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Brad Bobbly
at 21:14 13 Feb 2017

Prior to January, we clearly had a couple of bad years for player recruitment and the squad wasn't what it should have been.

The football under Guidolin wasn't scintillating, but his record in his first half season with us was very good. As for the 7 games at the start of the season, 1 win in 7 doesn't sound great but they were a tough run of fixtures. The only particularly bad result was the loss to Hull, which was a game we dominated. We picked up a good point against Chelsea and had four 1-goal defeats in games we went into as the underdogs, but some of the performances (like the Liverpool game) were pretty good. We lacked a bit of quality, but we were organised and competitive.

I was aghast and embarrassed to see Guidolin sacked and thought Bradley looked an uninspiring appointment, but like most fans was hopeful that he could do the job (whilst acknowledging that he only got the gig because of his nationality).

Unfortunately we were an absolute shitshow under Bradley. Not only were we still short on quality but we were laughably disorganised and were on course to have the worst defensive record of any team in Premier League history. Is Bob a bad manager? I don't know, I've not seen his previous sides. Did Bob do a very bad job of managing Swansea? Absolutely.

I don't think the fans immediately took against him either. Well, maybe they did on the forum, but the forum is often very negative. The fans in the stadium were supportive until it became clear that we were getting worse with every passing game and were not going to improve.

I do not believe for a second that November and December would have gone so badly under Guidolin.

And it's not surprising that the fans are still bitter over the Bradley appointment (it is a folly that could still see us relegated) or that we are enjoying seeing a squad, that the media tried to present as beyond-saving, move up the league now that we have the right manager.

And Bradley's post-sacking interviews were a bit classless so it's hard to feel any real sympathy.

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