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Reply | Luke Williams
at 21:24 13 Feb 2025
"Individual errors" are an inevitable result of the kind of idiotic passing for the sake of passing that we employed under Martin and now with the Temu version that we currently have in charge of the club. If people haven't grasped that even though we've had almost four entire years of it, then it says a lot about them.
Then again the type of person who would defend Williams in the situation we find ourselves in now is no doubt the type of person who thought that Russell Martin was clearly a Premier League manager in waiting and not a total prat masquerading as one.
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Reply | Franco and Naughton
at 20:59 13 Feb 2025
Franco should have started. That he didn't just underlines the belief that there is some part of Williams' psyche that doesn't "get" him.
Fulton wasn't the issue. The herd mentality will decide otherwise, but he played a fairly typical Grimes game throughout. The fact that even though he's gone we still felt we needed someone to do that is the whole problem. |
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Reply | Richard Montague : Nothing to do with me says Williams plus that offside goal
at 20:56 13 Feb 2025
I can't hate Coleman.
I don't doubt his intentions, but he's out of his depth and I suspect that nobody is more aware of that than him. Hence his reluctance to do anything about Williams until someone he considers more qualified (opinions may vary) to make that decision is in place. |
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Reply | Small Boat Crossings
at 20:39 13 Feb 2025
There are a truly remarkable number of recent arrivals in the UK who were born on New Years Day based on what I've seen. |
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Reply | Live music?
at 19:43 13 Feb 2025
Hayseed Dixie in the Ponty Arts Centre on Tuesday gone. Good fun. Part stand up show, part concert, all performed by excellent musicians. |
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Reply | Luke Williams
at 19:15 13 Feb 2025
We currently sit 12th in the table for away form and 21st in the table for home form, which tells you precisely where our problem lies.
If the squad was truly as awful as some people believe then there's no way on Earth we'd be achieving the halfway decent results on the road that we are. Our biggest problem is that we play the same way at home as we do away. We only have a Plan A, and when that doesn't work all Williams is capable of doing is trying Plan A harder.
This also factors into the sheer boredom that is most games at home and the cratering attendances. A cagey, possession centric style may work well on the road. At home, we need to do more. People aren't excited by passing the ball around endlessly trying to frustrate the opposition. They want to see us on the front foot trying to win games, and we don't. Instead we make it easy for the away team to do precisely that to us. |
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Reply | Richard Montague appointed as football director at Swansea City : Joel Cotteril
at 07:24 12 Feb 2025
Because Notts County have spent bonkers amounts of money in recent years, something their fans don't want to acknowledge because they prefer the narrative of "poor" them Vs "rich" Wrexham, when in reality both had budgets that almost everyone else at their levels couldn't get near.
Also puts Williams achievements there into perspective. |
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Reply | Thoughts on O'Brien?
at 22:11 9 Feb 2025
He often got way beyond the halfway line, he just did jack shit when he was there. Risk free, tedious passing. |
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Reply | A woke policy agenda now emerging?
at 21:47 9 Feb 2025
We have a Government led by people who hate the nation they ostensibly lead and have no problem in blaming it for many of the World's ills. It's not going to end well. |
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Reply | Wales' 2025 Six Nations squad ...
at 21:27 9 Feb 2025
This may not go down well on a thread such as this, but to me it seems fairly obvious that one of the reasons for Welsh Rugby's current malaise is the relative success of the football teams since 2010.
If you were a sporting mad kid in Wales during the last fifteen years, then you're not going to grow up wanting to be Alun Wyn Jones. You're going to want to be Gareth Bale, or Michu. Or Aaron Ramsey, or Joe Allen. Rugby simply isn't going to register. The talent isn't coming through the ranks because interest in Rugby Union just hasn't been there.
I don't doubt that potentially excellent Rugby players who have never considered becoming so can be found in the stands at most Swans or Cardiff games. |
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Reply | Swansea City : Grit and determination earns the Swans all the points
at 19:00 9 Feb 2025
Hard to avoid the belief that a team "led" by Grimes would have lost that today. There does seem to have been major issues behind the scenes that he was central to. Prompted by LW's clumsy appeals to WBA perhaps, but fate has offered us a fair tilt at a clean slate.
If nothing else, today confirms that despite all the tedious wailing, this team and squad are capable of more than we've seen in 2025 thus far. It remains unclear whether the head coach is, but we will give him the benefit of the doubt today. A similar performance to that second half against Sheff W is necessary to avoid the axe IMO.
Get through this season, maintain a Championship place, and see where we are in the Summer. |
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Reply | Bristol City v Swansea City : Match day thread
at 14:14 9 Feb 2025
O'Brien very much out of the Downes mould rather than the Grimes one and we were better for it in the second half. Hard to avoid the idea that we'd have fallen to another tame defeat in a team "led" by Grimes.
Still a hell of a lot of work for Williams to do if he wants to save his job for me, but that was better. [Post edited 9 Feb 14:14]
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Reply | Lucy Letby Guilty
at 21:55 5 Feb 2025
"The panel also cast doubt on the supposed insulin poisonings, which were the foundation of the prosecution case. Jurors in Letby’s original trial were told that the insulin and c-peptide levels of two infants meant they must have been deliberately injected with insulin. Letby’s original legal team did not contest that claim, yet the jury was told that Letby was the only person who could have poisoned both babies.
A report by Prof Geoff Chase of the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, however, concluded that the two babies’ insulin and c-peptide levels were “typical” for babies of their age and that the tests the prosecution used were “not of forensic quality”. |
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Reply | Fans forum announced
at 21:03 5 Feb 2025
Probably not. It's depressing.
I hate modern coaches and what they're turning football into. It's the first time in 30+ years I'm giving serious consideration into not bothering any more.
And this isn't just a Swans thing in case anyone thinks it's down to petulance about how we're doing. I used to obsess over football. Soak it up. Watch any game I could. These days it's boring. Identikit teams trying to play in an identikit fashion. All trying to dominate possession and turn stats into performance instead of just trying to score more goals than whoever they're playing against. |
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Reply | Fans forum announced
at 20:53 5 Feb 2025
I don't want to hate on Coleman. I don't doubt the mans intentions, but if he can't see at this point that Williams is basically Diet Martin then there's not much more that can be done for him.
We need a new manager. ASAP. |
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