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Reply | Swansea semi pro Women. Good value?
at 10:13 17 Jun 2025
Looking at the players they had last year they probably have the biggest budget so 5th is very poor. Britton Ferry and nunerous others are amateur .
When they play at Llandarcy entry is free for the 50 or so that turn up. There is no sponsorship money. I would hazard a guess that the team and everything that goes with it costs the club over £200,000 a season.
They need to get into the English system but they the costs will be higher. |
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Reply | Swansea semi pro Women. Good value?
at 10:07 17 Jun 2025
They went to champions league a lot more than just 2017.
Liegh looked after the womens team from about 2015 as the club weren't interested at that time. It would have disbanded if he hadn't of taken it over. The team was ran by him and Ian Owen.
Club had it back for the 23/24 season but Ian and liegh continued for that season overseeing things . Ian left beginning of the 24/25 season and liegh halfway through it. They finished outside the top four for the first time that i can remember.
I heard that when the club took it back they also were given about £150,000 by liegh and Ian that was surplus funds in the bank account of the women.
Women went to champions league in
2017/18
2020/21 Cyprus
2021/22 Cyprus
2022/23 North Macedonia
They won or were second in the league from 2015 to 2023 winning it 4 times |
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Reply | 🔴 Likely candidates for the Swans job
at 11:57 21 Feb 2025
My gut feeling is that the new owners will spend in the summer providing they are in the championship and FFP allows. There is serious money about with them and they don't seem to be the type to want to fail. |
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Reply | Gareth Davies gone
at 11:53 21 Feb 2025
I am told he walked out a few weeks ago. He told the chairman he couldn't work under these conditions anymore and walked away. |
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Thread | Coleman - The busy fool
at 11:36 4 Feb 2025
There is a solution but we know it won't be taken.
Send Gude home. Save his wages, living allowance and kids schooling. Spend the savings on:
A CEO, Director of football and a top commercial person. Let them run the club day to day including the removal of Williams.
YOU need to act as a Chairman. In other words chair the board and be the conduit between board and CEO/ SMT. Importantly listen to them. This way you might, just might
Save the club from relegation
Save your investment
Save what reputation you had. |
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Reply | Colemans business acumen
at 11:26 2 Feb 2025
I had an interesting chat with someone yesterday who has had dealings with Coleman over the last year. What was said was pretty scathing .
My thoughts before were that he was out of his depth and this was confirmed. In conversation he basically doesn't listen but is just waiting to cut in and ramble . The conversations generally get around to him and how good he is at everything !!.
He is not assessable to the staff at all. If you want to talk to him it is done through Ken who is his private secretary so to speak.
He has no realistic vision and this is felt throughout the club with most just drifting along.
The biggest worry is no matter what you say he will just do what he thinks is best and this is never going to change.
This club needs a football CEO very quickly . There is no one at the club at senior level who has the first idea about football and its workings. Worrying times |
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Reply | Grimes
at 09:50 28 Jan 2025
With Williams there we are in real trouble. A proper manager wouldn't have Grimes sitting between centre halves , leaving the other 2 midfielders exposed to the extent that he pushes fullbacks inside to compensate. Fullbacks that give the ball away in dangerous positions from where the opposition invariably score. |
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Reply | Colemans business acumen
at 09:45 28 Jan 2025
I have just found out what Andy got for Xmas and to be honest it has made me feel a little more confident for the future :
Quickbooks
Football manager 2008
Subbuteo
With those tools in his procession what possible could go wrong ? |
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Reply | Huw Jenkins ...
at 16:37 26 Jan 2025
I don't think he will care what people think. Thick skin |
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Thread | Colemans business acumen
at 16:33 26 Jan 2025
The guy has made money but not from building and running businesses that employ 100's of people. His family ran a small hotel in Washington from what i have found out and he then made his money from arranging finance etc for hotel acquisitions. He is absolutely out of his depth when it comes to running a business of our size especially in football. He brought in Kenny boy to try and deal with the every day stuff but the UK is a different animal to the US. For starters our employment laws will cause him problems.
To think Coleman now is looking after player recruitment is frightening and fills me with utter dread. The club is rudderless yet these 2 think they the know what they are doing. They don't and we are in the cack big time
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Reply | State of our club
at 16:11 26 Jan 2025
' progress meeting '? don't you mean regress meeting |
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Reply | Leigh Dineen
at 13:39 5 Jan 2025
So got some info.
He wanted to stay this season as he suggested the manager and wanted to help the new head of womens football bed in.
Unhappy with some signings that he felt no better and just wasting money. They should have been offered amateur contracts not semi pro.
Unhappy with the line on ' identity ' when it is so different from what they were known for before and the football is unrecognisable from previous seasons.
Taking 13 players to TNS just about finished him... the perception that a swansea side can't take 16 players to TNS he felt was embarrassing considering we have a 17's and 19's side .
Basically left as no point being there as the manager doesn't want to listen to advice and the head of football is leaving.
That has come from 2 sources. One close to him. |
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Reply | Cabango and Darling crunch time is here
at 11:32 24 Dec 2024
Cabangos form has certainly dropped last few games. It could well be due to contract talks. The club need to tie both players down as it will cost a lot more to replace. |
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Reply | Leigh Dineen
at 11:31 24 Dec 2024
I can probably find that out.
They certainly seem to have lost their way since coming into the club compared to previous seasons where they were pretty much unbeatable. It could be that he just isn't happy with the ways things are going. |
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Reply | Leigh Dineen
at 11:26 24 Dec 2024
I can't see that happening. Whilst they are in the Welsh league there isn't enough interest. They are lucky to get 50 watching them at home. If they stay in the Welsh league i can't see the club continuing to offer semi pro contracts as there is no revenue coming in from them unless the get to champions league. That is looking highly unlikely this season. |
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Reply | Luke Cundle
at 11:22 24 Dec 2024
Would he be a loan or permanent. I wouldn't want to see him as a permanent signing. |
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Reply | Jason Levien has left us in a stronger position than when he took over?
at 17:26 25 Nov 2024
I think i have said it before but just to reiterate.
Levien lied in the fans forum when he said he was told not to talk to the trust. He knew he could get away with that as who would dispute it ?
The HOTs signed in December 2015 specifically said that ' the buyers had to engage with the Trust before the deal could go ahead ' ( or similar )
Leviens engagement was minimal and he made out that they had no intention of selling. ( obviously i have no idea exactly what was said in the meeting ) |
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