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Reply | Is it all Bluebirds Broadcasting Corporation plot
at 21:14 2 Jan 2025
The headline followed by...
Alan Curtis turned up in the dressing room to give "the" pep talk, Matt grimes did the team selection and talk and Lee Trundl did the swim away as they left the dressing room. |
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Reply | To clarify to date
at 20:32 2 Jan 2025
Aren't Sorinola, and Ogbeta in Plymouth now, with Whittaker and Obafemi...there's worse managers! |
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Reply | Portsmouth v Swansea City : Match day thread Game Day !
at 16:11 2 Jan 2025
I'm not blaming Grimes for Christie, I'm blamimg Grimes for being too deep, for too many backwards passes and being between our centre backs and getting in the way.
Oh how I wish we could keep Allen fit for the season and have him and Franco in the middle, then we'd see an improvement. Grimes, he really is marmite, there's not much middle ground with him, it's love or hate. |
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Reply | Gorllewin Abertawe Gŵyr
at 16:07 2 Jan 2025
There are 102 Primary schools and 14 secondary schools in Swansea. 10% Welsh then, roughly.
There has always ben a Welsh speaking community in Swansea, there were more Welsh speakers here 50 years ago, my gran was fluent Welsh as were all her family (all dead now) and they were from Waunarlwydd, Gypsy Cross as it used to be called. At her Chapel (Mumbles tabernacle) quite a few spoke Welsh as did the vicar, back in the day. We used to sing Welsh hymns at morning assembly and my form class teacher in Dunns lane Primary was fluent Welsh, as were a few other teachers.
The number of Welsh speakers in Wales has dropped, immigration has played it's part I think but it's not entirely because of the English, there's quite a few immigrants from outside the UK here too which some people often handily forget. |
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Reply | Second BREXIT Referendum
at 15:47 2 Jan 2025
Voting on mobile phones...then we'll see some vote rigging!
It's not a downer on young people either, it's a reality. I asked my son about his political views (bearing in mind politics is often discussed in this house) and he wasn't interested, didn't have a clue, says none of his friends ever talk politics and when it's been brought up in school most of his class are the same. He was 16 last September. Politics is boring to him, if it's not football, food or girls he's not bothered.
80 year olds now haven't used the technology like kids do. Try again in 30 years and then the 80 somethings will all know about the tech. You have to move with the times see. [Post edited 2 Jan 20:35]
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Reply | Russell Martin
at 15:41 2 Jan 2025
A "lot" eh, I wonder what that amounts to, 20....50....200? Maybe some of them were cheering the opposition?
There are people here who still love Martin, obviously not myself though! |
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Reply | Portsmouth v Swansea City : Match day thread Game Day !
at 15:39 2 Jan 2025
Grimes dropped us in it at least 3 times yesterday because he kept coming too deep. That they only got one goal from his fannying was more by luck...
How can we drive forward when the man who gets more of the ball than anybody else is so often found between oiur centre backs? If he is our pivot, if he is the supplier, then how does he supply the attck when he's practically in the away end with the fans! |
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Reply | Russell Martin
at 15:31 2 Jan 2025
Southampton played a match on our concourse? How did I miss that?
Seriously, NO. If Martin comes back I reckon there's a lot of fans, myself included who wouldn't go, crowds would drop further. Martin has been found out, I think. |
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Reply | Portsmouth v Swansea City : Match day thread Game Day !
at 12:32 2 Jan 2025
Not all shots are chances mind, a hopeful potshot from 25 yards isn;'t really a chance. That's why they created xG
Portsmouth created more chances than us yesterday with 27% of the ball.
I'd love to see the seasons stats to see how many chances we have actually created, Because, again, not all chances are equal and when Bianchini misses a chance from 6 yards, that is a chance, when darling puts one in the keepers hands from 25 yards, not so much a chance, just a shot.
And I know it's labouring the point but the reason our opponents put away more of their chances is because when we play silly passes in and around our penalty area we present them with good chances whereas the oppo aren't gifting us good chances. They make us work for ours. |
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Reply | The Folly of Rushing to Today's Green Solutions
at 12:25 2 Jan 2025
The UK never dumped acid rain, strange notion.
Port Talbot children MAY be healthier, but they could end up in poverty too.
The rivers are filthy because water companies have ignored the laws and regulators haven't done their jobs.
cabling...it is hoped? Surely they know, they know what they used and if it is designed that way.
We'd use public transport if it was suitable, it doesn't work for us.
China and India aren't following the western lead, or do you have evidence? Inida's pollution is rising.
Your shares, of course the money is going to shareholders, if you actually get 300 quid, how many shares do you have and how many have those companies sold, you likely have a tiny percentage of the total number of shares. One national grid share sells for £945.00 today. Blackrock investment owns 307,977,440 shares, Merrill Lynch 216,654, 059. Do you own a few hundred? The dividen this year is less than 16p per share. |
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Reply | The I voted labour and want to apologise thread.
at 12:10 2 Jan 2025
Not last time I looked.
I feel this thread is wrong anyway, maybe the titlke should be I have voted tory and/or labour for the last 50 years and I want to apologise.
Both party's have led us to this sorry state. |
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Reply | Second BREXIT Referendum
at 12:07 2 Jan 2025
An 80 year old could still have plenty of younger family members and want the best for them
The average 16 year old isn't that well informed and doesn't care that much about anything much besides what they want. Here,
electoralcommission.org.uk/media-centre/young-voters-wales-need-more-support-engage-elections
And from that...
More education and engagement is needed to support young voters to understand and participate in Welsh elections, according to recent research and analysis by the Electoral Commission. Approximately one in five newly enfranchised 16-17 year olds in Wales registered to vote ahead of the local government election on 5 May, with turnout lowest amongst younger age groups.
Feedback gathered for the Commission’s post-poll report on the Welsh local government elections in 2022 found a lack of motivation to engage in elections amongst young people. Reasons given included not knowing enough about candidates, parties and the democratic process in general. The majority of voters in Wales remain confident the elections were well-run and satisfied with the process of voting and registering to vote.
The report also includes feedback from parents in Wales. While 77% of parents think it’s important that children learn the basics about politics, voting and democracy at school, just 22% think the current information their children get on these topics is sufficient. Parents in lower socio-economic households are also less likely to discuss politics at home, increasing the need for school-based learning.
So, 1 in 5 or 20% of 16 and 17 year olds voted. Understand that, 80% said they either didn't care or didn't know enough. More informed, definitely not, more stake in the future, I'm sure the average 80 year old still cares about their future.
You're very ageist as if old people don't matter anymore. I wonder how you'll feel when you're 80. |
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Reply | Portsmouth v Swansea City : Match day thread
at 11:51 2 Jan 2025
Sorry but your wrong, they had 27% possession but they had 2 more shots than us and 6 shots on target to our 3, twice as many shots on target.
We reguarly put Vigoroux under pressure, he even ended up taking on an attacker 3 times, and beating him 3 times.
The lumping the ball up the pitch came from passing it around at the back until we got closed down and had no options, back to the keeper it went (usually) for him to clear.
It was slow, pointless possession, we didn't look to move it up the field, we played slow keep ball and it hurt us.
The second goal,Tymon didn't lose control, him and darling were stood close together, Tymon tried to dink a header to Darling and it all went wrong ending up with a goal.
The 4th goal, Grimes tried keeping possession and passed it to the full back who was pressed, lost possession and goal.
When you try and fail to keep possession and it costs goals, shouldn't you learn?
Stood behind that goal yesterday, watching that rubbish and being able to predict so much of it, it was awful.
A mate reckons a Portsmouth fan said we beat ourselves as much as they did.
Finally, in what world is 14 shots to 12 "nearly even" when the possession is so lop sided, we should have had many moire shots than them if the possession game was working. It didn't work. |
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Reply | Harry Darling
at 11:24 2 Jan 2025
It's a 2 edged sword though, we have seen plenty of payers sign extensions and then not look bothered. |
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Reply | Honestly Luke do you really believe your PR ! Swans crash at Pompey
at 11:21 2 Jan 2025
I haven't said anything until this morning, waited for the dust to settle so to speak. Now I feel that Williams either needs to come out and make an apology, tell us he was wrong to say what he did and understands how it all sounded, that or quit and walk away or at least, go to Coleman and thrash out a severance package.
It all depends on what he really feels. If he isn't happy here, if he'd rather leave then get him out, unless he can go speak to Coleman and see what can be done to make him happy which I'd say might just be 3 or 4 decent players.
At this point an obvious question needs asking, who do we get to replace him?
People can prattle on about loyalty but any manager who ditches a club to come here will happily ditch us when a better offer comes.
People can prattle on about experience but when we gave Martinez and Rodgers the job, what experience did they have and look at what happened there.
People can prattle on about whatever they want but when the manager/head coach makes statements like Williams has recently, something HAS to change but who can we get, who can we afford AND who will want to come here? |
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Reply | Portsmouth v Swansea City : Match day thread
at 11:02 2 Jan 2025
Well it was a nice drive down and back, even considering the weather. It was spoiled somewhat by the bit in the middle, the point of the trip.
What an absolute shitshow that was. Their second goal, we had Darlin, Grimes and Cabango all stood together on the edge of our box, getting in each oithers way, Vigoroux stood on his line...goal. What a massive farce. That's why I don't like Grimes getting in there. Too many players in close quarters in our area and we gift goals.
I also don't see the point of the short pass to Vigoroux from goal kicks, we play it around the back for a bit but then it inevitably ends up passed to Vigoroux to lump it up the pitch, usually under pressure.
Question, why can't Cabango or Darling lump it up the pitch instead of putting our keeper under pressure, no wonder he makes mistakes when he gets so much of the ball with the oppo shutting him down quickly.
More pointless passing around the defence yesterday too. Pointless possession with little or no movement for anyone to pick a pass. When I say pointless possession, I mean the kind that sees us conceding soft goals. Yesterday we had 73% possession yet we lost 4 nil and are lucky it wasn't a couple more.
73%. Think on that. The team with 27% possessiin put 4 goals on us and we managed what, 3 shots on target, they had 6. They had more shots than us over all too.
If it's not pointless possession then what is the point because it's clearly not trying to score goals. You know, those things that win games.
Luke Williams, what does he do to earn his money? When we were so obviously under the cosh after 20 minutes, when it clearly wasn't working, he didn't change anything. We kept doing the same mind numbingly awful, pointless shite up til half time. After half time we had a bit of a go for 15 minutes or so but then we reverted to the awful total dross of the first half.
All Portsmouth had to do was close us down quickly and get the ball into our box. They were quicker in thought and action.
Then after the game we hear Williams has made another silly statement.
I don't know what is going on but if Williams isn't happy then let him talk to WBA, get him moved on. The timing stinks whatwith the transfer window open. I don't know who we'd get to replace him. But honestly, something stinks and it needs to be sorted out. |
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Reply | Second BREXIT Referendum
at 23:28 1 Jan 2025
The young will get older and their thpought processes will change. That actually is inevitable. |
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Reply | What is the logic of Parody Williams.?
at 21:20 31 Dec 2024
A gentlemans agreement? How naive is that? The man has a contract, he doesn;'t need a gentlemans agreement, to start with it's easier to break than a contract, to end with, why does a man with a contract....
Loyalty is a very pliable concept these days. A person will be claiming they'd need to be dragged out kicking and screaming one week and be gone the next.
Disloyalty doesn't need an excuse, it is what it is. And when the next club is offering a good chunk more in wages, who expects any different than a goodbye? It doesn't often happen that manager turns down a big pay rise, specially if it means a jump to a bigger club, or even just moving up a division as when LW came to us.
PS, was LW loyal to his previous club? |
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