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Although I am a football and Swans supporter first and very much foremost, I tend to follow most sport with a welsh interest strongly, cricket, snooker, golf, I even started watching the darts when Richie Burnett became World Champ and I admit to becoming even more of a follower when a person/team comes from Swansea, ie The Ospreys, The Whites, Glamorgan (to an extent). What this is all is that I really can't understand all the anti-rugby, anti-ospreys comments being posted on a fairly regular basis on the message board. Our crowds have been fantastic and the atmosphere generated for these football matches has far exceeded my expectations. But although the atmosphere has really suffered for the Ospreys in our new stadium, their crowds are up also, not including the Wasps game which was a friendly, the Ospreys are averaging nearly 8200 a game, which is only beaten by one regions top attendance this season (Cardiff's highest attendance is 8,500). This is a fantastic achievement when you realise that the Ospreys games are on television far more than the Swans. This great stadium of ours after all the promises and reassurances that it would go ahead only really moved from the 'fantasy' to 'reality' when it was announced that the Swansea rugby side, in whatever guise, would share the stadium (I can still remember talk of creating a rugby league side to help make the stadium project more viable at one point). My only worry at the time was the pitch, which has been superb and better than I could ever have expected. Put simply it was the combination of both football and rugby that gave us the magnificent stadium that I already take for granted today. I am proud to say that with Swansea City FC currently being the best supported club in Wales and one of the best supported clubs in the Coca Cola Leagues, that the Ospreys are also the best supported region's in Wales and one of the best supported clubs in the UK too. Sport in Swansea (in whatever format) is flourishing, and long may it continue, don't knock it! What to read next:Swans head coach, Vitor Matos had an interesting pre match gathering this week and possibly put paid to Malick Yalcouyé’s immediate involvement this weekend. Of course that would depend on how you view the words of the Portuguese who is already seeing more and more about his task ahead. The month of December comes around with a few extra fixtures and the end of those six fixtures is a catalyst for some teams. The Swans have issues on the pitch and some are stating off it as well. The vultures were circling overhead. The bleached bones of the dead lay all around. Wait…a movement…a moving hand. A hen peckered face turns to the light and screams out, ‘Jack Butty here. I’m back with my latest missive from the defiles of dreadful duplicity.’ The cheers of voices were raised. Jack Butty looked around, ‘You lot can pipe down. You’re all gonners and gooners.’ And so, it came to pass… The Swansea City coaching mystery took another weird step yesterday when we received some information on Tozé Mendes, the new assistant manager to Vitor Matos. Well, in certain quarters he is Vitor’s assistant. It all was going so nicely, well for fifteen minutes of the game yesterday at The Hawthorns. The script unfolded as soon as West Bromwich Albion got ahold of the game. A game which ended just the way most expected. A brilliant start from Swansea City this afternoon dived into another order from the menu of disastrous football. Starters of no idea after fifteen minutes, with a main course of incompetence and a big desert of stupidity. They are now equal third bottom with Portsmouth who the Swans play at home on Tuesday 9th December (7:45pm) after a home game next Saturday against Oxford United (3pm) West Bromwich Albion 3 - 2 Swansea City - Player Ratings and Reports
If you saw the match, please give us your player ratings and a mini match report. The Swans are at the Hawthorns this afternoon for their Championship fixture against West Bromwich Albion. We will carry some team news later and then will have the official announcement after that. Swansea City travel to the midlands today with one focus, do not lose the game and begin to rebuild the fans confidence in the team. By all accounts Vitor Matos has identified two glaring errors in the Swans training processes prior to his arrival, the more astute will have picked them up in this weeks public conversations. Vitor Matos took his first full training session today prior to the West Bromwich Albion game at the Hawthorns on Saturday (3pm) With tickets still on sale for the fixture at generous prices the Swans can again expect a noisy supoort for this game. |