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Reply | Swansea City caution as July means more business
at 12:45 27 Jun 2025
I feel our striking options are the key here - It’s all a jigsaw! Who leaves and arrives I feel will be decided by our mix upfront !
I’d be happy with Yates as a squad striker if we don’t manage to bring another striker in. We’ll then have Wales, Cullen, Vip and Yates as a strike force. Bianchini (if he stays) is also added to our options but I feel he’ll leave. While not ideal at first glance (still feel we’ll sign a proven striker) I hope Vip benefits from a ‘finding your feet’ first season (feel there’s much more to come from VIP). Culls we all know splits opinion - some fans who voice the ‘“he’s only in the squad as he’s one of our own” - but he was our top scorer last season and I feel will play a deeper role supporting the front one / two this season. Wales is an unknown proposition at this level but we hope he's capable of greet things. Yates is a decent championship striker given the right service in the right set up and do we back AS to find this mix to benefit Yates?
All have the benefit of a full pre-season under AS and I have more confidence in AS making a success of pre-season than previous managers !
Exciting times ahead. [Post edited 27 Jun 12:48]
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Reply | Harry Darling & Lewis O’Brien
at 18:43 24 Jun 2025
I find the fact we actually made a stunning offer to Harry and are seeking to compete financially for O'Brien the biggest morale boost. Too often we'd just accept we couldn't compete and not even try for these top players. This seems a different period in time where we are fighting to retain and recruit top top championship players and, to their surprise lol, beat 'bigger. wealthier' clubs to top players (ie: Burgess). If we lose out on players it's because they decided to walk away not the club deciding to walk away. How times have changed. Use the budget elsewhere - I'm sure there's some exciting transfers ahead. [Post edited 24 Jun 18:47]
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Reply | Credit where it due
at 19:52 17 Jun 2025
So all this talk about ‘should, would, could’ make the play offs. Who do our posters feel our main play-off contenders will be? Realistically!
I’d say the 3 relegated sides due to financial muscle, so Ipswich, Leicester and Southampton ….
The usual suspects - West Brom, Sheff Utd, Middlesbrough ….
Then there’s a dark horse from the unfancied pack …
And there’s a feeling next years championship will be tougher than this year due to stronger promoted sides (with a bit of financial clout) ….
So we’ll need a decent start to cement our early intent on the play-off places |
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Reply | 13 weeks till the start of the new season.
at 17:15 10 May 2025
2 x Wales world cup qualifiers in June
Penybont have european matches in July
Pre-season in earnest July & August
Plenty to keep us entertained this summer 👍 |
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Reply | Bobby Wales - Kilmarnock
at 22:06 2 May 2025
Report on Bobby Wales from a Scottish mate who knows Kilmarnock very well …….
Very tall, gangly forward. Pacy. Usually comes in from the left (like a Thierry Henry position). Great close control. Good striker of the ball. Not a prolific scorer but good with setting up chances, listens & learns & has possesses all the credentials to score a hell of a lot more. He will be a very good player in future, no doubt about that. Courted by clubs bigger & richer than Swansea - you’ve got a coup there, great signing. [Post edited 2 May 22:06]
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Reply | Alan Sheehan’s been appointed as manager.
at 21:10 30 Apr 2025
One of the key snippets from the press release which gave me greater joy was the “not just to be a head coach, but to really move this club on” quote which coupled with the earlier “club and I have to be aligned” quote really gives me hope that the Board have convinced AS of their intention to push the club on. AS is a man in demand, he holds the cards, and I’m hopeful the Board did their but to reassure him of the club’s positive intentions. We seem to have done clever men leading our club and this may be the long awaited push to transform our club. A good summer regarding arrivals & departures, & hit the season running, will go a long way. |
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Reply | Just give him the job
at 23:28 22 Apr 2025
AS stated quite openly in his post QPR interview that the job wasn’t nailed on for him and the club and him needed to be ‘aligned’. Is he hinting that he feels the club and him are not ‘aligned’ so the job isn’t of genuine interest to him. Has he been told he’s not getting the budget to sign Darling etc? Or a few of his regular selections are going to be replaced with younger/cheaper etc? Is he sensible enough to realise the budgetary and operational restraints make it a job he’s unlikely to succeed in? There’s also the issue of family and career and doing what’s best for the AS family. - as a coach he can get another job (his stock is high) but fail as a manager (and if he and the club not aligned’ there’s no certainty of success) he could be out of work very quickly and remain a ‘failed manager’ for a long time. AS strikes me as a cautious calculated man who will take his time weighing up his options before committing to any role at any club. And we should support this. |
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Reply | 🔴 Likely candidates for the Swans job
at 20:44 3 Apr 2025
Not necessarily selling one player BIG, although that would be wonderful, but we should also be looking to sell 5 or 6 of these U21 lads who are clearly not good enough for Swans to L1 clubs for, say, £250k £350k etc. it so adds up and clears the decks for a new U21 cohort. |
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Reply | Merthyr Town
at 16:59 1 Apr 2025
I wish Merthyr well. I watch them if Barry are away at the far flung corners of our country and love going to Penydarren Park. I suspect Merthyr will get 1500+ crowds whatever league system they play in. Proper fans who get behind the team. |
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Reply | Merthyr Town
at 00:45 1 Apr 2025
Two more years in the English system and Merthyr will, again!, go bust.
The higher they climb the greater the financial investment required to stay afloat yet alone prosper. Great club and I wish them well but let’s be realistic shall we ?? |
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Reply | Matt Grimes wife
at 14:31 2 Feb 2025
I sympathise with a footballers family being dragged across the country at short notice if hubby gets a transfer. No footballer wishes to disrupt family life unless he has to, so I’m sure something has happened behind the scenes to piss Matt off to such an extent he’s had no option to move. However, living/working ‘away from home’ is reality for many lads who earn to provide a good living for their families. I have plenty of mates who live apart from young families in order to earn a living - they hate it but grin and bear it because they have to. Won’t be for ever (as it won’t be for Matt) but it’s needs must. And they don’t earn anywhere near what Matt is earning.
I live 22 miles from Coventry and travel to/from South Wales for most home matches. It is quite feasible The Family Grimes can live in Swansea while Matt makes a few car trips a week to/from Coventry. If I leave work near Coventry at 2pm on a midweek match day I’m usually having an all day breakfast in Baglan at 4:30pm. I’d imagine Matt is out of training no later than I’m leaving work. Stay locally a few days a week - lots of lovely hotels in the area - and do the road trip whenever needed.
Am I being harsh? Or unsympathetic? [Post edited 2 Feb 14:36]
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Reply | There is no economic logic in keeping Darling.
at 01:41 6 Jan 2025
Or keep Darling. Play him alongside Cabango, Low or whoever until end of season. We get a stronger central defence which allows the team development to take place around it. A fit & motivated (we assume he doesn’t down tools!) Harry Darling in a Swans side for the next 5 months could be a win/win for everyone - Swans team stronger, allows Liw or whoever to bed in with next season in mind, Darling sees out his contract & gets the pay day he wants. The rumoured £1m figure some posters are throwing around is small fry if other players are sold, released or paid off in the next 2 transfer windows. |
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