| Swansea City v Barnsley : Matchday Thread THE FALL OUT 14:46 - Dec 17 with 9435 views | NotLoyal |
Saturday 19th December 2020
Kick off 3pm
Liberty Stadium
Match Officials
ANDY DAVIES
Graham Kane and Mark Russell
Fourth Official : Tom Reeves
First ever game
05 Dec 1925 : Barnsley 2 Swansea Town 0 : League Division Two
Last game
29 Dec 2019: Swansea City 0 Barnsley 0 : League Championship
Meet the Ref
Andy Davies
Andy meets Olly
Andy boy has been a referee for eight years, retiring from football at the age of 28 he previously played for Portsmouth, Yeovil and somebody else I can’t remember. In his spare time Andy oven roasts live turkeys, which at this time of year makes him everyone’s friend except people from Turkey. Now hear this, now hear this, he has reffed well over 200 professional games, and only on six occasions has he not booked players. He booked eight in a game between Cardiff and Villa two years ago, no problems there, but he loves a card, it’s frightening. He sends players off far more than any other referee in the professional leagues, he has been the subject of many complaints by managers, fans and hits the headlines a lot with his decision making. Don’t think that those eight yellows at Cardiff are a one off, he regularly hits the five or six mark, and frighteningly seven. And as we have said he has only completed six games with no cards, from well over 200 GAMES, think about it. This guy has a way of changing games. This will be cardo’s fifth swans game he has been allocated. What will we get on Saturday ?
Turkey rustler Andy Davies, frightening card stats
What is a Barnsley ?
Barnsley is a hedonistic town in the north of the north. It’s a regular haunting for the likes of ghosts and Darren Gob from Talk Sport. Dazza Gobba is from Monk Breton in Barnsley and we will come back to that later. He alleges that he was once offered a pro football contract by Rotherham United. So, now it’s later why Monk Breton ? simple, it’s where Garry Monk was born, when they slapped his arse in the delivery room they noticed he was wearing an expensive watch and his wife took it off him. Barnsley is famous for the amount of magic mushrooms that can be located over a specific acre of field in a secret area everyone knows about just outside the town. In 2011 the Barnsley chop was banned in the town, the chop is a piece of meat, a cut close to the spine of an animal. At this point the animal is dead, or nearly dead, sometimes it is very dead. The Barnsley chop isn’t banned in Monk Breton and Gawber. Gawber is now called that name because someone in the past decided that would be a good idea. The name remains.
Barnsleh ! was the first English town to cater for people with no heads in the T-shirt game
92,000 people live in that Barnsley where the favourite pastime of locals aged forty and over is playing in brass bands. Only 1% of the population is Asian before you lot start, but it does have countless white people of British birth, I don’t know why I am going here, but why not ? it’s a fact. The town isn’t as multi cultural as Whitland or maybe Kenfif Hill, but who is caring ? Don’t start your nonsense on here or I’ll offer you out. Ok ?
Thingy, you know the umpire bloke and Michael Parkinson who actually came round our house once are from Barnsley. That’s about it, only five people who live there are called Lee Barnes.
This is Darren Gobs house in Barnsley, it’s got a lovely paint job. Tha knaws
Football news may appear later.
Swansea City: Freddie Woodman; Ben Cabango, Ryan Bennett, Marc Guehi; Connor Roberts, Jay Fulton, Matt Grimes (captain), Jake Bidwell; Yan Dhanda; Jamal Lowe, Andre Ayew.
Substitutes: Steven Benda, Ryan Manning, Korey Smith, Viktor Gyokeres, Wayne Routledge, Liam Cullen, Joel Latibeaudiere, Oli Cooper, Kasey Palmer.
Referee: Andy Davies
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| Swansea City v Barnsley : Matchday Thread TEAM NEWS on 13:10 - Dec 21 with 565 views | Badlands |
| Swansea City v Barnsley : Matchday Thread TEAM NEWS on 11:33 - Dec 21 by felixstowe_jack |
Another guy who thinks he is an expert on goal keepers.
Our goal keeper has only let in 12 all season the lowest in all football league and PL. His saves to shot percentage is also the second best in the championship. His passing success is also in the top five and thr best of all keepers for long passes. It is not easy to come for corners in the modern game as the opposition deliberately block keepers . I think I would rather trust experts' opinions on our goal keeper rather than armchair critics. |
Our defence has only conceded 12.
Woodman has the 3rd lowest shots on target against. 5th lowest number of saves which shows just how good our defence is.
He's a decent shot stopper but when he arrived he went for high balls in the 6 yard box, he read threats well and his distribution was very good.
Not sure how Skybet calculates passing stats but few long passes reach our players - that maybe more than other keepers but is still not very good.
Now?
The people commenting negatively on Cabango !!!!!
Highest overall rating of our 3 main CBs on WhoScored - slightly lower pass success rate but has scored 2 and made 1 assist ... that's 2 and 1 more than his colleagues and Joe Rodon!
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| Swansea City v Barnsley : Matchday Thread THE FALL OUT on 13:25 - Dec 21 with 542 views | onehunglow |
Thanks Badlands.You ve saved me a job there.
Fred is often a spectator at corners and dead ball kicks waiting for his defenders to take charge. Utterly appalling yet people who think they are experts on goalkeepers rip into those who they think they are not.
You need not be an expert to see rank cowardice masquerading as goalkeeping.
If Fred was elsewhere employed,he d be ripped to shreds by fans-and rightly so.
Look closely felix at Fred and I mean CLOSELY hen come back at me with a bit of swank |  |
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| Swansea City v Barnsley : Matchday Thread THE FALL OUT on 15:15 - Dec 21 with 496 views | Badlands |
| Swansea City v Barnsley : Matchday Thread THE FALL OUT on 13:25 - Dec 21 by onehunglow |
Thanks Badlands.You ve saved me a job there.
Fred is often a spectator at corners and dead ball kicks waiting for his defenders to take charge. Utterly appalling yet people who think they are experts on goalkeepers rip into those who they think they are not.
You need not be an expert to see rank cowardice masquerading as goalkeeping.
If Fred was elsewhere employed,he d be ripped to shreds by fans-and rightly so.
Look closely felix at Fred and I mean CLOSELY hen come back at me with a bit of swank |
From the age of 13 I played senior football mostly left back and centre half but from 15 I also played goalkeeper.
At 15-16 I was playing in goal for a town team and half a season at LB (illegally under a someone else's registration .. it happened get over it) semi-pro.
I continued playing amateur football in the midlands until I was nearly 30 - a mixture of goalkeeper, CH but mostly LB so I think I know what I am talking about even if my experience was at a lower (but decent) level.
As a keeper it didn't matter who was in the 6 yard box that was mine to control and I always preferred getting my hands on the ball rather than let others take control out of them. I don;t know anyone who played in goal regularly who felt any different.
As LB or CD the 6 yard box was under the control of whoever was in goal and I took direction from them.
While I realise that was a long long time ago the principles of goalkeeping remain the same.
Freddie has gone backwards. | |
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| Swansea City v Barnsley : Matchday Thread THE FALL OUT on 15:27 - Dec 21 with 493 views | Dr_Winston |
I have my problems with Woodman, but that's more to do with other aspects of his game than set pieces, and the fact that I'd rather have seen Benda get a decent run in the side.
Otherwise he is what he is. An adequate Championship keeper. I'm not seeing this Matty Gregg standard nincompoop that other people seem to be. [Post edited 21 Dec 2020 15:51]
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| Swansea City v Barnsley : Matchday Thread THE FALL OUT on 16:31 - Dec 21 with 463 views | swancity |
Woodman is a decent Championship goalkeeper.
Probably not good enough to play at a higher level regularly but he certainly has and is doing a proficient, more than acceptable job for us. | |
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| Swansea City v Barnsley : Matchday Thread THE FALL OUT on 16:37 - Dec 21 with 459 views | theloneranger |
| Swansea City v Barnsley : Matchday Thread THE FALL OUT on 15:27 - Dec 21 by Dr_Winston |
I have my problems with Woodman, but that's more to do with other aspects of his game than set pieces, and the fact that I'd rather have seen Benda get a decent run in the side.
Otherwise he is what he is. An adequate Championship keeper. I'm not seeing this Matty Gregg standard nincompoop that other people seem to be. [Post edited 21 Dec 2020 15:51]
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Matty's now a goalkeeping coach in Ireland. 😠|  |
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| Swansea City v Barnsley : Matchday Thread THE FALL OUT on 12:02 - Dec 22 with 353 views | felixstowe_jack |
| Swansea City v Barnsley : Matchday Thread THE FALL OUT on 13:25 - Dec 21 by onehunglow |
Thanks Badlands.You ve saved me a job there.
Fred is often a spectator at corners and dead ball kicks waiting for his defenders to take charge. Utterly appalling yet people who think they are experts on goalkeepers rip into those who they think they are not.
You need not be an expert to see rank cowardice masquerading as goalkeeping.
If Fred was elsewhere employed,he d be ripped to shreds by fans-and rightly so.
Look closely felix at Fred and I mean CLOSELY hen come back at me with a bit of swank |
Lots of our fans love slagging off our players it has been happening for years. I am more than happy to trust in Coopers judgement which even a lot of of the negative posters from last season are slowly coming around to. | |
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