| From The Swansea Way To Walking Football 13:04 - Oct 23 with 4133 views | streetlyjack |
The 'Swansea way' seems to have evolved into a form of slow, tedious, predictable backwards and sideways football that shows no signs of improving. I'm not one for calling for the managers head and believe he does deserve more time but for heavens sake at least try to inject something different into this current system.
Every team we play know we want to dominate possession, most now just let us have the ball and sit deep looking to counter us at pace when we eventually get into the final third. Its just so predictable and means we always have to break down 11 men to score a goal - its not a mystery why we dont score many.
It grates with me when commentators refer to this as the Swansea Way, this is nothing like it. This is slow, passive, predictable and tedious at best and the best we can hope for until something changes is mid table mediocrity at the very best.
The Swansea way had a purpose, it had swagger, it had creative players who actually wanted to attack and cause problems, it had pace, it had excitement - it had all of these things whilst still maintaining the majority of possession.
The Swansea way has eroded into a form of side to side, facing your own goal, walking football. We have to try to evolve the current system & players to build a more effective game plan or we risk losing more fans to boredom.
We have a decent manager IMO and quite a few decent players but it's not producing anything other than good possession and passing stats (of which 90% go backwards or sideways).
Wouldn't it be great to see our wide players actually trying to beat a full back, a few passes over the top into space for the strikers to chase, even a few shots from outside the box - None of this seems to be programmed into the current team so they either aren't capable or the coaching team see no value in this approach?
Something needs to change or we will walk sideways and backwards towards League One with an ever shrinking fan base.
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| From The Swansea Way To Walking Football on 13:15 - Oct 26 with 300 views | RichardO |
| From The Swansea Way To Walking Football on 10:56 - Oct 26 by Whiterockin |
I see our defensive set up changing constantly throughout games. When we are defending we are 4 at the back with Grimes DM. When we are attacking we are 2 at the back with full backs pushing forward with Grimes DM. When we lose the ball Cabango and Darling split wide and Grimes covers the middle until either the full backs or wingers get back 3 changing to 5. Personally I don't see sn issue with the system because defensively we are very strong.
Regarding attacking. Against Sheffield Wednesday we had 9 shots, more than them. Against Blackburn we had 14 shots, more than them. Against Stoke we had 19 shots, double their number. The problem is not the system it's we are terrible at finishing.
All stats we provided by the BBC website. |
We are terrible at finishing in crowded areas created by the style of play, you could also say a number of teams of late have been terrible finishers and we have stalemates, the reason I say Grimes should be further forward is to unlock those stalemates having him further forward, his lack of pace in areas of the park have caused us problems does he press leaving holes behind him which he cannot recover it is exactly why he isn't the last man at our attacking corners so why would we constantly be the last man in open play, how he is used has seen differences in performances and results. Yes systems have to be changed to suit against Cardiff he and the team did not. [Post edited 26 Oct 13:21]
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| From The Swansea Way To Walking Football on 13:33 - Oct 26 with 250 views | max936 |
| From The Swansea Way To Walking Football on 13:15 - Oct 26 by RichardO |
We are terrible at finishing in crowded areas created by the style of play, you could also say a number of teams of late have been terrible finishers and we have stalemates, the reason I say Grimes should be further forward is to unlock those stalemates having him further forward, his lack of pace in areas of the park have caused us problems does he press leaving holes behind him which he cannot recover it is exactly why he isn't the last man at our attacking corners so why would we constantly be the last man in open play, how he is used has seen differences in performances and results. Yes systems have to be changed to suit against Cardiff he and the team did not. [Post edited 26 Oct 13:21]
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Nobody will put their foot in to where it may hurt, we got players who can't even read the game in those situations either, the squad has been decimated over the years and replaced with also runs prepared to be happy earning a few grand a week so its no more than we can expect. |  |
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| From The Swansea Way To Walking Football on 13:53 - Oct 26 with 227 views | onehunglow |
| From The Swansea Way To Walking Football on 13:33 - Oct 26 by max936 |
Nobody will put their foot in to where it may hurt, we got players who can't even read the game in those situations either, the squad has been decimated over the years and replaced with also runs prepared to be happy earning a few grand a week so its no more than we can expect. |
Starts with coaching S and our coaching
And it ends with it too.
Any sports team reflects its coaching staff
I’m interested to see if Gatland will change his ways and let our young bloods free in the coming autumn games | |
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