most Swans or Cardiff games. |
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Reply | Swansea City : Grit and determination earns the Swans all the points
at 19:00 9 Feb 2025
Hard to avoid the belief that a team "led" by Grimes would have lost that today. There does seem to have been major issues behind the scenes that he was central to. Prompted by LW's clumsy appeals to WBA perhaps, but fate has offered us a fair tilt at a clean slate.
If nothing else, today confirms that despite all the tedious wailing, this team and squad are capable of more than we've seen in 2025 thus far. It remains unclear whether the head coach is, but we will give him the benefit of the doubt today. A similar performance to that second half against Sheff W is necessary to avoid the axe IMO.
Get through this season, maintain a Championship place, and see where we are in the Summer. |
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Reply | Bristol City v Swansea City : Match day thread
at 14:14 9 Feb 2025
O'Brien very much out of the Downes mould rather than the Grimes one and we were better for it in the second half. Hard to avoid the idea that we'd have fallen to another tame defeat in a team "led" by Grimes.
Still a hell of a lot of work for Williams to do if he wants to save his job for me, but that was better. [Post edited 9 Feb 14:14]
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Reply | Lucy Letby Guilty
at 21:55 5 Feb 2025
"The panel also cast doubt on the supposed insulin poisonings, which were the foundation of the prosecution case. Jurors in Letby’s original trial were told that the insulin and c-peptide levels of two infants meant they must have been deliberately injected with insulin. Letby’s original legal team did not contest that claim, yet the jury was told that Letby was the only person who could have poisoned both babies.
A report by Prof Geoff Chase of the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, however, concluded that the two babies’ insulin and c-peptide levels were “typical” for babies of their age and that the tests the prosecution used were “not of forensic quality”. |
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Reply | Fans forum announced
at 21:03 5 Feb 2025
Probably not. It's depressing.
I hate modern coaches and what they're turning football into. It's the first time in 30+ years I'm giving serious consideration into not bothering any more.
And this isn't just a Swans thing in case anyone thinks it's down to petulance about how we're doing. I used to obsess over football. Soak it up. Watch any game I could. These days it's boring. Identikit teams trying to play in an identikit fashion. All trying to dominate possession and turn stats into performance instead of just trying to score more goals than whoever they're playing against. |
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Reply | Fans forum announced
at 20:53 5 Feb 2025
I don't want to hate on Coleman. I don't doubt the mans intentions, but if he can't see at this point that Williams is basically Diet Martin then there's not much more that can be done for him.
We need a new manager. ASAP. |
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Reply | Lucy Letby Guilty
at 20:51 5 Feb 2025
Lot of people previously desperate to see Letby executed who have gone very quiet. |
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Reply | Lucy Letby Guilty
at 07:32 5 Feb 2025
The fact that one of the "eminent subject matter experts" is the co-author of one of the studies that the prosecution used at the initial trial calling bullshit on the way that they used it speaks volumes.
From the outside looking in this conviction appears at best to no longer be beyond reasonable doubt, and at worst a horrendous farce. This is why a competent defence is so important, and it looks strongly like Letby didn't have one. [Post edited 5 Feb 7:39]
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Reply | Look after number 1
at 07:09 4 Feb 2025
Pointless with Williams still here.
That's the change that needs to be made. We've already seen this season that the squad we have should be more than capable of a boring mid table finish. The halfwit we have in direct charge of them however clearly isn't and needs to be put out of his misery as soon as possible. |
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Reply | Why is it so hard getting immigration numbers down?
at 07:24 3 Feb 2025
Actually it took the Black Death to really raise the standard of living. Those who survived could charge greater prices for their services.
Basic economics. Increase demand or reduce supply, and prices rise. Do the opposite and both businesses and labour become poorer.
Now consider the impact of 10m additional bodies into the Labour market. And this is also part of the problem caused by the EU's freedom of movement in addition to migration from elsewhere. |
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Reply | Governed by madmen/women
at 21:44 1 Feb 2025
It's Labour. They'll put as much power as they can into the hands of the utility companies and then Nationalise them so they control it. To their very core they hate people having power over their own lives and property.
Employed by the state. Housed by the state. Fed by the state. Owned by the state. |
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Reply | Grimes
at 10:18 31 Jan 2025
Or Martin and Southampton.
It makes sense really. Pointless bidding on a player/manager unless you know you can afford the total package. These days agreeing a price with the selling club seems almost like the last thing to be sorted.
The myth that no contact takes place before a bid is accepted is handy for all involved to avoid anarchy. |
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Reply | Grimes
at 09:51 31 Jan 2025
I don't think Coventry have approached him out of the blue. I think the interest has been sought out by MG's agent as a result of the above.
As for him knowing what's on offer, that's pretty standard these days. Nobody pays anything but lip service to the tapping up rules. Everything is done through agents so the players can honestly say they've had no contact with the buying club. |
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