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Thread | Leicester
at 13:05 6 Feb 2016
1-0 up away at Man City. If they win they go 6 points clear at the top.
I just dont get it. What a story though. |
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Thread | Greedy players and agents ruining the future of the game? Time to stop it.
at 14:44 22 Jan 2016
With this being undoubtedly the golden age in terms of cash flow into Premier League clubs, should it be ensured that it is used to safeguard these clubs from future financial difficulties? The SKY deal seems to be getting bigger and bigger every year, but it is taken by players leaving the clubs and its fans with nothing. This is wrong on every level.
Not only are clubs now operating at a loss, quite amazing considering that each club now generates £100m+ per season, but football is at its mist expensive for the fans. With the club backed into a corner to charge such an amount in order to pay these ridiculous wages, demanded by players and agents knowing that clubs are getting more income.
Should this be the time for the FA to step in with a wage cap? Football seems to be on the verge of implosion and the recent figures from even our end do not make healthy viewing, something that should never happen with such an income. The almost doesnt seem a point in the increase in funds if it is just redirected to players wages that the club cannot bare without the continued funding - If players and agents are able to continue their free reign of legal blackmail then the clubs we love are going to be stripped bare. Im not sure how much longer this can go on. |
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Thread | Poyet and Pep
at 18:44 9 Dec 2015
Not a regular poster by any means but would like to think that what I have posted shows I am somewhat a sensible chappy and am not one to peddle unfounded rumour.
I had a conversation today with someone I trust implicitly when it comes to Swans related inner workings. Gus Poyet is our top target to replace Garry, Rodgers is not seen as a viable target and we have also sounded out Moyes. As an aside - a lot of the trouble and conflict at the club was actually down to Pep Clotet and not Garry himself. Many of the players have a massive issue with Pep. He didnt explain why and I didn't ask.
Not my first choice, but also not a bad choice in my opinion. |
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Thread | Worrying but exciting times to be a Swans fan.
at 20:07 5 Dec 2015
Monk did a great job of steadying the sinking ship that Laudrup was captaining, unfortunately doesnt have the nouse and probably experience to right it now his own ship is heading for some rocks.
So now we are left with an opportunity to bring in a manager that can take us to levels we have not seen before, with a new approach and new fresh ideas. I felt Garry was trying to change too much and it came across that he wasnt completely understanding of what he was doing with regards to that. Lots of comments about being adaptable and having different styles, rather than having ine and doing it well. The Taybarns aproach if you will.
It says a lot that I am inadvertantly speaking in the past tense regarding Garry, but after reasing the board it seems my feeling of optimism and excitement at this opportunity doesnt seem to be felt by everyone. I think there are good times ahead, it really cant get much worse oerformance wise.
Thanks Garry and good luck Huw in the coming weeks. |
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Thread | Wanting a change of management...
at 02:43 8 Nov 2015
After a long journey back to my home, a quick read of the board tells me that this is now trendily seen as "pressing the panic button" and only the people "mildly concerned" are capable of thinking rationally? That about right?
Rubbish, in my opinion. As soon as things go wrong you have the two camps forming online without fail. One that pro actively looks for solutions and another that revels in telling these people they are red button pushing idiots. Ive seen it time and time again to the point of nauseating tedium, they are usually the ones not wanting to form a solid opinion for fear of looking silly later down the line.
These same camps appeared around the time Laudrup needed replacing, however the "rational mildly concerned" quickly filtered into the "the board did the right thing" camp and went largely unnoticed. Im sure the same will happen again this time.
The fact is, Garry is not making rational decisions and has not responded well to pressure at all. Football is becoming more and more a game of short term and in my opinion the time has come again to hand over the baton. That takes nothing away from his achievements last year, or indeed Laudrups the year before he went - but the team is not being led in the direction that is right for Swansea City, just as it was not back then.
I don't believe I am panicking or pressing any imaginary button. Things are not right, and I don't believe it is something a few wins will put right. There seems a total lack of direction, nobody really seems to have a game plan, it is pedestrian, rudderless, unimaginative football and I can't remember a time in our PL era where we have gone nearly a quarter of a season scoring so little (2?) from open play, and the worrying thing is that number actually flatters us.
To bring in Tabanou and Eder and refuse to use them is baffling at best and a frivolous waste of much needed funds at worst. To not address the imbalance of the side (noted by many as far back as Watford away) is either shockingly stubborn or complete blindness to obvious pitfalls in the set up. All is not well, of that I am sure, and just like the end Laudrups tenure - for me, it is thanks for last year but we must move on.
We need our core principles restored just like Huw famously once stated, I agreed then and I suggest the same now. |
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Thread | Too lop sided?
at 12:39 20 Sep 2015
At Watford when the team was read out, I was quietly condfident. Lots of creativity all over the park I thought to myself.
However, it was clear within a few minutes that we were seriously lacking width, a trait we have not become familiar with at Swansea. I said it out loud, "we will struggle to break these down".
The narrow nature of our play unfortunately continued. This was making our attacks seriously predictable, very narrow and easy to manage.
Swansea are at their most potent when they are stretching the opponants, it is quite easy to contain a team that is narrow and attacks through the middle, everyone just condenses.
This continued until Montero came on and we directed our attacks through him.
The same happened yesterday. If we play down the left then we will play with width, if we play down the right side then the attacks will be through the middle.
Everton realised this instantly. We currently have a winger on one side and a striker/number 10 on the other that plays just off Gomis.
We look to be missing the Dyer/Rangel interplay. As soon as our Kyle Naughton has the ball over half way, there is rarely anybody in the channel ahead of him, unless someone like Jonjo makes the run from center midfield.
The natural width, or lack of, on the right is affecting us right now and we dont look like scoring or anywhere near as dangerous. Teams have done their homework.
The trouble is now, what do we do? Gylfi is a class act and I am sure will be again if we have two natural wingers. Shelvey has been rampant of late. Cork is doing the Britton job faultlessly and Ayew is a Champions league quality player. This all withiut mentioning Ki who was my player of the year last year.
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