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Reply | Swansea City : The confusing decision making for a whole season
at 08:17 8 May 2024
In which case, given our constant ability to concede sloppy goals because of playingtoo manypasses in and around our own penalty area, are you saying the manager/coach is aways the reason because its his instructions?
Grimes comes back for the ball when there are forward passes on, he plays short, 5 yard passes on the edge of our box and players like Cabango get caught out because they aren't good enough with ball at feet.
Ill just have to take that to mean that yet again we have a manager/coach who won't get the best out of the squad because he has them playing in a way that we just cannot play succesfully unless the owner spend masses of cash on better players and we know that won't happen. |
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Reply | The tainted First Minister
at 20:53 7 May 2024
You just did like Vaughn Gething and just deleted the embarrasing evidence. Tho of course he denies deleting anything. |
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Reply | The 20MPH punishments
at 20:51 7 May 2024
And that incident is the perfect example of why simply lowering speed limits won't work.
Young people in cars, I've been there and felt the pressure to go faster and faster. This is why we need more safegiards, more police and cameras, rules about engine sizes for new drivers.
it needs a holistic approach not a sticking plaster. |
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Reply | Tats
at 20:44 7 May 2024
Didn't they warn you having "Entrance" tattooed on your backside was a bad idea? 
Now I don't have any but at 57 (VERY soon) I am probably havoing one on my arm, in memory of my sister.
I was advised years back, only get them if you are 100% sure. Good advice I think. |
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Reply | The 20MPH punishments
at 20:43 6 May 2024
OHL, try driving down the Kingsway in Swansea, pedestrians walk out without looking. Cyclists hurtle down the now shared pavements and collisions are regular, near misses very frequent.
We ALL cause accidents but if you are driving along within the speed limit and someone runs out right in front of you, straight into your car, why is it your fault?
I dont think the Netherlands are a fair comparison because they are much more set up for cyclists, it's their culture. The UK is very different, we have a different atiitude to these things and if that is to change then eucation AND better monitoring by the police is needed.
What are the Dutch police like? Are they well staffed? Do people get away with the crimes over there that get ignored over here? |
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Reply | Swansea City : The confusing decision making for a whole season
at 20:33 6 May 2024
A Williams thing? maybe but he's been doing it since martin and I don't think Duff was telling him to drop so deep, he's entirely differnt to Williams and Martin.
On the other hand, why has Williams been so angry? Why so critical of the poor performances? I mean if thats his instructions? |
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Reply | Swansea City : The confusing decision making for a whole season
at 14:52 6 May 2024
Sorry but no, if Key and Tymon are pushing up while Grimes drops back, how can he have no one to pass to going forward?
Grimes takes too long deciding to pass and gets closed down, that is the fact of it. many times he has a pass on but he always wants to play safe so a 60/40 forward pass is ignored for an 90/10 sideways or backwards pass.
it is Grimes slow play, slow thinking that costs us going forward. Other teams try the forward pass and statistically, sometimes it comes off. Grimes nearly always plays safe which is why his passing stats are so good.
When Grimes has dropped in between our centre backs then he often has no midfielder to pass too because he isn't in midfield, the centre back should have the ball and be passing to Grimes, not Grimes dropping very deep. It is his deepness that has often put us under pressure. many mistakes have happened because we muck about with it on the edge of our own box. |
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Reply | The 20MPH punishments
at 14:37 6 May 2024
Nbody has argued about 20mph in the right areas but up until now you have defended the "default limit" and you won't accept that the Uk has relatively very safe roads.
Lets face facts, people shouldn't run out into the road without looking, we were taught that as kids (those iver 40 anyway) and cyclists play fast and loose with the hghway code too. Cyclists also cause accidents on roads and pavements but NOOOOO, everything is the car drivers fault.
Then look at the stats again and tell us which roads are the least safe, is it in built up areas or is it motorways, by-passes and country lanes with higher speed limits?
The fact is that hundreds of people are injured and a few are killed every month. Not all of thise accidents are the car drivers fault but we are the ones getting punished for EVERY accident.
If you really want safer roads, safer than the second safest (as DrW pointed out) then the only way is to have more cameras and more police to ensure drivers slow down and drive more carefully. As long as people ignore speed limits then a big sign with 20 in it won't make much difference.
Look at thestats from 2022,
https://statswales.gov.wales/Catalogue/Transport/Roads/Road-Accidents/accidents/
and notice where most of the accidents are, Powys and then tell me, are the roads in Powys mostly suburban, urban or country lanes?
Then notice where the safest roads are, Anglesey, Swansea, Neath/Port talbot and Merthyr. |
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Reply | Unbelievable these Tories
at 20:02 5 May 2024
If you're a tory voter it won't matter but if you would vote Labour to be rid of the tories then you lose out. Strange decision to give up the vote because you have to prove who you are on the day.
Drive somewhere on the day, use a bank card on the day and they'll know where you are. Go to vote without ID and you still aren't anonymous because you have to give your name or show your polling card at the desk.
Seems stupid to me. |
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Reply | The 20MPH punishments
at 14:24 5 May 2024
So cyclists are getting to be more dangerous than cars eh? Cyclists, motorised or not, are killing and injuring people while doing in excess of speed limits on pavements and in parks.
Yet it's car drivers who eep getting punished.
Seems a tad blinkered to me. |
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Reply | Fraud Quadrupled
at 14:18 5 May 2024
I was speaking about PPE really but Furlough, yes it was difficult but they should have started strict checks as soon as it started being paid and then close down on those who cheated.
The big difference was very few people made very much money from Furlough whereas a few people made many millions from the PPE scandal.
Furlough was generally poorer people making a few quid, PPE was rich people using political connections to make a fortune. The fast track was a rigged race.
What I blame Labour for in the bankers bailout was not ensuring the boardroom didn't profit from it becuse massive wages and big bonuses still got paid despite the losses. |
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Reply | Unbelievable these Tories
at 14:09 5 May 2024
Because the government says so. it's that simple, right or wrong its the rule now. |
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Reply | Swansea City : Grimes misses a penalty in a return to bad old ways
at 14:07 5 May 2024
The positin isn't important, the points difference is, we could have gone down this season with just 3 or 4 more bad results. If things continue on this trajectory next season could be a real problem, things have to change, to improve.
Yesterday was a return to the kind of performance all of us are unhappy with, no desire, no effort, slipshod.
It was the last game and we were safe, if things don't change then will we be happy this time next season? |
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Reply | Swansea City : The confusing decision making for a whole season
at 13:59 5 May 2024
I don't think he's ben over critiqued, I think he is getting what every other manager gets, a close look at his performance in conjunction with the team and the management above him.
It doesn't matter that his win rate is better than Martin, martin is gone and may nt even be at Saints much longer, if he fails to take them up.
What matters is that his win rate wasnt good enough, it needs to improve. To get there though, he needs the prer backing so the question is, will he get it? Or maybe we should ask if the owners can actually provide it? The owners performance thus far having been very lacking.
Even when you get past that there are still baffling decisions being made re selection, why have Kuharevych on the bench is you are never going to use him? Why use loan players in the last game and not our own youngsters when those loan players are leaving today?
On a more personal opinion, Matt Grimes, a lot of fans love him but hes definitely marmite. Personally I think he is the common denominator in our distinctly poor attacking form of the last 4 managers. He is the player who plays the most out of every outfield player, he is apparently our lynchpin but to me he's more like an anchor that has been thrown overboard prematurely and now keeps us wedged into our own half and drags our speed down to a crawl far too often. I can ignore that very bad penalty, it happens but the sideways and backwards nonsense that stops iur attacks, iften in full flow that gets changed into reverse by his "careful" approach. We may as well just play him at centre back and be done.
The knives aren't out for Williams, they are out for Coleman and Gude and the owners who have made baffling decisions that hold us back.
To re-iterate, I don't think it is unfair to point out that 36% win rate and 10 defeats at home isn't good enough. If we accept that we accept failure. Williams has to do better. |
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Reply | Oba and out
at 22:11 4 May 2024
Then you have others. with less talent, who work very hard and make a decent career. They make Obafemi look a real waster, which he is. |
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Reply | I am glad this season is over 😑
at 22:03 4 May 2024
I don't think this is a worse version, I think the squad has been weakened by really bad transfer business.
I honestly think Williams could do well with the right resources but we are very short on those. Then there's Matt Grimes, a totally rubbish penalty, he's not ever going to be a decent Captain, in my opinion. |
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Reply | Man City VAR Penalty
at 21:57 4 May 2024
Yeah but this isn't even that, this is being touted as a clear and obvious error that VAR hasn't corrected.
So it's used for what we were told it wouldnt be used for, very close calls. Then it's not used to correct a clear and obvious error.
It's a joke. |
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Reply | Oba and out
at 21:53 4 May 2024
Well people deserve a chance but in his case he was given plenty and has turned out to be a total waste of space who doesn't deserve sympathy.
A real waste of talent because I thought he showed enough that he could have been really good.
What caused it, is it just his attitude or has he been ruined by bad advice from self serving people? |
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Reply | Man City VAR Penalty
at 19:11 4 May 2024
I thought that was the point of VAR, to correct blatantly wrong decisions!
At least I'm sure they said it was to correct clear and obvious errors, maybe not! |
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