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I just want to say 07:06 - Dec 31 with 7519 viewsstAteSwan

My first post on this site. I have been following the Swans quietly here from the states for the last 4 years. The first time I ever watched the club play was 4 years ago. It was sort of an accident. I was looking to find a premier league team to root for, and a Man Utd fan that I know told me that I "Should root for one of the big clubs because they are the only ones who win anything. No one ever roots for the others." Naturally, I took his advice and found one of what he calls "the others." I literally decided to look up what everyone considered the least likely team to remain in the Premier League that year, and root for them to prove a point. Everyone was convinced Swansea was going to be relegated...because the swans didn't have the budget or investment to compete at the highest level.

I used what I am forever sure was an internet stream that was completely illegal, and watched my first ever Swans Game, a home game against Arsenal, and I was hooked. I fell in love with the style of play, and the way that the side never gave up.

Beginning the next year, I watched every game that I could possibly find on whatever bootleg streams were available. I probably at the time couldn't have named a single player for some of the other sides, but I could name every Swan player. Much of that is still true today.

I discovered Planet Swans about a year ago and have been lurking on this site since that time. I wanted to jump in the discussion several times, but I was still learning the difference in the English language between the UK and the USA, and was worried I would figure out a way to massively offend all of you. I showed up now because, even after the disaster at Anfield Monday, I wanted to remind all of you that Swansea has still made incredible progress over the years if you've managed to get someone like me, whose never set foot on British Soil, and has no connections to Wales at all, as a fan.
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I just want to say on 07:14 - Dec 31 with 5387 viewsTummer_from_Texas

Great post and welcome aboard - your story on becoming a Swans fan is very similar to my own. Where in the USA do you live?

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I just want to say on 07:19 - Dec 31 with 5375 viewsstAteSwan

I just want to say on 07:14 - Dec 31 by Tummer_from_Texas

Great post and welcome aboard - your story on becoming a Swans fan is very similar to my own. Where in the USA do you live?


Live in Arkansas...work in Memphis. The Mississippi River is the backdrop of my commute to work daily.
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I just want to say on 07:32 - Dec 31 with 5350 viewsSwansNZ

Welcome to the mad house

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I just want to say on 07:35 - Dec 31 with 5339 views1jack

I just want to say on 07:32 - Dec 31 by SwansNZ

Welcome to the mad house


And may God have mercy on your soul.
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I just want to say on 07:38 - Dec 31 with 5326 viewsTummer_from_Texas

I just want to say on 07:19 - Dec 31 by stAteSwan

Live in Arkansas...work in Memphis. The Mississippi River is the backdrop of my commute to work daily.


Ah - I'm pretty pissed at Arkansas after the Hogs took my Longhorns to the woodshed! (Monday was a rough sports day for me, to put it mildly.)

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I just want to say on 07:43 - Dec 31 with 5313 viewsstAteSwan

I just want to say on 07:38 - Dec 31 by Tummer_from_Texas

Ah - I'm pretty pissed at Arkansas after the Hogs took my Longhorns to the woodshed! (Monday was a rough sports day for me, to put it mildly.)


I hate the Razorbacks, so I was pretty upset by that result as well. I was relying on you guys to make my day yesterday...no such luck.
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I just want to say on 07:45 - Dec 31 with 5309 viewsstAteSwan

I just want to say on 07:32 - Dec 31 by SwansNZ

Welcome to the mad house


I am well aware of what I am getting into when I signed up. I swear a few posters here are actually Man U fans in disguise.

Thanks for the welcome though.
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I just want to say on 08:10 - Dec 31 with 5264 viewsEdmundo

Welcome along, hope you're stay here is a positive one. The more the merrier!

I like that you decided to go for one of less popular sides and that go's against the grain of most stateside advice.

Stick with us, can be fun here

Avoid politics/religion and anything controversial and you'll be ok 😎

Swansea City-Officially the best football team in Wales-FACT

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I just want to say on 08:17 - Dec 31 with 5249 viewsKilkennyjack

Croeso. What do you hear about our new American (part) owners ?

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I just want to say on 08:18 - Dec 31 with 5241 viewsBrynmill_Jack

I just want to say on 07:38 - Dec 31 by Tummer_from_Texas

Ah - I'm pretty pissed at Arkansas after the Hogs took my Longhorns to the woodshed! (Monday was a rough sports day for me, to put it mildly.)


Nobody's ever taken my longhorns to the woodshed. :-(

Each time I go to Bedd - au........................

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I just want to say on 08:19 - Dec 31 with 5239 viewsBrynmill_Jack

I just want to say on 07:19 - Dec 31 by stAteSwan

Live in Arkansas...work in Memphis. The Mississippi River is the backdrop of my commute to work daily.


That's some backdrop! Welcome

Each time I go to Bedd - au........................

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I just want to say on 08:38 - Dec 31 with 5216 viewsPhil_S

Welcome onboard and an early Happy New Year to you as well
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I just want to say on 08:41 - Dec 31 with 5201 viewsdgt73

Welcome you jack b@stard from America.

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I just want to say on 08:50 - Dec 31 with 5179 viewsDJack

Welcome to the board/madness and as to "offending" you might just have noticed that offence is easily generated by some but ultimately it means farkall as it is just a message-board. Get stuck in, enjoy the highs and more importantly accept the lows 'cos that what it means to be a football fan.

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. - Carl Sagan

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I just want to say on 14:03 - Dec 31 with 5055 viewsNeiltheTaylor

Welcome. Quite a few here with romantic musical attachments to Memphis.

Joe_bradshaw -I thought the cryochamber was the new name for Cardiff's stadium.

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I just want to say on 14:06 - Dec 31 with 5041 viewsVetchitBack

Welcome and quickly forget everything you've heard about the British and good manners.

The orthodox are always orthodox, regardless of the orthodoxy.

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I just want to say on 14:14 - Dec 31 with 5013 views_

Posts like yours are so surreal they almost bring a tear to my eye. This is some time to be a Swans fan and even though you will read the odd moan and groan we are all in this together, even you now Mr America. You make sure you stay with us through thick and thin.

Welcome to the Swansea way.

You're all out of time....the past was yours but the future's mine.
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I just want to say on 14:18 - Dec 31 with 4990 viewsdickythorpe

The guy is probably sat behind some computer in Penlan.

Post some pics for us of the Mississippi then?
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I just want to say on 14:18 - Dec 31 with 4990 viewsoh_tommy_tommy

Lovely to see and a cracking first post.

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I just want to say on 14:21 - Dec 31 with 4967 viewsNeiltheTaylor

I just want to say on 14:18 - Dec 31 by dickythorpe

The guy is probably sat behind some computer in Penlan.

Post some pics for us of the Mississippi then?


Penlan, Virginia is nowhere near the Mississippi, mun

Joe_bradshaw -I thought the cryochamber was the new name for Cardiff's stadium.

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I just want to say on 14:23 - Dec 31 with 4953 viewsRancid

We do seem to be attracting quite a lot of fans Stateside which is fantastic.10 years ago we'd be lucky to gain new fans from Swansea.

What a trip!
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I just want to say on 14:40 - Dec 31 with 4917 viewsWarwickHunt

I just want to say on 07:19 - Dec 31 by stAteSwan

Live in Arkansas...work in Memphis. The Mississippi River is the backdrop of my commute to work daily.


A long shot but it sounds like you could be close to Osceola - do you know it?

Welcome aboard by the way. Great first post.
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I just want to say on 15:20 - Dec 31 with 4856 viewsFlashberryjack

Welcome to the mad mad world that is Planet Swans.
Lots of good guys on here, even though you might not think it by reading some of the posts.
Try not to take things personal and you'll be just fine.
YJB

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I just want to say on 15:28 - Dec 31 with 4831 viewsNeiltheTaylor

I just want to say on 14:40 - Dec 31 by WarwickHunt

A long shot but it sounds like you could be close to Osceola - do you know it?

Welcome aboard by the way. Great first post.
[Post edited 31 Dec 2014 14:51]


Has Osceola got some musical significance or do you just know it?
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Joe_bradshaw -I thought the cryochamber was the new name for Cardiff's stadium.

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I just want to say on 15:31 - Dec 31 with 4824 viewsNeiltheTaylor

Mental!

Vicar and Janitor have a gunfight in Church

http://www.mynews13.com/content/news/cfnews13/news/article.html/content/news/art

Joe_bradshaw -I thought the cryochamber was the new name for Cardiff's stadium.

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