The Official Swansea City Thread

The Official Swansea City Thread

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Legend83

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9,947 posts

221 months

Thursday 21st December 2017
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Word from in the club is they have no interest in Pulis.

I hope they avoid Koeman or Bilic as well.

Don't really know where we go from here, because the rot has well and truly established and unless our self-appointed DoF (aka big-nosed tw*t) is chucked, we will keep making the same mistakes.

Bring back Laudrup, all is forgiven!

yellowjack

17,065 posts

165 months

Thursday 21st December 2017
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Wales Online said:
Next Swansea City manager search LIVE: Ronald Koeman and Louis van Gaal linked, but Manchester United legend Ryan Giggs rules himself out...
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/football/footba...

Legend83

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9,947 posts

221 months

Thursday 21st December 2017
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yellowjack said:
LVG lol! As if!

Not surprised Giggs has ruled himself out after being snubbed last time in favour of Bob Bradley.

P9DH

144 posts

75 months

Thursday 21st December 2017
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Speaking as a Wednesdayite, I can only hope you plan to reignite your interest in Carlos!

V8covin

7,212 posts

192 months

Thursday 21st December 2017
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Please let it be Pulis.

Challo

10,041 posts

154 months

Thursday 21st December 2017
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I suppose do they resign to the fact they are relegated, and look to someone to re-build the squad and look to the future. Or do they get a short-term fix to somehow keep them up.

Issue with the second option is normally they dont get the right players in, struggle the following year again and sack in december. This could be a sunderland mark 2.

FN2TypeR

7,091 posts

92 months

Thursday 28th December 2017
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Carlos Carvalhal has been appointed as manager until the end of the season

Sacked by Championship side Sheffield Wednesday last week

yellowjack

17,065 posts

165 months

Thursday 28th December 2017
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So much for the "premier league experience" then...

Legend83

Original Poster:

9,947 posts

221 months

Thursday 25th January 2018
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For anyone who doesn't follow the YouTube channel, this will get the hairs on the back of the neck raised.

What a night!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0hYbFVb98A

Legend83

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9,947 posts

221 months

Monday 29th January 2018
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http://www.maxwellhicks.com/2018/01/28/what-do-you...

A depressing article.

Sheer and utter incompetence.

The Nur

9,168 posts

184 months

Tuesday 30th January 2018
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I'm quite pleased with that.

yellowjack

17,065 posts

165 months

Wednesday 7th February 2018
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The Nur said:
I'm quite pleased with that.
Sums up last night's 8-1 win against Notts County really... wink


Good? Excellent result. The whole team looked like a tight unit, and they generally played for each other rather than hunting out half chances for themselves. Cracking goals too. And young Daniel James grabbing a goal on his senior debut? If the youth system produces more talent like this it looks good for the future.

Less good? Well it was achieved against a League 2 side. So despite the manner of the performance, it's probably quite a flattering result, and one that will be harder to replicate against Premier League teams stuck in the bottom seven or eight with Swansea. They'll dig in deeper, scrap, and be harder to take apart so comprehensively. Great to see a variety of names on the score sheet, it'll do their confidence no harm whatsoever, but they'll need to step up their game to take points in the league against teams in similar positions.


It's got to be good for player confidence though. I made a comment further up the thread when Carlos Carvalhal was appointed. "So much for Premier League experience" was an observation on the club's insistence that the next manager would have Premier League experience. But looking at it objectively, maybe it's better that he didn't have Premier League management in his recent CV. After all, at the bottom of the league teams are scrapping to avoid relegation, and one could argue that by virtue of them being nailed to the bottom, teams are more akin to Championship sides than PL clubs. All I can do now is hope that Carvalhal can make this recent run of form stick, comfortably manoeuvre the club into relative safety to avoid a 'down to the wire' fight for PL survival right to the last game, and that improvements to the side make it a more appealing place for recruitment and retention of talented players. And cross my fingers and hope that we can keep a manager in place for a full season or two now.

I'm so glad I watched the game last night. Some cracking goals scored, and I would have been kicking myself if I'd given in to my wife and watched Silent Witness on catch-up tv instead. The only real disappointment was the low gate last night. I only wish I lived closer to Swansea, instead of being marooned in Hampshire, because I'd have gone along to the ground if I could have got there.

General Price

5,238 posts

182 months

Saturday 3rd March 2018
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Not a bad turnaround.

13 points from 20 games to 30 points from 29.

clap

Legend83

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9,947 posts

221 months

Monday 5th March 2018
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It's quite unbelievable really, a bigger turnaround than last season under Clement.

If I was to make one criticism it's that we appear to be two teams - one that is dominant at home, and one that is strangely defunct away, the last two games being a prime example. Lose to Brighton away 4-1 one week, beat West Ham 4-1 at home the next!

yellowjack

17,065 posts

165 months

Monday 5th March 2018
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The scariest part of all this is that, with nine games to play, there are eight teams within two poor results of being knocked back into the relegation zone. Not even mid-table mediocrity is safe from the chop really. Scary because the Swans are still in that mix, but also good because it means plenty of other teams will be at risk (and under intense pressure) too. A couple of good results could put us up with Watford though, and I think if we'd got three more points on the board already then I'd begin to feel comfortable about the end of season run in...


...now if the board would kindly get us off this damned roller-coaster, I could concentrate on getting my blood pressure and heart rate down a bit!

TTmonkey

20,911 posts

246 months

Wednesday 9th May 2018
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Hard to believe how totally bad Swans have been over the run in.

Legend83

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9,947 posts

221 months

Thursday 10th May 2018
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TTmonkey said:
Hard to believe how totally bad Swans have been over the run in.
We completely bottled it with the easiest run-in out of any of the teams in danger (Sheff Wed fans warned us this was a risk with Carlos). We put all our eggs in the Southampton basket and cocked it up.

A shame as were down at Christmas and almost pulled it off but if we can't take a point a piece against Bournemouth and Southampton then we deserve to go down.

Compare and contrast to Huddersfield.

Legend83

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9,947 posts

221 months

Thursday 10th May 2018
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Check out Laudrup's agent on Twitter if you want a laugh.

yellowjack

17,065 posts

165 months

Friday 11th May 2018
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Walking the short distance from the O2 Forum, Kentish Town, to the underground station last night after a gig, and there was a mob of "youth" singing "♫ The Blues are going up and the Jacks are going down ♫" at high volume on an incessant loop. They didn't stop when they got on the Northern Line train to Waterloo either.

Still, Blossoms were great, as were their support bands, and my wife and I were in too good a music-induced mood to get down about the Swans relegation woes.

I'm old enough to remember the "bottle rocket" trajectory of Swansea under Toshack. So this has been a relatively long-term stay in the top league of English football. Sad really, as Carvalhal gets the chop without the opportunity to redeem himself, and the supporters trust are once again after Huw Jenkins' head on a silver platter.

"Come and coach our first team sir?" isn't likely to look like a great proposition for any potential manager to come fill that vacancy now. I suppose at least the core of the team might stay together. Given the way they've played on the run-in to the end of the season it's hardly likely that they're going to be at the top of any poaching shortlists from Premier League clubs...

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SwanJack

1,911 posts

271 months

Friday 11th May 2018
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yellowjack said:
Walking the short distance from the O2 Forum, Kentish Town, to the underground station last night after a gig, and there was a mob of "youth" singing "? The Blues are going up and the Jacks are going down ?" at high volume on an incessant loop. They didn't stop when they got on the Northern Line train to Waterloo either.

Still, Blossoms were great, as were their support bands, and my wife and I were in too good a music-induced mood to get down about the Swans relegation woes.

I'm old enough to remember the "bottle rocket" trajectory of Swansea under Toshack. So this has been a relatively long-term stay in the top league of English football. Sad really, as Carvalhal gets the chop without the opportunity to redeem himself, and the supporters trust are once again after Huw Jenkins' head on a silver platter.

"Come and coach our first team sir?" isn't likely to look like a great proposition for any potential manager to come fill that vacancy now. I suppose at least the core of the team might stay together. Given the way they've played on the run-in to the end of the season it's hardly likely that they're going to be at the top of any poaching shortlists from Premier League clubs...

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The bin dippers are reverting to type, let's see how long they last this time. The players have relegation clauses, most of them will end up somewhere else. Jenkins, MM, Dineen and JvZ need to disappear for a while, the yanks need to step up or get out. WTF is Bayram Tutumlu wittering on about? 17 years without relegation up until now though.