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Reply | Harry Darling
at 16:46 6 Mar 2025
If we are safe and not in reach off play offs we don't blood some youngsters to let them see what the standard they need to attain to be a first choice player?
Agree about playing our best players initially even to see tight games out but with games now coming in quick succession, can we risk some of our first eleven playing 90mins in each game? |
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Reply | Harry Darling
at 08:09 6 Mar 2025
Prog or Punk which one is better only one way to find out......
Darling's marking positioning and option taking has had it's flaws since he has joined, we know he is a good player and at the moment is a first choice for the starting eleven, as for Delacroix seems as if he is a good player as well but will he or Darling be here next season so at what point do we have to change things to cover ourselves for next season.
I think we will need both Darling and Delacroix next season but is that going to happen?
Darling does need coaching to be a better player I don't think the likes of Williams or Martin have helped him. |
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Reply | 🔴 Likely candidates for the Swans job
at 07:47 6 Mar 2025
Has the inclusion of O'Brien in the starting eleven helped to make it look as if Sheehan management is better than his predecessor and helped us look so much more resilient through in the spine of the team?
The Stoke and Sheffield Wednesday games included O'Brien should never have been lost but were under William's would they have been under Sheehan?
Either way O'Brien in the midfield has made a big difference to the way we play and our setup defensively, will we be able to keep him or get in players of his needed quality in for next season? |
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Reply | Preston North End v Swansea City : Match day thread
at 23:55 5 Mar 2025
You forgot centrehalves as well. Hope Ginnelly can be eased back into the front line by the end of the season for next season. Will O'Brien, Peart-Harris, Delacroix, Darling, Allen, Naughton and Christie be here next season and if teams come hunting the likes of Franco? Lots of holes in the squad need to be filled and of a quality. |
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Reply | Preston North End v Swansea City : Match day thread
at 16:04 5 Mar 2025
Little things that make all the difference, Darling pushing forward out from the back getting high up the park, cannot remember who it was but they dropped back into the hole that Darling left, we have seen it too many time where that hole has not been closed off leaving us wide open to counter attacks as we press forward. Football is so often a numbers game, we need to expect mistakes and cover them as far as possible. We got away with one by Fulton but was he passing to the player who let it go? Mistake by both? |
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Reply | Preston North End v Swansea City : Match day thread
at 09:58 5 Mar 2025
Having read the report on the first half and seeing the second it would seem as if we had enough possession further up the park but PNE defence coped well defensively making it hard for us to create clear chances and not able to make the most few we had. Still missing that quality up top? I thought against Blackburn that between Bianchini and Ginnelly they brought a quality onto the pitch that kepted Blackburn on the backfoot wonder if together they could have brought more to our game to unlock a stubborn defence.
Fulton brought on supposedly to help against an aerial bombardment and Allen's quality left on the bench.
Three defenders, three midfielders and two attackers on the bench sums up the game plan to keep ourselves defensively solid with the aim to get at the very least a point and nick the three.
Well earned point given this years preformances but need more up top to keep the pressure on teams to be deserving of the three points. |
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Reply | Preston North End v Swansea City : Match day thread
at 21:48 4 Mar 2025
Didn't catch first half, second half looked as if keeping it defensively tight even with giving chances away, did get possession further up the pitch but not enough quality to make anything, would have like to see if Ginnelly could fashion something up top as the others don't look as if they could but not on bench apparently, away from hone happy to take a point. |
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Reply | Swansea City : Sheehan dips his toe into the manager pool
at 08:42 4 Mar 2025
Will be interesting to see if he changes the starting line up and how he reacts to results as we move from one game to another of the next four games, that will hopefully give us some insight to his game management and how he adapts the team for home and away games against four teams who are above us in the league, three of whom are are there or there abouts for at least play off positions. |
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Reply | 🔴 Likely candidates for the Swans job
at 22:56 27 Feb 2025
The 90% safe ball was killing us because the 10% unsafe passes were either to deep in our half or high up the park where with us not set up correctly to guard against counter attacks. |
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Reply | Where do we see our loaned out players...
at 18:03 27 Feb 2025
If I was a centreforward under Williams being asked to chase down the ball being passed around the opposition back line "without" support I would not be happy and would be having a few words to to question the folly of such a tactic. |
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Reply | Peart - Harris
at 09:12 26 Feb 2025
Wonder what the views are on the player mentioned in the thread header now or even others that have been seen to be struggling mentioned in the thread?
Does Ginnelly look as if he will eventually become a first choice eleven player?
Would you change the starting eleven for the PNE game after the preformances in the Blackburn game?
Or is it too early after Williams has left to make a substantive opinion on players and the teams performance |
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Reply | 🔴 Likely candidates for the Swans job
at 14:59 25 Feb 2025
Agree about players but against Sheffield Wednesday Tymon was having plenty of ball and as a team we seemed untroubled but after 30mins it looked as if William's was berating Tymon telling him he should be further up on the flank, it made him almost redundant didn't get the ballon the front foot and ended up laying the ball back towards our goal, second half it looked as if Delacroix wanted him to come to receive the ball but he wasn't having it as he was doing what he was told to do by the manager.Sheff W just sat back and waited for the mistake. |
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Reply | 🔴 Likely candidates for the Swans job
at 13:07 25 Feb 2025
Simple answer to your first question would be no Swanse Senior league division two would be my highest level with a young team that graduated from Division Five. Played down the field or school since I was a nipper.
Growth spurt as 12 or 13 and learning one or two tricks lead to being captain in the school team and at times the senior team playing in the centre midfield.
Did play 5 aside with work colleagues who played at higher levels.
Basically a bossy boots with little skill but got the ball down
to players who were better than me. Did help I could compete well in the air. |
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Reply | 🔴 Likely candidates for the Swans job
at 09:51 25 Feb 2025
We have seen this season and in previous ones how a game can be flipped on it's head, tactical changes, individual duels won and lost, set piece problems, break away goals or errors or a total loss of shape throughout the team.
I liked how Sheehan's setup and thinking meant the workload was reduced for players all over the pitch.
When the ball was lost, being into a defensive shape as quickly as possible meant Blackburn weren't allowed to play out from the back with us shutting down players paths forward first resulting in their long ball which given Cabango and Darling aerial prescence the midfield and the fullbacks were in good positions to compete.
As you said the worst thing from a midfielder is to constantly drop back deep and sorely affects their ability to get forward, similarly if your forwards cannot compete in the air when you play long balls then the midfield get caught too far forward trying to support them and wingers out to wide are wasted
Our flanks have been targeted so often but it is no surprise if the defender get goal side of a winger in a good position, which they did,.they can work out how to be effective against them they cannot do that if they lose sight of them or give them space in areas where they can use their skills best.
I think we nullified a load of threats all over the park stifling them forcing them to play in a way which allowed us to get on top and stay on top when our quick passing good movement helped us be competitive as a team all over the park but especially down the spine of the team they rarely played through us.
Think a number of managers have tried to accommodate Grimes for his supposed skill with varied degrees of sussess but ultimately have come up short. Whether that is because of the player or the tactics employed by the coach remains to be seen.
I'm sure the team will have some losses under Sheehan tenure but we do seen better suited with the players now available to stand up to pressure trying to be imposed by other teams rather than a team lacking a backbone. [Post edited 25 Feb 9:53]
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Reply | 🔴 Likely candidates for the Swans job
at 14:03 24 Feb 2025
Agree but Sheehan's set up seem to be able to attack with more purpose and also not succumb to the pressure brought by Blackburn. The balance in games swing on odd moments in play, Blackburn had two good chances early in the game but didn't take them but we did reduce those chances by having a mindset to defend the lead gained as opposed to continuingly surrendering silly goalsklike early in games by putting ourselves in dangerous situations at the back or thinking we had got back in games throwing caution to the wind only to concede goals within minutes of a recovering goal losing any advantage gained.
Another game, another team with different problems and tactics to overcome. [Post edited 24 Feb 17:43]
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Reply | 🔴 Likely candidates for the Swans job
at 13:00 24 Feb 2025
Agree but that little bit of quality and pace in the middle of midfield has seemingly solved one of our problems with the "transition in play" to use William's words from attack to defense and vice versa.That problem in midfield created big gaps between the three sections, attack, midfield and defense, add that with the over committing of the defenders forward with no viable cover to stifle counter attacks.
Was nice to see all three sections able to do their initial jobs properly and being able to link the play to keep on top of the game. |
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Reply | 🔴 Likely candidates for the Swans job
at 10:23 24 Feb 2025
My initial response would be give him until the end of the season, he did well last time but we didn't see what his response to the heavy defeat to Southampton as Luke William's took the reigns directly after.
He may have learnt a bit more under William's on the folly of going all out attack after seeing us being picked off by teams by not consolidating what we have, It was nice to see us holding our ground against Blackburn attack both at the start and after we scored the first they tried to put press on us but we set up correctly to withstand their expected responses.
In the past we have seen both Jackett and Cooper spend the last fifteen minutes of games defending points the latter doing it with very little pace up front reducing the option's to relieve pressure, against Blackburn the change of the front three gave us that option.
If fans could see the problems that William's tactics have produced then surely Sheehan is well aware of them the inclusion of O'Brien's quality helps in the middle just as Allen's does but as we know Allen cannot be relied on to stay injury free.
So in answer to the question I would give him the job at least until the end of the season but maybe wait to see his response to a loss.
If he is doing well keep him in the loop with reference to the long term plan to make additions to the squad in key areas to replace those players who may not be here next season, Add a bonus for keeping us up with a view of a contract for future seasons. [Post edited 24 Feb 13:51]
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Reply | Swansea City v Blackburn Rovers : Match day thread ** Updated
at 13:41 23 Feb 2025
Martin and Williams usually didn't tweak the system to fit the players they had both rotated players around the pitch to try and get them to fit the system, it did work every s o often but mostly players found themselves trying to do things totally alien to how they have been use to playing in their proper positions, all for players adapting to situations but Martin's substitutions caused chaos to a new level. [Post edited 23 Feb 13:42]
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Reply | Swans crush Blackburn : Was it just a coincidence ?
at 10:46 23 Feb 2025
Don't expect to win every game under Sheehan but if forwards are missing chances more often but also scoring then it means we are getting a better supply to them, the problem comes against better organised teams where the number of opportunities are reduced and more telling when teams are clinical at finishing their chances.
Forwards have to read the game and have a good understanding with the players around him so he has a good idea where the ball is going to end up in the box and adapt as necessary their movement often makes th space for the pass into the box or gives the player on the ball the time he needs to be effective. The lack of movement can kill a move stone dead.
One and two touch football when needed yesterday and knowing when or when not to hold onto the ball too long. |
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