Cult Heroes

[Yankee_Jack]

The Club has started a series on Cult Heroes - 30 minute video interviews.

They started it off with Pratley. Don't they have any sense of history. Don't they remember that instead of staying with the Club and making a go of it in the Prem with Rogers, he bolted to Bolton on a free transfer. Bolton were relegated from the Prem the next season. When you think of the players that we've had over the course of the last 20 years, I find it difficult to understand why they are having to dig up players that were good value for us, but didn't stick around when they had good opportunity to do so for better outcomes.

Same is true of Andy Robinson. I laugh when I hear him commenting on our matches. Not because of his commentary, but because of the fracas that existed between the Club, Leeds and Robinson. Robinson couldn't get out of here fast enough to go to Leeds - again on a free transfer - at the end of the season 2007/08 when we walked away with the division championship by 10 points. Does that make any sense. And now here he is living it large as a commentator on Swans TV.

If you have to do a series ... start with Rangel, start with Chico, start with a player that didn't run away from us.

 

[ivoralljack]

Fame comes cheaply these days. The term 'hero' or 'legend' is far too easily earned. Back in the day you had the likes of Ivor and Len, Cliffy Jones, Terry Medwin, Mel Charles and so on who, whllst they eventually left the club, only did so because there was no prospect of top level football with us and their transfer fees kept us afloat. Ivor, in particular, and also Len, both confided to me that they would NEVER have left the Swans had we been anywhere near the top. But we were a selling club and that's how it was.

I have my own cult heroes from more modern times, so I'll have a think and come back to this later.

 

[Victoria Swan]

Rangel, Dyer, Williams, Britton, Michu, Tate (NOT Monk!), Routledge all out-qualify Pratley from the modern era.

 

[ivoralljack]

Rangel, Dyer, Williams, Britton, Michu, Tate (NOT Monk!), Routledge all out-qualify Pratley from the modern era.

I agree with all those you selected BUT I'll never consider Tate a legend after the part he played in Laudrup's dismissal. As far as I'm concerned he can join Monk in the cesspit of my Swansea memories.