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Reply | Where do the fans think we will finish next season?
at 22:53 15 Jun 2024
Based on our current squad we are looking at 13-17th and that’s decent. We don’t know what will happen over the next month in terms of new players but ensuring that we don’t go down is about as much as we can expect at the moment. |
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Reply | Placheta might become a swans player?
at 18:54 12 Jun 2024
Quick with ability but lacks consistency. Would be a good signing though. He has full caps for Poland and at 26 he’s in his prime albeit with just 150 league games under his belt and around 15 goals. I thought we looked dangerous with him and Ronald on the wings. Also he’s another entertaining player … just needs to deliver more regularly which applies to Ronald too. |
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Reply | Page out!
at 00:34 12 Jun 2024
Disgraceful if they ( FAW ) have made that public or leaked the info.
A penalty kick by Dan James away from qualifying for a third successive major tournament. Shocking stuff. |
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Reply | Page out!
at 18:42 11 Jun 2024
Your last sentence sums up the predicament for the FAW.
It’s players we need. Good players who can turn it on to win matches as Bale did. Not single-handedly of course but he inspired those around him . We are sadly lacking that type of player. Not just his quality, he was inspirational. He drove people on.
Chris Coleman was very much in the Page mould. A proud Welshman who wasn’t a tactical genius to put it mildly but he was fortunate enough to have a world class player plus a few others who were exceptional. Coleman in fact got off to a bad start with a few terrible heavy defeats. He’s now fondly remembered and rightly so but he was in the right place at the right time too. |
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Reply | Page out!
at 00:28 11 Jun 2024
That’s debatable. Looking at our team we lack players of international class from 1 to 11. Man for man we aren’t good enough so how can you say that he can’t do the basics? The easy thing to do is to blame a manager . But there are wider issues which need addressing. Take Man Utd for example. Their problems run far deeper than the manager. At least they can go out and sign players… |
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Reply | Page out!
at 13:53 10 Jun 2024
Football is not the rocket science that some would make you believe. Things have of course changed and there are tactical ways of improving a team performance, style and strategy but in essence football is a simple game. I don’t for one minute think for example that employing a “tactical genius “ like Jose Mourinho, Pep Guardiola or Carlo Ancelotti would take us to another level. It’s a non starter anyway as they’re not affordable and wouldn’t be interested but you get my point. We do not have the players. Our top players have to play in another country.
As for Osian Roberts he’s approaching 60 and is better known as an Assistant or a good coach. He’s not the answer either. If Page goes as seems likely we don’t have ideal replacements. |
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Reply | Page out!
at 09:27 10 Jun 2024
Regardless of who the manger is we do not have the players to pick from. The era of Bale Ramsey is over. We do not realise the huge impact that Bale had. Page cannot go out and sign new players. We have to realise that we aren’t a force. We never have been. 2016 was a golden period but it couldn’t last. You can blame the manager as much as you want to but he hasn’t got a magic wand to produce world class players. Anyway the results in friendly games aren’t important albeit they’ve shown clearly that we are lacking quality and have little depth to our squad. |
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Reply | Page out!
at 00:44 8 Jun 2024
Yes I can blame fans for being unhappy.
This was an end of season friendly. Meaningless really especially in terms of the result. We fielded a team of mainly young and inexperienced players to give them a run, to see what they could do. The whole team only had around 40 caps between them and it showed. thought we played too many young inexperienced players but friendlies allow you to do that as the results don’t really matter.
Most of our players weren’t there. Had we drawn 0-0 at Gibraltar in a competitive game then yes I’d be concerned but that wasn’t there the case. It was little more than a kick around for a few mates. Frustrating yes. But it’s of no consequence. |
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Reply | Page out!
at 00:49 7 Jun 2024
One thing you do not do as a football fan is judge a team on the strength of a meaningless friendly contest at the end of a long season with no fans there and where most of your best players aren’t even in attendance.
As for Page Out? Don’t be silly. We are in transition. Many of our star players have just finished playing and we are rebuilding. We have achieved nothing for more than 100 years in terms of winning anything and that’s not about to change. |
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Reply | Rooney for Plymouth
at 22:19 27 May 2024
I thought Rooney only won 14 of his 54 games as manager at DC United?
He’s shown so far a complete lack of ability to manage a football club well. An absence of an identifiable playing style, he’s not a good communicator, organiser, planner or motivator which is surprising given that he’s played under some of the best managers in the game. With a good coaching team around him he may well be successful at Plymouth but the odds are stacked against him. He seems nice enough, pleasant and decent but naive and a boy lost in a man’s world. |
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Reply | Klopps farewell
at 20:01 20 May 2024
Detested by most ?
With fan bases around the world the big clubs are hardly detested by most? A bit of a generalisation to suggest that they are whereas in fact the big clubs are revered and supported around the world.
I’m not sure why anyone could get offended enough by it to comment on a forum. A little bit over the top possibly but Klopp has made a lot of friends there in 9 years. He’s done a good job and has been passionate as well as being fairly successful and winning the Premier League. |
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Reply | Casemiro
at 20:47 14 May 2024
I suppose it was your ridiculous “ utterly useless “ remark that promoted a response. Casemiro is still a class act. I wouldn’t mind a few utterly useless players at our club. 😂
Dropping into centre back was not an issue for him and Ten Haag knew that. He knows a bit more than we do. |
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Reply | Casemiro
at 20:24 13 May 2024
I’d suggest that you re-read your original post.
You seemed confused and couldn’t understand why Casemiro was playing in defence and it was a dig at Ten Haag too. I’ve merely explained to you that Casemiro would easily adapt to that position having spent most of his career in a holding / deep midfield area. With his ability, experience and football brain it would have been a piece of cake albeit there was a momentary lapse in concentration where he became casual and it was costly.
You do know that players can adapt and are capable of different things on a pitch especially world class footballers. Although possibly not utterly useless ones. |
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Reply | Casemiro
at 22:37 12 May 2024
Utterly useless ?
He’s been one of the best defensive midfield players in the game and with over 70 caps for Brazil he’s more than capable of dropping into a defensive role which for him would be like shelling peas. For the Arsenal goal today he was too casual. Roy Keane referred to it as laziness. It was not laziness but certainly he needed to be more alert to the dangers around him.
At 32 he’s not the player he was but he was world class and still good enough to play for Manchester United. |
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Reply | Mel Nurse & Stu McDonaldu big up Tee
at 08:35 6 May 2024
Another truth is that Gyokores wasn’t very good for us. I watched him play several times. He didn’t seem to want to be here. No goals scored in his 11 league appearances is hardly an indication that he deserved more games. He seems to have matured and is doing well now but you could certainly understand why he was not getting regular games at Swansea (or Brighton where he didn’t start one league game. ) |
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Reply | Could Swansea buy Rushworth?
at 20:52 2 May 2024
If he returns and it’s highly unlikely there’ll be a whole host of other more influential reasons than him enjoying the work of a goalkeeping coach that’s for sure. It’s almost an irrelevance in the scheme of things. |
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Reply | Shout out to Merthyr Town
at 18:34 2 May 2024
Not sure what Swansea under 21s beating Barry a few years ago has to do with the subject 😂
You have a strange habit of clouding the waters to confuse things. Swansea under 21s beat Briton Ferry, a decent Welsh league club this season also 6-1 in a Cup comp. That May or not be of interest and relevance to you.
For me it showed the vast difference in quality.
It’s why Merthyr are right to continue in their quest to (try to)move up the English pyramid. The potential for getting into league 2 and beyond is huge. It’s unlikely to happen but they can dream. Money talks and no one knows what the future holds… |
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Reply | The fate today’s Swansea footballers would never have to endure
at 14:49 30 Apr 2024
I’ve just read that the average annual salary of the 600 plus championship players this season is a whopping £655,000. 😫
Swansea annual wage bill is now £12.27m. Which puts us in 14th place in the division, way behind Leicester £60m Southampton £40m and Leeds £39m. Andy is currently on £140,000 a week. £20,000 a day. Let that sink in for a moment. What kind of works are we living in?
I’m unsure what the answer is apart from salary capping? I wouldn’t like to see players going back to earning £450 a week but there needs to be a happy medium somewhere surely. They aren’t worth that sort of money. No one is. |
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