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Reply | Swansea City v Sheffield Utd: Match day thread
at 06:47 22 Jan 2025
Completely agree.
I thought he’d lost the players, still not convinced he hasn’t, but you can’t argue with the commitment last night. Game hinged on decisions and we got completely shafted.
I still want him gone, he showed his hand, we know now he’ll waffle on about building things, but he’ll be off as soon as a slightly better offer comes along.
The frustrating thing, is if we’d put that much in against Cardiff, Portsmouth (and Hull although that was before his episode), we’d quite likely have beaten all of them. |
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Reply | Our crap pitch
at 06:39 22 Jan 2025
Ospreys are leaving. Not sure exactly when, but yes it should help the pitch. It looked like an allotment last night.
You’re right, it’s not conducive to passing football. Not sure on other teams pitches, They rarely look like that though. |
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Reply | January Transfer Thread
at 12:57 20 Jan 2025
I’ll be the second.
Plenty can’t appreciate how difficult it is to get halfway through the season with next to nothing beyond the starting eleven. That’s before we consider the lack of creativity and the inexperience up front.
That being said, it went off a cliff immediately after his imbecilic comments. We’ve been spanked by two of the weakest teams in the division.
There is a clear line in the sand from when we went to a mid table team who would win as many as we lose and invariably compete, to the shell of a team we are at the moment. |
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Reply | Azeem Abdulai
at 11:13 20 Jan 2025
Luke Cundle did this well for us.
Nothing spectacular or eye catching, but short, simple passes that moved us up the field centrally and he’d then find space and ask for the ball in a more advanced position.
Not saying he is the player we need, but we need someone who does that. |
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Reply | Azeem Abdulai
at 11:09 20 Jan 2025
This is another example of why PSR needs to be reviewed urgently.
He hasn’t shown a lot, certainly not enough to be tried in central midfield in my opinion.
But he’s on his first senior contract, can’t be a huge earner and did come with a reputation from the under 21s.
Without PSR, this is a season long loan to a club like Orient all day long. See if he can do it in central midfield with regular game time. Bring him back here the following season if he does well.
But we can’t do that, we need him gone just to be able to bring players in this window. Not because we can’t afford to, but because we’ve got a box to tick. It’s a shambles. |
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Reply | Has Williams gone to Netherlands
at 18:41 19 Jan 2025
Really not all it’s cracked up to be is it?
I’m all for stopping Newcastle buying the best 20 players on the planet, or even Birmingham and Wrexham buying their way through the divisions.
But when it stops a modest club trying to progress slowly after 8 years of neglect by its previous owners, you really have to question if it’s fit for purpose. |
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Reply | Matthew 'For Sure' Grimes
at 18:01 19 Jan 2025
Saying…
He drops too deep
He looks for the safe pass
He slows us down
His corners are useless etc etc
Is fair enough as far as I’m concerned.
One or two do get a bit insidious and make stuff up. I agree with you there, that’s completely out of order. Being a yes man and having no balls are good examples.
It’s not a personal dig at you, I just don’t think stuttering through an interview is much to get on his back for. |
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Reply | Matthew 'For Sure' Grimes
at 17:31 19 Jan 2025
I have dealt with it. I said I think it’s a bit childish.
I agree, criticise how he plays by all means. No need to slag him off. Most on here know the difference and stick to it.
He gets a lot of criticism. Some of it deserved, a lot of it isn’t IMO. |
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Reply | Cardiff City v Swansea City : Match day thread
at 17:11 19 Jan 2025
There’s an element of this as well. They did the same last season under Duff.
Whether the manager has lost the players or not, they aren’t entitled to stroll around half heartedly in any game, let alone that one. |
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Reply | Matthew 'For Sure' Grimes
at 17:09 19 Jan 2025
I just think it’s a bit childish to criticise footballers over how they speak on TV. Only my opinion.
Anything wrong with what he said? Or did he just say ‘for sure’ too much? |
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Reply | Has Williams gone to Netherlands
at 16:55 19 Jan 2025
You’ve missed the point.
If Williams needs to run an eye over potential signings, which I don’t disagree with at all. It should be done way, way before we are halfway through the window, with no signings, in a three game week. |
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Reply | Matthew 'For Sure' Grimes
at 16:51 19 Jan 2025
If he’s saying something abundantly wrong, like Luke Williams did last week, throwing team mates under the bus, not accepting his share of responsibility etc, that’s obviously fair game.
If all he’s doing is repeating the same phrase multiple times, like lots of people do when they are on tv and are nervous, then get a grip. |
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Reply | Has Williams gone to Netherlands
at 15:20 19 Jan 2025
This is reasonable enough.
But it shouldn’t be happening with two weeks of the window left, especially when we have a game Tuesday.
Targets, backup targets and backup backup targets should all have been thoroughly vetted by now. |
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Reply | January Transfer Thread
at 13:05 19 Jan 2025
And this is precisely it.
We are fine at the moment points wise, because he was doing well enough before he lost the players.
We’re in relegation form and we’ll quickly get dragged into it if we keep giving up after half an hour. |
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Reply | Swansea City : Sorry Luke, but this simply isn’t working
at 05:44 19 Jan 2025
Sheehans football wasn’t too dissimilar to Duffs when he was in charge. I’m assuming he’d have us playing similarly to Williams if he stepped in now. All we need is the team playing with a bit more conviction.
Not change too much, just remove the bad apple/boss the team have lost respect for from the equation. He’s not a kong term option, but I’m sure that would be enough to steady the ship for the rest of the season.
Sheehan promoted
Williams on gardening leave
No real impact on PSR
Or is that too simplistic? |
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Reply | Ronald ? Is it all his fault ?
at 20:50 18 Jan 2025
By defensive responsibility, I don’t mean marking runs and challenging for headers. Williams wants him to be the focal point when we pass it out from the back, which means him often being very deep when we’re in possession.
A 30 year old Nsughton could do that job just as well, on top of being a much better defender. I think most of us agree Grimes is more effective when he’s further forward.
Moot point because we probably won’t find another player with Naughtons skillset and intelligence who still has the legs to play that role. |
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Reply | Ronald ? Is it all his fault ?
at 20:40 18 Jan 2025
Freeing the fullbacks up to attack more and absolving Grimes of the defensive responsibility. I agree, he’d have been ideal for it. |
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