One of the notable things for me about our rise through the divisions is the number of players who left Swansea and never really reached the heights that they got with us again.

You only have to look at the likes of Jason Scotland, Darren Pratley, Andy Robinson and Scott Sinclair to know that sometimes players and clubs just go well together.

Dorus De Vries is undoubtedly another one who fits that bill. Having won promotion to the Premier League in 2011, he was soon off for the 'bright lights' of Wolves with words that he wanted to stay in the Premier League and Wolves gave him a better chance of that happening.

Two years later as the Swans paraded the Capital One Cup around proudly, Wolves had been relegated twice in a roll and here was another example of a player who should have stayed where he was.

Whether he would have got the game time remained to be seen as the Swans signed Michel Vorm as his replacement and De Vries was never as good as his countryman and he is certainly nowhere near the quality of Lukasz Fabianski.

That though is not to diss the man who helped us get to where we are but it is little surprise that he regrets leaving the Swans when he looks at what has happened in the four years since his departure.

"At the beginning I thought I had made the right choice, I was getting out of my comfort zone and I was trying to develop as a player and also as a human being." said De Vries after coming face to face with his former club for Nottingham Forest last weekend.

"Unfortunately it didn't turn out to be the right choice. I regret that choice now definitely.

"If you see how it turns out, I am the same goalkeeper and the same person, but things haven't fallen for me.

"The Swansea style of play really suited me as well. That's exactly the way I wanted to play, and it's frustrating sometimes when other teams don't play that way. It's one of the more unusual styles isn't it, and I miss that."

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