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Reply | Vipotnick
at 12:24 29 Aug 2024
IMO, we are crying out for a striker who can make things happen, whether that's through a bit of pace, physicality or being able to regularly get his head on a cross.
The likes of Vipotnick, Cullen, Yates, etc. are probably fine in a team who are creating chances left right and centre but that isn't us.
Cullen looks like our best striker by an absolute mile. Which, as much as I like him, says it all. |
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Reply | Luke Williams : ‘We were appalling, I will not accept that’ Peart-Harris ?
at 12:16 29 Aug 2024
The problem is the same as it has been for years.
When we are given some space, particularly down the wings, we look relatively effective and dangerous.
However, when teams sit back and make us take the game to them, we are clueless. This seems to be because our wingers have very little guile or end product and so the chances of a good cross from a 'difficult' position (i.e. not a simple pull back from the by line) are next to zero.
We also have very little creativity in the middle. The Grimes/Fulton discussion has been done to death and everyone except our managers knows that this produces nothing. Our 'Number 10s' have mainly been dreadful over the years, aside from Ntcham or Paterson's 1 good game in 4.
Our strikers are then generally lightweight with no real physical attributes of any note (strength. aerial ability, pace) which means unless the ball is put on a plate for them (which it rarely is - see above), we may as well be playing with 10 men.
Unless this is sorted out, we are doomed to watch various awkward centre halves clumsily bringing the ball out of the back, usually with some involvement from Grimes, at best boring us all to tears with the sheer ineffectiveness of it all or, at worst, gifting the opposition chances with their donkery.
Happy times. |
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Reply | Tonight: Radio Wales from 8pm [Andy Coleman]
at 21:35 2 Feb 2024
I think Coleman’s heart is in the right place but I don’t know what qualifies him to get involved in football operations.
There should be an experienced football man making the final decisions on recruitment etc, working within a pre agreed budget. If he doesn’t meet his KPIs, he should get the chop.
I can’t help but quite like Coleman but I’m more qualified than he is to get involved in judging players. |
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Reply | "If You Dont Change Your Mind .....!
at 17:07 31 Jan 2024
The one point I think worth mentioning regarding the CBs is that generally speaking, the wing backs have been very poor this season too. Key has been great when he's played and Tymon is improving but having very little outside them hasn't really helped. Ashby is awful, Pederson is very limited and Darling when he plays there is out of position.
I also think that having Grimes as the only real out ball in midfield has really hampered their distribution (and confidence) and is a massive reason why we make so many mistakes in that position. Third goal last night prime example (albeit it it was Rushworth's pass). The fact that we are so used to see Grimes sprinting to receive a loose ball with a player up his backside proves this. If we want to play that way, surely there should always be 2 or 3 viable options (i.e. ball players) open to receive the pass?
Of course, the other major thing is that they're very limited players. Between them they probably make up one good player (Darling's aggression and on the ball ability, Cabango's strength, Wood's pace) - they're all massively flawed in some way or another, especially when being asked to do more than just defend... but we don't help them in the way we are set up. [Post edited 31 Jan 17:13]
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Reply | 🔴 January Transfer Window 2024
at 16:48 31 Jan 2024
Agree.
We are in such a desperate need of an overhaul then as far as I am concerned, the more we can shift out as fast as possible, the better.
We have about half a dozen or so players I'd be sorry to see go in this window - Rushworth, Key, Tymon, Darling, Grimes, Paterson, Cullen. A reasonable amount of the rest could go and we'd barely be any weaker. |
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Reply | Coleman speaks
at 14:50 21 Dec 2023
Does anyone else feel even more disheartened after reading that?
It's going to be Sheehan isn't it? |
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Reply | SPOTY
at 09:05 21 Dec 2023
You can't then.
You cretin. |
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Reply | SPOTY
at 05:40 21 Dec 2023
Why don’t you name 3 then? |
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Reply | SPOTY
at 21:08 20 Dec 2023
Would you make a derogatory comment about a man who swore on the football pitch? Or on what they chose to wear? If not, why would you make those comments about a woman?
Mary Earps, as well as being pretty much at the top of her profession, is currently inspiring loads of young girls to get into football. She may not be in your field of vision and that’s fair enough… but she’s extremely popular with a lot of people, a considerable number of whom obviously made the effort to vote for her. You only have to look at the videos of her meeting fans etc to know how much she means to a lot of people. So in what’s essentially a popularity contest, she’s a worthy winner, no? |
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Reply | SPOTY
at 16:55 20 Dec 2023
Sadly for a lot of people, football is no longer the sole preserve of out of touch, out of date, knuckle dragging, bigots.
Ultimately, SPOTY is an award (meaningless in the wider context) voted for by the public and there is a reason why large amounts of football fans (admittedly not your particular demographic) hold her in high esteem. Ironically, it's probably exactly the same reason why other football fans (exactly your particular demographic), are so offended by her.
Out of interest, who did you vote for? |
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Reply | Swansea City’s puppet masters in conflict with themselves
at 11:46 20 Dec 2023
I don't disagree with a lot of this.
I definitely think it's incompetence with a mixture of uninterest that has caused our issues.
With the money we've spent over the last few years, I think some better decisions at board level would have put us in a far better position. |
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Reply | Has he been sacked yet?
at 22:37 24 Sep 2023
Agreed. But let’s say we’d given the job to someone like Leon/Angel who the fans would have given a lot of leeway to. Everyone would be talking about the turnover of coaches, a new chairman, new sporting director, losing Manning, losing Piroe etc.
Then they’d be saying we were 5 mins away from 3 points at QPR and have just smashed Sheffield Wednesday. |
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Reply | Has he been sacked yet?
at 19:55 24 Sep 2023
It is also worth pointing out that however bad Wednesday were/are, yesterday was their biggest defeat of the season. |
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Reply | Has he been sacked yet?
at 19:52 24 Sep 2023
Ultimately we are in the realms of “it’s been crap but yesterday could be a springboard” and “he’s started slowly everywhere else but nows the point it started improving”.
However whilst these remain possibilities we may as well give him the benefit of the doubt. I suspect we’ll have an answer one way or another within the next few weeks.
I’m very much prepared to forget the first 7 games and see what he’s made of from now on in. He’s had a few weeks with the new players, he’s had his first win and he’s had his first clean sheet. Let’s see if he can kick on. |
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Reply | Has he been sacked yet?
at 19:47 24 Sep 2023
You said hopefully he’d be sacked soon. The only way that’s going to happen is that we go on a bad run of games, sack him at (presumably) a large expense and then be back to square one in terms of finding a new manager. Surely nobody wants that?
Aside from a few halves here and there we have been really crap this season but there were definitely signs of improvement yesterday, albeit that Sheffield Wednesday were awful.
You may very well be right about Duff but 8 games isn’t enough to truly judge what he’s about and certainly isn’t enough time to judge how he ideally wants to play football. That said, I don’t think the ‘hoofball’ label is a fair one to aim at him because he hasn’t really set us up that way in any of the matches.
If he isn’t allowed a bit of slack after a comfortable 3-0 win then he’s onto a hiding to nothing really isn’t he? |
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Reply | Has he been sacked yet?
at 08:58 24 Sep 2023
Well I hope we go on a decent run now and in a months time everyone has started to change their mind on him.
I’m guessing your version is that presumably we go on a bad run and sack a manager after a dozen games or so… |
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Reply | Swans women go semi pro
at 16:55 18 Aug 2023
Well presumably the better Cardiff women's players play in the team in the English pyramid. Albeit I don't know how it works.
There must be a reason why the club are investing in the women's team. It would seem unlikely that they're doing it to just win the Welsh league year after year which they are doing anyway. |
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Reply | Swans women go semi pro
at 06:42 17 Aug 2023
Does anyone know what the clubs long term goal is with the womens team? Are they eyeing a move to the English system? Is that even possible (I guess so seeing as Cardiff play in it)
It seems that they’ve pretty much hit their ceiling in terms of the welsh system now. |
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Reply | How much debt …
at 10:26 15 Mar 2023
You would think he was responsible for Fisher, Darling and Sorinola.
I would also argue that given the fact he doesn't pick players he clearly didn't want, the fact that Nathan Wood starts virtually every single game, he probably wanted to sign him too.
Those 4 in themselves should be enough to condemn him to the Job Centre. [Post edited 15 Mar 2023 10:27]
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