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Reply | Southampton v Swansea City : FA Cup Match day thread
at 18:51 12 Jan 2025
A disappointing, poor showing from us today which underlined how weak our squad is. And the gulf in class between a ( poor ) Premier league team a mid table championship outfit.
Naughton and Christie have been excellent pros but look finished at this level. Naughton could and should have done better for their 2nd and 3rd goals. Our keeper has also enjoyed a good career but he looked so short of match sharpness and wasn’t good enough today although redeemed himself late on. Defensively we weren’t up to it without Cabango and Darling and it could have been a lot worse.
Luckily we only have Cardiff to play next 😉 |
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Reply | Southampton v Swansea City : FA Cup Match day thread
at 10:54 12 Jan 2025
Next time you go to a game, watch the movement of the players off the ball. Constantly on the move to make angles to receive passes and to get away from markers. You can’t always see this on TV but it might help you realise how difficult it can be to keep possession of the ball. And how fit you need to be. With a football brain. |
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Reply | Southampton v Swansea City : FA Cup Match day thread
at 09:36 12 Jan 2025
No just a Swansea City fan who wants us to win every game we play. I’m not jumping on the bandwagon of disliking an employee for some misguided naive comments. That’s trivial stuff really. |
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Reply | Southampton v Swansea City : FA Cup Match day thread
at 09:18 12 Jan 2025
Win or lose I’m hoping for a good solid performance that fans will be proud of. One that shows commitment pride and togetherness . Luke has done well so far so let’s hope it continues. |
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Reply | Sean Dyche
at 22:06 10 Jan 2025
“ He would take us up in two seasons that’s for sure “
For sure? I’d disagree with that. It would depend on many things. This team isn’t getting promoted regardless of who the manager is. He simply isn’t the right fit for Swansea in any case.
He won’t be coming here so it’s a pointless discussion really. |
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Reply | Sean Dyche
at 18:19 10 Jan 2025
Absolutely not. Not under any circumstances.
He would be a good fit at certain clubs but not ours. Defensively organised but that style of football belongs in the 1950s when your big centre forward could barge the keeper into the net and get away with it. Please god no. |
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Reply | Southampton v Swansea City : FA Cup Match day thread
at 20:32 9 Jan 2025
All fit players are in contention for selection. I repeat after 8 days without a game they will be ready. There is no need to “ rest “ anyone unless there are any ongoing niggling injury issues. Our squad isn’t strong enough to make too many changes without significantly weakening the team. I suspect that some regular starters might be on the bench but I hope I’m wrong. |
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Reply | Southampton v Swansea City : FA Cup Match day thread
at 08:56 9 Jan 2025
Resting players who have not played for 8 days?
It’s the FA Cup not the Pontins Midland Reserve cup.
Lots of money and pride at stake.
As for Southampton their confidence is low and the crowd will be quiet and small comparatively so it’s a good time to play them. We owe it to our fans and club to give it the best shot.
Resting players ? They are young footballers. Get out there and do your job. |
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Reply | Southampton v Swansea City : FA Cup Match day thread
at 20:09 8 Jan 2025
We have only 20 league games left to play in 4 months with just a handful of midweek fixtures.
This is the FA Cup. It’s a chance to go through and to generate some excitement around the club with the possibility of making further progress
The players do not need a rest. They prefer to be playing games. Ronald looks jaded but that’s because he’s inconsistent with his performances. He’s fit and young. Play a strong team to give ourselves a chance of going through. |
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Reply | Is Peart Harris available to buy,?
at 17:51 7 Jan 2025
Peart-Harris would be a good acquisition. Definitely got something about him. And he’s young enough to continue an upward trajectory in terms of improvement as he gains experience. Depends on his wage expectation but you sense that he is a London lad who might not be too keen on the move. |
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Reply | This Soton game
at 17:00 6 Jan 2025
It’s the FA Cup. Play our strongest team and go for it. It’s that simple. If we lose let’s make sure we go down fighting and give it the best shot possible. Other views are available. |
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Reply | Today's attendance
at 19:53 5 Jan 2025
Ok so as I suspected, no one stayed away purely as a direct consequence of any remarks that Luke had made. |
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Reply | Today's attendance
at 16:10 5 Jan 2025
The concept of staying away because the manager has said something you don’t approve of is bizarre.
That’s not what a fan would do is it. You might not enjoy the style of football and I know for example that some fans didn’t attend as much when Sousa was manager as the defensive minded football was insipid and lacked flair with goalmouth action almost non existent
I think other factors against West Brom would and did influence the attendance as we have highlighted. But can anyone come forward and say that they stayed away SOLELY because of some misguided remarks from our rather inexperienced manager who is otherwise doing a fine job on balance? |
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Reply | To clarify to date
at 11:48 5 Jan 2025
People making mountains out of molehills. That’s football fans for you I suppose. Some are worse than others. Onehunglow especially could do with a hobby like knitting or crocheting. |
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Reply | Today's attendance
at 22:40 4 Jan 2025
Luke is doing a decent job. We are about where we’d expect or hope to be at the moment. Possibly a bit higher than where I predicted us to finish (13-16).
But he has shown some inexperience with a couple of ill informed comments. It’s getting blown out of all proportion, in my view that is . |
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Reply | Today's attendance
at 21:59 4 Jan 2025
1. Just after Xmas
2. On Sky Sports
3. Early kick off
4 Bad weather forecast
5. Bad performance at Portsmouth
Was a decent attendance all things considered but you carry on making things up. |
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Reply | Williams out Williams in and to west brom.
at 18:24 3 Jan 2025
I think you need to understand what constitutes a good win record percentage at Swansea
If you look at our history only Martinez has managed to reach a 50% win record. That’s an outstanding record and our best ever. Toshack was around 40% and then the likes of Jan Molby had a win percentage of around 38% putting him in the top ten.
As always you cannot merely look at stats in isolation as they only tell part of the story and can be massaged accordingly.
But taking all factors into consideration there’s no doubt that Luke has a decent record. I maintain that a par round to use a golf analogy for us this season is a 13-16th place finish. It could go either way it seems and we are on a knife edge at the moment
I’m not sure why there’s so much outrage. He’s a manager still finding his way. He’s got potential certainly and as with every other manager out there their priority is themselves and their families. First and foremost. Just like all of us then really. If he thinks that moving to WBA is good for him then so be it. |
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Reply | Williams out Williams in and to west brom.
at 01:05 3 Jan 2025
Which is a decent, commendable record when you consider that we were in 18th place in the division when he was appointed. And a win in his next match makes it a 38% win ratio. Not too shabby when we consider where our club stands.
He’s done quite well. Of course he could have handled things differently ( West Brom connection ) but he’s on a ( steepish )learning curve himself. There no loyalty in football any more, that’s if there ever was. |
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Reply | Russell Martin
at 16:58 2 Jan 2025
It won’t happen unfortunately
Norwich City will be his most likely next destination after he’s had a break |
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