| “The Swansea Way” is a myth 13:19 - May 21 with 6366 views | Brad_Bobbly |
We played it for what, like, 3 years?
I remember us hoofing it long to Trundle at the Vetch.
We need to win matches again, not worry about playing like a Barcelona lite. |  | | |  |
| “The Swansea Way” is a myth on 13:24 - May 21 with 4627 views | omarjack |
I agree..There is no such thing as the Swansea way or cringe-worthy "Swansealona"..
We've managed to string few passes for a couple of seasons yay us..before and after that it's always been nothing but a shower of sh!t..(Not that I mind sh!t football as long as we're winning)
After all..although many will deny that..
Winning=Entertainment :) |  |
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| “The Swansea Way” is a myth on 13:24 - May 21 with 4621 views | BarrySwan |
The difference is of course that we actually had someone who could do something with and possibly score a goal after receiving a big hoof from the back.
We don't now do we? |  | | |
| “The Swansea Way” is a myth on 13:27 - May 21 with 4596 views | SWAND |
Playing like that has got us no where in the past and its now got us relegated from the prem so I disagree.
I do believe if we played more attacking free flowing football we wouldn't now be in the championship. | | | |
| “The Swansea Way” is a myth on 13:30 - May 21 with 4581 views | jack247 |
And all those memories you’ve got of us pumping long balls are lower division memories. The ‘Swansea way’ era ran broadly from not long after Martinez took over to not long after Laudrup left. Our most successful period in the last 30 years, if not ever.
We punched above our weight for quite a while in the PL because we had a different way of playing. If we play the same way as most other teams, it becomes a question of finance and clever recruitment. Once it boils down to that, you eventually find your natural level | | | |
| “The Swansea Way” is a myth on 13:38 - May 21 with 4528 views | BytholWyn |
| “The Swansea Way” is a myth on 13:30 - May 21 by jack247 |
And all those memories you’ve got of us pumping long balls are lower division memories. The ‘Swansea way’ era ran broadly from not long after Martinez took over to not long after Laudrup left. Our most successful period in the last 30 years, if not ever.
We punched above our weight for quite a while in the PL because we had a different way of playing. If we play the same way as most other teams, it becomes a question of finance and clever recruitment. Once it boils down to that, you eventually find your natural level |
Thanks for that piece of sanity. The cluelessness of some (many?) of my fellow Swansea fans is pretty staggering. |  | | |
| “The Swansea Way” is a myth on 13:43 - May 21 with 4486 views | jack247 |
| “The Swansea Way” is a myth on 13:24 - May 21 by omarjack |
I agree..There is no such thing as the Swansea way or cringe-worthy "Swansealona"..
We've managed to string few passes for a couple of seasons yay us..before and after that it's always been nothing but a shower of sh!t..(Not that I mind sh!t football as long as we're winning)
After all..although many will deny that..
Winning=Entertainment :) |
We used to win a lot more often when we played that style | | | |
| “The Swansea Way” is a myth on 13:44 - May 21 with 4483 views | A_Fans_Dad |
| “The Swansea Way” is a myth on 13:27 - May 21 by SWAND |
Playing like that has got us no where in the past and its now got us relegated from the prem so I disagree.
I do believe if we played more attacking free flowing football we wouldn't now be in the championship. |
Free Flowing football is useless unless you have one or two players that can actually put it in the back of the net, it really doesn't matter how it gets there where "winning" is concerned.
It is attractiveness that it makes the big difference to. [Post edited 21 May 2018 13:47]
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| “The Swansea Way” is a myth on 13:49 - May 21 with 4440 views | Loyal |
How is it a myth if we played it for 3 years ? |  |
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| “The Swansea Way” is a myth on 13:51 - May 21 with 4423 views | A_Fans_Dad |
| “The Swansea Way” is a myth on 13:48 - May 21 by Bobby_Fischer |
I think you'll find playing any type of football is " useless unless you have one or two players that can actually put it in the back of the net"
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| “The Swansea Way” is a myth on 14:29 - May 21 with 4328 views | Smellyplumz |
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| “The Swansea Way” is a myth on 14:41 - May 21 with 4263 views | thornabyswan |
| “The Swansea Way” is a myth on 13:49 - May 21 by Loyal |
How is it a myth if we played it for 3 years ? |
It's not a myth it's how we got promoted from League 1 and the Championship.
Limited budget but we were different to most sides.
It also served us well for the first 3 or 4 seasons in the PL.
No coincidence we started our downward spiral as the style changed. | |
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| “The Swansea Way” is a myth on 14:41 - May 21 with 4259 views | giantstoneater |
Playing long high balls up to trundle sorry can't picture it, for a team in the lower divisions we played a reasonable style of football, Trundle would have been ineffective if we'd have just lumped long balls up to him. Jacket liked to get the ball forward quickly but we still played some tidy stuff or Martinez wouldn't have been effective for us having the ball bypass him time and time again. Total football perhaps it was not but neither it was unrelenting long ball barrages.Not sure where "The Swansea way" saying came from or "Swansealona" for that matter but we have mostly been a passion g side. |  | | |
| “The Swansea Way” is a myth on 14:50 - May 21 with 4228 views | builthjack |
| “The Swansea Way” is a myth on 13:49 - May 21 by Loyal |
How is it a myth if we played it for 3 years ? |
5-6 years |  |
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| “The Swansea Way” is a myth on 15:59 - May 21 with 4061 views | Brad_Bobbly |
| “The Swansea Way” is a myth on 13:38 - May 21 by BytholWyn |
Thanks for that piece of sanity. The cluelessness of some (many?) of my fellow Swansea fans is pretty staggering. |
You’re clueless.
Football has evolved. Tiki taka/Swanselona style posession passing sideways and backwards for 90 minutes wouldn’t have worked last season.
We haven’t evolved, and tiki taka wouldn’t solve our deep rooted issues. | | | |
| “The Swansea Way” is a myth on 16:05 - May 21 with 4035 views | jack247 |
| “The Swansea Way” is a myth on 15:59 - May 21 by Brad_Bobbly |
You’re clueless.
Football has evolved. Tiki taka/Swanselona style posession passing sideways and backwards for 90 minutes wouldn’t have worked last season.
We haven’t evolved, and tiki taka wouldn’t solve our deep rooted issues. |
Yeah because last season was such a roaring success. With all that attacking football we played | | | |
| “The Swansea Way” is a myth on 16:21 - May 21 with 3990 views | Headmaster |
Here is the Swansea Way in all its glory...
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| “The Swansea Way” is a myth on 16:21 - May 21 with 3982 views | Captain_Sham |
| “The Swansea Way” is a myth on 13:49 - May 21 by Loyal |
How is it a myth if we played it for 3 years ? |
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| “The Swansea Way” is a myth on 16:29 - May 21 with 3950 views | AustinIsOurHero |
| “The Swansea Way” is a myth on 15:59 - May 21 by Brad_Bobbly |
You’re clueless.
Football has evolved. Tiki taka/Swanselona style posession passing sideways and backwards for 90 minutes wouldn’t have worked last season.
We haven’t evolved, and tiki taka wouldn’t solve our deep rooted issues. |
You're right we haven't evolved... We've devolved at an alarming rate. |  |
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| “The Swansea Way” is a myth on 16:32 - May 21 with 3939 views | Tom1912 |
3 season is a lie. It got us promoted from League One (1 season), we played it for our time in the Championship until it got us promoted (3 seasons) and we played it under Rodgers and Laudrup in the PL (2 seasons). So 6 seasons, from 2007 to 2013, and then it started coming undone, albeit with a very good season under Monk in 2014-15.
I can't see how it's a myth when it took us from League One to a mid table PL club and a League Cup. We certainly haven't been playing that way for awhile though. | | | |
| “The Swansea Way” is a myth on 16:39 - May 21 with 3922 views | jack247 |
| “The Swansea Way” is a myth on 16:32 - May 21 by Tom1912 |
3 season is a lie. It got us promoted from League One (1 season), we played it for our time in the Championship until it got us promoted (3 seasons) and we played it under Rodgers and Laudrup in the PL (2 seasons). So 6 seasons, from 2007 to 2013, and then it started coming undone, albeit with a very good season under Monk in 2014-15.
I can't see how it's a myth when it took us from League One to a mid table PL club and a League Cup. We certainly haven't been playing that way for awhile though. |
What some seem to be struggling with, is yes it was 6 ad a bit seasons, but they were the best 6 and a bit seasons a lot of us can remember, both in terms of aesthetics and results.
We’d quite likely not found our way out of league one without it. | | | |
| “The Swansea Way” is a myth on 17:16 - May 21 with 3819 views | Dr_Winston |
| “The Swansea Way” is a myth on 14:41 - May 21 by giantstoneater |
Playing long high balls up to trundle sorry can't picture it, for a team in the lower divisions we played a reasonable style of football, Trundle would have been ineffective if we'd have just lumped long balls up to him. Jacket liked to get the ball forward quickly but we still played some tidy stuff or Martinez wouldn't have been effective for us having the ball bypass him time and time again. Total football perhaps it was not but neither it was unrelenting long ball barrages.Not sure where "The Swansea way" saying came from or "Swansealona" for that matter but we have mostly been a passion g side. |
Don't go claiming we weren't a Welsh version of Wimbledon under KJ. They don't like that in these parts. |  |
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| “The Swansea Way” is a myth on 17:36 - May 21 with 3780 views | BobbyBacala |
| “The Swansea Way” is a myth on 15:59 - May 21 by Brad_Bobbly |
You’re clueless.
Football has evolved. Tiki taka/Swanselona style posession passing sideways and backwards for 90 minutes wouldn’t have worked last season.
We haven’t evolved, and tiki taka wouldn’t solve our deep rooted issues. |
What has football evolved into? The best teams in England can tear teams apart on the counter, but City, Spurs and Liverpool are all still able to pass teams to death (and maybe if Liverpool were a bit better at it they wouldn't concede so many in the last 10 minutes of games).
People forgot that possession is as much defensive as it is attacking - having given up on tiki taka, our tactics are now just 10 men behind the ball and hoof it long. We need something a bit more than that and I certainly don't want to get promotrd playing like that as we'll just get relegated again the year after.
Whoever our new manager is, I hope he's given time to implement a decent style of possession based football and isn't sacked if we're midtable in January 2019. Much more important to find an identity and return to the Premier League stronger, even if it takes a season (and even better if we can go straight back up playing football that won't see us relegated first season back). | | | |
| “The Swansea Way” is a myth on 17:40 - May 21 with 3764 views | Private_Partz |
| “The Swansea Way” is a myth on 14:41 - May 21 by thornabyswan |
It's not a myth it's how we got promoted from League 1 and the Championship.
Limited budget but we were different to most sides.
It also served us well for the first 3 or 4 seasons in the PL.
No coincidence we started our downward spiral as the style changed. |
Spot on. We used to hoof the ball to Trundle? Really? That well known demon of the ariel assault?
Did we Hell, we played it to feet so he could turn defenders to get a shot on goal.
Martinez developed it further followed by Brenda, Sousa and ML.
Tikka Tacka, The Swansea Way, Swansalona were very real.
Teams could not hurt us as they could not get the ball. The speeded up sequences on MOTD laid testament to that. Only us and Aresenal played this style and we often played it better than them. Other clubs copied us. It was criminal the way we abandoned our style by incompetence and greed.
We don't half sell ourselves short.
It is still possible to move forward with this style. We need a like minded manager and a new recruitment team and the world could still be our lobster.
Whether there is the will or the wit within the club to achieve that is another matter...... |  |
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| “The Swansea Way” is a myth on 17:58 - May 21 with 3703 views | Rancid |
We didn't give ourselves that name.It was put on us by the media and we rolled with it.It was no myth, we played a certain way and it was different from anybody else and extremely effective.It was copied by several clubs who thought the ' The Swansea Way' was the way forward for them too.
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.It was our identification and it felt good and there's nothing wrong in us wanting to go back to it considering we played that way for 6 seasons and it was no flash in the pan. |  | | |
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