It's been a long seven days it seems since the Swans were so well beaten at Leeds. A seven days during which we have heard how great Leeds are, how they were hard done by by the football league and all them nasty clubs that voted against them and how they could even go the whole season and win every game. But the league table shows them still four points and 10 places below us so let's concentrate on the matter in hand. Brighton.
The Seagulls have yet to win away from home all season which always makes for a bad omen against ourselves - we have an uncanny knack of providing people with the ability to break unwanted sequences. Away wins, any wins, goals scored, clean sheets - almost everyone knows runs without these things can end against the Swans.
After the "Where's Wally" of the away end against Doncaster a few weeks back tomorrow the travelling support will look like a collection of "Tesco Value" products in what promises to be potentially the lowest league crowd of the season to date. Home form has been scratchy to say the least with only a late show against Carlisle giving us a first league win at the stadium this term last time out.
And so onto the thoughts on the team news. With Robbo and Britton still out you have to suspect that Roberto will pick any two from Anderson, Butler and Orlandi for the width in midfield and if I was to hazard a guess this time around I have a gut feeling that it may be Anderson who is the unlucky one to start on the bench. Will Pratley come back into midfield? I think he possibly will although with it being a home game it may prove to be the chance to throw Allen in alongside Bodde but I just cannot see it. Feeney will start alongside Scotland in the absence of Darryl Duffy giving a predicted starting line up of
Doris
Rangel Monk Lawrence Painter
Butler Bodde Pratley Orlandi
Scotland Feeney
Brighton strikers Bas Savage and Nicky Forster are expected to be fit.
But centre-half Adam Hinshelwood, defender Adam El-Abd, midfielder Paul Reid and defender Joel Lynch are all still recovering from injuries.
The size of the crowd for the game is anticipated to be around the 11,00 mark as the Swans embark on two home fixtures in a four day period - Swindon arrive at the Liberty on Tuesday night. Six points from these two games will keep us very much in the promotion hunt and generate some added interest for the trip to Leyton Orient a week tomorrow.
Prediction wise its probably time I gave up predicting because generally I am never right. 17-9 to the Swans.
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