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We have been, even when doing reasonably well under Cooper, deathly boring to watch for nearly six seasons. Add the generally dull style of play to a team losing games, particularly at home as we have done this season, and what do people expect? Growing crowds?
It's got little to do with marketing. You could make tickets a fiver each and a lot of the floating support wouldn't bother to make the effort to get down to games. People want to be entertained, to feel like they've got their time and money's worth. That's the most important thing that the club needs to do.
It's not unique to Swansea either. Nor even football. It's definitely a South Wales sporting public thing.
It was quite noticeable how often one of their midfielders (probably the #7, I didn't notice) dropped very deep to get the ball. Their approach very much resembled what we tried to do for much of the season.
The second half is where Sheehan fell down a little for me. He tends to make the right subs in general, but usually a little late for my liking. I'd have left Vip on and played Bianchini wider, maybe for Ronald, maybe as a shift to a 4-4-2. Give them a dual threat to face. Instead we did a straight swap and tried to play the same way, which didn't suit FB at all. He's a willing runner, but in no way able to hold the ball up as well, which left it coming straight back at us a bit too much.
Under Williams he was frequently left completely isolated with non existent service and support. Sheehan clearly understood this (unlike many of our supporters) and has rectified the situation, resulting in Vipotnik getting a new lease of life.
Things aren't perfect. A natural #10 behind him instead of Cullen would be a big help, but at least now we're starting to see more of the player who was always there if people cared to look.
One move in the second half would have comfortably been the goal of the season if the keeper hadn't saved from Eom. Quick, one touch passing through midfield and a cracking ball into the box.
13 shots from 39.4% possession, but by no means long ball. Possession with a purpose, as it should always have been.
A lot of the loudest voices tend to go quiet when the team is doing well.
Excellent performance today. The entertainment value is significantly improved and three clean sheets on the bounce after the way we started the year is hugely pleasing.
For me Sheehan is getting the performances that these players were always capable of out of them as opposed to having them playing beyond themselves, but letting them play their natural games instead of trying to squeeze them into some idiotic system is paying dividends for him.
I can't imagine that many people are missing Grimes either.
Have read in a few places that the dog had recently had surgery and was in a crate as a result. Poor thing probably died of dehydration.
My first thoughts once that Carbon Monoxide had been ruled out that he died of a heart attack after she collapsed. The idea that he was riddled with Alzheimers and might have lived for a week after her not knowing that she had died is even more tragic.
There's nothing that O'Brien has done that Grimes was incapable of, but the difference is that OB isn't psychologically terrified of losing the ball and prepared to take risks with it.
Agreed. If they're not going to be featuring in our first team then they need to be playing proper competitive football somewhere else. Wilson had to go out on loan. Ditto Congreve, Nzingo and Cotterill.
Mooching about in the u21's would have been a waste of their time.
Never quite sure whether Bodde would have kicked on in a higher league or become another Shelvey. Like Jonjo he had no shortage of talent but by all accounts wasn't heavily blessed in the IQ department.
Our coaching staff weren't right about him being a winger, which was the main issue.
He was one of many who Williams clearly didn't have the first idea how to use. Ultimately he may have found his level as a central player, but that still doesn't excuse the negligent insanity of us playing him out wide time and time again.
If anything it actually makes it worse, because we would have been using a player who may not even have been good enough in his chosen position in one that plainly wasn't.
Planning to go hybrid with my next car, but there's no way I'd buy an EV until they can fully recharge in about five minutes, or I have no alternative.
The acting talent in this scene alone. Gene Hackman. Brad Dourif. Michael Rooker. That's without going through the rest of the cast with names like Frances McDormand, Willem Dafoe, Stephen Tobolowsky and R. Lee Ermey. What a film.
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