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Reply | Here we go
at 15:11 4 Feb 2024
obviously we could get sucked into a battle if the points don't come and that is generally what we all focus on and many fans get all worked up about - rubbish players, rubbish managers, rubbish board, the usual cyclical irritation fest.
the graph that is more telling would be a season by season decline (more or less) over a 6-8 year period.
I keep hoping our less than ambitious (but perhaps pragmatic) business model will lead us to find our level eventually. Not convinced we have quite done so yet and the question is will this ultimately be League One, this season or a future season.
And we all convinced ourselves in the Premier League or even when relegated that we had secured long term higher level football for the city, never to return to the more mundane levels... |
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Reply | 🔴 Not fit to wear our clubs shirt and not fit to run our club ?
at 21:56 26 Dec 2023
just a couple of points and I will caveat it with the view I have always had that selling to these was a big mistake at the time, and footballing wise we have been on gentle spiral of decline for 5 or 6 years.
point 1 is a gentle reminder that everyone was happy with their spend over the Summer, its only subsequent performances that have now determined it was a 'bad spend'
point 2 is genuinely what do we expect to come that is better. No -one is going to inject immediate cash or quality, if anything it is likely we would have owners who would spend less, not more.
on the basis of the latter point it could be outweighed I guess if they put a good long term prospect in place who built things slowly. but we sort of had one of those in Martin and everyone got bored with him.
fact is if we are not winning, and getting the odd hiding, we assume there is a fairy godmother out there that will or would have done everything so much better.... |
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Reply | Duff sacked
at 21:34 4 Dec 2023
the trajectory of the last 6 years summed up in one sentence.
and each new manager having a bit less quality to work with than the last.
perhaps everyone can agree in advance this time the period they are willing to give the new one before passing judgement. am pretty sure any sequence of 3/4 defeats will lead to the usual outcome....
but that may be a regular feature for lower mid table teams |
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Reply | Swansea City v Sunderland : Match day thread UPDATED
at 12:09 6 Nov 2023
agreed.
the psychology of the red brought out the best of us as we changed our game plan into something simple and gritty. Let them have the ball in certain positions, defend for our lives in others. Great.
Prior to that when we both were trying to seize control of a football match, they were cutting through us at will. |
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Reply | How do you rate Michael Duff so far ?
at 11:55 29 Oct 2023
I guess in that regard the squad might come into it as it sets your expectations bar for Duff.
I'm not excited by the football I've seen but there have been patches/moments that show it could evolve into something both that wins and entertains, the magic combo that most are looking for.
Most evaluation is based on the last handful of results though, so ultimately for all the subjective stuff as a fan, that is what will ultimately determine our ratings. 5 points off the play offs, 6 off relegation. I'd say he must be above average on that showing and my feeling the squad is not an obvious promotion one anymore. |
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Reply | QPR v Swansea City : Match day thread
at 21:48 19 Sep 2023
turgid, a bit organised is the best we can now hope for, by far the worst we have looked in over a decade, albeit it has been a steady decline. |
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Reply | Cardiff City v Swansea City : Match day thread UPDATED !
at 21:54 16 Sep 2023
grimes gone and new owners and we will be world beaters mun!
oh if life was that simple.
the owners whilst not as ambitious as some would like are as good as we are going to get now .. not the ideal people to sell to back in the day but thats water under the bridge now. |
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Reply | Swans lack a cutting edge in a dismal performance against Bristol City
at 16:07 2 Sep 2023
I noted the usual 24 hrs of blame and expectation on here. A few sales led to anxious calls for signings and the owners back in the spotlight as pantomime villains. They made several signings so we now have lots of players. everyone happy briefly until we realise the nature of those signings may not take us to the promised land. I think Duff may be the chap to turn these into a mid table team, suspect that will not be to the liking of most. Each manager since relegation perhaps performing a little worse than the last in the fans eyes, the quality they have to work with has perhaps been the reason in the main. young, prospective signings to fit into a style, remember those days? until that happens mid table obscurity needs to be our goal. |
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Reply | Early summer optimism fading
at 20:32 31 Aug 2023
its the regular merry go round of supporters criticising manager wrong style ... players not performing ... owners not investing.... I'm not sure what managers are 'told' at appointment but I hardly think they are turning down jobs based on investment strategies, not the likes of Duff anyway. He will see how the club has been run and the fairly tight way business has been done so it will be on him to make the most of the resources he has. If the behind the scenes strategy is to keep us up, then that is the system he will need to develop. Just because that doesn't match the ambition of us fans then we know its going to be a moany few months. |
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Reply | Preston North End v Swansea City Match day thread 23/24
at 20:27 26 Aug 2023
no idea, been out all day, I was referencing the white noise on here.
my analysis doesn't tend to be partic deep but I found our first 2 performances ponderous and I'm waiting to get a sense of what the new direction of travel is.
the issue we will also now have to obfuscate will be the sell of piroe so everyone who was excited about us doing transfer business early will no doubt be shouting about the owners again.
with them, as long as they don't ruin us off the pitch I can't get too worked up even if their ambition does not match the fans, jenkins did sell us a bit of a duff on that score, but all water under the bridge now. |
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Reply | Preston North End v Swansea City Match day thread 23/24
at 19:23 26 Aug 2023
yeah got to start calling it out for what it is, a poor start. Instead of harping on about the last fella who seems to be doing OK at Soton so he can't be all bad. whether he, cooper or potter were demons or the messiah the reality is they were all rebuilding something then passing on for the next one to rebuild. and rebuilding at this level has to happen quickly. |
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