| Swansea City v Cardiff City : Matchday Thread Cardiff fans surface 😂 09:20 - Mar 15 with 16042 views | NotLoyal |
We thought an extra few days leading up to Cardiff City’s least important fixture of the season would give everyone enough time to used this boring and insignificant championship game.
 
This fixture is so not a thing it’s a non thing with added non thingness. The game Cardiff can’t win, no matter how hard they try has become a non event in their own minds, and those supporters who still follow that team. It’s odd, because had they had the slightest bit of success we have no doubt it would be the most important game of the season for them. Strange psyche’.
We have heard of the big fixture against Bristol City, which is never a big fixture, they just pretend it is so when they lose to the swans they can give the impression this game doesn’t really matter that much. But the scruffs are not fooling us. Their amateur dramatic books reference this fixture more than any other, the fantasists from east Wales where theIr support for their team is matched, or even bigger for Swansea is another problem for them. Their once solid areas of support pre 1950 have crumbled with a new vibrant and young support, far outdoing the baldy fraternity of sixty plus year olds, smelling of stale beer and talking about 1927 and a game against Real Madrid. This Matchday thread will show everyone just who is Wales premier football team, facts and stats and all.
Swansea City record against Cardiff
First off the initial question to impose any superiority on another side, who has won the most games ?
Games won: 29
Games drawn: 18
Games lost: 22
Swansea City as expected lead this table which includes Autoglass trophy, Freight Rover trophy, Sherpa vans trophy, FA cup and league games. If you remove all the cup ties the swans still come out on top. Done. 1-0 the Jacks
Premier league record
Cardiff City have played two seasons in the premier league. They were relegated both times. Over 78 league games they won 17 and lost 46, they drew only 15. Cardiff lost in a major trophy final in 2012. Oh dear.
Swansea City, the first Welsh side to play in the premier league have played seven straight seasons. Playing 266 games they won 82 and drew 66. Highest finish was 8th winning a major trophy at Wembley.
The all time premier league table shows Swansea City in 28th and Cardiff at 44th out of 49 clubs to have played in the premier league. Oh dear. Done 2-0 the Jacks.
28th Swansea City 266 82 66 118 306 383 -77
44th Cardiff City 76 17 13 46 66 143 -77
So, in the top division in English football, the swans canter home well ahead. So how about major European competitions this century that people who are alive can remember, not dead ones ?
Okay dead ones as well.
1927 FA Cup Final Winners Cardiff City In front of the smallest ever crowd at Wembley stadium, boosted by thousands of swans fans supporting a welsh team on the day. It wasn’t until 1981 that a lower attendance was recorded. We only mention this due to Cardiff City fans desire to mention large supports, which as we will see doesn’t really have any substance.
2013 League Cup Final Winners Swansea City. The swans sold 48,572 tickets for this final having beaten Liverpool and Chelsea over two legs to get to the final. Both are fantastic achievements, however nobody remembers 1927 as much as they don’t remember Barnsley’s two FA Cup final victories a few years before. However when that’s all you have to cling on to then I suppose its a thing.
How about In cup competitions over the last 20 years ? This is when the real test of support is an issue, when fans have to spend their hard earned coin and season tickets are not valid. Those games that are not attractive, the Colchester’s and Notts County’s etc. Well, let’s not even go there, Cardiff City on occasion in recent years haven’t even mustered 2,500 home supporters for some cup games, the swans average in excess of 16,000.
The real truth
But it isn’t about statistics alone, social media is a huge thing these days. It’s where the bright young people talk, communicate and in some cases run their lives. That’s both good and bad, but it is what it is.
Swans Official on the social media Twitter platform have in excess of one million followers via 60k tweets. Very decent.
Cardiff City Official have an admirable 354k ish followers from nearly the same amount of tweets. Hang on ? I thought ... Oh well, a lot of those Cardiff fans are all in their mid sixties now, balding and computer illiterate. Or is it just as we all know the youngsters are the future, soaking up the valley towns and turning them white. We know you know the truth.
The game
Kick off 5.30pm
Liberty Stadium
Swansea
LIVE ON SKY
TALK SPORT 2
Match OfficialS
PAUL TIERNEY
Simon Long and James Mainwaring
Fourth Official : Michael Salisbury
Paul Tierney, we find it hard to criticise him, he will give the swans a penalty
 Swansea City will make football history this weekend 19th Mar 2021 11:20It’s the eve of the South Wales derby, the biggest fixture in Welsh football, the hardest ninety minutes of any game these players will be involved in this season both mentally and physically. The coolest minds, the most collective mindsets, the ability of each player, the belief in themselves and the desire to win for a whole city are the qualities required. And Swansea City have them all. In abundance.  0
Swansea City: Freddie Woodman; Kyle Naughton, Ryan Bennett, Marc Guehi; Connor Roberts, Jay Fulton, Matt Grimes (captain), Conor Hourihane, Jake Bidwell; Morgan Whittaker, Andre Ayew.
Substitutes: Ben Hamer, Ryan Manning, Ben Cabango, Joel Latibeaudiere, Korey Smith, Yan Dhanda, Jamal Lowe, Wayne Routledge, Ollie Cooper.
Cardiff City: Dillon Phillips; Sean Morrison (captain), Aden Flint, Ciaron Brown; Thomas Sang, Leandro Bacuna, Joe Ralls, Will Vaulks, Marlon Pack; Harry Wilson; Kieffer Moore.
Substitutes: Alex Smithies, Josh Murphy, Jonny Williams, Max Watters, Sheyi Ojo, Mark Harris, Junior Hoilett, Rubin Colwill, Sam Bowen.
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| Swansea City v Cardiff City : Matchday Thread TEAM NEWS on 19:23 - Mar 20 with 1216 views | Joe_bradshaw |
21 goal attempts. None on target. |  |
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| Swansea City v Cardiff City : Matchday Thread TEAM NEWS on 19:24 - Mar 20 with 1206 views | DwightYorkeSuperstar |
Whittaker looks far more likely to score than any other Swansea player has done in months. He should continue to play. |  |
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| Swansea City v Cardiff City : Matchday Thread TEAM NEWS on 19:24 - Mar 20 with 1191 views | onehunglow |
| Swansea City v Cardiff City : Matchday Thread TEAM NEWS on 18:57 - Mar 20 by jackrabbit |
With respect you need to read what I wrote too, “We’re short on quality”. For that reason I can’t condemn the manager - he can only field the players he’s got.
Having said that this game is screaming out for a creative midfielder. Give Dhanda a go. |
And Dhanda has had a go |  |
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| Swansea City v Cardiff City : Matchday Thread TEAM NEWS on 19:25 - Mar 20 with 1205 views | TenbySwan |
Deserve absolutely nothing here.
Crap
Move the goal to row Z!!!!
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| Swansea City v Cardiff City : Matchday Thread TEAM NEWS on 19:26 - Mar 20 with 1186 views | Gwyn737 |
| Swansea City v Cardiff City : Matchday Thread TEAM NEWS on 19:09 - Mar 20 by Dr_Parnassus |
Cardiff backed off, they are defending their lead.
It’s easy to attack when the opposition happy to sit in their half. That wasn’t the case in the first half. |
When we’re picking the bones out of this, the above is an incredibly important point.
All the second half pressure was allowed by them. They invited it because they could. To say it was an improved second half for us wouldn’t be right. | | | |
| Swansea City v Cardiff City : Matchday Thread TEAM NEWS on 19:27 - Mar 20 with 1164 views | builthjack |
| Swansea City v Cardiff City : Matchday Thread TEAM NEWS on 19:24 - Mar 20 by DwightYorkeSuperstar |
Whittaker looks far more likely to score than any other Swansea player has done in months. He should continue to play. |
Agree |  |
| Swansea Indepenent Poster Of The Year 2021. Dr P / Mart66 / Roathie / Parlay / E20/ Duffle was 2nd, but he is deluded and thinks in his little twisted brain that he won. Poor sod. We let him win this year, as he has cried for a whole year. His 14 usernames, bless his cotton socks.
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| Swansea City v Cardiff City : Matchday Thread TEAM NEWS on 19:29 - Mar 20 with 1119 views | AnotherJohn |
Pretty much what I was afraid would happen. We don't carry sufficient goal threat for automatic promotion. | | | |
| Swansea City v Cardiff City : Matchday Thread TEAM NEWS on 19:29 - Mar 20 with 1119 views | Badlands |
Cabango, Cabango, Cabango. |  |
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| Swansea City v Cardiff City : Matchday Thread TEAM NEWS on 19:29 - Mar 20 with 1113 views | thornabyswan |
| Swansea City v Cardiff City : Matchday Thread TEAM NEWS on 19:23 - Mar 20 by Joe_bradshaw |
21 goal attempts. None on target. |
That was crap got what we deserved. | |
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| Swansea City v Cardiff City : Matchday Thread TEAM NEWS on 19:29 - Mar 20 with 1100 views | jackrabbit |
| Swansea City v Cardiff City : Matchday Thread TEAM NEWS on 19:24 - Mar 20 by DwightYorkeSuperstar |
Whittaker looks far more likely to score than any other Swansea player has done in months. He should continue to play. |
Agreed. He’s far from the finished article but he moves well and finds space to shoot and he can shoot. Just needs to score a few goals and we’ll have a good ‘un. |  | | |
| Swansea City v Cardiff City : Matchday Thread TEAM NEWS on 19:30 - Mar 20 with 1099 views | dantheswansman |
| Swansea City v Cardiff City : Matchday Thread TEAM NEWS on 19:26 - Mar 20 by Gwyn737 |
When we’re picking the bones out of this, the above is an incredibly important point.
All the second half pressure was allowed by them. They invited it because they could. To say it was an improved second half for us wouldn’t be right. |
Losing is one thing but losing to that level of shit is something else, what hurts is that we dominated that second half against a team who would look out of place on a Sunday field somewhere, Whittacker needs more game time, and the boys played really well in second half, i am not bitter because i can say with certainty even with the loss, we were the better team |  | | |
| Swansea City v Cardiff City : Matchday Thread TEAM NEWS on 19:31 - Mar 20 with 1051 views | 34dfgdf54 |
| Swansea City v Cardiff City : Matchday Thread TEAM NEWS on 19:24 - Mar 20 by onehunglow |
And Dhanda has had a go |
He was awful
Not good enough |  | | |
| Swansea City v Cardiff City : Matchday Thread TEAM NEWS on 19:32 - Mar 20 with 1035 views | TenbySwan |
| Swansea City v Cardiff City : Matchday Thread TEAM NEWS on 19:30 - Mar 20 by dantheswansman |
Losing is one thing but losing to that level of shit is something else, what hurts is that we dominated that second half against a team who would look out of place on a Sunday field somewhere, Whittacker needs more game time, and the boys played really well in second half, i am not bitter because i can say with certainty even with the loss, we were the better team |
How the hell were we the better team ffs. | | | |
| Swansea City v Cardiff City : Matchday Thread TEAM NEWS on 19:32 - Mar 20 with 1031 views | theloneranger |
Whittaker deserves a run in the team after his display today, he should have scored but he looks the most likely and that's a great start. |  |
| Everyday above ground ... Is a good day! 😎 |
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| Swansea City v Cardiff City : Matchday Thread TEAM NEWS on 19:33 - Mar 20 with 1021 views | thornabyswan |
| Swansea City v Cardiff City : Matchday Thread TEAM NEWS on 19:30 - Mar 20 by dantheswansman |
Losing is one thing but losing to that level of shit is something else, what hurts is that we dominated that second half against a team who would look out of place on a Sunday field somewhere, Whittacker needs more game time, and the boys played really well in second half, i am not bitter because i can say with certainty even with the loss, we were the better team |
No we were not we were rubbish all them attempts and the keeper only had 1 save to make.
Not good enough nothing to them but we were no better. | |
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| Swansea City v Cardiff City : Matchday Thread TEAM NEWS on 19:33 - Mar 20 with 1013 views | Nortbankboy |
| Swansea City v Cardiff City : Matchday Thread TEAM NEWS on 19:30 - Mar 20 by dantheswansman |
Losing is one thing but losing to that level of shit is something else, what hurts is that we dominated that second half against a team who would look out of place on a Sunday field somewhere, Whittacker needs more game time, and the boys played really well in second half, i am not bitter because i can say with certainty even with the loss, we were the better team |
How the feck is Smith on the pitch before dhanda | | | |
| Swansea City v Cardiff City : Matchday Thread TEAM NEWS on 19:34 - Mar 20 with 998 views | nantywatcher |
| Swansea City v Cardiff City : Matchday Thread TEAM NEWS on 19:30 - Mar 20 by dantheswansman |
Losing is one thing but losing to that level of shit is something else, what hurts is that we dominated that second half against a team who would look out of place on a Sunday field somewhere, Whittacker needs more game time, and the boys played really well in second half, i am not bitter because i can say with certainty even with the loss, we were the better team |
Happy enough with that performance. Some times the better team loses. I fancy us after the international break. | | | |
| Swansea City v Cardiff City : Matchday Thread TEAM NEWS on 19:34 - Mar 20 with 992 views | 34dfgdf54 |
Bullied first half. Cardiff surrendered all sorts of initiative second half but it’s too late. | | | |
| Swansea City v Cardiff City : Matchday Thread TEAM NEWS on 19:35 - Mar 20 with 963 views | 1983 |
Fvck cardiff....now where is my red plastic cowboy hat & big daffodil  |  |
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| Swansea City v Cardiff City : Matchday Thread TEAM NEWS on 19:37 - Mar 20 with 948 views | vetchonian |
| Swansea City v Cardiff City : Matchday Thread TEAM NEWS on 19:33 - Mar 20 by Nortbankboy |
How the feck is Smith on the pitch before dhanda |
Your family continues to show its lack of real football nous | |
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| Swansea City v Cardiff City : Matchday Thread TEAM NEWS on 19:37 - Mar 20 with 945 views | Treforys_Jack |
Hmmm, okay, shocking first 45mins, stated playing after h/t prob because they were happy to sit deep. A lot of our work slows down when Ayew gets involved, Whittaker didn't have the rub of the green today and had a rush of blood at one point, however thought he was very good and will score goals for us. Disappointed he's not been involved before on that showing.
Cardiff defended well and threw bodies at the ball and none of the deflections or blocks fell kindly to us. They are a poor side tbh, but good enough to beat us on the day. |  | | |
| Swansea City v Cardiff City : Matchday Thread TEAM NEWS on 19:37 - Mar 20 with 944 views | Thornburyswan |
| Swansea City v Cardiff City : Matchday Thread TEAM NEWS on 19:24 - Mar 20 by DwightYorkeSuperstar |
Whittaker looks far more likely to score than any other Swansea player has done in months. He should continue to play. |
This - shows how much of an issue we have up top when we are relying on a player who couldn’t get into a relegation battling side to go up, bizarre!
That said second half was much better, if only we’d started that way. | | | |
| Swansea City v Cardiff City : Matchday Thread TEAM NEWS on 19:37 - Mar 20 with 938 views | Nortbankboy |
| Swansea City v Cardiff City : Matchday Thread TEAM NEWS on 19:35 - Mar 20 by 1983 |
Fvck cardiff....now where is my red plastic cowboy hat & big daffodil |
Yes much better team second half .
Got take the rough with smooth | | | |
| Swansea City v Cardiff City : Matchday Thread TEAM NEWS on 19:38 - Mar 20 with 931 views | krunchykarrot |
| Swansea City v Cardiff City : Matchday Thread TEAM NEWS on 19:23 - Mar 20 by DJack |
Perhaps if he had some game time before today things would have been different. |
Yeh i agree, Cooper should have given him a start in the last month or so. He looks as if he,s got a goal in him needs to put some bulk on but will improve. |  | | |
| Swansea City v Cardiff City : Matchday Thread TEAM NEWS on 19:39 - Mar 20 with 910 views | LittleEnglandJack |
Is that two games now where Whittaker has been our only player to work the opposition keeper? Made a few mistakes here and there but was once again the brightest spark in a Swans shirt. | | | |
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