The Blobster
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Govea a breath of fresh air , one for the future I'm sure .
QPR visit the Swansea.com stadium
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The Blobster
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Yet another home defeat against a poor side .
He had a promising start but the collective dross of his team mates has dragged him down to their level.
Yankee_Jack
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Total Waste of two hours of my life.
CroJack
Key Player
I am pretty sure I won't pay for more Swans TV streams this season. See you next season. I hope with two new strikers, two new attacking midfielders, two new wingers, two new central midfielders, one more left back, one more right back, and one more centre-back. More physicality, more pace and more skill.
Just run out of words to describe our abysmal team. I don't have an iota of respect for them because they're cheating a living off our support and they put no effort into earning or deserving it. And Luke Williams has to take responsibility for it....... ALL of it as their so-called coach and manager. His team lacks fight, attitude, ability, character, fitness; in fact almost everything a football team needs to be successful. His team play nothing football which is totally aimless, lacking direction and ability. They are a joke of an outfit but I doubt if any of them care as long as they're drawing a decent pay cheque and enjoying a cushy workplace that demands so little of them. Character? Honest effort? Don't go near the Liberty if you want to see any of that!
Yankee_Jack
Key Player
Another sad chapter with the same old story: own the ball, lack urgency and tempo, squander opportunities when they occur, get sucker punched by a "weaker" team. "Weaker" is a laugh in and of itself, clearly smarter, more efficient, more clinical. It's too predictable and boring to watch. There's more of a thrill watching two flies crawl up a wall and betting on who gets to the top first.
Other than ramming a stick dynamite up the arse of every player with a remote detonator, what do we have to do to get the players to put out at the required level. We're acting like this is all new. There's video of this scenario going back years now. Can it possibly be a secret as to what visiting teams without an obligation to entertain will do to deny us. Do we have to employ some AI coaching system to devise a method to counter it or can Williams figure it out. Surely, there are methods and plays that can be deployed to create pressure, havoc and opportunities ... even opportunities that Yates can finish. Man, doesn't that speak to my ever optimistic mindset.
Yates, on the field for 60+ minutes, manages just 9 touches. With almost 70% possession where can you hide to avoid touching the ball. It boggles the mind ... unless he was deliberately running away from the ball ... or the other players think so little of him, they just won't pass it to him.
When your own TV commentators talk about anything other than what's happening on the field, and are just taking the piss, it's time to rethink and reset.
Other than ramming a stick dynamite up the arse of every player with a remote detonator, what do we have to do to get the players to put out at the required level. We're acting like this is all new. There's video of this scenario going back years now. Can it possibly be a secret as to what visiting teams without an obligation to entertain will do to deny us. Do we have to employ some AI coaching system to devise a method to counter it or can Williams figure it out. Surely, there are methods and plays that can be deployed to create pressure, havoc and opportunities ... even opportunities that Yates can finish. Man, doesn't that speak to my ever optimistic mindset.
Yates, on the field for 60+ minutes, manages just 9 touches. With almost 70% possession where can you hide to avoid touching the ball. It boggles the mind ... unless he was deliberately running away from the ball ... or the other players think so little of him, they just won't pass it to him.
When your own TV commentators talk about anything other than what's happening on the field, and are just taking the piss, it's time to rethink and reset.
CroJack
Key Player
Nothing. Replace them in summer. And hire Jimmy Thelin as a manager. Enough is enough.
Yankee_Jack
Key Player
@CroJack The follow-on for your position is that try-outs for next season start now. All the players on our books fit enough to play and expected to have the technical ability should be given a chance to claim their place for the start of pre-season training. I am thinking here of Abdulai, Govea, Congreve, Big Myk et al. We know what the "regulars" can't or refuse to do. This would be the cheapest cohort to sample for replacements.
It would also require the relegation of the likes of Patino and Lowe to the bench or the stands.
It would also require the relegation of the likes of Patino and Lowe to the bench or the stands.
Luke Williams: "We are happy and we are enthusiastic that we are moving in the right direction."
Has this man taken leave of his senses? Is he serious? Or is he taking us all for fools? We watched the game as well, Mr Williams, and many of us know what the fuck we were looking at despite what you and your clutch of seemingly useless coaches appear to think. We KNOW the game, mate, and some of us have been involved with football since before you were even born!
You might be happy; you might be enthusiastic about what you've seen in the last two games, which leads me to doubt that you know anything about football. I hear radio and TV comms, ex professional footballers, who very much question that we are 'moving in the right direction'. Quite obviously, WE ARE NOT despite the self delusion you keep churning out. You seem very pleased with yourself, pleased about our so-called progress but, rest assured, very many of us are not and highly doubt your judgement and therefore your ability to do this job. Some stats:
POSSESSION: 68-32 SHOTS: 15-10 OT: 4-4 CORNERS: 7-4 FOULS: 9-10 GOALS: 0-1, 0-1, 0-1, 0-1.
You see that last stat, Mr Williams? I repeated it a few times in case you had some difficulty in understanding it. We LOST!! I mean, you DID say that you are happy and that you are enthusiastic about the direction we're heading in. Well, just to remind you, we managed to scrape only ONE POINT in our last two games against opponents below us in the table (not too many of them mind) and we were hanging on like grim death to salvage the single point that we did manage - that by your own admission.
I watched Ipswich play Southampton later on and both those teams know how to play football - unlike us. They played with purpose, with pace, with skill, with effort, with attitude, with teamwork, with aggression, with intent - all attributes I look for in vain with our team because we seem to lack them all. This is happening on YOUR watch, Luke Williams, so what the hell are you going to do about it other than trotting out yet another useless platitude?
Has this man taken leave of his senses? Is he serious? Or is he taking us all for fools? We watched the game as well, Mr Williams, and many of us know what the fuck we were looking at despite what you and your clutch of seemingly useless coaches appear to think. We KNOW the game, mate, and some of us have been involved with football since before you were even born!
You might be happy; you might be enthusiastic about what you've seen in the last two games, which leads me to doubt that you know anything about football. I hear radio and TV comms, ex professional footballers, who very much question that we are 'moving in the right direction'. Quite obviously, WE ARE NOT despite the self delusion you keep churning out. You seem very pleased with yourself, pleased about our so-called progress but, rest assured, very many of us are not and highly doubt your judgement and therefore your ability to do this job. Some stats:
POSSESSION: 68-32 SHOTS: 15-10 OT: 4-4 CORNERS: 7-4 FOULS: 9-10 GOALS: 0-1, 0-1, 0-1, 0-1.
You see that last stat, Mr Williams? I repeated it a few times in case you had some difficulty in understanding it. We LOST!! I mean, you DID say that you are happy and that you are enthusiastic about the direction we're heading in. Well, just to remind you, we managed to scrape only ONE POINT in our last two games against opponents below us in the table (not too many of them mind) and we were hanging on like grim death to salvage the single point that we did manage - that by your own admission.
I watched Ipswich play Southampton later on and both those teams know how to play football - unlike us. They played with purpose, with pace, with skill, with effort, with attitude, with teamwork, with aggression, with intent - all attributes I look for in vain with our team because we seem to lack them all. This is happening on YOUR watch, Luke Williams, so what the hell are you going to do about it other than trotting out yet another useless platitude?
Seems like Luke has done a U turn on his post match presser and now concedes that his team were sluggish and just not up for either of the last two games. He says he expected the same levels of performance that we showed against Cardiff but we totally failed to do so. He feels that we need to be more consistent and play more often to our proper ability. Amen to that, Luke, but remember it is the coaches' responsibility to ensure that his players perform to their maximium potential.
I do feel somewhat guilty about having a go at managers who come across to me as decent people. I've heavily criticised Steve Cooper, Martin, Duff, Sheehan and now Luke Williams along with Robert Page of Wales in the past but, to me, they all seem good blokes and I really don't want to write negative things about them. The trouble is, if I feel they're getting things wrong with my football team, I have to say so. And I do mean MY football team. Managers, players, owners and other staff come and go; they are transient. I am permanent. I've supported Swans all my life and will do so until my time comes, so I take it badly if I feel that my club is being let down by anyone who, imo, is not doing their best. So, come on, Luke, give me good reason to post nice things about you. I'd far prefer that!
I do feel somewhat guilty about having a go at managers who come across to me as decent people. I've heavily criticised Steve Cooper, Martin, Duff, Sheehan and now Luke Williams along with Robert Page of Wales in the past but, to me, they all seem good blokes and I really don't want to write negative things about them. The trouble is, if I feel they're getting things wrong with my football team, I have to say so. And I do mean MY football team. Managers, players, owners and other staff come and go; they are transient. I am permanent. I've supported Swans all my life and will do so until my time comes, so I take it badly if I feel that my club is being let down by anyone who, imo, is not doing their best. So, come on, Luke, give me good reason to post nice things about you. I'd far prefer that!
Yankee_Jack
Key Player
We've won just one match out of the last 5. This win was driven on the emotional high, motivation and furor of the entire club - from the Fairwood cook to the captain - and the city. Instead of Cardiff it could have been any other team ... what would the result have been then. It's just not good enough. We can't go limping along in an apathetic fog void of any motivation. It's not like the players are playing on a mud patch at the Vetch, changing in locker rooms from the 1950s or earlier and training at BP Llandarcy amongst the public. The players have the luxury of some of the best club facilities in the Championship. They have no excuse. The Club has done all that it can, other than hire a top coach, to provide for the players. Maybe that will be the realization that comes out of this ... hire cheap from the lower levels, get cheap lower league output.
CroJack
Key Player
A football match typically lasts for 50 minutes. If players cannot maintain their focus and passion for 50 minutes a week, they may want to consider pursuing a different job. Perhaps one that requires them to concentrate for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, and pays £3k per month.
Actually I used to enjoy that as I'd go and watch them a couple of times a week and I'd take the dog along for fresh air and exercise - this wasn't my beloved Hector but another Chocolate Lab called Jac whom I also loved to bits. Trouble was I had to keep Jac on a tight leash because he used to strain every sinew to join in the training!
Loved a game of ball did Jac as did Hector come to that. The chocolate sods would create mayhem on the odd occasions they got away from me!!I had a great time at Llandarcy: talked to many of the players, Curt, that b**##*d Huw Jenkins and chatted to other interested bystanders as we cast a critical eye at what was going on. Saw Michael Laudrup playing the rest of them off the park in practise games and witnessed many a dust-up including a memorable barney between Gorka Pintado and Marcus Painter. And cheered Bussy when he was doing lonely lap after lonely lap around the field when he was getting back to fitness after a bad injury. Got a cheery smile and a wave from him as I shouted, "vamos, Bussy, vamos" each time he passed me. Oh, and there was Trunds always ready with a grin and a quip when I pulled his leg after one of his tricks/flicks didn't work out.
When I remember those days, I think I enjoyed those sessions as much as the games. I had personal interaction with the players and actually felt a part of things as, without fail, I always received a friendly and cheerful response from them. Great memories.