CroJack
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We have a game in hand and we are just 1 W + 1 D away from safety. We'll know a lot more after today's games.
Basement battle with Stoke
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Yankee_Jack
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Looking at the fixture lists, there are a lot of "6" point matches for all of the clubs in the mix. What a disaster of a season this has become. To be be in this scrap at this point in the season says it all ... and indicates how absolutely piss poor everything was done from the time that Martin decided to heave-ho last May, or was it the previous January when IMO the decision was made that Martin was done and he was not going to be backed.
Not criticizing the latter if that was the case; but surely we had a better plan than this.
Not criticizing the latter if that was the case; but surely we had a better plan than this.
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Plan??! Yankee, are you suggesting that anyone at the Liberty is intelligent enough to formulate a plan? I mean any plan let alone something cohesive that would make sense and maybe get results. If there's a bollock to be dropped you can bet that we'll drop it. We stumble from one situation to another always being reactive instead of proactive - much like the way our team performs in games as a matter of fact.
We'd better put that sort of thing to one side if want to stay up but I have no confidence at all that we will. If we do it won't be because our play has earned it; it'll be because other teams have been worse than us. Our league position doesn't lie. And as much as I want us to take a big step forward out of the mire by beating Stoke tonight, I can't see us doing it. We should get a draw but the lack of fight, character and ability (I include Luke Williams) in our team has caught up with us and we might even struggle to get a point. Can't begin to tell you how much I hope I'm wrong.
Yankee_Jack
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"we need to get back on track" .... how many times have we heard this from players and coaches, especially ours, over the course of this season. Tymon is the latest to have this nonsense attributed.
The appropriate reply: "No, you don't!"
When the first statement is made, the team is already running on a track ... a very bad one. One you need to get off asap. The statement only makes sense if there once was a good track that the team temporarily popped off. So, there can be the expectation that the team could pop back on it. It suggests that the departure from the good track is brief, an aberration, a trip-up, a stroke of bad luck, or a shit call by the referee.
Clearly not so in our case. Our track is a bad one. We need to get off it! We need to find a much better one. If we were ever on a good track, we wouldn't be where we are today. Even a blind man in a dark room will bump into something solid sooner or later. Or perhaps, a blind swan around a penalty box, would make a better analogy. Is there hope that we find a better track soon and get off the current one.
The appropriate reply: "No, you don't!"
When the first statement is made, the team is already running on a track ... a very bad one. One you need to get off asap. The statement only makes sense if there once was a good track that the team temporarily popped off. So, there can be the expectation that the team could pop back on it. It suggests that the departure from the good track is brief, an aberration, a trip-up, a stroke of bad luck, or a shit call by the referee.
Clearly not so in our case. Our track is a bad one. We need to get off it! We need to find a much better one. If we were ever on a good track, we wouldn't be where we are today. Even a blind man in a dark room will bump into something solid sooner or later. Or perhaps, a blind swan around a penalty box, would make a better analogy. Is there hope that we find a better track soon and get off the current one.
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Yankee_Jack
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Swansea City: Carl Rushworth, Josh Key, Jay Fulton, Ben Cabango, Harry Darling, Matt Grimes (captain), Jamie Paterson, Josh Tymon, Liam Cullen, Ollie Cooper, Ronald.
Substitutes: Andy Fisher, Jerry Yates, Jamal Lowe, Charlie Patino, Mykola Kuharevich, Liam Walsh, Bashir Humphreys, Aimar Govea, Azeem Abdulai.
Stoke City: Daniel Iversen, Enda Stevens, Michael Rose, Wouter Burger, Andre Vidigal, Niall Ennis, Ji-Jana Hoever, Bae Junho, Luke McNally, Josh Laurent (captain), Million Manhoef.
Substitutes: Jack Bonham, Lewis Baker, Tyrese Campbell, Jordan Thompson, Ben Wilmot, Sead Haksabanovic, Junior Tchamadeu, Luke Cundle, Mehdi Leris.
Substitutes: Andy Fisher, Jerry Yates, Jamal Lowe, Charlie Patino, Mykola Kuharevich, Liam Walsh, Bashir Humphreys, Aimar Govea, Azeem Abdulai.
Stoke City: Daniel Iversen, Enda Stevens, Michael Rose, Wouter Burger, Andre Vidigal, Niall Ennis, Ji-Jana Hoever, Bae Junho, Luke McNally, Josh Laurent (captain), Million Manhoef.
Substitutes: Jack Bonham, Lewis Baker, Tyrese Campbell, Jordan Thompson, Ben Wilmot, Sead Haksabanovic, Junior Tchamadeu, Luke Cundle, Mehdi Leris.
Yankee_Jack
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No Wood, anywhere. Was he known to be injured.
Cullen starts. Last Saturday's flirtation with Yates at #9 was obviously not successful. But, we have Big Myk back on the bench.
Pato is preferred to Lowe on LW.
Cullen starts. Last Saturday's flirtation with Yates at #9 was obviously not successful. But, we have Big Myk back on the bench.
Pato is preferred to Lowe on LW.
Yankee_Jack
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Fulton survives to start again. Walsh is perhaps not fit enough to start and finish a match.
Yankee_Jack
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Has the stream started yet for anybody
Yankee_Jack
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It's on ESPN+ in the USA
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Evening all
COYJB
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Decent start, keep it going !
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Fultons effort saved by the post , should have scored .
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Wooooohooooo Cullen pokes it home .
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Ffs Rushworth drops the ball but goal disallowed
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Stoke fighting back
That was a lot better than a poke. It was a nice finish - a trademark one-touch effort. Culls is flogging himself on the press up front. Be good if a few others joined him. We're not imposing ourselves and Stoke are well in this and look dangerous in patches. We need to up our game and Rushworth needs to stop faffing about with the ball. His distribution is crap so he might as well just send it long and reduce the chances of conceding a goal from a mistake at the back.
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Decent first half but Stokes goal shouldn't have been ruled out , as Rushworth dropped the ball 
God, we're a poor team aren't we? Stoke will surely be a lot better in the second half so we've got a lot of work to do bearing in mind that we usually gift the opposition a goal. I think we need at least a two goal lead on the basis that Stoke were two down to a far better team than us in WBA and levelled the match. As for the Rushworth incident, by the laws the goal was correctly disallowed BUT it was Rushworth's mistake so morally it should stand - and I'm thinking the referee might be looking to even things up if he gets the chance.
We're a team playing with no discernible identity or style and it looks to me as though we're trying to get through the game as best we can. That's down to Williams in my book and I don't believe he has the ability or the nous to make us any better. We can only hope that we can hang on to this lead for a priceless three points but I have my doubts.
We're a team playing with no discernible identity or style and it looks to me as though we're trying to get through the game as best we can. That's down to Williams in my book and I don't believe he has the ability or the nous to make us any better. We can only hope that we can hang on to this lead for a priceless three points but I have my doubts.
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Penalty , Cooper tripped
Grimes to take it
Wooooohooooo roof of the net
Grimes to take it
Wooooohooooo roof of the net