Charlie being watched on 06:11 - Dec 21 with 2428 views | Whiterockin | | | | |
Charlie being watched on 08:53 - Dec 21 with 2320 views | Joesus_Of_Narbereth | It’s crazy that we are hearing of a bidding war between some of the biggest clubs in football but our manager wants to keep him on the bench. | |
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Charlie being watched on 10:11 - Dec 21 with 2243 views | jack247 | We could never have afforded Patino and he’d never have wanted to come here permanently. | | | |
Charlie being watched on 15:38 - Dec 21 with 2105 views | ReslovenSwan1 | No more than one or two top quality loans. In my opinion they are killing the club and devaluing the academy. | |
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Charlie being watched on 16:49 - Dec 21 with 2069 views | jack247 |
Charlie being watched on 15:38 - Dec 21 by ReslovenSwan1 | No more than one or two top quality loans. In my opinion they are killing the club and devaluing the academy. |
We’ve been in managed decline since relegation, but yeah, it’s Harrison Ashby that’s killing us. | | | |
Charlie being watched on 14:25 - Dec 22 with 1940 views | howenjack | Charlies's a player not to be sniffed at. | | | |
Charlie being watched on 16:45 - Dec 22 with 1870 views | swan_si |
Charlie being watched on 14:25 - Dec 22 by howenjack | Charlies's a player not to be sniffed at. |
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Charlie being watched on 18:59 - Dec 22 with 1820 views | RhonddaSwans |
Charlie being watched on 14:25 - Dec 22 by howenjack | Charlies's a player not to be sniffed at. |
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Charlie being watched on 21:57 - Dec 22 with 1743 views | ReslovenSwan1 |
Charlie being watched on 16:49 - Dec 21 by jack247 | We’ve been in managed decline since relegation, but yeah, it’s Harrison Ashby that’s killing us. |
One line cheap shots are the worst. Swansea does not live and die by investment. It lives and grows by creating good players either from the academy or importing players young like McBurnie, James and now Wood. Swansea strength in the past has is player development shrewd managers and shrewd signings. Filling the team with five loans kills development and has a kick on effect of n finances as there is no ne to sell. | |
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Charlie being watched on 22:09 - Dec 22 with 1724 views | RhonddaSwans |
Charlie being watched on 21:57 - Dec 22 by ReslovenSwan1 | One line cheap shots are the worst. Swansea does not live and die by investment. It lives and grows by creating good players either from the academy or importing players young like McBurnie, James and now Wood. Swansea strength in the past has is player development shrewd managers and shrewd signings. Filling the team with five loans kills development and has a kick on effect of n finances as there is no ne to sell. |
one line. hahahaha 🤣😂🤣😂 | |
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Charlie being watched on 22:31 - Dec 22 with 1692 views | Whiterockin | Walked around the ground by himself after the game clapping the crowd and waving goodbye. | | | |
Charlie being watched on 06:56 - Dec 23 with 1544 views | jack247 |
Charlie being watched on 21:57 - Dec 22 by ReslovenSwan1 | One line cheap shots are the worst. Swansea does not live and die by investment. It lives and grows by creating good players either from the academy or importing players young like McBurnie, James and now Wood. Swansea strength in the past has is player development shrewd managers and shrewd signings. Filling the team with five loans kills development and has a kick on effect of n finances as there is no ne to sell. |
It doesn’t take multiple paragraphs to highlight the absurdity of you cheerleading for our owners at every given opportunity and blaming loan players for our current predicament. | | | |
Charlie being watched on 10:19 - Dec 23 with 1434 views | union_jack |
Charlie being watched on 06:56 - Dec 23 by jack247 | It doesn’t take multiple paragraphs to highlight the absurdity of you cheerleading for our owners at every given opportunity and blaming loan players for our current predicament. |
I think Res is on a good salary from the club with some of the stuff he spouts in support if the owners (and other things). However, I think he has a point with loanees. I cant help thinking that some of them are only thinking of their own development rather than that of the team. And to be fair to him (well it is Christmas😂) he knows the U21 set up better than most but whether the players he mentions are good enough, I don’t know. Especially as we are in a survival period atm. | |
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Charlie being watched on 11:04 - Dec 23 with 1400 views | jack247 |
Charlie being watched on 10:19 - Dec 23 by union_jack | I think Res is on a good salary from the club with some of the stuff he spouts in support if the owners (and other things). However, I think he has a point with loanees. I cant help thinking that some of them are only thinking of their own development rather than that of the team. And to be fair to him (well it is Christmas😂) he knows the U21 set up better than most but whether the players he mentions are good enough, I don’t know. Especially as we are in a survival period atm. |
In theory he has a point. Reality, as he well knows, is that no one we’ve let go without a run in the first team over the last few years has gone on to a better, or even equal club. Only possible argument you can make is Whittaker, who was 19 or 20 when he came here and cost nearly a million. If we had 4 or 5 ex under 21s proving us wrong by playing in the PL or for bigger championship clubs, he’d have a point. That’s without even considering that we probably wouldn’t have gone up without Borini in 2011, wouldn’t have got anywhere near the playoffs without Coopers loans and would quite likely be in the bottom three now with Fisher in goal. | | | |
Charlie being watched on 12:07 - Dec 23 with 1349 views | EagleEye | When a club continually sells its best players & only spends a fraction of the money taken in for replacement players it is highly probable that you are going to end by up with a weaker squad year on year. This is what we see at the moment. I would certainly expect that due consideration is given to up and coming academy players when considering loan player choices. Loan players have to be taken in to add quality in areas where the club has squad weaknesses identified by the coaches (in theory). Our club has a poor record of loaning out academy players for development. Expecting such players to step up from academy football to the Championship is a big ask & few clubs are able to achieve this successfully Most clubs that are promoted from the Championship bolster their squad with loanees. Its all about getting the right players in the right positions | | | |
Charlie being watched on 13:05 - Dec 23 with 1303 views | jasper_T |
Charlie being watched on 11:04 - Dec 23 by jack247 | In theory he has a point. Reality, as he well knows, is that no one we’ve let go without a run in the first team over the last few years has gone on to a better, or even equal club. Only possible argument you can make is Whittaker, who was 19 or 20 when he came here and cost nearly a million. If we had 4 or 5 ex under 21s proving us wrong by playing in the PL or for bigger championship clubs, he’d have a point. That’s without even considering that we probably wouldn’t have gone up without Borini in 2011, wouldn’t have got anywhere near the playoffs without Coopers loans and would quite likely be in the bottom three now with Fisher in goal. |
Norrington-Davies was let go at 16. Preston's keeper last night was released. Ryan Hedges played 43 games for Blackburn last season, they finished above us. 4 or 5 PL/top Championship players passed over would be insane for a club our size. Heads would justifiably roll. | | | |
Charlie being watched on 13:42 - Dec 23 with 1274 views | jack247 |
Charlie being watched on 13:05 - Dec 23 by jasper_T | Norrington-Davies was let go at 16. Preston's keeper last night was released. Ryan Hedges played 43 games for Blackburn last season, they finished above us. 4 or 5 PL/top Championship players passed over would be insane for a club our size. Heads would justifiably roll. |
There we go. One example we let go, 8 years ago as a 16 year old when we were pretty much at our peak in the PL. Standards were a lot higher. If he was here as a 16 year old now, you’d like to think we’d be looking to integrate him into the team within a couple of years. Ryan Hedges was here around the same time and has spent a few years kicking about in the lower leagues then Scotland, but fair enough, Blackburn are a similar stature to us. There would be justifiable uproar if we brought Dai Cornell back. He’s also spent every season since leaving us playing at a lower level, usually as a backup. I think he’s played a handful of games for Preston in a year and a half. If these are the best examples of players loanees are keeping out of the team, they aren’t a massive problem. | | | |
Charlie being watched on 14:47 - Dec 23 with 1235 views | jasper_T |
Charlie being watched on 13:42 - Dec 23 by jack247 | There we go. One example we let go, 8 years ago as a 16 year old when we were pretty much at our peak in the PL. Standards were a lot higher. If he was here as a 16 year old now, you’d like to think we’d be looking to integrate him into the team within a couple of years. Ryan Hedges was here around the same time and has spent a few years kicking about in the lower leagues then Scotland, but fair enough, Blackburn are a similar stature to us. There would be justifiable uproar if we brought Dai Cornell back. He’s also spent every season since leaving us playing at a lower level, usually as a backup. I think he’s played a handful of games for Preston in a year and a half. If these are the best examples of players loanees are keeping out of the team, they aren’t a massive problem. |
Can't score if you don't shoot, and we have regularly given the opportunities to other clubs' players. Cabango was lucky that Wilmot got injured and then Guehi was shambolic when he arrived. Bang average Luke Cundle given plenty of minutes over (bang average) Ollie Cooper last season, helping Wolves rather than ourselves. Azeem Abdulai looking at loan players acquired for the bench in both his main and backup positions, little hope even without the injury. | | | |
Charlie being watched on 15:16 - Dec 23 with 1213 views | KeithHaynes |
Charlie being watched on 13:42 - Dec 23 by jack247 | There we go. One example we let go, 8 years ago as a 16 year old when we were pretty much at our peak in the PL. Standards were a lot higher. If he was here as a 16 year old now, you’d like to think we’d be looking to integrate him into the team within a couple of years. Ryan Hedges was here around the same time and has spent a few years kicking about in the lower leagues then Scotland, but fair enough, Blackburn are a similar stature to us. There would be justifiable uproar if we brought Dai Cornell back. He’s also spent every season since leaving us playing at a lower level, usually as a backup. I think he’s played a handful of games for Preston in a year and a half. If these are the best examples of players loanees are keeping out of the team, they aren’t a massive problem. |
Hedges had no chance getting anywhere near the team when he was with us. The midfield back then was superb. | |
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Charlie being watched on 15:19 - Dec 23 with 1210 views | jack247 |
Charlie being watched on 14:47 - Dec 23 by jasper_T | Can't score if you don't shoot, and we have regularly given the opportunities to other clubs' players. Cabango was lucky that Wilmot got injured and then Guehi was shambolic when he arrived. Bang average Luke Cundle given plenty of minutes over (bang average) Ollie Cooper last season, helping Wolves rather than ourselves. Azeem Abdulai looking at loan players acquired for the bench in both his main and backup positions, little hope even without the injury. |
He had a couple of cameos, albeit out of position, at the start of the season. If I remember correctly, Duff said he was due to start the next game when he got injured. We’ll get one wrong at some point, but since relegation, everyone who has been promoted to the first team has either gone on to better things, or is in and around the team (Cabango, Cooper). Those who we have let go, are playing at lower levels. Remains to be seen what happens with players like Abdulai and Congreve, but our track record in this area is very good. No reason they can’t go on loan and have other clubs develop them for us if they aren’t quite first team ready but have the potential to get there. | | | |
Charlie being watched on 16:52 - Dec 23 with 1166 views | RichardO |
Charlie being watched on 15:19 - Dec 23 by jack247 | He had a couple of cameos, albeit out of position, at the start of the season. If I remember correctly, Duff said he was due to start the next game when he got injured. We’ll get one wrong at some point, but since relegation, everyone who has been promoted to the first team has either gone on to better things, or is in and around the team (Cabango, Cooper). Those who we have let go, are playing at lower levels. Remains to be seen what happens with players like Abdulai and Congreve, but our track record in this area is very good. No reason they can’t go on loan and have other clubs develop them for us if they aren’t quite first team ready but have the potential to get there. |
There is a question of the bang average players at this level is that they end up having to do a lot of the donkey work to let the better players shine at this level. No point if we have a team of of people who can win games for you if they are not given time, space and the ball in positions that can hurt the oppositions. In certain areas of the team that youthfulness in the middle was and is a godsend and it caused a problem last year because Martin mid term didn't stick with youth because he changed things against Burnley in the first game (not helped by Mannings injury) and didn't revert back to a similar until the end of the season and Duff did similar for the Leicester game and never went back. Patino looks as if he is going back so Sheehan has rightly used Liam Walsh who has not disgraced himself. If Key is injured will Abdulai, f fit, slot into the Key position and slot in on the right in front of Darling? | | | |
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