| In defence of Huw Jenkins 21:35 - Dec 27 with 10566 views | chessgenius |
After reading the critics of Huw Jenkins on this forum I feel we need a reality check. I feel that the situation we have found ourselves in is due to the excessive money we are paying players to play for us as our location is perhaps less glamorous than maybe a London or big city club like Liverpool or Manchester.
The board must ensure at all costs that the books are balanced at the end of the day to ensure professional football continues in a Swansea. To this end, Huw Jenkins and the board should be applauded for the way that they have managed the finances over the last ten or so years.
It seems clear to me that gates of 20000 or so are not enough to maintain a Premier League club unless a multi millionaire is prepared to bankroll the club like Bournemouth.
This is why the board were so keen to increase capacity and maybe are looking at renam8ng rights for the stadium together with increased commercial opportunities.
The only black mark I can see is the amount of investment the American owners are making. You have to speculate to accumulate.
Regarding our current position, I fear that the team need a root and branch clear out of the deadwood as team performances are at times gutless. This can only be achieved with a new manager supported by Leon Britton and Alan Curtis to revert to our Swanselona style.
To this end our recruitment needs to be much better attracting players who are comfortable on the ball, with pace up front and a solid defence with a solid midfield.
To achieve this though, we may need to go down and come back up again. |  | | |  |
| In defence of Huw Jenkins on 21:41 - Dec 27 with 5916 views | Al_Bundy |
Yes lets just forget how much we are wasting year on year on poor signings
Lets forget why the Americans are really here.
Lets forget why HJ and his cronies have made out of the club for personal gain.
Lets forget we play in the Premier League. [Post edited 27 Dec 2017 21:43]
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| In defence of Huw Jenkins on 21:41 - Dec 27 with 5904 views | TheFranchise |
So you try to defend him then list failings he's directly responsible for. Don't ever become an agent. |  | | |
| In defence of Huw Jenkins on 21:43 - Dec 27 with 5872 views | jeza739 |
This must be a wind up or posted by that big nosed..... himself | | | |
| In defence of Huw Jenkins on 21:43 - Dec 27 with 5857 views | Banosswan |
Lol, even your fake posts are slipping Huw. |  |
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| In defence of Huw Jenkins on 21:46 - Dec 27 with 5819 views | jacksfullaces |
increased capacity .. that ship sailed about 4 years ago.
12,000 in the Championship, no increase needed. | | | |
| In defence of Huw Jenkins on 21:46 - Dec 27 with 5817 views | Swanseajill |
And there was I thinking we were one of the few premiership clubs balancing our books before we were sold to the first hedge fund that came along.
No defence...sorry. |  | | |
| In defence of Huw Jenkins on 21:46 - Dec 27 with 5815 views | monmouth |
| In defence of Huw Jenkins on 21:41 - Dec 27 by TheFranchise |
So you try to defend him then list failings he's directly responsible for. Don't ever become an agent. |
Aye, I was thinking that there was nothing there in defence of the rapacious dissembling egomaniac lump of toley. |  |
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| In defence of Huw Jenkins on 21:47 - Dec 27 with 5804 views | Yossarian |
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| In defence of Huw Jenkins on 21:47 - Dec 27 with 5804 views | TheFranchise |
| In defence of Huw Jenkins on 21:46 - Dec 27 by Swanseajill |
And there was I thinking we were one of the few premiership clubs balancing our books before we were sold to the first hedge fund that came along.
No defence...sorry. |
Sadly I think a lot of that was creative accounting. | | | |
| In defence of Huw Jenkins on 21:48 - Dec 27 with 5780 views | Private_Partz |
So It is a black mark for the Yanks due to lack of investment. Who sold the club to them ....Jenkins.
The team are poor and gutless. Who recruited them..... Jenkins.
The finances have been managed well over the last 10 years. You may have had a point for the first 5 years of that period but it is nonsense to suggest we have been run well finacially for the last five years. Poor managers appointed and decent managers sacked resulting in oodles of compensation having to be paid. Guess who is responsible for that?.....go on I will tell you....it is Jenkins.
I won't pick up on the disgraceful selling of the club behind the supporter's backs as that would be off topic as you did not mention it. [Post edited 27 Dec 2017 21:50]
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| In defence of Huw Jenkins on 21:49 - Dec 27 with 5769 views | TheFranchise |
As for the stadium I have it on very good authority from someone on the council planning team that there was a deal in place 2 years ago to sort the lease out and increase capacity then the club moved the goalposts. | | | |
| In defence of Huw Jenkins on 21:50 - Dec 27 with 5758 views | Onelessstar |
Who, ultimately, was responsible for signing the majority of the "gutless" team and the merry-go-round of managers? Who went behind the back of other shareholders to sell the team? Who wouldn't find the $$ to sign Joe Allen but found the $$ to sign Clucas (no offense to him... doing his best). For all the good he has done this club, his time of being effective in his role appears to be done. No defence needed, he did great before... now he doesn't. I'd love a change. | |
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| In defence of Huw Jenkins on 21:52 - Dec 27 with 5721 views | chessgenius |
This is not a wind up and I am not Huw Jenkins or speak on his behalf. Huw Jenkins is not head of recruitment he relies on his head of recruitment to recruit players the club need. I suspect that Paul Clement had major input in bringing Sanchez and Abraham to Swansea. While Tammy has tried hard he cannot be first choice striker at his young age. Sanchez has been a disaster. I suspect that recruitment decided that Wilfred Bony was worth a try as Wilf is desperate to prove how good a striker he is. However, due to his lack of match practice and injury problems the team are missing out.
At the end of the day, recruitment can try try and sign anyone they feel can help the team but if the player does not want to join what can we do? This I feel is only going to get worse in January | | | |
| In defence of Huw Jenkins on 21:53 - Dec 27 with 5706 views | Neath_Jack |
| In defence of Huw Jenkins on 21:49 - Dec 27 by TheFranchise |
As for the stadium I have it on very good authority from someone on the council planning team that there was a deal in place 2 years ago to sort the lease out and increase capacity then the club moved the goalposts. |
And i can tell you with good authority that the yanks have very recently appointed the architects to get the design done and engage contractors. They are going ahead with the expansion. |  |
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| In defence of Huw Jenkins on 21:53 - Dec 27 with 5702 views | Yossarian |
| In defence of Huw Jenkins on 21:49 - Dec 27 by TheFranchise |
As for the stadium I have it on very good authority from someone on the council planning team that there was a deal in place 2 years ago to sort the lease out and increase capacity then the club moved the goalposts. |
There must be NO SALE - a ready mad3 campaign for the Supporters Alliance- anything else is tokenism but that might achieve something beneficial. | |
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| In defence of Huw Jenkins on 21:53 - Dec 27 with 5697 views | AguycalledJack |
Op you really are a t,w,a,t | | | |
| In defence of Huw Jenkins on 21:53 - Dec 27 with 5695 views | Private_Partz |
| In defence of Huw Jenkins on 21:43 - Dec 27 by jeza739 |
This must be a wind up or posted by that big nosed..... himself |
Well the OP has done a few other posts over the years so he maybe be airing a genuine, if very naive, opinion. He buys into the last programme notes by our DOF obviously.
Keep the replies clean though guys. Remember Big Brother is watching..... | |
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| In defence of Huw Jenkins on 21:54 - Dec 27 with 5693 views | jasper_T |
| In defence of Huw Jenkins on 21:52 - Dec 27 by chessgenius |
This is not a wind up and I am not Huw Jenkins or speak on his behalf. Huw Jenkins is not head of recruitment he relies on his head of recruitment to recruit players the club need. I suspect that Paul Clement had major input in bringing Sanchez and Abraham to Swansea. While Tammy has tried hard he cannot be first choice striker at his young age. Sanchez has been a disaster. I suspect that recruitment decided that Wilfred Bony was worth a try as Wilf is desperate to prove how good a striker he is. However, due to his lack of match practice and injury problems the team are missing out.
At the end of the day, recruitment can try try and sign anyone they feel can help the team but if the player does not want to join what can we do? This I feel is only going to get worse in January |
Abraham was a Brian Flynn recommendation. | | | |
| In defence of Huw Jenkins on 21:56 - Dec 27 with 5647 views | max936 |
And this folks is the problem we've got, there are still far far to many who love Uncle Huw and still believe he's done a wonderful job ffs, None are so blind as those that can't see. |  |
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| In defence of Huw Jenkins on 21:58 - Dec 27 with 5619 views | 1462jack |
Bell end |  | | |
| In defence of Huw Jenkins on 22:00 - Dec 27 with 5585 views | Private_Partz |
| In defence of Huw Jenkins on 21:52 - Dec 27 by chessgenius |
This is not a wind up and I am not Huw Jenkins or speak on his behalf. Huw Jenkins is not head of recruitment he relies on his head of recruitment to recruit players the club need. I suspect that Paul Clement had major input in bringing Sanchez and Abraham to Swansea. While Tammy has tried hard he cannot be first choice striker at his young age. Sanchez has been a disaster. I suspect that recruitment decided that Wilfred Bony was worth a try as Wilf is desperate to prove how good a striker he is. However, due to his lack of match practice and injury problems the team are missing out.
At the end of the day, recruitment can try try and sign anyone they feel can help the team but if the player does not want to join what can we do? This I feel is only going to get worse in January |
Signing young loanees is only a disaster as we trying to use them to replace the family silver. Guess who did that..... Jenkins.
There is a recruitment team but Jenkins is at the Head of that. Guess who appointed them....Jenkins.
I take your point about the January window. It is going to be very difficult to recruit players and a new manager. Who would want to come to such a basket case of a club. Guess who has turned the club into a joke.....need I go on. | |
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| In defence of Huw Jenkins on 22:00 - Dec 27 with 5580 views | bermudajack |
| In defence of Huw Jenkins on 21:48 - Dec 27 by Private_Partz |
So It is a black mark for the Yanks due to lack of investment. Who sold the club to them ....Jenkins.
The team are poor and gutless. Who recruited them..... Jenkins.
The finances have been managed well over the last 10 years. You may have had a point for the first 5 years of that period but it is nonsense to suggest we have been run well finacially for the last five years. Poor managers appointed and decent managers sacked resulting in oodles of compensation having to be paid. Guess who is responsible for that?.....go on I will tell you....it is Jenkins.
I won't pick up on the disgraceful selling of the club behind the supporter's backs as that would be off topic as you did not mention it. [Post edited 27 Dec 2017 21:50]
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You call this a reality check???
This is slightly more dreamland rather than a reality check...
Terrific job for over 10 years, however sold us to a US based hedge fund with no investment, poor players, paying players too much, poor player recruitment team, need to go down to come back up again...
Ask Leeds, Blackburn, Wigan, Forest, Derby, Ipswich, Sheffield Wednesday, fans et al that coming straight back up is an easy task? |  |
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| In defence of Huw Jenkins on 22:01 - Dec 27 with 5565 views | TheFranchise |
"Head of recruitment"
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| In defence of Huw Jenkins on 22:03 - Dec 27 with 5544 views | Al_Bundy |
| In defence of Huw Jenkins on 21:52 - Dec 27 by chessgenius |
This is not a wind up and I am not Huw Jenkins or speak on his behalf. Huw Jenkins is not head of recruitment he relies on his head of recruitment to recruit players the club need. I suspect that Paul Clement had major input in bringing Sanchez and Abraham to Swansea. While Tammy has tried hard he cannot be first choice striker at his young age. Sanchez has been a disaster. I suspect that recruitment decided that Wilfred Bony was worth a try as Wilf is desperate to prove how good a striker he is. However, due to his lack of match practice and injury problems the team are missing out.
At the end of the day, recruitment can try try and sign anyone they feel can help the team but if the player does not want to join what can we do? This I feel is only going to get worse in January |
So delaying the transfer of Siggy until the final days of the window was for what reason? | | | |
| In defence of Huw Jenkins on 22:04 - Dec 27 with 5520 views | max936 |
| In defence of Huw Jenkins on 21:53 - Dec 27 by Neath_Jack |
And i can tell you with good authority that the yanks have very recently appointed the architects to get the design done and engage contractors. They are going ahead with the expansion. |
What the fuk for, the team needs major investment not ground improvements, people on here are moaning about the Osprey crowd rattling around in an empty stadium, we'll have maybe 14, 15,000 next season, wft is the point of extending also where the fuk is the money coming from to pay for it? | |
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