| Replacement for our weekly football fix? 08:28 - Mar 15 with 4663 views | TimTtam |
We're not going to have football for a minimum of 3 weeks, but it's almost certain that the postponements will be extended. That could be 6 months without football, who knows.
It'd be great if the club put together a list of some of Swansea's best games, and uploaded them for us once a week on Saturdays at 3pm, if they had footage. Each week could be a different game, and they could be from a range of decades.
Lets say football is postponed for 5 months. 20 weeks of 20 memorable Swans games being uploaded for a limited time at the regular time slot would be a great way to still enjoy a Saturday afternoon with football. It would bring back nostalgia for older fans, and give younger fans like me a chance to see some older matches.
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| Replacement for our weekly football fix? on 08:48 - Mar 15 with 4644 views | MrSwerve |
Nice idea but do/did the club even archive old full matches? From around 2010ish I’d expect them to have all of them, but pre PL/championship? |  |
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| Replacement for our weekly football fix? on 08:59 - Mar 15 with 4631 views | STID2017 |
| Replacement for our weekly football fix? on 08:48 - Mar 15 by MrSwerve |
Nice idea but do/did the club even archive old full matches? From around 2010ish I’d expect them to have all of them, but pre PL/championship? |
They were selling compilation DVD's at the end of each season.
Would be great to see those at least |  |
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| Replacement for our weekly football fix? on 09:01 - Mar 15 with 4629 views | TimTtam |
| Replacement for our weekly football fix? on 08:48 - Mar 15 by MrSwerve |
Nice idea but do/did the club even archive old full matches? From around 2010ish I’d expect them to have all of them, but pre PL/championship? |
I thought that may be a problem. Maybe they could try and get hold of some, since these are exceptional circumstances.
If they don't have older games, it would still would be nice to see some modern games, like the Championship playoffs/final, some memorable PL games like 5-0 QPR, 2-0 Arsenal etc, some cup games from our EFL Cup-winning tournament, and one or two Europa games.
Will be interesting whether the club come up with anything. The Hull twitter admin challenged several fans to FIFA matches, and the Gillingham twitter admin beat their next opponents Fleetwood 16-0. Some small gimmicks will surely have to be used to keep interest over the break. | |
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| Replacement for our weekly football fix? on 09:12 - Mar 15 with 4618 views | MrSwerve |
Man City played Southampton in noughts and crosses...
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| Replacement for our weekly football fix? on 09:12 - Mar 15 with 4613 views | STID2017 |
| Replacement for our weekly football fix? on 09:01 - Mar 15 by TimTtam |
I thought that may be a problem. Maybe they could try and get hold of some, since these are exceptional circumstances.
If they don't have older games, it would still would be nice to see some modern games, like the Championship playoffs/final, some memorable PL games like 5-0 QPR, 2-0 Arsenal etc, some cup games from our EFL Cup-winning tournament, and one or two Europa games.
Will be interesting whether the club come up with anything. The Hull twitter admin challenged several fans to FIFA matches, and the Gillingham twitter admin beat their next opponents Fleetwood 16-0. Some small gimmicks will surely have to be used to keep interest over the break. |
I get what your saying, but the reality is we all have a very resting time coming up.
Maintaining interest in whatever distractions we normally enjoy ( sports, holidays, going to the pub, cafes, etc ) will take a very low priority in anyone's list.
The only benefit to all the clubs if they did it would be to charge a nominal fee and do them as a pay per view | |
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| Replacement for our weekly football fix? on 10:17 - Mar 15 with 4554 views | TimTtam |
| Replacement for our weekly football fix? on 09:12 - Mar 15 by STID2017 |
I get what your saying, but the reality is we all have a very resting time coming up.
Maintaining interest in whatever distractions we normally enjoy ( sports, holidays, going to the pub, cafes, etc ) will take a very low priority in anyone's list.
The only benefit to all the clubs if they did it would be to charge a nominal fee and do them as a pay per view |
If the end game happens and we're all in lockdown in both our countries (like Italy and Spain are), we'll need things to do. Watching an old football game once a week could suffice.
That's a good point about the pay per view. The club need money, and if fans pay hundreds of pounds for season tickets, they wouldn't care about lets say paying 5 pounds per memorable match. | |
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| Replacement for our weekly football fix? on 10:33 - Mar 15 with 4528 views | Neath_Jack |
Go for a walk up the mountain, or along the coast.
Get out on a bike.
Buy a load of Viagra and get to know your other half better.
There's more to life than football. |  |
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| Replacement for our weekly football fix? on 11:14 - Mar 16 with 4148 views | oldcob |
| Replacement for our weekly football fix? on 10:33 - Mar 15 by Neath_Jack |
Go for a walk up the mountain, or along the coast.
Get out on a bike.
Buy a load of Viagra and get to know your other half better.
There's more to life than football. |
You are right, there is more to life than football, but it's so much better with it. Not a big fan of athletics but any ball sport, love it. |  | | |
| Replacement for our weekly football fix? on 11:17 - Mar 16 with 4144 views | ladyjack |
Play football subbuteo. |  | | |
| Replacement for our weekly football fix? on 17:48 - Mar 16 with 3978 views | Chief |
In South Wales, we are blessed with having vast swathes countryside and accessible mountains where you can walk for hours and not encounter another person |  |
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| Replacement for our weekly football fix? on 18:46 - Mar 16 with 3941 views | sainthelens |
| Replacement for our weekly football fix? on 17:48 - Mar 16 by Chief |
In South Wales, we are blessed with having vast swathes countryside and accessible mountains where you can walk for hours and not encounter another person |
Enjoy that while we can, a police state on it's way, stopping all those movements. |  | | |
| Replacement for our weekly football fix? on 03:23 - Mar 17 with 3843 views | TimTtam |
Swans Twitter have uploaded the Man City FA Cup disgrace. Not sure about that one...
I suppose watching the first 60mins could be good, and then turn it off immediately and pretend that we won 2-1... | |
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| Replacement for our weekly football fix? on 01:19 - Mar 18 with 3711 views | Wanderer |
currently playing how many bog rolls can i get through the supermarket door, it's a draw atm Wanderer 0 Supermarket 0 |  | | |
| Replacement for our weekly football fix? on 07:28 - Mar 18 with 3663 views | dickythorpe |
| Replacement for our weekly football fix? on 03:23 - Mar 17 by TimTtam |
Swans Twitter have uploaded the Man City FA Cup disgrace. Not sure about that one...
I suppose watching the first 60mins could be good, and then turn it off immediately and pretend that we won 2-1... |
Some bookies paid out on a swans win |  | | |
| Replacement for our weekly football fix? on 22:24 - Mar 23 with 3465 views | jackrabbit |
I alluded to this in a thread above regarding the BBC’s totally inadequate replacement of MOTD. For my troubles I suffered the usual predictable abuse from the usual ill-mannered suspects. My point, not particularly well made, was that there is a huge feast of wonderful football memories that could be called on, and which would be ten times more entertaining than 3 has-beens chewing the rag. Let me provide an example:
I am 75 years old. In 1966 I was a young Maths teacher in St Joseph’s Comprehensive School in Port Talbot. It was a rugby school but I saw that a lot of boys in the school were not suited to, or interested in rugby, and would love the opportunity to play soccer, so I started a school football team and we played in the Port Talbot and District league. To further promote interest in the team from the wider school, I decided to show one lunchtime, a newsreel recording of one of the greatest matches ever played - Real Madrid vs Eintracht Frankfurt in the 1960 European Cup Final at Hampden Park before a world-record crowd of 138,000 spectators.
I remember it arrived in the post as a reel of cine-film — the cassette tape, cartridge, compact disk and dvd were still to be invented.
The response was overwhelming. Kids who had never heard of the great Ferenc Puskas, Alfredo di Stefano and Francisco Gento were mesmerised by the skills and speed at which the game was played. Eintracht were no slouches — they had put 12 goals past Glasgow Rangers in the semis — but they succumbed 7-3 to the brilliance of Madrid. It was Real’s 5th successive European Cup title — still unsurpassed. I looked up the Daily Telegraph’s “20 greatest games ever played” and this match was number 3.
So, if the BBC are short of ideas — to the extent that they thought it appropriate to screen the execrable “Mrs Brown’s Boys” in place of Match of the Day the previous weekend - then help is at hand. There have been lots of wonderful games like the one mentioned here. What a great time to dig them out of the archives and show them to a football-starved nation.
Amazingly, the Telegraph ranked 2 other matches better than this one. What a prospect! [Post edited 23 Mar 2020 22:37]
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| Replacement for our weekly football fix? on 23:22 - Mar 23 with 3440 views | STID2017 |
Totally agree. I remember the Clase Club showing this game one evening when I was about 18.
Still remember it.
That said, the Beeb must have thosands of hours of classic footy they can show which is so old they wouldn't have to pay to show it I would guess ? | |
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| Replacement for our weekly football fix? on 23:32 - Mar 23 with 3435 views | theloneranger |
| Replacement for our weekly football fix? on 22:24 - Mar 23 by jackrabbit |
I alluded to this in a thread above regarding the BBC’s totally inadequate replacement of MOTD. For my troubles I suffered the usual predictable abuse from the usual ill-mannered suspects. My point, not particularly well made, was that there is a huge feast of wonderful football memories that could be called on, and which would be ten times more entertaining than 3 has-beens chewing the rag. Let me provide an example:
I am 75 years old. In 1966 I was a young Maths teacher in St Joseph’s Comprehensive School in Port Talbot. It was a rugby school but I saw that a lot of boys in the school were not suited to, or interested in rugby, and would love the opportunity to play soccer, so I started a school football team and we played in the Port Talbot and District league. To further promote interest in the team from the wider school, I decided to show one lunchtime, a newsreel recording of one of the greatest matches ever played - Real Madrid vs Eintracht Frankfurt in the 1960 European Cup Final at Hampden Park before a world-record crowd of 138,000 spectators.
I remember it arrived in the post as a reel of cine-film — the cassette tape, cartridge, compact disk and dvd were still to be invented.
The response was overwhelming. Kids who had never heard of the great Ferenc Puskas, Alfredo di Stefano and Francisco Gento were mesmerised by the skills and speed at which the game was played. Eintracht were no slouches — they had put 12 goals past Glasgow Rangers in the semis — but they succumbed 7-3 to the brilliance of Madrid. It was Real’s 5th successive European Cup title — still unsurpassed. I looked up the Daily Telegraph’s “20 greatest games ever played” and this match was number 3.
So, if the BBC are short of ideas — to the extent that they thought it appropriate to screen the execrable “Mrs Brown’s Boys” in place of Match of the Day the previous weekend - then help is at hand. There have been lots of wonderful games like the one mentioned here. What a great time to dig them out of the archives and show them to a football-starved nation.
Amazingly, the Telegraph ranked 2 other matches better than this one. What a prospect! [Post edited 23 Mar 2020 22:37]
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Here it is ...
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1w8i41 |  |
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| Replacement for our weekly football fix? on 04:59 - Mar 24 with 3386 views | Kilkennyjack |
Great idea.
Our club should do this non-profit at this time. |  |
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| Replacement for our weekly football fix? on 13:00 - Mar 24 with 3339 views | jackrabbit |
Excellent! Many thanks | | | |
| Replacement for our weekly football fix? on 03:49 - Apr 10 with 3160 views | TimTtam |
Either 3-2 @ Liverpool or 5-4 vs Palace will be streamed today at 3pm on the club's Facebook page. Which game it will be will be decided soon I guess.
Update - It's the Palace game. [Post edited 10 Apr 2020 10:28]
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