Eight days without a league game and it's off to high-flying Mansfield on Saturday where the travelling Swansea support is likely to be bidding farewell to Mamady Sidibe who is set to join First Division Barnsley on Monday.
The news that the backroom staff have not been paid, although the players have, will also have caused some unrest in the camp as well and is not the preparation that Colin Addison would have looked for ahead of this game.
Tony Petty's victory in the courtroom last Friday was a bitter blow for the club and now it seems that what he told the judge was 'not necessarily the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth'
It is likely to be an unchanged Swansea side that takes on Mansfield bar the re-introduction of PFA Chairman Nick Cusack into the midfield in place of Sidibe's replacement, Steve Brodie. Brodie is likely to drop to the bench.
Steve Evans is likely to continue at left back despite the return to fitness of Mickey Howard as Swansea bid to stop one of the division's form teams. Three wins out of four has pushed Mansfield into third place and I am sure that they will aim to stay at least there come five o'clock tomorrow.
I just cannot see Swansea winning this game and smart money says a 2-0 home win, knowing this roller coaster ride, we'll go and win the game now! |