30 Aug 2015 18:14:34
I just want to deeply thank Swansea, it is the thrid time in the last year or so they made my weekend sweet (or in the case of this specific weekend just slightly slightly less bitter). I wish I could say something similar about my own club over that period.
Can I ask for one last favour Swans? To take your old manager back? I am sure you can find him a job, in the Academy or something.
And by the way to all those who will now say well see United, see Chelsea, other big teams are struggling, I am sorry but no. It is different. Our problems our much deep and unfixable. With decent referees we should had now 3 points. That would have put us one place above relegation. And rightly so.
30 Aug 2015 22:23:12
Tbf, the Chelsea and Man U results have me even more annoyed about our non-performance in the West Ham game.
I can see United struggling because van Gaal is too clever for his own good and their second choice striker is Marouane Fellani, but not Chelsea. They'll probably get it together fairly quickly after the international break. But either way, it's too early to tell if it's going to be like last year where we should've walked into the top 4 because only one team was consistently good. So we really need to make the early poor form of our rivals count. But we didn't this weekend.
31 Aug 2015 03:35:49
I thank Swansea for showing BR and his acolytes how a real coach sets his team out to play, compete, have a set idea of what to do, have a plan and how a manager can change a game by making timely substitutions as well as changing the system to cause the opposing team problems. Gary Monk showed that football is a simple game that only incompetent managers are able to complicate. It's not about money alone. It's about knowing your job, how yo get the best out of the squad you built, having a system that suits them and playing to their strengths. Only incompetent managers have issues with these and at least for now, said managers reside at Liverpool and Utd
31 Aug 2015 05:10:46
with good referees we wouldn't even have 3
31 Aug 2015 08:23:53
Swansea have a good set up which the manager has little impact on.
Huw Jenkins is pulling the strings there. They sell players for high fees and replace them with cheaper players who can play in the same system. Bony - Gomis is an example but other high fee players sold include Allen and Siggurdson.
31 Aug 2015 09:01:21
Ron, you don't know what you are talking about with regards to the set up at Swansea. You say that the manager doesn't have much input, but who do you think picks the team, decides the tactics and the formation they play. They sell players when other teams offer ridiculous money for them and then go and get players that are just as good or better for next to nothing.Why can't the other teams in the prem see the ability these players have? We will get nil points when we visit the Liberty or when they visit Anfield
31 Aug 2015 10:52:50
Probably because the top teams fans demand so called big name players instead of hungry ones who want to prove themselves
31 Aug 2015 11:23:30
Thanks Ron. That has cheered me up after the weekend's debacle. How the f do you know that's how things are done at Swansea? It wasn't long ago you were here denigrating other posters for apparently "assuming" the way things were done at LFC and by Rodgers.
Looks like Ron's 2nd best buddy Red since 64 has turned sides. Just you and muscatred now Ron.
31 Aug 2015 13:43:27
AG how can you say I have changed sides when I didn't mention BR once in my post. All I did was to explain the way the manager of Swansea is involved with the team. You seem to be obsessed with BR so that you see things in other people's posts that are not there
31 Aug 2015 14:09:23
Just like you Red since 64. I mentioned BR to Ron in a different context in the same post. How do you know which "sides" I was talking about? You assumed it was the for and against BR sides as you too seemingly are obsessed with Rodgers.
31 Aug 2015 16:05:06
I don`t even need to respond to Ron and his pathetic and dare I say, fantasies about how Swansea and the manager pick the team, he tactics or run their team on the pitch or off it. Red 64 did that for me. Ron, you have been shown up for the upteenth time to be a BR no-hoper. Your post is nothing but fabricated nonsense because we all know that you have no idea how things are done at Swansea BUT you are shameless enuff to make up tripe in a bid to defend BR. Tell us oh wise one, does Huw Jenkins pick the team, the tactics or who gets signed as well? Bravo to Red 64 for doing the right thing and calling you out on you baseless drivel.