| Swansea City v Oxford United : Match day thread on 18:20 - Dec 6 with 1502 views | Whiterockin |
Better today but not by a great deal. Don't let the result mask the facts Oxford were very poor and had to resort to niggling fouls to stay in the game. We made quite a few silly mistakes and gave the ball away easily in dangerous areas and could easily have been punished. Cabango, what on earth has happened to him, he needs resting. We could have been caught out when Galbraith continually drifted into midfield, if he plays full back he needs to be more disciplined. Eon played well, Ronald was better but Stamenic was immense and MoM for me. The substitutions brought nothing when they came on, is our squad really that strong? We game managed the last 10 minutes very well. Currently we are a poor team and although today we had a welcome result Matos has an incredible amount of work to do to even get us to mid table. |  | |  |
| Swansea City v Oxford United : Match day thread on 18:42 - Dec 6 with 1369 views | onehunglow |
| Swansea City v Oxford United : Match day thread on 18:20 - Dec 6 by Whiterockin |
Better today but not by a great deal. Don't let the result mask the facts Oxford were very poor and had to resort to niggling fouls to stay in the game. We made quite a few silly mistakes and gave the ball away easily in dangerous areas and could easily have been punished. Cabango, what on earth has happened to him, he needs resting. We could have been caught out when Galbraith continually drifted into midfield, if he plays full back he needs to be more disciplined. Eon played well, Ronald was better but Stamenic was immense and MoM for me. The substitutions brought nothing when they came on, is our squad really that strong? We game managed the last 10 minutes very well. Currently we are a poor team and although today we had a welcome result Matos has an incredible amount of work to do to even get us to mid table. |
Disagree
Thought we were much better
We held on better
Our players assaulted mo pray this shower of dhithouses get relegated
Stamenic proved today how valuable he is , some unconvinced but hey ho
He is absolutely the man we need in the team
He should be captain he might be next season
We were notably as wide open as much at right back
One man’s absence made the difference
Bottom line is three points |  |
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| Swansea City v Oxford United : Match day thread on 18:47 - Dec 6 with 1357 views | wwcigne |
A great result and very much needed and deserved ,a good first half and a battling second
2 well taken goals ,especially Tymon’s Worldy
Nice to see us not faffing about so much at the back ,playing forward and putting challenges in and harrying in the middle
Conditions and tiredness made for a scruffier second half but nice to see us battling for every ball and seeing the game out
3 well taken and needed points in a crucial game | | | |
| Swansea City v Oxford United : Match day thread on 18:48 - Dec 6 with 1353 views | union_jack |
| Swansea City v Oxford United : Match day thread on 18:20 - Dec 6 by Whiterockin |
Better today but not by a great deal. Don't let the result mask the facts Oxford were very poor and had to resort to niggling fouls to stay in the game. We made quite a few silly mistakes and gave the ball away easily in dangerous areas and could easily have been punished. Cabango, what on earth has happened to him, he needs resting. We could have been caught out when Galbraith continually drifted into midfield, if he plays full back he needs to be more disciplined. Eon played well, Ronald was better but Stamenic was immense and MoM for me. The substitutions brought nothing when they came on, is our squad really that strong? We game managed the last 10 minutes very well. Currently we are a poor team and although today we had a welcome result Matos has an incredible amount of work to do to even get us to mid table. |
Agree with most of that WR but although not a table topping side, I didn’t think Oxford were that poor. They dealt with the conditions better than us though a lot of our problems I’m sure stemmed from nerves. They seemed a bit fitter too but by God they were a jiggly side. That card should have come out earlier.
Was it a pen? Live I thought yes. Replay behind the goal, no. Replay in front of goal, yes. If it had been the other way round and given I wouldn’t have complained too much. |  |
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| Swansea City v Oxford United : Match day thread on 18:51 - Dec 6 with 1328 views | shingle |
Two poor teams nothing much to get excited about but 3 pts and we were treated to a world class goal. | | | |
| Swansea City v Oxford United : Match day thread on 18:54 - Dec 6 with 1308 views | vetchonian |
| Swansea City v Oxford United : Match day thread on 18:20 - Dec 6 by Whiterockin |
Better today but not by a great deal. Don't let the result mask the facts Oxford were very poor and had to resort to niggling fouls to stay in the game. We made quite a few silly mistakes and gave the ball away easily in dangerous areas and could easily have been punished. Cabango, what on earth has happened to him, he needs resting. We could have been caught out when Galbraith continually drifted into midfield, if he plays full back he needs to be more disciplined. Eon played well, Ronald was better but Stamenic was immense and MoM for me. The substitutions brought nothing when they came on, is our squad really that strong? We game managed the last 10 minutes very well. Currently we are a poor team and although today we had a welcome result Matos has an incredible amount of work to do to even get us to mid table. |
Yes one swallow doesnt make a summer and all that BUT once we settked after a poor first 20 minutes we looked a far different team....in fact we looked like a team....than what we saw from thebstaetnofntue season.
The players worked for each other, havent seen Eom track back and tacjle as much as he did today.
There was evidence of patterns of play when we were attacking which have been missing previously which when things click....if they click..will provide more goals.
In fairness Matos has only had 11 days with the players but in all the games he has been in charge there have been signs of improvement and yes we capitulated agaunst West Brom but today we held on and kept a clean sheet
Matis alsi changed formation in the game and though he was booked in doing so was precise in his communications to those on the pitch as he was making changes.
Todays results show how crazy the Championship is we beat a "poor" Oxford whoblast week beat Ipswich who battered us and then Ipswich beat the league leaders Coventry convincingly today.
Big game Tuesday continue as we did today and I m sure we will get a wun | |
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| Swansea City v Oxford United : Match day thread on 19:24 - Dec 6 with 1201 views | swan65split |
| Swansea City v Oxford United : Match day thread on 10:06 - Dec 6 by swan65split |
Our 10 year old grandson who is a football and Swans fanatic, following in the family tradition, is attending again today, please lads DO NOT destroy his love for the game and club. turn this patheric form around and kick on.
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Well i hope my son dodnt swear when that 2nd goal went in , not in front of my G/son.
treated to an early Christmas performance there ,
3 wise men, Allen ,britton and Matos
A cracker in the 2nd goal
and a donkey in the ref. |  | | |
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| Swansea City v Oxford United : Match day thread on 19:40 - Dec 6 with 1106 views | onehunglow |
| Swansea City v Oxford United : Match day thread on 19:24 - Dec 6 by swan65split |
Well i hope my son dodnt swear when that 2nd goal went in , not in front of my G/son.
treated to an early Christmas performance there ,
3 wise men, Allen ,britton and Matos
A cracker in the 2nd goal
and a donkey in the ref. |
Watched it with my youngest granddaughter
She saw her first Swans goal though she has no idea who we were
She knows now | |
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| Swansea City v Oxford United : Match day thread on 19:51 - Dec 6 with 1068 views | jack247 |
| Swansea City v Oxford United : Match day thread on 17:13 - Dec 6 by onehunglow |
Oxford were vile
Burgess was decent
Stamenic excellent and why some can’t see his class is odd
Cullen excreable as was Fulton , again What player simply stay stationery defending a lead at the death then strolls up and turns his body sideways
These two , with Key should be first out of the door
And yes , one man did make the difference
Matos got it right and for first time in months we saw joy on the face of our coach
They dug on and saw it out
We have still much to rectify but that might be the renaissance |
Execrable?
Fulton came on in the 91st minute | | | |
| Swansea City v Oxford United : Match day thread on 19:56 - Dec 6 with 1048 views | vetchonian |
| Swansea City v Oxford United : Match day thread on 19:51 - Dec 6 by jack247 |
Execrable?
Fulton came on in the 91st minute |
Too many preconceived biases from fans...who know better than football proffessionals.
Yes we fans have opinions on individual players but surely managers and coaches know best? | |
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| Swansea City v Oxford United : Match day thread on 20:02 - Dec 6 with 1023 views | jack247 |
| Swansea City v Oxford United : Match day thread on 19:56 - Dec 6 by vetchonian |
Too many preconceived biases from fans...who know better than football proffessionals.
Yes we fans have opinions on individual players but surely managers and coaches know best? |
It’s more the hammering of a player who was brought on for two minutes to kill time. Fair enough if he’d played half an hour and been awful | | | |
| Swansea City v Oxford United : Match day thread on 20:21 - Dec 6 with 942 views | Dr_Winston |
| Swansea City v Oxford United : Match day thread on 20:02 - Dec 6 by jack247 |
It’s more the hammering of a player who was brought on for two minutes to kill time. Fair enough if he’d played half an hour and been awful |
It's what he does. Weird bloke. |  |
| Pain or damage don't end the world. Or despair, or f*cking beatings. The world ends when you're dead. Until then, you got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man... and give some back. |
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| Swansea City v Oxford United : Match day thread on 22:46 - Dec 6 with 665 views | jacksfullaces |
| Swansea City v Oxford United : Match day thread on 18:20 - Dec 6 by Whiterockin |
Better today but not by a great deal. Don't let the result mask the facts Oxford were very poor and had to resort to niggling fouls to stay in the game. We made quite a few silly mistakes and gave the ball away easily in dangerous areas and could easily have been punished. Cabango, what on earth has happened to him, he needs resting. We could have been caught out when Galbraith continually drifted into midfield, if he plays full back he needs to be more disciplined. Eon played well, Ronald was better but Stamenic was immense and MoM for me. The substitutions brought nothing when they came on, is our squad really that strong? We game managed the last 10 minutes very well. Currently we are a poor team and although today we had a welcome result Matos has an incredible amount of work to do to even get us to mid table. |
away from it all today so only following on stats ... possession fairly similar, we had the nudge on goal scoring opps, so any excitement presumably based on result and assumed 'effort' or 'drive' of players on the back of that. we go again for another 6 pointer Tuesday, Can't afford to lose, need to win to give a little bit of breathing space. | | | |
| Swansea City v Oxford United : Match day thread on 23:05 - Dec 6 with 634 views | max936 |
Ref was attrious clear penalty not given when Ronald was clearly taken out and various yellow card issues not given, marks out of ten 4 at best. |  |
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| Swansea City v Oxford United : Match day thread on 23:15 - Dec 6 with 595 views | onehunglow |
| Swansea City v Oxford United : Match day thread on 19:51 - Dec 6 by jack247 |
Execrable?
Fulton came on in the 91st minute |
Indeed and in that short time failed to come out and challenge for a ball that allowed their player a shot at goal
Absolute garbage
Sorry if it upsets his obvious fan club on here
Meanwhile Stamenic , rubbished by sone fans, stood strong and gave us a platform
Fans eh
Don’t really need them do we as they know nothing | |
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| Swansea City v Oxford United : Match day thread on 23:21 - Dec 6 with 582 views | Dr_Winston |
| Swansea City v Oxford United : Match day thread on 23:15 - Dec 6 by onehunglow |
Indeed and in that short time failed to come out and challenge for a ball that allowed their player a shot at goal
Absolute garbage
Sorry if it upsets his obvious fan club on here
Meanwhile Stamenic , rubbished by sone fans, stood strong and gave us a platform
Fans eh
Don’t really need them do we as they know nothing |
It's fairly obvious that you know nothing beyond pouring poison on players you've taken a dislike to.
Your position on Stamenic is highly entertaining. You massively bigged him up based on his first 30/40 minutes or so, yet have been oddly quiet on the subject ever since given how hit and miss he's been.
Today, since some others think he played well, you've decided to be brave enough to pretend that he's always been good again. Such obvious cowardice amuses me. | |
| Pain or damage don't end the world. Or despair, or f*cking beatings. The world ends when you're dead. Until then, you got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man... and give some back. |
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| Swansea City v Oxford United : Match day thread on 05:57 - Dec 7 with 390 views | jack247 |
| Swansea City v Oxford United : Match day thread on 23:15 - Dec 6 by onehunglow |
Indeed and in that short time failed to come out and challenge for a ball that allowed their player a shot at goal
Absolute garbage
Sorry if it upsets his obvious fan club on here
Meanwhile Stamenic , rubbished by sone fans, stood strong and gave us a platform
Fans eh
Don’t really need them do we as they know nothing |
Obvious fan club?
I’ve said further up this thread that Grimes would be the same player for Coventry as he was for us if he had Martin and Fulton up there with him.
Calling him execrable based on a two minute cameo when the game was already dead speaks for itself though.
Stamenic had a really good game today, as did Eom. You may not have noticed the latter as he’s on your list. | | | |
| Swansea City v Oxford United : Match day thread on 07:58 - Dec 7 with 309 views | Whiterockin |
| Swansea City v Oxford United : Match day thread on 05:57 - Dec 7 by jack247 |
Obvious fan club?
I’ve said further up this thread that Grimes would be the same player for Coventry as he was for us if he had Martin and Fulton up there with him.
Calling him execrable based on a two minute cameo when the game was already dead speaks for itself though.
Stamenic had a really good game today, as did Eom. You may not have noticed the latter as he’s on your list. |
Stamenic had his his best game for us in my opinion when he has been very poor for some time. I know his personal issues overshadow everything at the moment, but i wonder how much influence holding midfield Leon has had on him. Similarly Joe with Eon. | | | |
| Swansea City v Oxford United : Match day thread on 08:42 - Dec 7 with 234 views | jack247 |
| Swansea City v Oxford United : Match day thread on 07:58 - Dec 7 by Whiterockin |
Stamenic had his his best game for us in my opinion when he has been very poor for some time. I know his personal issues overshadow everything at the moment, but i wonder how much influence holding midfield Leon has had on him. Similarly Joe with Eon. |
Two of the best midfielders I’ve seen in my time watching us, Leon may be the best, but I’m giving Matos the credit here. | | | |
| Swansea City v Oxford United : Match day thread on 08:58 - Dec 7 with 191 views | Whiterockin |
| Swansea City v Oxford United : Match day thread on 08:42 - Dec 7 by jack247 |
Two of the best midfielders I’ve seen in my time watching us, Leon may be the best, but I’m giving Matos the credit here. |
So you think it's coincidence that two excellent midfielders have improved two of our midfielders. | | | |
| Swansea City v Oxford United : Match day thread on 09:21 - Dec 7 with 110 views | jack247 |
| Swansea City v Oxford United : Match day thread on 08:58 - Dec 7 by Whiterockin |
So you think it's coincidence that two excellent midfielders have improved two of our midfielders. |
I tend not to go looking for things when there’s a more sensible explanation. Just as I wasn’t desperate to blame anyone but Sheehan for our form up until he left.
Matos has come in and in less than two weeks imposed his style on the team. Sure Joe and Leon may have had an influence, but the bulk of the credit surely has to go his way.
It’s not as if Joe was a winger who ran at people and got crosses in or Stamenic played like Leon yesterday. Galbraith, when played in midfield, is a lot more like both of them. | | | |
| Swansea City v Oxford United : Match day thread on 09:22 - Dec 7 with 105 views | RichardO |
Did that first half go very much like the West Brom game, yes we scored at different times during the half but we kept our shape and remained defensively sound dealing with any threat that Oxford managed to create as would be expected in any game of football when teams look and need to attack.
How many times have we become shapeless run ragged making mistakes in bad areas of the pitch yes we still made them and Oxford weren't able to capitalise a lot of time being our own worse enemy.
I would say that was Vipotnik's best game at leading the line in many ways if we are going to play long high balls up to our forwards then they have to be able to compete and make defenders life differcult not give them time to play cushioned headers to feet to which Vipotnik has struggled to do, I think we were all surprised at seeing Inoussa being asked to play the centre forward role when he came on but he can challenge in the aerial, is fast and strong enough to enough to hold off defenders and pacy enough to get into space but as Eom tired he was needed out wide and Idah came on but the point is we kept a forward threat which the supported in the midfield but we kept our shape as a team.
There were occasions defensively where our clearances were poor almost amateur league stuff ball into no man's land or into row z and for all his good work Stamenic was guilty of it but it relieved pressure allows us to get back into shape. I like the fact in one instance in that second half we had thee players quite tightly together across the opposition penalty box with a possibility to press the goalie but to a man we held our ground didn't leave those gaps which teams have played through us time and time again.
In that second half Oxford press an extra man forward holding trying to hold the fullback Tymon infield to give the winger more time and space to attack the flanks as we have seen in the past running at Tymon, we dealt with that situation much better even resorting to 5 at the back to negate that threat but we still kept an attacking threat.
Were Oxford poor or did we just make them look poor as we did West Brom in the first half , the difference yesterday was we kept our shape, altered it to reduce the threat Oxford posed while remaining competitive in all areas of the pitch , it wasn't pretty at times again teams resorted to kill any momentum we tried to build with cynical fouls but ultimately paid the price because we forced those fouls further up the pitch, nice to see our goals coming from set pieces in which we had become ineffective both in attack and defence under the previous highly rate set piece coach.
Only one game but the crowd appreciated the better performance and obviously happy with the deserved three points. | | | |
| Swansea City v Oxford United : Match day thread on 09:28 - Dec 7 with 84 views | GVJack |
Matos picked the right team. Whether Key was ill or dropped moving Galbraith to RWB and bringing a more energetic Widell in was absolutely the correct call.
Eom had his best game in a Swans shirt for a very long time, he did drop off on the second half but so did many others, I think that's due to the tempo Matos expects us to play, the boys haven't been conditioned pre-season for this style so I would expect to see much of the same for the rest of this season... Very positive starts with tired edd kicking in after 65 minutes resulting in more mistakes happening and the overall pace slowing down.
That's where the subs will become crucial, and he got that right today to see the game out.
Be interesting to see what Matos does in January, I'd like him to bring another RB in to challenge/push Key or maybe it's time to give Parker some more minutes and see what he can do. I think players brought in will be ones with great engines, who can play with the intensity Matos wants for 75-80 minutes (although he may already have one of those in Yalcoure).
Word on Stamenic, I think he's an absolute Gem in midfield, reads the game well, strong in the tackle and in the air and has a wide range of passes that he uses. It's nice to see a deep midfielder trying diagonal balls, balls over the top and traditional through balls. We've not seen that in any other holding midfielders for years and is a pleasure to watch. Yes he passes backwards and sideways too, every player in every position does, that's football, but he also tries a range of other balls too.
Also Galbraith very good and Tymon brilliant yesterday.
No reason we can't be confident of picking up the 3pts on Tuesday. [Post edited 7 Dec 9:45]
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| Swansea City v Oxford United : Match day thread on 09:38 - Dec 7 with 62 views | onehunglow |
| Swansea City v Oxford United : Match day thread on 09:28 - Dec 7 by GVJack |
Matos picked the right team. Whether Key was ill or dropped moving Galbraith to RWB and bringing a more energetic Widell in was absolutely the correct call.
Eom had his best game in a Swans shirt for a very long time, he did drop off on the second half but so did many others, I think that's due to the tempo Matos expects us to play, the boys haven't been conditioned pre-season for this style so I would expect to see much of the same for the rest of this season... Very positive starts with tired edd kicking in after 65 minutes resulting in more mistakes happening and the overall pace slowing down.
That's where the subs will become crucial, and he got that right today to see the game out.
Be interesting to see what Matos does in January, I'd like him to bring another RB in to challenge/push Key or maybe it's time to give Parker some more minutes and see what he can do. I think players brought in will be ones with great engines, who can play with the intensity Matos wants for 75-80 minutes (although he may already have one of those in Yalcoure).
Word on Stamenic, I think he's an absolute Gem in midfield, reads the game well, strong in the tackle and in the air and has a wide range of passes that he uses. It's nice to see a deep midfielder trying diagonal balls, balls over the top and traditional through balls. We've not seen that in any other holding midfielders for years and is a pleasure to watch. Yes he passes backwards and sideways too, every player in every position does, that's football, but he also tries a range of other balls too.
Also Galbraith very good and Tymon brilliant yesterday.
No reason we can't be confident of picking up the 3pts on Tuesday. [Post edited 7 Dec 9:45]
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Stamenic has never been “ very poor”
He’s been buggered about
He will be , as I’ve said , our main man and Matos will see this as he has a clean slate
He will also captain our side
He has something about hom
He Galbraith Franco are a good combo
We have to get a right full back as a matter of urgency as EG is too good to be wasted there
This lad is the real deal | |
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