| Russell Martin ‘ We didn’t have the energy, we lacked intensity” 09:00 - Oct 24 with 1936 views | SwansIndependent |
 Russell Martin ‘ We didn’t have the energy, we lacked intensity” 24th Oct 2021 09:00At the end of a gruelling six days of football swans boss Russell Martin was clearly disappointed at his sides efforts in Birmingham on Saturday, so much so there was little he could say other than Birmingham won because they had more energy and always looked a threat. For us they were far and away the better side on the day.  0
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| Russell Martin ‘ We didn’t have the energy, we lacked intensity” on 09:21 - Oct 24 with 1356 views | onehunglow |
Not sure how to react really. | |
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| Russell Martin ‘ We didn’t have the energy, we lacked intensity” on 10:27 - Oct 24 with 1301 views | Boundy |
Two intensive games in a short space of time and we fell short , it happens and will happen . | |
| "In a free society, the State is the servant of the people—not the master." |
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| Russell Martin ‘ We didn’t have the energy, we lacked intensity” on 10:33 - Oct 24 with 1285 views | Dr_Parnassus |
| Russell Martin ‘ We didn’t have the energy, we lacked intensity” on 10:27 - Oct 24 by Boundy |
Two intensive games in a short space of time and we fell short , it happens and will happen . |
Birmingham had that too mind.
I’d prefer Martin to just take some of the criticism himself instead of deflecting all the time. Always seems to be an excuse.
It was a bad performance, we set up wrong and went about it badly. Didn’t learn from the first time we messed about at the back where they missed an open goal and it didn’t snap us into action.
Last week I was reading how fit we were and how great a job the management team had to get out squad into a position where we had superior fitness than our opponents.
Can’t keep up with all the about turns. Are we fit or aren’t we? If not, why aren’t we. We have had two intentional breaks.
Bad performance, both from the players and the management, it happens and will happen more too, would be unrealistic to expect otherwise. We learn and move on, just wish he could stop with the excuses, they are tiresome. |  |
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| Russell Martin ‘ We didn’t have the energy, we lacked intensity” on 10:34 - Oct 24 with 1284 views | Catullus |
We hoped for a win but after Cardiff and WBA this was always going to be tough. I remained optimistic but positivity can only get you so far. Tired legs catching up is to be expected and we don't have the squad to make many changes. | |
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| Russell Martin ‘ We didn’t have the energy, we lacked intensity” on 10:52 - Oct 24 with 1262 views | OptimisticJack |
| Russell Martin ‘ We didn’t have the energy, we lacked intensity” on 10:33 - Oct 24 by Dr_Parnassus |
Birmingham had that too mind.
I’d prefer Martin to just take some of the criticism himself instead of deflecting all the time. Always seems to be an excuse.
It was a bad performance, we set up wrong and went about it badly. Didn’t learn from the first time we messed about at the back where they missed an open goal and it didn’t snap us into action.
Last week I was reading how fit we were and how great a job the management team had to get out squad into a position where we had superior fitness than our opponents.
Can’t keep up with all the about turns. Are we fit or aren’t we? If not, why aren’t we. We have had two intentional breaks.
Bad performance, both from the players and the management, it happens and will happen more too, would be unrealistic to expect otherwise. We learn and move on, just wish he could stop with the excuses, they are tiresome. |
Not strictly correct with regard to Birmingham having to cope with the same run of fixtures.
Yes they had a local derby with WBA last week but that was on Friday ours was 2 days later on Sunday.
Our derby win followed close after against high flying WBA seemed to have drained us a bit psychologically.
It is still work in progress but we are moving forward in the right direction. | |
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| Russell Martin ‘ We didn’t have the energy, we lacked intensity” on 11:17 - Oct 24 with 1230 views | Boundy |
| Russell Martin ‘ We didn’t have the energy, we lacked intensity” on 10:33 - Oct 24 by Dr_Parnassus |
Birmingham had that too mind.
I’d prefer Martin to just take some of the criticism himself instead of deflecting all the time. Always seems to be an excuse.
It was a bad performance, we set up wrong and went about it badly. Didn’t learn from the first time we messed about at the back where they missed an open goal and it didn’t snap us into action.
Last week I was reading how fit we were and how great a job the management team had to get out squad into a position where we had superior fitness than our opponents.
Can’t keep up with all the about turns. Are we fit or aren’t we? If not, why aren’t we. We have had two intentional breaks.
Bad performance, both from the players and the management, it happens and will happen more too, would be unrealistic to expect otherwise. We learn and move on, just wish he could stop with the excuses, they are tiresome. |
Excuse or a reason there's a difference as I'm sure you know. We didn't play anywhere near the levels expected from us but then they're not machines are they. We're no where near being the finished product (or are we ) time will tell | |
| "In a free society, the State is the servant of the people—not the master." |
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| Russell Martin ‘ We didn’t have the energy, we lacked intensity” on 11:33 - Oct 24 with 1192 views | Dr_Parnassus |
| Russell Martin ‘ We didn’t have the energy, we lacked intensity” on 11:17 - Oct 24 by Boundy |
Excuse or a reason there's a difference as I'm sure you know. We didn't play anywhere near the levels expected from us but then they're not machines are they. We're no where near being the finished product (or are we ) time will tell |
I agree we didn’t play anywhere near as good as we could have.
But I don’t buy the fitness excuse. All clubs are pretty much in the same boat, if we aren’t fit by now then we should be. | |
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| Russell Martin ‘ We didn’t have the energy, we lacked intensity” on 11:34 - Oct 24 with 1195 views | Whiterockin |
| Russell Martin ‘ We didn’t have the energy, we lacked intensity” on 10:52 - Oct 24 by OptimisticJack |
Not strictly correct with regard to Birmingham having to cope with the same run of fixtures.
Yes they had a local derby with WBA last week but that was on Friday ours was 2 days later on Sunday.
Our derby win followed close after against high flying WBA seemed to have drained us a bit psychologically.
It is still work in progress but we are moving forward in the right direction. |
Exactly. 3 games in 6 days as opposed to 3 games in 8 days. Obviously that makes a difference. Add into that WBA had an extra 2 days rest before playing us, no wonder we were drained after that match. |  | | |
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| Russell Martin ‘ We didn’t have the energy, we lacked intensity” on 11:51 - Oct 24 with 1154 views | Dr_Parnassus |
| Russell Martin ‘ We didn’t have the energy, we lacked intensity” on 11:34 - Oct 24 by Whiterockin |
Exactly. 3 games in 6 days as opposed to 3 games in 8 days. Obviously that makes a difference. Add into that WBA had an extra 2 days rest before playing us, no wonder we were drained after that match. |
Sounds like excuses to me.
Last week I was reading how fit we were and how much fitter than the opposition we were. We seemed to improve as the game went on yesterday.
Our misplaced passing was our problem, not our fitness. That happened from minute 1.
Just not buying it. | |
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| Russell Martin ‘ We didn’t have the energy, we lacked intensity” on 11:54 - Oct 24 with 1145 views | Whiterockin |
| Russell Martin ‘ We didn’t have the energy, we lacked intensity” on 11:51 - Oct 24 by Dr_Parnassus |
Sounds like excuses to me.
Last week I was reading how fit we were and how much fitter than the opposition we were. We seemed to improve as the game went on yesterday.
Our misplaced passing was our problem, not our fitness. That happened from minute 1.
Just not buying it. |
All depends on your agenda mate. | | | |
| Russell Martin ‘ We didn’t have the energy, we lacked intensity” on 12:29 - Oct 24 with 1079 views | Dr_Parnassus |
| Russell Martin ‘ We didn’t have the energy, we lacked intensity” on 11:54 - Oct 24 by Whiterockin |
All depends on your agenda mate. |
My agenda is for my club to be the best it can be.
Don’t do excuses. Don’t do faux praise. Don’t buy into the messiah nonsense.
Poor performance. Learn from it. Move on. | |
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| Russell Martin ‘ We didn’t have the energy, we lacked intensity” on 12:34 - Oct 24 with 1067 views | Whiterockin |
| Russell Martin ‘ We didn’t have the energy, we lacked intensity” on 12:29 - Oct 24 by Dr_Parnassus |
My agenda is for my club to be the best it can be.
Don’t do excuses. Don’t do faux praise. Don’t buy into the messiah nonsense.
Poor performance. Learn from it. Move on. |
The performance was poor, but to write off the length of recovery time between matches is just stupid. | | | |
| Russell Martin ‘ We didn’t have the energy, we lacked intensity” on 12:38 - Oct 24 with 1042 views | Dr_Parnassus |
| Russell Martin ‘ We didn’t have the energy, we lacked intensity” on 12:34 - Oct 24 by Whiterockin |
The performance was poor, but to write off the length of recovery time between matches is just stupid. |
I’m not writing it off, I’m saying we improved as the game went on so I don’t see much sense in attributing the performance to fitness.
If we dropped off as the game went on then there may be something to it. However we were misplacing passes all over the shop from minute 1 as we looked to insist on short passing again. That’s not a fitness issue. | |
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| Russell Martin ‘ We didn’t have the energy, we lacked intensity” on 12:54 - Oct 24 with 1008 views | grabsplatter |
Undoubtedly a poor performance & yes Martin is making excuses, typical manager speak really. |  | | |
| Russell Martin ‘ We didn’t have the energy, we lacked intensity” on 13:18 - Oct 24 with 972 views | onehunglow |
Recently, we read we WERE fit ;fitter than WBA for instance.
Now we'ree tired.
Im tired of excuses tbh.
Play Centre Halves in their right place ;that measn Cabango and Ben playing together | |
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| Russell Martin ‘ We didn’t have the energy, we lacked intensity” on 13:30 - Oct 24 with 952 views | Catullus |
| Russell Martin ‘ We didn’t have the energy, we lacked intensity” on 10:33 - Oct 24 by Dr_Parnassus |
Birmingham had that too mind.
I’d prefer Martin to just take some of the criticism himself instead of deflecting all the time. Always seems to be an excuse.
It was a bad performance, we set up wrong and went about it badly. Didn’t learn from the first time we messed about at the back where they missed an open goal and it didn’t snap us into action.
Last week I was reading how fit we were and how great a job the management team had to get out squad into a position where we had superior fitness than our opponents.
Can’t keep up with all the about turns. Are we fit or aren’t we? If not, why aren’t we. We have had two intentional breaks.
Bad performance, both from the players and the management, it happens and will happen more too, would be unrealistic to expect otherwise. We learn and move on, just wish he could stop with the excuses, they are tiresome. |
Birmingham, like WBA had 2 extra days to recover before Wednesday.
Being fit doesn't mean you can't tire and if you get a knock on Wednesday with only 2 days til your next game it's bound to have an effect.
We are fitter than we were but we are not supermen.
Even ignoring that, we had two very good performances then one sub par performance, it happens.
We don't have a strong squad. We cannot make 5/6 changes and hope to have the same performances. Hopefully that will change over a couple of transfer windows where Martin has a chance to fetch in players he wants, get rid of the excess baggage and maybe bring the U23's up to speed too, make them first team ready, or at least some of them.
We are not a finished article and won't be for a while yet. Those 2 international breaks, the players weren't resting, they were working hard, they just had no matches. | |
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| Russell Martin ‘ We didn’t have the energy, we lacked intensity” on 13:39 - Oct 24 with 917 views | Dr_Winston |
| Russell Martin ‘ We didn’t have the energy, we lacked intensity” on 13:18 - Oct 24 by onehunglow |
Recently, we read we WERE fit ;fitter than WBA for instance.
Now we'ree tired.
Im tired of excuses tbh.
Play Centre Halves in their right place ;that measn Cabango and Ben playing together |
Cabango and Ben are the same person. Difficult for them not to play together.
Have only skimmed the post match stuff (been busy) but one thing stands out time and again. You do not have the first idea what you're talking about. |  |
| Pain or damage don't end the world. Or despair, or f*cking beatings. The world ends when you're dead. Until then, you got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man... and give some back. |
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| Russell Martin ‘ We didn’t have the energy, we lacked intensity” on 13:49 - Oct 24 with 905 views | Whiterockin |
| Russell Martin ‘ We didn’t have the energy, we lacked intensity” on 13:39 - Oct 24 by Dr_Winston |
Cabango and Ben are the same person. Difficult for them not to play together.
Have only skimmed the post match stuff (been busy) but one thing stands out time and again. You do not have the first idea what you're talking about. |
I just thought that he had a good bottle of wine with his Sunday lunch. | | | |
| Russell Martin ‘ We didn’t have the energy, we lacked intensity” on 13:55 - Oct 24 with 870 views | Dr_Parnassus |
| Russell Martin ‘ We didn’t have the energy, we lacked intensity” on 13:30 - Oct 24 by Catullus |
Birmingham, like WBA had 2 extra days to recover before Wednesday.
Being fit doesn't mean you can't tire and if you get a knock on Wednesday with only 2 days til your next game it's bound to have an effect.
We are fitter than we were but we are not supermen.
Even ignoring that, we had two very good performances then one sub par performance, it happens.
We don't have a strong squad. We cannot make 5/6 changes and hope to have the same performances. Hopefully that will change over a couple of transfer windows where Martin has a chance to fetch in players he wants, get rid of the excess baggage and maybe bring the U23's up to speed too, make them first team ready, or at least some of them.
We are not a finished article and won't be for a while yet. Those 2 international breaks, the players weren't resting, they were working hard, they just had no matches. |
That’s what I’m saying, it happens. Will happen again too.
No need for excuses though, tactics could have been better, changes could have been made much sooner.
We learn. We move on. The excuses are getting tiresome. | |
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| Russell Martin ‘ We didn’t have the energy, we lacked intensity” on 13:58 - Oct 24 with 860 views | onehunglow |
| Russell Martin ‘ We didn’t have the energy, we lacked intensity” on 13:39 - Oct 24 by Dr_Winston |
Cabango and Ben are the same person. Difficult for them not to play together.
Have only skimmed the post match stuff (been busy) but one thing stands out time and again. You do not have the first idea what you're talking about. |
Ben as in Ben -nett.
You really are not what you think you are .
Pitiful really | |
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| Russell Martin ‘ We didn’t have the energy, we lacked intensity” on 14:03 - Oct 24 with 843 views | Dr_Winston |
| Russell Martin ‘ We didn’t have the energy, we lacked intensity” on 13:58 - Oct 24 by onehunglow |
Ben as in Ben -nett.
You really are not what you think you are .
Pitiful really |
Still not on ignore then?
Of course that's what you meant. Of course. | |
| Pain or damage don't end the world. Or despair, or f*cking beatings. The world ends when you're dead. Until then, you got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man... and give some back. |
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| Russell Martin ‘ We didn’t have the energy, we lacked intensity” on 14:33 - Oct 24 with 814 views | andrew |
His team selection was criminal. | |
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| Russell Martin ‘ We didn’t have the energy, we lacked intensity” on 14:39 - Oct 24 with 797 views | onehunglow |
| Russell Martin ‘ We didn’t have the energy, we lacked intensity” on 14:33 - Oct 24 by andrew |
His team selection was criminal. |
Yep,some others saw it that way.
Ben/Benny/ Bennett is nothing like a full back and should not simply be expected to do so. To have Manning ,a frail lad, as other fullback was mad considering the likes of Deeley were playing.
This was exactly the case with Fulham where the Bully that is Mitrovic simply ran over our lads.
We need some physicality at CH. Naughton is not. Pointless selecting them to play it out of when they do get it far bigger towards ensure they can’t play it out safely.
First goal was simply faffing about. | |
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| Russell Martin ‘ We didn’t have the energy, we lacked intensity” on 15:56 - Oct 24 with 759 views | ReslovenSwan1 |
Swansea were out worked last season and outworked again this season. Swansea were not sufficiently up for the fight. (lacking intensity). The fual data was the ames Birmingham fouled twice as much as Swansea with almost the exact data. Same result a one goal loss.
Russell has a decent sized squad and could have rotated. Brandon Cooper would have been up for it and Fulton. Dhanda would at least have been fresh and Whittaker and Obafemi could have started. Russel has the data and needs to react before games. Latibaeudiree at CB and manning replacing Bidwell. 6 changes to keep everyone fresh. Swansea would not have got less points. |  |
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| Russell Martin ‘ We didn’t have the energy, we lacked intensity” on 17:01 - Oct 24 with 698 views | 34dfgdf54 |
| Russell Martin ‘ We didn’t have the energy, we lacked intensity” on 15:56 - Oct 24 by ReslovenSwan1 |
Swansea were out worked last season and outworked again this season. Swansea were not sufficiently up for the fight. (lacking intensity). The fual data was the ames Birmingham fouled twice as much as Swansea with almost the exact data. Same result a one goal loss.
Russell has a decent sized squad and could have rotated. Brandon Cooper would have been up for it and Fulton. Dhanda would at least have been fresh and Whittaker and Obafemi could have started. Russel has the data and needs to react before games. Latibaeudiree at CB and manning replacing Bidwell. 6 changes to keep everyone fresh. Swansea would not have got less points. |
No arguments at all with that.
Said same with Cooper last year we looked out on our feet yesterday early the squad needs to be utilised. |  | | |
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