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Reply | Stamenic- is he another Fulton?
at 10:30 6 Oct 2025
In my view on what I have seen in the last few games, Stamenic is the answer to a problem that didn't seem to be there.
He is clearly a good player on his day, but as a team we seemed to function much better when Galbreith was playing the quarterback role.
Stamenic should be playing the Pratley role in my opinion as he seems to have those qualities. |
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Reply | Blackburn Rovers v Swansea City : Match day thread
at 13:33 1 Oct 2025
I don't disagree to an extent but if you watch the match back, Stamenic got into a habit of drifting across the deep-middle WITH the opposing player instead of looking for pockets. So Cabango or Burgess would be trying to bring it out central but often had to then look out wide or go long as Stamenic wasn't often giving them the pass option.
Contrast with Galbreith who when playing the deep-lying role has looked, dare I say it, very Leon Britton-esque, dropping into pockets demanding the ball and being skillful enough to get away from pressing opposition players. Last night Galbreith was a little anonymous at times playing much higher up and to the left of the pitch in general than previous. |
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Reply | Blackburn Rovers v Swansea City : Match day thread
at 12:27 1 Oct 2025
A great scrappy win where for once we got a couple of decisions go our way. Great to see Idah with a positive contribution, will helpfully give the lad a platform of confidence.
My only concern is Sheehan seems unable to get a balanced midfield, instead seemingly squeezing players in - Galbreith is wasted in the 10 role and has been visibly worse by his standards over the last couple of games. This shift seems to be to fit Stamenic in the CDM/quarterback role which I thought he was poor at last night to be honest. He seemed to follow his marker around rather than drop in and make himself available to Burgess / Cabango who then had to go out wide every time (apart from the few times Galbreith dropped back - he IS good at this).
I prefer the trio of Galbreith, Yalcoue and Franco (albeit Stamenic is a good player). |
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Reply | Again the Swans concede in injury time : Referee has a card frenzy
at 09:51 22 Sep 2025
I agree with this, Galbreith by his standards had a poor game but not helped by being asked to play further forward to allow for Stamenic. He also seems to thrive off players like Yalcoue who is constantly on the move, Stamenic good as he is is more positionally rigid giving EG less option.
As you say, he was pushed out of the game by an in-your-face team. |
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Reply | Swansea City v Nottingham Forest : Match day thread
at 13:25 18 Sep 2025
Perhaps you are right, it just looked like he was being overrun and not timing his challenges well last night. Either way, what a great problem to have.
I keep watching the last 2 minutes highlights on full blast over and over - that 2nd Burgess goal will never get old!! |
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Reply | Swansea City v Nottingham Forest : Match day thread
at 10:36 18 Sep 2025
I'd be bringing Stamenic in for Franco who I think currently is a bit of a shadow of the player he was last season. He seemed to be last to everything and behind the pace of the game - stats play this out as he won only 20% of his duels. He has other intangible impacts such as passion, aggression and work ethic but he looks like he needs a rest.
Thought the kids at that back looked promising and wouldn't be concerned about either having to fill in at points in the season.
I know some were slagging Key off while the match was live, but sometimes you have to accept you come up against a good winger - whether he sat off, or came in tight (as we are often criticizing him for not doing), Hutchinson more often than not was more than equal.
BUT...what an electric night! |
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Reply | Manuel Benson - a gem of a player (video)
at 17:31 4 Sep 2025
Not going to get expectations too high but liked this comment on the Burnley Facebook page:
"A living legend at Burnley football club. Hope he scores loads of worldies which I’m sure he will given a chance.
The one player in the squad who the entire fan base adore.
Shame about his injuries the last few years but I’ve never seen a left foot like his. A wand." |
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Reply | The tardy Swansea City v Plymouth Argyle Match day thread UPDATED
at 15:05 27 Aug 2025
Hard to know what is going on given Wales excellent cameo v Crawley. Is Sheehan trying to kick-start VIP's season or putting him in the shop window?
2 goals in 195 minutes and 38 touches...either we view that as excellent goal-scoring efficiency or being a waste of a shirt if not scoring...
Time will tell. |
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Reply | The tardy Swansea City v Plymouth Argyle Match day thread UPDATED
at 14:21 27 Aug 2025
As you say Richard, he would have been well on the road to putting his hand up to Sheehan and saying "I'm your man" if he had tucked that away with a little left side-footed finish. Two in two shouldn't be sniffed at but it just seems odd that in the same game he has the confidence to smash one in from 30 yards out, but not to trust his instinct as a poacher.
I was a hopeful supporter of his last season as it was refreshing for the Swans to have a striker whose first thought was to hit hard at goal, not fanny around too much and try and walk it in. I am not so blinkered to realise he is not the forward to build the team around as he just doesn't have enough to his game (or any sort of obvious consistency), but while he is still popping up and scoring the odd goal then he worthy of a squad place if he is willing to accept not being number 1. |
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Reply | Swans v Stevenage
at 17:31 22 Jul 2025
I assumed McKenzie as the poster said tall - McKenzie is 6ft 4 whereas Dabrowski is more like 5 ft 10. |
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Reply | Ricardo Santos
at 11:03 5 Jun 2025
Stats are just one side to it but FotMob suggests he has good passing accuracy, and is strong in both ground and aerial duels. Possibly not a great reader of the game with average stats for interceptions and blocks, and could have the speed of a barge given he was poor on "dribbled past".
But I have never laid eyes on him so no idea really. |
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Reply | Who will win the Championship play offs
at 09:54 14 May 2025
Just to jump on the bandwagon, having watched the game last night, I am also not sure what was so good about Grimes. I mostly saw Mr 7/10 dependable again.
The commentary was bizarre - at one point late on, having been responsible for every single set-piece take (10 corners and numerous attacking free-kicks), NONE of which had led to a chance on goal, the commentator called him "the master of ceremonies" or something similar.
But what do I know, evidently he got 8.1 on FotMob. |
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Reply | Ronald
at 10:58 28 Apr 2025
I wonder if part of his developmental issues are driven by the fact despite being here for over a year now, if those "Inside Swans" videos are anything to go by, he still can't speak a word of English! |
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Reply | Norwich City v Swansea City : Mach day thread
at 11:20 28 Jan 2025
This was all an illusion I remember from the time - we seemingly went on the luckiest run ever whereby opposition statistical expected goals was high but actual goals was low from a combination of poor finishing by the opposition and an amazing start to his Swans career from Vigouroux.
Games like West Brom away where they only beat us 1-0 but carved us open time and time again and had 18 shots on goal (to our 6). And I went to Coventry away where we took the points but I almost had a heart-attack at our defending (20 shots to Coventry to our 11).
It was only a matter of time before the inevitable defensive frailty manifested in the current sh*t-show.
ETA - sorry this should have been a reply to Lifelongs post asking how we had gone from a team that seemingly had an excellent defensive record, to one that has shipped goals for fun over the past couple of months. [Post edited 28 Jan 11:22]
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Reply | Swansea City v Sunderland : Match day thread
at 11:04 16 Dec 2024
Sunderland were very good and deserved the win - we folded like a broken deck-chair.
Many were at fault, and I know it feels like I have some agenda against him, but our "captain" was missing in action again. Grimes has a lot of positives but he should never be captain of this team because the critical aspects of being a captain are always missing at key moments.
Why-oh-why did he not take one for the team and drag Neil down? Why did he not try and bust a gut to intercept the cross for the winner that was very close to him? Why was he not visibly vocal or giving the team a rally when everyone else could see what was to come?
The leader on the pitch has to stand up and be counted - being "Mr Nice" and a very neat and tidy footballer is not compatible. |
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