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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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Reply | Naughton
at 20:30 16 May 2024
Naughton is positionally sound, can spot a long ball to put Ronald away and very rarely bombs forward. Ronald doesn’t really need to protect him and can pretty much just play to his own strengths and attack.
Key has much more attacking instinct and would probably suit a more Routledge type winger who will look for his overlapping runs and drop in to cover him defensively.
Having said that, with everyone fit, you have to play Key and Ronald. They were starting to gain an attacking understanding towards the end of the season with Ronald playing Key into great positions a few times. His season was pretty stop start and Naughton is good cover when he’s injured. |
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Reply | Naughton
at 18:04 16 May 2024
He was one of our best players between coming in for Key and getting injured himself.
Won’t start many, but won’t let us down when he comes on or covers injuries. |
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Reply | Naughton
at 17:58 16 May 2024
Saw it on social media. Thought I’d pop on for your meltdown |
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Reply | Naughton
at 17:46 16 May 2024
Cue the histrionics from the usual suspects. |
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Reply | We didn't lose away to all teams below us but only finished 7 points off the dro
at 13:22 12 May 2024
Yes Tymon definitely.
The rest of it is a decent argument for loans.Humphreys didn’t live up to his billing for me, but did a decent job. I’d have a player like that competing with Wood and Darling.
I think we need to buy someone for central midfield unless Abdullai is ready.
I’m sure we’ll sign a marquee striker. Whether we buy two after last summer I don’t know. |
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Reply | We didn't lose away to all teams below us but only finished 7 points off the dro
at 13:04 12 May 2024
Agree with you completely there. Whether it’s loans or permanent signings, we probably don’t have a lot of leeway to get things wrong. Last season was very poor recruitment wise all round. Obviously there were a few bright spots - Rushworth, Key, Ronald..
I’d guess that most teams in the championship are only one great summer away from the playoffs and one disastrous one from a relegation battle. |
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