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Reply | Swansea City v Cardiff City : Match day thread * UPDATED THURS
at 15:49 16 Mar 2024
Gutted not to have been able to get down for the game (first home derby I've missed in while) but family circumstances prevented it this time. Looks like most regulars on this forum were there, judging by how quiet it is today.
Anyway, I thought they were all immense today and they all played with the passion we expect from a derby game (and which would be nice to see every game, quite frankly). I did gulp when Fulton and Cooper came on for Allen and Paterson but they were great too.
Darling was MoM for me. His reaction when Cooper secured the free kick in extra time said it all. He has grown on me. And what can you say about Cullen - he's a JB to the bone.
Williams got everything right today, down to inviting a supporter in to the changing rooms to explain why derbies matter. |
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Reply | FC Den Haag fans
at 18:18 5 Mar 2024
Were 'The Belgians' really Belgians or was that an error based on Flemish and Dutch being basically the same language? They used to regularly show up at away games when we were in the lower leagues. |
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Reply | Swansea City v Blackburn Rovers : March day thread
at 18:45 2 Mar 2024
And that 4 point cushion could very easily have been 0 if we’d conceded against Sunderland or Blackburn instead of hanging on for the win by the skin of our teeth. Two very good first halves of football which show what we are capable of, but Williams needs to work on his second half tactics and think hard about Fulton and Yates.
What a difference our wingers make. And thank God we have made up for Martin’s catastrophic error in getting rid of them. |
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Reply | Swansea City v Blackburn Rovers : March day thread
at 14:11 2 Mar 2024
Pleased with that starting line-up. I know Cullen gets mixed reactions on here but I definitely prefer him to Yates. And Allen to Fulton. Just hope Wood and Cabango have another good game, and Williams gets his substitutions right. |
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Reply | Sunderland v Swansea City
at 09:05 26 Feb 2024
Great analysis. I really hope you are correct. I must say that after the excitement of the first half, those second half substitutions had me worried. |
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Reply | Naughton
at 19:40 24 Feb 2024
Didn’t see the game today but from the commentary it sounded like Naughton and Ronald formed a partnership today the likes of which we haven’t seen since the glory days. It would be wonderful to think that we could hold on to both for next season and see a real Naughtonaissance. |
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Reply | Sunderland v Swansea City : Match day Michael
at 14:13 24 Feb 2024
I like that line-up a lot, given what we have available to us. Would have prefered Darling to start over Wood but let's hope he plays a blinder and proves (yet again) how little I know. |
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Reply | 🔴 Indy Poll : Where will the Swans finish this season ?
at 15:23 20 Feb 2024
Option 1 Start with Allen, and then sub him for Patino
Option 2 Start with Patino (anyone got any idea why he isn't getting more game time?)
I would love to see Fulton playing as a DM breaking up opposition attacks with Grimes further up the pitch supplying the ball to our forwards, but the reality is that when they both play the only attacks that get broken up are our own. |
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Reply | 🔴 Indy Poll : Where will the Swans finish this season ?
at 15:07 20 Feb 2024
Totally agree about Key. And Darling. (I used to think he was a terrible signing and he's still liable to make errors but I have warmed to him this season because of his workrate.) Be good to have Lowe and even Ginelly for a few games too. Basically our injuries this season have been terrible and without them we'd have been a lot stronger.
But we knew the deal with Williams was always going to be 'they'll score against us, but we'll score more', and the problem is we are not delivering on the second half of that equation. He must have thought we had the capability of scoring for fun when he signed his contract, but for the life of me I can't see what he saw.
Anyway, thanks for the relative positivity on this thread - some of the negativity on Swans forums in recent days has been getting me down. |
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Reply | 🔴 Indy Poll : Where will the Swans finish this season ?
at 13:21 20 Feb 2024
Can't blame them for that view. While I didn't see the Ipswich game, it sounded like we had enough about us to trouble most lower table teams, and that's who we mostly have to play for the remainder of this season. Although we only have three points to show for it, Plymouth, Hull and Ipswich seem like decent performances on the whole. Only Leeds was an absolute embarassment.
Having said that I am baffled by so many things at the moment, including:
- Why he persists in playing Fulton and Grimes together
- Why does Grimes persist in showing flashes of his potential (it's the hope that kills you...)
- What happened to Wood?
- Why do we surrender against 'big' teams?
- Why does Yates get time on the pitch (he's a bottler)?
I want Williams to succeed and I liked him at first but his refusal to take responsibility reminds me of a previous manager. I kind of wish we'd stuck with Sheehan til the end of the season TBH |
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Reply | Credit to Andrew Coleman : At last we see some action !
at 11:59 8 Jan 2024
Good article, Keith, and a lot there I agree with (especially about the loans).
But we need more than a return to Martin's style of football. If all Williams brings is more glacially slow walking football we'll go nowhere. We need possession with purpose and intent to move the ball forward quickly, and for that we need more pace and creativity in the squad. Martin painted us into a corner with no wingers and no pace, as some of us predicted from quite early on. I don't know if Duff deserves any credit for bringing in some actually pretty good quality players in the last transfer window, or whether that's all down to Watson and Coleman, but someone knew what they were doing and that gives me hope for the future. |
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Reply | Are we all happy now?
at 10:12 7 Jan 2024
I'd say 99% of us are happy now. I know I am. Last night was WAY too soon to make any judgements about how we'll play under him. The only thing I took away from it was that we improved in the second half and that's a positive sign.
I genuinely think we have an opportunity to put the culture wars of the past 4.5 seasons behind us. He's worked with Martin and obviously likes his players to keep possession, but he also likes them to do something with that possession, so both camps should be happy.
The remaining (scatalogical) 1% will never be happy.
Let’s move on together, back the new manager, and hope that he can drive walking football out of this club for good. [Post edited 7 Jan 11:52]
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Reply | Lowe
at 17:42 5 Oct 2023
Agree 100% |
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Reply | 10 games in....
at 13:45 5 Oct 2023
There's no way that the first matches under Duff's management (including the pre-season outings) represented some form of game plan that didn't work so Duff abandoned it and has now found a winning formula. Look at Darling's long balls to no one at Oxford. Utterly mystified me at the time, now he is getting them on target every time. The recipients are still learning how to control them (and Darling probably has to keep adjusting to give them more of a chance to make something of the opportunity) but Duff's logic is becoming clear. It's taking a while for the players to adjust. I for one thought that some players, like Grimes and Paterson, didn't have it in them. Well thank God Duff is the manager not me, hey.
On a related note, did Duff actually say 'I am not shifting from a 3 CBs and 2 WBs formation' after the Cardiff game or did he say 'I’ll get my head down and stick to my values. I won’t come off from what I believe in'? Because the latter could mean a world of things to do with style of play, work rate etc and very little to do with who plays where. |
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