| How do you assess your feelings towards the club and its majority owners 14:54 - Sep 2 with 10577 views | KeithHaynes |
After the summer window.
Positivity rating ? Expectations ? Support for Sheehan ?
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| How do you assess your feelings towards the club and its majority owners (n/t) on 01:50 - Sep 3 with 2764 views | Taliesin |
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| How do you assess your feelings towards the club and its majority owners on 02:05 - Sep 3 with 2734 views | Taliesin |
I've got to say that I'm feeling strangely positive towards the new owners.
I feared they would turn out to be in the same mould as Levein & Kaplan but have proved otherwise and their investment in the playing squad has my loins twitching (which doesn't happen so often these days).
Ticketing is an issue but is local issue and I wouldn't lay that the door of the ownership group. My other concern surrounds away travel. I'm not suggesting that the provide free travel or suchlike but surely the club need to provide access to travel to maximise away support
Ratiing 8
Expectation
Top half but hoping for higher obvs
Whilst I'm delighted and the number and quality of new signings I fear tat it will take time for the team to gel and will leave us playing catch up as far as top 6 goes.
One more good transfer window and a season of playing togetherand I don't see automatic being out of the question if the squad is as good as I think it might be
Rate 8
Sheehan
I think he's a good 'un. I like the way he comes across and his ability to affect games with tactical adjustments and subs bodes well
BUT he needs to get the the team settled settled winning points quite quickly.
If we get to the play offs with a late run then I think I' d be really optomistic
How patient will the owner be? For me a consistent top half position would be acceptable as long as performances are good and we have a strong second half of the season
The owners may want more considering investment and have higher targets. Hopefully Sheehan's hits those targets as reallly don't want another season blightIed with a new manager search
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| How do you assess your feelings towards the club and its majority owners on 08:00 - Sep 3 with 2568 views | EagleEye |
| How do you assess your feelings towards the club and its majority owners on 22:02 - Sep 2 by Whiterockin |
I honestly prefer Galbraith to O'brien, we have the better midfield. |
Galbraith has made a great start. Why not both of them … |  | | |
| How do you assess your feelings towards the club and its majority owners on 08:27 - Sep 3 with 2540 views | SwaneeRiver |
Positively bouncing
10 for Sheehan
10 for all matters regarding on field matters ( player recruitment and retention )
9 out of 10 for the owners
They have done brilliantly and are showing real ambition
My only mark down is for certain off field issues ( ticketing problems, etc )
However as they are looking to employ someone imminently to oversee that side of things then I have confidence they will improve that in the future.
They are also recruiting or have recruited someone to deal with the online side of things so hopeful of improvement there
As others have said ( and I have said before ) I feel more positive than at anytime since when Laudrup was in charge |  | | |
| How do you assess your feelings towards the club and its majority owners on 09:09 - Sep 3 with 2475 views | sons_of_omri |
| How do you assess your feelings towards the club and its majority owners on 22:17 - Sep 2 by sw02sea |
Galbraith is going to be excellent, but O’Brien was oven ready |
Respectfully disagree. Galbraith is the real deal - was everywhere against Wednesday and even supplied Inoussa and Vipotnik with their assists. Plus he’s not a ginger lol | | | |
| How do you assess your feelings towards the club and its majority owners on 09:19 - Sep 3 with 2445 views | sons_of_omri |
| How do you assess your feelings towards the club and its majority owners on 15:04 - Sep 2 by Whiterockin |
Positivity 10 more positive than I have felt since Laudrup.
Expectations 9 this is Swansea City its a roller coaster.
Sheehan 8 he has done well, but he has now been given an excellent squad, top 6 should be achievable.
To think some questioned Sheehans future after the Middlesbrough game. Some of us said wait 10 games and then judge, I still think that is fair. |
I think Sheehan went into the Boro away game with a slightly negative mindset- playing Cullen over Vipotnik didnt help and Eom and Ronald completed a miserably ineffective front three. We basically handed the points to Middlesbrough who gratefully accepted them.
Back to the transfer window - 10 out of 10 - eleven if we bring in another game changer in January.
Expectations- it’s clear that the board didn't spend this amount of money or effort on a top ten finish. They want top 2 but will settle for the play offs. We’d have made the play offs last season if Sheehan had been appointed 6 to 10 games earlier - with a vastly inferior squad. Make the play offs and the season can be considered a success beyond that would be an amazing achievement.
Sheehan - i worried a bit over the Boro game but he did what most of our previous managers were incapable of - he changed his mind and tactics. Against Watford we were being murdered but he changed things and we were unlucky not to win - against Wednesday we could have hit 5 goals and nobody could have argued. He’s doing really well so 9/10 so far. | | | |
| How do you assess your feelings towards the club and its majority owners on 09:52 - Sep 3 with 2397 views | felixstowe_jack |
Good transfer window.
Just a pity the window for buying season tickets ended on 31st of August. Why not a week after the transfer deadline closes. An opportunity to sell more missed. | |
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| How do you assess your feelings towards the club and its majority owners on 10:01 - Sep 3 with 2377 views | onehunglow |
| How do you assess your feelings towards the club and its majority owners on 09:19 - Sep 3 by sons_of_omri |
I think Sheehan went into the Boro away game with a slightly negative mindset- playing Cullen over Vipotnik didnt help and Eom and Ronald completed a miserably ineffective front three. We basically handed the points to Middlesbrough who gratefully accepted them.
Back to the transfer window - 10 out of 10 - eleven if we bring in another game changer in January.
Expectations- it’s clear that the board didn't spend this amount of money or effort on a top ten finish. They want top 2 but will settle for the play offs. We’d have made the play offs last season if Sheehan had been appointed 6 to 10 games earlier - with a vastly inferior squad. Make the play offs and the season can be considered a success beyond that would be an amazing achievement.
Sheehan - i worried a bit over the Boro game but he did what most of our previous managers were incapable of - he changed his mind and tactics. Against Watford we were being murdered but he changed things and we were unlucky not to win - against Wednesday we could have hit 5 goals and nobody could have argued. He’s doing really well so 9/10 so far. |
We were awful at Boro and it followed the underwhelming pre season drivel
I don’t think VIP has been handled well even though he is limited or has been so
Cullen is utterly a waste of a shirt and seems selected as he’s a nice local lad
I get why VIP was angry
Many players would have sulked
He got stick on and scored screaming winners
That’s the way to do it
I’m not as luvvy duvvy with Sheehan as most not that it bothers me
He has a lot of players at his disposal , possibly too many
Only eleven can start and noses are going to be put out of joint and parent clubs will want their loan to play not sit on a bench
Sheehan is or should be under pressure to deliver It’s why he has been backed
We should have no sentiment
We need fans back , we need ticketing sorted , we need club marketing improved
Foolkn Wrrrxham are paving the way and like it or not Cardiff are an irrelevance now
We can do this | |
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| How do you assess your feelings towards the club and its majority owners on 10:03 - Sep 3 with 2383 views | TimBowen |
Late last night my son sent two Swans photos to my WhatsApp. One for a named breakdown of all the 19 players, that left the club this window. The other for our new playing acquisitions.
What those photos did, was to focus on what most of us hoped for. Regarding the leavers, some of those players had retired, some were considered substandard 'squad' players, compared to our new influx and several young prospects were loaned to gain valuable experience. But Wow lads, it's meant 19 players off the wage bill for this season now.
The second photo as I said condensed all our new signings onto the one page. In doing that it allowed me to focus on all our new players and again...Wow, what an impressive, exciting list, of quality additions to our club.
For me, while I agree wholeheartedly with most posters positivity about this last window, not enough praise has been offered for the monumental work that went into attracting and removing so many players in equal measure, in such a short period of time.
So for me, it's a massive 'hats off' congratulations, for the whole recruitment team to enable this transformation for the club.
Allied to that of course, is the club budget, provided by our new and seemingly very ambitious owners, to enable the purchase of those 13 transfer targets. Many thanks and congratulations to them as a collective too.
How refreshing is it for us Swans fans (all too often bathed in serious disappointment at the end of a window) that they have acted so decisively, in providing such a quality and potentially exciting squad, in time to battle for a successful conclusion to this season's challenge.
It's been mooted as the best window since Laudrup's tenure. And it's very hard to disagree with that opinion.
Come On You Swans! [Post edited 3 Sep 10:06]
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| How do you assess your feelings towards the club and its majority owners on 10:31 - Sep 3 with 2311 views | Fireboy2 |
| How do you assess your feelings towards the club and its majority owners on 09:09 - Sep 3 by sons_of_omri |
Respectfully disagree. Galbraith is the real deal - was everywhere against Wednesday and even supplied Inoussa and Vipotnik with their assists. Plus he’s not a ginger lol |
Agreed, as you say he was everywhere.
One thing ive noticed is that hes really good at dribbling with the ball, he gets himself out of sticky situations and that creates space for others around him by beating players. |  | | |
| How do you assess your feelings towards the club and its majority owners on 10:51 - Sep 3 with 2244 views | Whiterockin |
| How do you assess your feelings towards the club and its majority owners on 09:52 - Sep 3 by felixstowe_jack |
Good transfer window.
Just a pity the window for buying season tickets ended on 31st of August. Why not a week after the transfer deadline closes. An opportunity to sell more missed. |
I just wonder if the club are playing a blinder here. Take season tickets off sale, its amazing how people want what they can't have. Then next month start a waiting list with people with match ticket points having priority. Christmas offer half season tickets to those on the list. If we are doing well they will sell out.
Well that's the way it would market it anyway. |  | | |
| How do you assess your feelings towards the club and its majority owners on 11:09 - Sep 3 with 2207 views | shandyjack |
| How do you assess your feelings towards the club and its majority owners on 09:52 - Sep 3 by felixstowe_jack |
Good transfer window.
Just a pity the window for buying season tickets ended on 31st of August. Why not a week after the transfer deadline closes. An opportunity to sell more missed. |
why end it at all, just reduce the price as each game passes by |  |
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| How do you assess your feelings towards the club and its majority owners on 11:18 - Sep 3 with 2189 views | Fireboy2 |
| How do you assess your feelings towards the club and its majority owners on 11:09 - Sep 3 by shandyjack |
why end it at all, just reduce the price as each game passes by |
This ^ | | | |
| How do you assess your feelings towards the club and its majority owners on 11:58 - Sep 3 with 2118 views | onehunglow |
| How do you assess your feelings towards the club and its majority owners on 11:18 - Sep 3 by Fireboy2 |
This ^ |
We are going to have seriously high offers for Galbraith before long
He’s a stand out
For me, Stemonic will be main man , a bigger better tougher Grimes | |
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| How do you assess your feelings towards the club and its majority owners on 12:32 - Sep 3 with 2042 views | JJJack |
| How do you assess your feelings towards the club and its majority owners on 11:58 - Sep 3 by onehunglow |
We are going to have seriously high offers for Galbraith before long
He’s a stand out
For me, Stemonic will be main man , a bigger better tougher Grimes |
Much more positive. I live in Bristol. I have stopped going regularly since about 2019 (for various reasons) and have only been 5 or 6 times since the pandemic plus the odd away game. Kaplan and Levein killed part of my interest in going. But the approach of the new owners plus Sheehan's ability has restored my faith so I will look to come down more often. I never fully trusted/believed in Williams or Martin....their rigidity and stubborness frustrated the hell out of me. To me, Sheehan is going to be a very good coach and talks a lot of sense.
Potter wasted our best Championship squad post relegation and Cooper did very well to drag us back into contention. Our squad now looks strong but much of it is potential so we will have to wait and see. Widdell has struggled a bit; I don't rate Eom and our lack of goals has been a problem for > 2yrs now. Idah can definitely help us and Burgess has been great already. Our midfield now looks extremely strong and I like Innoussa. Unlike many I have always rated Ronald....he's scored 4 in his last 6....still people moan about him- strange.
Folks - this League is there for the taking. It truly is. This is the best opportunity , post relegation, for a club to hit their straps and get automatic promotion. Cov, Boro, maybe WBA.....and the relegated sides are bound to improve. Bristol City fancy their chances too. But why not us?! I'd like to think we must have a half decent chance of Top 2 although I'd be pleased enough with Top 6. Considering we managed 11th last season with an inferior squad.......... |  | | |
| How do you assess your feelings towards the club and its majority owners on 12:44 - Sep 3 with 2002 views | Whiterockin |
| How do you assess your feelings towards the club and its majority owners on 12:32 - Sep 3 by JJJack |
Much more positive. I live in Bristol. I have stopped going regularly since about 2019 (for various reasons) and have only been 5 or 6 times since the pandemic plus the odd away game. Kaplan and Levein killed part of my interest in going. But the approach of the new owners plus Sheehan's ability has restored my faith so I will look to come down more often. I never fully trusted/believed in Williams or Martin....their rigidity and stubborness frustrated the hell out of me. To me, Sheehan is going to be a very good coach and talks a lot of sense.
Potter wasted our best Championship squad post relegation and Cooper did very well to drag us back into contention. Our squad now looks strong but much of it is potential so we will have to wait and see. Widdell has struggled a bit; I don't rate Eom and our lack of goals has been a problem for > 2yrs now. Idah can definitely help us and Burgess has been great already. Our midfield now looks extremely strong and I like Innoussa. Unlike many I have always rated Ronald....he's scored 4 in his last 6....still people moan about him- strange.
Folks - this League is there for the taking. It truly is. This is the best opportunity , post relegation, for a club to hit their straps and get automatic promotion. Cov, Boro, maybe WBA.....and the relegated sides are bound to improve. Bristol City fancy their chances too. But why not us?! I'd like to think we must have a half decent chance of Top 2 although I'd be pleased enough with Top 6. Considering we managed 11th last season with an inferior squad.......... |
I would be surprised if a couple of players didn't leave in January, Eom included. | | | |
| How do you assess your feelings towards the club and its majority owners on 14:14 - Sep 3 with 1853 views | onehunglow |
| How do you assess your feelings towards the club and its majority owners on 12:44 - Sep 3 by Whiterockin |
I would be surprised if a couple of players didn't leave in January, Eom included. |
He has disappointed
He’s had enough chances
He flatters to deceiveyeah, off load next window round | |
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| How do you assess your feelings towards the club and its majority owners on 15:14 - Sep 3 with 1770 views | sons_of_omri |
| How do you assess your feelings towards the club and its majority owners on 12:32 - Sep 3 by JJJack |
Much more positive. I live in Bristol. I have stopped going regularly since about 2019 (for various reasons) and have only been 5 or 6 times since the pandemic plus the odd away game. Kaplan and Levein killed part of my interest in going. But the approach of the new owners plus Sheehan's ability has restored my faith so I will look to come down more often. I never fully trusted/believed in Williams or Martin....their rigidity and stubborness frustrated the hell out of me. To me, Sheehan is going to be a very good coach and talks a lot of sense.
Potter wasted our best Championship squad post relegation and Cooper did very well to drag us back into contention. Our squad now looks strong but much of it is potential so we will have to wait and see. Widdell has struggled a bit; I don't rate Eom and our lack of goals has been a problem for > 2yrs now. Idah can definitely help us and Burgess has been great already. Our midfield now looks extremely strong and I like Innoussa. Unlike many I have always rated Ronald....he's scored 4 in his last 6....still people moan about him- strange.
Folks - this League is there for the taking. It truly is. This is the best opportunity , post relegation, for a club to hit their straps and get automatic promotion. Cov, Boro, maybe WBA.....and the relegated sides are bound to improve. Bristol City fancy their chances too. But why not us?! I'd like to think we must have a half decent chance of Top 2 although I'd be pleased enough with Top 6. Considering we managed 11th last season with an inferior squad.......... |
Absolutely correct my fellow Bristolian Jack in exile - I think the board have gone balls put because when we are back in the PL because commercially they will have far greater opportunities to grow our commercial income especially with the likes of Modric and Snoop dog banging our drum.
I really hope that ground expansion is an aim - under Huw and co and Levien and Kaplan that was not the main aim. If we could get to 30-35,000 we could be much more flexible with ticket prices which will serve to bring more mums dads and their children to games. That’s where the future of the club lies and growing the fa base and the stadium should be a priority if we go up.
As for Ronald - on his day can be unplayable but quite a lot of the time he can be a bit selfish, lose thr ball by aimlessly passing it or trying something too flash and just throwing his hands up in the air a bit petulantly when it goes wrong. He will learn a lot by watching Benson and hopefully that will make him a much more consistent player. Same with Eom and Inoussa who I feel will be a big star for us and Sweden.
By the way - are you in or around Bedminster/Southville or Ashton? | | | |
| How do you assess your feelings towards the club and its majority owners on 15:28 - Sep 3 with 1728 views | sons_of_omri |
| How do you assess your feelings towards the club and its majority owners on 10:31 - Sep 3 by Fireboy2 |
Agreed, as you say he was everywhere.
One thing ive noticed is that hes really good at dribbling with the ball, he gets himself out of sticky situations and that creates space for others around him by beating players. |
I think there’s an old saying “good players look like they’ve got a lot of time on the ball”. Completely true with Galbraith and I bet he’s got quite a few tricks still up his sleeve.
The other player to stand out like this is Inoussa - his passes in and around the box are intelligent and beautifully executed. His pace gives him more time to think but he’s clearly a thinking footballer and cool as a cucumber - Ronald doesn’t seem to have that luxury and it’s a pity because he definitely had pace but now it seems to have disappeared. | | | |
| How do you assess your feelings towards the club and its majority owners on 15:57 - Sep 3 with 1672 views | swan65split |
Fairly confident atm, though I feel they all have to knit together very quickly if the aim for this season is promotion.
i said a the start that this season the league would be a tough one, but surprisingly from what ive seen everything is quite possible, no one has really stood out, thats why I said we need to knit quite quickly as i think from the end of Sept teams in the run are going to kick on.
but after the chaos weve seen in the last 5-6 years im happy with what weve done, and somehow confused, work that one out! |  | | |
| How do you assess your feelings towards the club and its majority owners on 17:20 - Sep 3 with 1580 views | johnlangy |
| How do you assess your feelings towards the club and its majority owners on 10:03 - Sep 3 by TimBowen |
Late last night my son sent two Swans photos to my WhatsApp. One for a named breakdown of all the 19 players, that left the club this window. The other for our new playing acquisitions.
What those photos did, was to focus on what most of us hoped for. Regarding the leavers, some of those players had retired, some were considered substandard 'squad' players, compared to our new influx and several young prospects were loaned to gain valuable experience. But Wow lads, it's meant 19 players off the wage bill for this season now.
The second photo as I said condensed all our new signings onto the one page. In doing that it allowed me to focus on all our new players and again...Wow, what an impressive, exciting list, of quality additions to our club.
For me, while I agree wholeheartedly with most posters positivity about this last window, not enough praise has been offered for the monumental work that went into attracting and removing so many players in equal measure, in such a short period of time.
So for me, it's a massive 'hats off' congratulations, for the whole recruitment team to enable this transformation for the club.
Allied to that of course, is the club budget, provided by our new and seemingly very ambitious owners, to enable the purchase of those 13 transfer targets. Many thanks and congratulations to them as a collective too.
How refreshing is it for us Swans fans (all too often bathed in serious disappointment at the end of a window) that they have acted so decisively, in providing such a quality and potentially exciting squad, in time to battle for a successful conclusion to this season's challenge.
It's been mooted as the best window since Laudrup's tenure. And it's very hard to disagree with that opinion.
Come On You Swans! [Post edited 3 Sep 10:06]
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Great post Tim.
You've said Keith that people at the Club read this forum. Hopefully what you say is correct because they deserve all the praise they're getting on this thread and others. | | | |
| How do you assess your feelings towards the club and its majority owners on 17:24 - Sep 3 with 1556 views | sons_of_omri |
| How do you assess your feelings towards the club and its majority owners on 11:09 - Sep 3 by shandyjack |
why end it at all, just reduce the price as each game passes by |
Looks like they’ve extended it https://swanseacity.club/3UVA9LJ | | | |
| How do you assess your feelings towards the club and its majority owners on 17:37 - Sep 3 with 1530 views | Fireboy2 |
| How do you assess your feelings towards the club and its majority owners on 15:28 - Sep 3 by sons_of_omri |
I think there’s an old saying “good players look like they’ve got a lot of time on the ball”. Completely true with Galbraith and I bet he’s got quite a few tricks still up his sleeve.
The other player to stand out like this is Inoussa - his passes in and around the box are intelligent and beautifully executed. His pace gives him more time to think but he’s clearly a thinking footballer and cool as a cucumber - Ronald doesn’t seem to have that luxury and it’s a pity because he definitely had pace but now it seems to have disappeared. |
One thing inoussa has that ronald and eom dont have is strength.
He rarely gets knocked off the ball, its something that both ive mentioned have worked on and got better at. | | | |
| How do you assess your feelings towards the club and its majority owners on 18:25 - Sep 3 with 1445 views | sons_of_omri |
| How do you assess your feelings towards the club and its majority owners on 17:37 - Sep 3 by Fireboy2 |
One thing inoussa has that ronald and eom dont have is strength.
He rarely gets knocked off the ball, its something that both ive mentioned have worked on and got better at. |
Definitely agree. I suppose this is why we’re paying up to 6 million gor him . Really pleased we’ve got him | | | |
| How do you assess your feelings towards the club and its majority owners on 19:45 - Sep 3 with 1326 views | ncswan |
| How do you assess your feelings towards the club and its majority owners on 15:57 - Sep 3 by swan65split |
Fairly confident atm, though I feel they all have to knit together very quickly if the aim for this season is promotion.
i said a the start that this season the league would be a tough one, but surprisingly from what ive seen everything is quite possible, no one has really stood out, thats why I said we need to knit quite quickly as i think from the end of Sept teams in the run are going to kick on.
but after the chaos weve seen in the last 5-6 years im happy with what weve done, and somehow confused, work that one out! |
I have a problem with posters who say or imply that owners' and staff's aim might not necessarily be for promotion ... this year or season. If we aren't aiming for promotion this year or season, then all of our gushing comments are for naught, imo. Kudos to the owners and recruitment team for assembling a squad that has, at first glance, loads of talent and skill to be at least in the top six, if not the top two! I have faith in Sheehan, his staff, and the current team to gel quickly and start their ascent to the top. No excuses, please! Put a good product on the field and capacity crowds will follow. | | | |
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