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Reply | Swans defender Stephen Welsh : Is exhaustion playing a part ?
at 13:45 28 Oct 2026
It’s not normal person fatigue and exhaustion, it’s being half a second too slow to react or not picking out the right pass because you’ve switched off mentally for an instant.
It needs a better description than exhaustion, because every time it happens you’ll get someone saying they did 50 hour weeks at British Steel and still played twice on the weekend. |
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Reply | Swans defender Stephen Welsh : Is exhaustion playing a part ?
at 12:56 28 Oct 2026
Exhausted and fatigued are relative and probably aren’t the best descriptions.
If you asked Steven Welsh to slot in for your local pub team, he could probably do it five times a week. We’re talking about being too fatigued to play effectively against elite athletes, not just generally knackered. |
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Reply | Did history just repeat itself with Michu and Vipotnik?
at 09:30 28 Oct 2026
‘Four full defenders’ implies Tymon and either Lissah or Key are almost always in defensive positions. They aren’t, they are an important part of our attack and we need a midfielder covering them.
Despite last weekend’s hammering, we are way ahead of where any of us or the pundits predicted. More wins than losses and draws combined.
If we were in fifteenth place with more losses than wins it would be a different story. |
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Reply | Swans defender Stephen Welsh : Is exhaustion playing a part ?
at 18:12 27 Oct 2026
Of course if we break that list down, Josh Key, Ronald and Moussa Yeo don’t play international football. Cameron Burgess does, but he was out with a long term injury well before the break.
I do really enjoy the reports, but I can’t help feel there was one sentence in there designed to trigger the predictable response it got. |
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Reply | Swansea City v Blackburn Rovers : Match Thread
at 14:52 26 Oct 2026
The only position we haven’t really got covered is Eustquios and I haven’t seen Iorpenda play so maybe he does that? I’m sure there will be plenty of rotation over the next couple of months.
Gone are the days we had to rely on Cabango and Darling or Grimes and Fulton all season because we didn’t have real backup. |
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Reply | Leo Walta
at 12:21 26 Oct 2026
He’s certainly in danger of becoming the next Kyle Joseph. Mentions every time he scores in an inferior league |
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Reply | Leo Walta
at 10:06 26 Oct 2026
It looks a very deliberate policy to me. The two players on our books suited to the Dobbie role are Walta and Bobby Wales.
I haven’t seen a lot of either of them and Matos may just feel neither are good enough, but it looks to me like he isn’t interested in that type of player. He loves his workhorses.
Mistake? I think not having central creativity in the squad is yeah. |
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Reply | Leo Walta
at 09:39 26 Oct 2026
I think the mistake is judging Just as a #10. We don’t play with one, he’s just the most advanced of a midfield three.
When you’ve got a front three and fullbacks who get forward as much as ours do, one of the midfielders is spending a lot of time covering teammates being high up the pitch when we get turned over, the other two then have to play like conventional midfielders, not flair players. It’s the main reason I wouldn’t want Eom in there. That role isn’t just about unlocking defences.
As for Just, I get the criticism. He’s shown flashes, but hasn’t been anywhere near enough consistent. I also don’t think he’s aggressive enough when we have our 5/10 minute spells of intense pressing. As I’ve said a few times though, he’s looked a lot better than some of our best players did in their first few months. Everyone quite rightly wanted them to be given more time.
I’d still like a Walta type in the squad every game. Starting one would mean putting the breaks on Tymon and Lissah/Key IMO. |
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Reply | Swansea City : Vitor reflects the weather & his sides performance post match
at 16:44 25 Oct 2026
That wasn’t our normal gameplan. Both teams went at it from the start and we were way more open defensively than we have been all season.
How often do we leave players unmarked on the six yard line? We did for both of their opening goals and they cut through us with ease for the penalty.
Everyone knows our gameplan. It didn’t work because we didn’t execute it.
Edit - to answer your question, no. I don’t think anyone played well. We were well off the boil individually and collectively. [Post edited 25 Oct 17:00]
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Reply | Injury list increasing
at 09:00 25 Oct 2026
International football is so evil it even made Tymon and Widell have bad games yesterday. |
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Reply | Injury list increasing
at 08:36 25 Oct 2026
I was expecting to see him and Ross Stewart in the second half. Possibly Matos didn’t want to bring Monga into a flat team going through the motions.
I expect a lot more next week. Eom starting and hopefully Monga getting a cameo. |
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Reply | Queens Park Rangers V Swansea City : Match Thread
at 06:38 25 Oct 2026
That’s the best summary I’ve read. Forget tactics and team selection, we just collectively didn’t show up. No excuse for it.
Need a big response next week. Anyone 50/50 on going, now is the time to get behind them. |
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Reply | The Championship weekend on the Indy
at 17:46 24 Oct 2026
They wouldn’t have been confident of putting 5 past us at 3.08 either. They probably won’t do it again all season.
I agree, Matos has a huge week ahead of him. Last week could have gone either way against a top team. Today was different. We let ourselves down big time. |
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Reply | Queens Park Rangers V Swansea City : Match Thread
at 17:32 24 Oct 2026
That wasn’t about QPR. It was about how shambolic and uncharacteristic our defending was. Not taking anything away from them, they took their chances and held us at arms length professionally, but anyone would have beaten us today. |
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Reply | The Championship weekend on the Indy
at 17:23 24 Oct 2026
They were, but they were 2-0 up before the game got going. It’s very easy to shut down the midfield and pick off teams who overcommit from that point. Not that they didn’t do a good job of it. |
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Reply | Queens Park Rangers V Swansea City : Match Thread
at 17:21 24 Oct 2026
Second half was damage limitation. I think he may have gone all out if we had gone in at 3-0. There was no real attempt to get back into it second half, either from the players or the bench. |
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Reply | Queens Park Rangers V Swansea City : Match Thread
at 17:18 24 Oct 2026
My first reply disappeared.
By a long way. Let’s not pretend this was coming or was a reflection of how we’ve been playing. There was something really wrong with us defensively today, both as a unit and from individuals.
First time we’ve really let ourselves down, but we did it in spectacular fashion. I can’t think of any positives other than a couple of teams around us also dropping points.
Over to Matos to get them firing for Blackburn next weekend. He has to prove that was a one off. |
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