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Why are people starting threads celebrating his departure?
Whether you agreed with his approach or not or disliked his lack of fist pumping from the sidelines, this is the most successful manager in the history of our club.
On the face of it we're 12th in the premier league, in the last 32 of the europa league, in the 5th round of the FA Cup with our star players coming back from injury.
And I agree his time was coming to an end & I wanted to see him replaced (when the time was right) but have some class ffs. Some of you act like we're Chelsea/Man Utd, you have no idea of the truly shocking managers we've had over the years such as Alan Cork, Kevin Cullis & Nick Cusak to name a few.
It's been plain sailing following the swans for too long, it's actually quite fun in a perverse kind of way to follow the on-going developments over the past 48hrs.
Monk has literally gone from being almost bricked by an irate chico in the car park to now being his boss, you couldn't make that sh!t up.
It feels churlish to say so but the more I watch us play the more I'm beginning to think Laudrup has taken us as far as he can. There are too many tactics and football deficiencies which are in obvious need of addressing which are going unnoticed or unchecked.
Why are we insisting on playing so narrow and threading the ball through the eye of a needle when we 2 very good good wingers in Routlege and Hernandez who have proved last season they can take a man on and beat him?
Why are we insisting they tuck inside to an already congested midfield and try playing messi esque through balls which they simply don't have the ability to pull off?
Why has our work rate and pressing off the ball dropped so dramatically from the last few seasons?An integral part of how we play our passing game successfully depends on this high intensity desire to win the ball back.
Why has the simple triangles of passing we perfected so well disappeared from our game? Why has our movement off the ball disappeared?
Why is the first pass any player looks to make is back in the direction whence it came? Why have our players lost the ability to take a touch, turn and look for a forward pass?
Why do we insist on bringing every man back to defend a corner leaving no outlet for a punt up field when clearing our lines under pressure?
Why do our players think it's acceptable to play possession football in our own half in the dying minutes of a game when losing and not press forward?
Why does Ashley Williams suddenly think he's Franz Beckenbaur and dawdle on the ball for an age letting opposition players close him down before playing a lazy pass sideways?
Why is Shelvey the only player who is able to pass forward? Why are we suddenly relying on everything attacking wise to come through a 21 year old lad who is far from the finished article himself?
Why have we spent £12m on Bony who looks like he's got bags of potential to not only play him but then when we do give him zero service?
Why is it acceptable to treat paying fans like mugs and not offer a single shot on goal in games and show more desire not to lose than to win?
For me only Laudrup can be held responsible, either the players aren't willing to play for him any longer or he's gone off the boil and distracted by his move away in the summer. Since we won the cup we've not been consistent or showed the same level of desire to succeed. I fear come January things will decidedly worse again and laudrups time could have run out.
Did some searching on the net about last night's documentary & came across some threads from other teams message boards. Most are well impressed by what we've achieved. Just wait till a "Jack to a King" comes out, covering us winning the Europa League,. It can't happen surely?
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