| Job interview 06:46 - Mar 20 with 9087 views | jack247 |
Guidollin was brought in with one mandate and that was to keep us up. Whether you think our upturn in results is mainly down to him or Curtis, the objective has been more or less achieved.
Up until now, I have been an advocate of playing drab, insipid football and grinding out results. Staying up was more important to me than how we did. Now we can start to count our chickens, I'd like to see a bit more from him. Whether it's playing the likes of Kingsley more to give him first team experience, trying the likes of Montero and Amat to see if they are able to play their way into contention for next season or playing with a bit more verve and attacking purpose.
I honestly think that if he wants to be here next season he needs to step up the performance levels, the pressure is off now and he has bought himself a few games to show what he can do. Let's see what he has got.
This is not me having a dig at FG in any way, I think he has been smart so far in setting us up to nick points and keep us in the league. I haven't been at all bothered by the quality of football until now. |  | | |  |
| Job interview on 08:51 - Mar 20 with 1806 views | SwaneeRiver |
| Job interview on 08:38 - Mar 20 by jack247 |
As he should. He has done absolutely the right thing by getting us to safety any way he could. Now is the time to show what he can do with a bit less pressure. |
I will pin my mast to the sail and state that IMO we could go two ways over the next seven games.
Play like we have in some of our better performances and we'll cause a few shocks between now and the end of the season (e.g. Everton, Arsenal, the majority of the Spurs game, Bournemouth, but without giving the sloppy goals away).
Play like we did yesterday, and we'll not see another point this season against six teams who can do us some serious damage on their day and one (Newcastle) who may shock everyone starting today by turning their season around
I am personally still worried that we can get dragged back into it if we don't keep up our points haul post Monk | | | |
| Job interview on 09:01 - Mar 20 with 1805 views | Clinton |
Guidolins arrival has coincided with Siggy getting goals and assists. Before Christmas Siggy was charging around up top tackling anything that moved but not being creative.
It's the key to our turnaround and to that extent I think FGs presence is well justified.
On current form we are boring, no doubt. FG Comes across as thoughtful, let's stick with him on the basis he has as good a chance as anyone of figuring out how to get us playing next season. I don't think he will get us back to the old 'Swansea way' but,hey, things change and progress. The Swansea way might just have had its day.
Edit: as long as we stay up. Not guaranteed. [Post edited 20 Mar 2016 9:02]
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| Job interview on 09:07 - Mar 20 with 1773 views | SwaneeRiver |
| Job interview on 09:01 - Mar 20 by Clinton |
Guidolins arrival has coincided with Siggy getting goals and assists. Before Christmas Siggy was charging around up top tackling anything that moved but not being creative.
It's the key to our turnaround and to that extent I think FGs presence is well justified.
On current form we are boring, no doubt. FG Comes across as thoughtful, let's stick with him on the basis he has as good a chance as anyone of figuring out how to get us playing next season. I don't think he will get us back to the old 'Swansea way' but,hey, things change and progress. The Swansea way might just have had its day.
Edit: as long as we stay up. Not guaranteed. [Post edited 20 Mar 2016 9:02]
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Sorry, but he's no Ranieri.
Hell he's not even the Guidolin we were promised. I got the feeling he's his sicker, older brother | | | |
| Job interview on 09:08 - Mar 20 with 1783 views | Jackanapes |
Do you think Newcastle fans are looking to Benitez to play entertaining football? Or do you think they just want points? Do you think if they are 1-0 up today, and Benitez shores up the side for ten minutes, he will get called pathetic ? |  |
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| Job interview on 09:09 - Mar 20 with 1764 views | SwaneeRiver |
| Job interview on 09:08 - Mar 20 by Jackanapes |
Do you think Newcastle fans are looking to Benitez to play entertaining football? Or do you think they just want points? Do you think if they are 1-0 up today, and Benitez shores up the side for ten minutes, he will get called pathetic ? |
Who's calling him pathetic ? | | | |
| Job interview on 09:13 - Mar 20 with 1753 views | jasper_T |
| Job interview on 08:31 - Mar 20 by blaine_scfc |
I don't think it's even the case of experimenting, it's going back to what got us success in the first place, pace on the wings, Gylfi in behind the striker, Britton getting us playing in front of the back four, always giving Ash and Fede an option instead of being forced into hoofing it to nobody.
We undoubtedly need a big investment into this squad next season, but let's get our "identity" back, as Rodgers would say. |
Seems strange to think that Britton only made 9 appearances in our best league finish season. | | | |
| Job interview on 09:29 - Mar 20 with 1717 views | dgt73 |
| Job interview on 08:45 - Mar 20 by jack247 |
He won't be here next season if we do that. |
Did Hiw Jenkins tell you that ?. |  |
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| Job interview on 09:32 - Mar 20 with 1710 views | jasper_T |
| Job interview on 09:01 - Mar 20 by Clinton |
Guidolins arrival has coincided with Siggy getting goals and assists. Before Christmas Siggy was charging around up top tackling anything that moved but not being creative.
It's the key to our turnaround and to that extent I think FGs presence is well justified.
On current form we are boring, no doubt. FG Comes across as thoughtful, let's stick with him on the basis he has as good a chance as anyone of figuring out how to get us playing next season. I don't think he will get us back to the old 'Swansea way' but,hey, things change and progress. The Swansea way might just have had its day.
Edit: as long as we stay up. Not guaranteed. [Post edited 20 Mar 2016 9:02]
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Gylfi's goalscoring also coincided with Jonjo leaving. Fancy that. | | | |
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| Job interview on 09:36 - Mar 20 with 1715 views | jack247 |
| Job interview on 09:29 - Mar 20 by dgt73 |
Did Hiw Jenkins tell you that ?. |
No. It's common sense. | | | |
| Job interview on 09:47 - Mar 20 with 1691 views | Starsky |
| Job interview on 07:54 - Mar 20 by Dr_Winston |
I'm waiting for the first person to claim that winning at Everton was down to Curtis and not Guidolin. Can't be far away. |
Against Everton we pressed high and that first half was encouraging.
Big miss at the end though |  |
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| Job interview on 11:39 - Mar 20 with 1624 views | Clinton |
| Job interview on 09:32 - Mar 20 by jasper_T |
Gylfi's goalscoring also coincided with Jonjo leaving. Fancy that. |
Aye, fair comment. | |
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With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son! |
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| Job interview on 11:50 - Mar 20 with 1612 views | WarwickHunt |
| Job interview on 09:08 - Mar 20 by Jackanapes |
Do you think Newcastle fans are looking to Benitez to play entertaining football? Or do you think they just want points? Do you think if they are 1-0 up today, and Benitez shores up the side for ten minutes, he will get called pathetic ? |
If we'd been offered a woeful performance that was painful to watch (and by f*ck it was) but gave us three points we'd all have taken it. His brief was to keep us up - presumably at all costs. That's virtually assured with 7 games to go.
If we persist in playing ugly, negative football then I'll be calling for his head too.
However, his reputation suggests otherwise. Let's not write the bloke off just yet... |  | | |
| Job interview on 11:57 - Mar 20 with 1598 views | Starsky |
| Job interview on 11:50 - Mar 20 by WarwickHunt |
If we'd been offered a woeful performance that was painful to watch (and by f*ck it was) but gave us three points we'd all have taken it. His brief was to keep us up - presumably at all costs. That's virtually assured with 7 games to go.
If we persist in playing ugly, negative football then I'll be calling for his head too.
However, his reputation suggests otherwise. Let's not write the bloke off just yet... |
Reasoned reply.
I just don't have any confidence in him in charge of the purse strings whilst he does his own thing next season.
Expensive experiment that we might not recover from.
The signs so far aren't good.
Also, him getting the credit for keeping us up is clouded by Curtis's efforts whilst Guido wax hospitalised. | |
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| Job interview on 11:59 - Mar 20 with 1593 views | Jackanapes |
| Job interview on 11:57 - Mar 20 by Starsky |
Reasoned reply.
I just don't have any confidence in him in charge of the purse strings whilst he does his own thing next season.
Expensive experiment that we might not recover from.
The signs so far aren't good.
Also, him getting the credit for keeping us up is clouded by Curtis's efforts whilst Guido wax hospitalised. |
Yes, I still havent recovered from the three ridiculous goals we conceded at Bournemouth. | |
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| Job interview on 12:07 - Mar 20 with 1577 views | Starsky |
| Job interview on 11:59 - Mar 20 by Jackanapes |
Yes, I still havent recovered from the three ridiculous goals we conceded at Bournemouth. |
At least we looked potent up front against Boyrnemouth.
The defence fecked up at set pieces last week..as they did continually yesterday against a much worse team | |
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| Job interview on 12:10 - Mar 20 with 1469 views | tomdickharry |
| Job interview on 08:40 - Mar 20 by dgt73 |
I'm saying that for this season we keep grinding out results in a unfashionable way and no experiments. |
Not far wrong,Guidolin is gambling with £150M at stake if he starts to experiment before we are safe,he will not do it. | | | |
| Job interview on 12:14 - Mar 20 with 1461 views | A_Fans_Dad |
| Job interview on 11:59 - Mar 20 by Jackanapes |
Yes, I still havent recovered from the three ridiculous goals we conceded at Bournemouth. |
That was nothing to do with the "Manager" and set up and all to do with the meltdown in "Defence" and that includes the goal keeper.
We actually scored 2 goals, how many times have we done that and not won or drawn in the Prem?
Just once, in the Sunderland Refereeing Fiasco. | | | |
| Job interview on 12:23 - Mar 20 with 1430 views | WarwickHunt |
| Job interview on 11:57 - Mar 20 by Starsky |
Reasoned reply.
I just don't have any confidence in him in charge of the purse strings whilst he does his own thing next season.
Expensive experiment that we might not recover from.
The signs so far aren't good.
Also, him getting the credit for keeping us up is clouded by Curtis's efforts whilst Guido wax hospitalised. |
He's got a reputation for spotting and developing talent. I have no idea how true it is, but he's generally credited with turning Sanchez into a great player. Inler and Cuadrado are usually mentioned too.
Anyway, let's face it - a monkey sticking a pin into a list of players couldn't do any worse than spunking £15m on Eder, Tabanou and Naughton... | | | |
| Job interview on 12:28 - Mar 20 with 1412 views | Starsky |
| Job interview on 12:23 - Mar 20 by WarwickHunt |
He's got a reputation for spotting and developing talent. I have no idea how true it is, but he's generally credited with turning Sanchez into a great player. Inler and Cuadrado are usually mentioned too.
Anyway, let's face it - a monkey sticking a pin into a list of players couldn't do any worse than spunking £15m on Eder, Tabanou and Naughton... |
I'm very nervous. There's nothing at all that's inspired me yet and were already into Paloschi for £8million, who he left out yesterday | |
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| Job interview on 12:29 - Mar 20 with 1408 views | Wingstandwood |
| Job interview on 12:23 - Mar 20 by WarwickHunt |
He's got a reputation for spotting and developing talent. I have no idea how true it is, but he's generally credited with turning Sanchez into a great player. Inler and Cuadrado are usually mentioned too.
Anyway, let's face it - a monkey sticking a pin into a list of players couldn't do any worse than spunking £15m on Eder, Tabanou and Naughton... |
"Anyway, let's face it - a monkey sticking a pin into a list of players couldn't do any worse than spunking £15m on Eder, Tabanou and Naughton..."
Too bloody true I wonder if what went wrong with SCFC transfers will come under serious review come Summer? I assume so? |  |
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| Job interview on 13:21 - Mar 20 with 1363 views | jack247 |
| Job interview on 11:50 - Mar 20 by WarwickHunt |
If we'd been offered a woeful performance that was painful to watch (and by f*ck it was) but gave us three points we'd all have taken it. His brief was to keep us up - presumably at all costs. That's virtually assured with 7 games to go.
If we persist in playing ugly, negative football then I'll be calling for his head too.
However, his reputation suggests otherwise. Let's not write the bloke off just yet... |
Perfect answer. He has succeeded in his brief with 7 games to spare, now has the rest of the season to show why he should be next year. Performances like yesterday won't do it. I am sure he is well aware of that and couldn't wait to get the points on the board so he can get us playing the kind of football he is known for in Italy. | | | |
| Job interview on 14:17 - Mar 20 with 1320 views | 1973scott |
Guidolin is renowned as a studious, hyper-tactical mind who favours an attack-minded approach. He’s never been rigid to one single system and has overhauled his entire formation mid-season in the past. His stress may have been linked to this tendency to overanalyse. Additionally, he possesses the vital skill of being able to adapt the system to the players at his disposal.
The former midfielder isn't averse to using three at the back, which he went into detail on after spending four days as a guest of Pep Guardiola at Bayern Munich’s training ground last year: “I was pleased to discuss [Arturo] Vidal operating behind [Mario] Götze in a 3-6-1 system [with Pep]. That formation is the direction that the great teams are favouring with three defenders and only one pure centre-back. There are then many players making the midfield dense and lacking points of reference.”
Read more at http://www.fourfourtwo.com/features/so-who-new-swansea-head-coach-francesco-guid | | | |
| Job interview on 17:26 - Mar 20 with 1242 views | NeiltheTaylor |
| Job interview on 12:28 - Mar 20 by Starsky |
I'm very nervous. There's nothing at all that's inspired me yet and were already into Paloschi for £8million, who he left out yesterday |
Good point. $8M bench warmers...Christ! | |
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| Job interview on 18:00 - Mar 20 with 1192 views | Wingstandwood |
We'll one thing is for sure! It looks like Guidollin has witnessed the very objective he was specifically employed to do i.e. keeping SCFC up. And I'd guess he'll pocket a rather generous bonus from it all? So even if he is not kept on at least he'll be compensated by leaving a substantially richer man ? Oh and he'll leave with an enhanced reputation! | |
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