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Reply | Do we really care.Seriously
at 19:33 1 Feb 2025
Last paragraph is bang on.
It’s fairly obvious Williams has lost control and given up. I’m not sure though, that this group of players is good enough even with a new manager.
Coleman has to sort one, preferably both of those issues out in the next few days or we’re staring down the barrel. |
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Reply | Swansea City v Coventry City : Match day thread
at 19:14 1 Feb 2025
Getting rid of Grimes is fine, but we have to replace him with a footballing midfielder or find a new way of playing.
We had 11 touches in their box because we couldn’t pass our way from defence to midfield and resorted to the long balls some people have been craving.
I may be wrong, but it looked like Coventry had more of the ball than us in the first half. Once it went 2-0, they just kept us at arms length, which was fairly easy for them.
I certainly agree the squad is weaker. Let’s see what Coleman can do by Monday
Edit - it was very much a Grimes thing. Doesn’t mean it will be long term. I said before the game I didn’t think Williams would have enough time to find a new way of playing by today and he had no plan B. That was abysmal though. I read ‘eleven strangers’ on here earlier and that was an apt description. [Post edited 1 Feb 19:28]
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Reply | Swansea City v Coventry City : Match day thread
at 18:39 1 Feb 2025
We tried to play as if Grimes was there without him being there. When that failed, we launched it long down the channels to isolated wide forwards. Ok if you’ve got Ayew and Lowe. Not if you’ve got Ronald and Bianchini.
On top of that, Franco had an awful game by the high standards he usually sets.
Do we give him a week to find a new way of playing or just sack him now. The way we played today won’t ever work. |
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Reply | Do we really care.Seriously
at 18:34 1 Feb 2025
So are ‘no worse than Williams’ and ‘caused no real damage’.
Being better than Bradley is absolutely no yardstick though. He was doing ok until he lost the dressing room. Since then he’s been abysmal.
We’re now left with a limp manager and players who aren’t good enough. |
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Reply | Do we really care.Seriously
at 18:18 1 Feb 2025
He was worse than Williams and he would have relegated us comfortably, which is why he was fired so quickly.
He cared though. He was just hopeless. Williams has just given up and is waiting to be paid off. His comments are flippant and disinterested. His demeanour is terrible and it quite clearly seeps onto the pitch.
If he’s like that in post match interviews, imagine how depressing he must be day in day out with tye players. |
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Reply | Grimes gone official site
at 12:22 1 Feb 2025
MPH bringing it out from the back?
We can put eleven players on the pitch, but I don’t think Williams will have had enough time to change the way we play. Partly on him for not having a plan B.
I’ve come round to selling Grimes was the right move, as he essentially was the way we played and it hasn’t worked for 6 or 7 games. I just don’t think we’ll be able to change it within a week. |
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Reply | Grimes gone official site
at 11:59 1 Feb 2025
In which case it probably will be Fulton. I hope we don’t try to play everything out through him because it’s not his game. Nor is it Francos |
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Reply | Grimes gone official site
at 11:36 1 Feb 2025
Something has changed in Grimes over the last few weeks. Plenty of speculation over a rift with Williams and there’s probably no smoke without fire.
He’s been a model professional and very popular with his teammates throughout his time here, that’s not even up for debate.
Whatever has gone wrong, it seems to have soured quite quickly and dramatically though. They may play like a weight has been lifted today.
My guess is he’ll start with Allen. It’s not much time to change the playing style and Fulton is totally unsuited to the role Grimes was doing. |
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Reply | Grimes gone official site
at 11:21 1 Feb 2025
Whatever he says now he’s left, there has definitely been a change in attitude and intensity since the West Brom link.
From the team as a whole, not Grimes as an individual.
Hopefully this galvanises them. |
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Reply | Lampard on Grimes
at 10:20 1 Feb 2025
That would seem pretty obvious to me. He’s not quick enough for the PL and is very left footed.
One of the best technical midfielders in the championship. If he’s got pace and movement around him at Coventry, he’ll do well. If he doesn’t have teammates that suit his strengths and compensate for his weaknesses, he won’t. |
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Reply | Jacob Wright - Man City ...
at 10:04 1 Feb 2025
Not that Man City are a great example of this, but there’s potentially huge value in academy players that the bigger clubs are having to offload due to PSR. I don’t know a lot about Jacob Wright, but there will be plenty of players sold that those clubs would otherwise have kept and loaned out.
It is a gamble and our squad does lack experience, but I can see championship clubs going down this route.
I didn’t actually think we would commit that type of transfer fee, particularly when we couldn’t get Low across the line.Kudos if this happens. |
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Reply | Jacob Wright - Man City ...
at 08:09 1 Feb 2025
Only from my mate who thinks he has insider knowledge but gets more wrong as he does right - looks a great signing if it happens |
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Reply | Grimes gone official site
at 07:22 1 Feb 2025
Never thought I’d be classing alongside the Whitakers and Obafemis, but it does seem he’s been a corrosive influence for the last few weeks.
Still not convinced the players are behind Williams, but really hoping we see a reaction today.
Coleman needs to work some magic by Monday. |
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Reply | Melker in Wales as the purchase and loan back is explained
at 19:35 30 Jan 2025
I’m not knocking the signing, nor the structure of the deal. The article clearly explains why it had to be done that way.
I am concerned we’re going to replace Grimes with a deadline day panic buy, or worse not at all this season, though.
Whatever people think of him, he was a key player and one we probably hadn’t expected to lose. |
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