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Reply | Placheta might become a swans player?
at 07:15 14 Jun 2024
Using an extreme but recent example, teams can defend much higher up the pitch when our width comes from Manning and Latibaudiere than they can against extreme pace. This smothers us in midfield.
Placheta has clearly got limitations, but don’t be surprised if the likes of Grimes, Allen and Paterson seem to have more time, space and better games when we’ve got him and Ronald or anyone else with that kind of speed in the side. |
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Reply | Placheta might become a swans player?
at 16:07 13 Jun 2024
How often have we seen teams play a high back line, particularly under Russell Martin with the football we were playing, and completely stifle us in midfield. When you’ve got no pace, teams can do that.
Placheta doesn’t have much more than speed, but when you’ve got a player like that, it completely changes how opponents can set up. Particularly when you’ve got Ronald on the other side, who isn’t quite as quick, but still rapid and has the talent to compliment his pace. |
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Reply | Friendly confirmed
at 15:35 13 Jun 2024
I may be wrong, but I think that was to do with Michael Duff not wanting any spies catching wind of his revolutionary, cutting edge tactics. |
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Reply | Placheta might become a swans player?
at 14:50 13 Jun 2024
He’s out of contract. If he comes here it won’t be on his Norwich wages.
Ginelly looked great, but we only really got a glimpse of him. Not sure what to expect there. He did look like he could play wide or potentially infield and ran aggressively at defenders. We’ve definitely missed that type of player for a while |
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Reply | European Championship 🏆 Thread 🧵🏴
at 14:18 13 Jun 2024
I still look back at that qualifying group and think that under a competent manager, we’d have been top two. Can’t blame Page for the Poland game, but it really shouldn’t have come to that.
A very average Turkish side made to look good by how inept ourselves and Croatia were. |
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Reply | Placheta might become a swans player?
at 14:05 13 Jun 2024
I’d like to see him here next season. Players that quick force opponents to defend deeper and create space for the likes of Paterson and Allen to play.
I’m sure a creative attacking midfielder will be right behind striker and keeper on the shopping list. Having wingers who can pin defences back or run onto longer balls when they don’t, makes that role easier. |
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Reply | Swansea staffers supporting Russ. Is this healthy?
at 19:32 29 May 2024
Plus we don’t have anyone a premier league club would be rushing to sign.
As an overall view though, I get what employees do in their own time is their own business, but in this example, they went to support a team who would take a massive chunk out of our summer budget by winning and a man who is currently subject to legal action by our club.
Technically they’ve done nothing wrong, but however good a guy he may be, I think a bit of discretion and respect for our club could have been employed here. Just my opinion though. |
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Reply | Swansea staffers supporting Russ. Is this healthy?
at 05:22 29 May 2024
If this is accurate it’s ridiculous.
Under normal circumstances I wouldn’t see an issue, but with ongoing legal action and a Southampton win costing us the Piroe bonus, it’s a really bad look.
I wouldn’t necessarily trust a throwaway line in an article about how fantastic Russell Martin is mind. |
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Reply | The Congratulations Russell Martin thread 😂
at 14:14 28 May 2024
I’m ambivalent towards him. I don’t get why some people are still so passionate on the subject either slagging him off or praising him.
He has an unusual playing philosophy, but results wise, he was run of the mill. We’ve had better and we’ve had worse. |
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Reply | The Congratulations Russell Martin thread 😂
at 12:28 28 May 2024
Yeah, yeah but he’s gone now. He’s doing the exact same thing at Southampton.
He’s a strange one, he gets a lot of unfair criticism and a lot of unmerited adulation in my view. Certainly splits opinion. Time to let him go whichever side of the fence people are on. |
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Reply | The Congratulations Russell Martin thread 😂
at 21:16 27 May 2024
Cooper ‘decided to leave the club’ in pre-season. He was appointed at Forest two months later after Hughton had a nightmare start to the season.
He and Forest wouldn’t have been on each others radars when he left us, no one expected Hughton to do so badly with a squad like that.
He did walk out. |
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Reply | The Congratulations Russell Martin thread 😂
at 17:03 27 May 2024
Yeah when he was our manager. Bob Bradley and Duff aside, you’d have heard that chant for all of our managers. Even Cooper occasionally.
You don’t hear many people (apart from Cardiff fans) calling Martin that now. |
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Reply | The Congratulations Russell Martin thread 😂
at 16:53 27 May 2024
I’m not sure about our Llanelli fans, but the term has definitely evolved. It’s not the birthright it was in the past.
The only people I know who refer to everyone from Swansea as Jacks, don’t live here.
I agree on Russell Martin. Players who get really invested in the city, yes. Especially those who retire here. For most players and managers, it’s just transitional. |
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Reply | Leeds V Saints
at 16:50 27 May 2024
Thing is, we won’t attract experienced managers, unless we’re going for the journeyman type who has been around the block without achieving anything.
I don’t actually think any of those three would have got last seasons squad promoted. They all had goalscorers and gamechangers. The type who would turn a draw into a win. Duff and Williams didn’t really.
At better resourced clubs, it’s reasonable to expect them to be more successful. |
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Reply | Leeds V Saints
at 12:41 27 May 2024
The only thing that mattered yesterday was the Piroe bonus money. It was a bad result. |
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Reply | The Congratulations Russell Martin thread 😂
at 12:40 27 May 2024
People from Swansea who support PL teams, or have no interest in football are not Jacks to me. That may have been the case in the past.
With players and managers, it’s subjective. I wouldn’t class Martin as a Jack either. I would, Britton, Trundle, Rangel, Cornforth, Freestone and plenty of others who weren’t born and bred here. There was certainly a time I’d have put Martinez in that category. |
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Reply | Retained List
at 04:56 18 May 2024
Yeah I know. Wasn’t commenting on why he wasn’t on the list. Was saying I expect he’ll go to a club who pay higher wages |
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Reply | Retained List
at 17:43 17 May 2024
I thought Placheta could have been good, but no idea what kind of money he’d want. Can’t really argue with the Walsh one, as talented as he is.
Assuming Lowe will be offered more elsewhere. |
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Reply | Joe Allen Signs For Another Year ...
at 17:39 17 May 2024
He’s often the best player on either side for the time he’s on the pitch. If we can get an hour out of him most games he’ll more than justify another season. |
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