| Utilitarian Swansea city under Cooper. 00:56 - May 30 with 534 views | ReslovenSwan1 |
UTILITARIAN designed to be useful or practical rather than attractive.
This Swansea team is boring and functional. It appears to be rigid and over coached and no place for a maverick player. There seems to be an element of going through the motions.
I am no expert but Swansea produce the same game week in week out. It is good enough for all outside the top 6. They rarely raise their game and only Lowe rarely does anything out of the ordinary. Hourahaine was supposed to be the maverick but could do nothing in such a rigid group. Fulton, Smith, Grimes fit into to this exactly. Smith has scored 6 goals in 14 seasons and has never hit a 30 yarder in his life. When through on goal last week he panicked and fell over.
No wonder Celina was drummed out. It is true Cooper has done well but it is a road to nowhere. The only way is down. Swansea's budget was greater than most other teams in the division outside the other parachute teams. Swansea did just enough to beat all the low budget teams.
Peter Risdale alway said the position you get relates almost exactly to what you pay in wages and transfers. This pattern is the new Swansea pattern. The Utilitiarian pattern. I never saw the East German teams of the 1970 like Locomotiv Liepzig or Dynamo Dresden. I imagine they played like this. Capable efficient but no more than that.
With the parachute gone top 10 in the Championship awaits as the new lower target. Swansea the new Preston North End. Now there is a utilarian team if ever there was one.
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| Utilitarian Swansea city under Cooper. on 22:51 - May 30 with 353 views | Kilkennyjack |
Some truth in that sadly. |  |
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| Utilitarian Swansea city under Cooper. on 10:12 - May 31 with 292 views | Catullus |
I have already said I'm more worried we'll be in a relegation fight than a look at promotion but that includes Cooper leaving. Utilitarian is exactly what we were. I disagree about Lowe though, Ayew did some stuff and Guehi ocassionally burst forward with the ball, the rest though were mostly rigid, negative and predictable.
I look at Barnsley, a team with less quality than us, a team with a smaller budget than us, they also got to the play offs but they were probably better to watch. OK it was kick and rush, lots of long balls but it was more exciting than what we saw.
If Cooper goes I want a manager who gets us playing again, none of this persistent negativity, a team that tries to score not just avoid conceding.
Here's a statto question, has any other team in a play off final failed to register a shot on target? |  |
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