| Monk - Coward 17:02 - Jan 17 with 39527 views | _ |
Sat down the whole game hiding and this defending without the ball bollocks needs to stop and now. |  |
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| Monk - Coward on 00:29 - Jan 18 with 2209 views | Joe_bradshaw |
| Monk - Coward on 00:21 - Jan 18 by AngelRangelQS |
I honestly don't know what else we could have done differently. Starting the game 1-0 down with that side against a team like that was always going to be a bloodbath |
Monk asked Gylfi to play a deeper role than normal and he was completely ignored.
Why wasn't Monk giving him hell from the touchline and telling him to follow instructions instead of sitting and watching the calamity unfold? |  |
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| Monk - Coward on 00:32 - Jan 18 with 2194 views | BobJack |
| Monk - Coward on 00:23 - Jan 18 by WarwickHunt |
So - the way to combat a vastly superior midfield is to give them lots of space and time on the ball?
Righto... |
I was waiting for the East to sing " get into them, fcuk them up",
Thats what was needed from Swans players, 1st half especially. Way too much respect shown, just stood off and gave them space they crave. |  |
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| Monk - Coward on 02:38 - Jan 18 with 2142 views | _ |
| Monk - Coward on 00:06 - Jan 18 by NeathJack |
We've just lost at home to the likely champions of the richest league in the world while missing our first 3 first choice centre midfielders and our first choice winger ffs.
What in the name of all that is aethist do people expect from the club?
It's got absolutely bugger all to do with Monk sitting down more than he stood up or "defending without the ball".
It has everything to do with not being able to compete with a side like Chelsea when they are full strength and on top of their game, which they were, and us being under strength and not on our game especially after the setback of a 1st minute goal.
Can people please reset their reality meters to normal as some of these posts are embarrassing. |
Hahaha hahaha hahaha hahaha 
Is this guy for real or what? | |
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| Monk - Coward on 04:08 - Jan 18 with 2114 views | Witneyjack |
| Monk - Coward on 00:06 - Jan 18 by NeathJack |
We've just lost at home to the likely champions of the richest league in the world while missing our first 3 first choice centre midfielders and our first choice winger ffs.
What in the name of all that is aethist do people expect from the club?
It's got absolutely bugger all to do with Monk sitting down more than he stood up or "defending without the ball".
It has everything to do with not being able to compete with a side like Chelsea when they are full strength and on top of their game, which they were, and us being under strength and not on our game especially after the setback of a 1st minute goal.
Can people please reset their reality meters to normal as some of these posts are embarrassing. |
This |  | | |
| Monk - Coward on 04:26 - Jan 18 with 2105 views | budegan |
And this. |  | | |
| Monk - Coward on 05:21 - Jan 18 with 2090 views | ApeShit |
| Monk - Coward on 00:06 - Jan 18 by NeathJack |
We've just lost at home to the likely champions of the richest league in the world while missing our first 3 first choice centre midfielders and our first choice winger ffs.
What in the name of all that is aethist do people expect from the club?
It's got absolutely bugger all to do with Monk sitting down more than he stood up or "defending without the ball".
It has everything to do with not being able to compete with a side like Chelsea when they are full strength and on top of their game, which they were, and us being under strength and not on our game especially after the setback of a 1st minute goal.
Can people please reset their reality meters to normal as some of these posts are embarrassing. |
You don't think the way we sit back and try to defend instead of pressing like we used to has any outcome on the game?
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| Monk - Coward on 09:16 - Jan 18 with 2006 views | marchamjack |
Mourinho said post match that he knew we were beaten pre-match when he saw our team line up (as did I and I'm sure others) and told his players to exploit our weakness in the middle, which they did.
WTF were we supposed to do about that, in the real world, when we literally couldn't compete with their much much better players they had on the pitch?
Anyone on here who's played football at any level will know that sometimes you come up against sides that just have better players than you and however hard you try, you cannot beat them, you cannot compete even against them becuase they are just a much better team. Doesn't make your manager a coward or overnight crp at his job.
Meanwhile, back on planet earth we are tenth in the PL in no realistic danger of going down looking forward nexxt year to our 5th season of PL football.
Fckn terrible |  |
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| Monk - Coward on 09:39 - Jan 18 with 1979 views | MattG |
When I saw the team, any meagre confidence I had disappeared immediately.
I was amazed to see us trying to go 4-4-2 against Chelsea and thought at the time that Fulton should have started rather than Oliveira to match up the numbers in midfield and keep Gylfi in his rightful position. It might not have changed the final result but I'd much rather have seen Fulton subbed off for a more attacking option at 65 or 70 mins with us 1-0 or 2-0 down than to see him subbed on, effectively a defensive change, when we were already 4-0 down.
Having gone 4-4-2, I think Barrow had to start on the bench because, for me, he doesn't have the defensive discipline that would be needed. Tiendalli for Rangel was an odd one but presumably a straight manager's pick.
Did Monk get things wrong? Certainly. However, I do feel that whatever he did would have been little more than damage limitation, particularly after such an early first goal. The fact that he didn't make any changes at half time indicated (to me and the guys I sit with, at least) that he wanted to give the same players the chance to make some amends in the second half for what had happened in the first - a more scientific version of "you f*cked it up - you put it right". An improved showing in the second half suggests that the players must have bought into this mindset to some extent - if they felt he was hanging them out to dry, I would expect to have seen further capitulation.
Did Monk make mistakes? Certainly - it's not the first time and it won't be the last but provided he learns and improves as he did after the Villareal pre-season game, it isn't the end of the world but a coward? Nah, that's just internet posturing at it's finest / worst. |  | | |
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| Monk - Coward on 09:40 - Jan 18 with 1975 views | _ |
| Monk - Coward on 09:16 - Jan 18 by marchamjack |
Mourinho said post match that he knew we were beaten pre-match when he saw our team line up (as did I and I'm sure others) and told his players to exploit our weakness in the middle, which they did.
WTF were we supposed to do about that, in the real world, when we literally couldn't compete with their much much better players they had on the pitch?
Anyone on here who's played football at any level will know that sometimes you come up against sides that just have better players than you and however hard you try, you cannot beat them, you cannot compete even against them becuase they are just a much better team. Doesn't make your manager a coward or overnight crp at his job.
Meanwhile, back on planet earth we are tenth in the PL in no realistic danger of going down looking forward nexxt year to our 5th season of PL football.
Fckn terrible |
Let's not get carried away with the term coward here, it was deliberately used for emotion. It's very true, however that Monk hid away all game, I'm sorry but that was cowardly and he knows it. There was no direction from management and certainly no direction on the pitch itself. Now you'd think Monk who likes to teach his players everything and to get them to play the way he wants them to play, to play like he used to play would've been up and at them pretty much as soon as he saw them crumbling in front of his very eyes....you know like he is every game, in his technical area with instruction.
The sycophants on this site are now just comical. The Swans never have a bad game and Monk can do no wrong. We didn't put one single creative move together yesterday and the performance should never ever be tried to be justified, not in any single shape or form. Regardless of the much superior players Chelsea have our performance was shocking and Monk should be shouldering the whole blame.
This could knock us back tremendously coming after Bony's departure. I know we've got players coming back but we've probably got players that aren't exactly happy either. We've got to deal with the Jon Jo situation, Taylor, keep Gylfi happy now he's lost the guy he linked up so well with and we need a good, solid centre DM and quick.
Lisa asked who my side would've been.
I would've gone with
------------- Fab -----------------
Rangel - Fede - Ash - Taylor
---------Carroll - Fulton ----------
Emnes - Siggy - Routledge .
------------ Gomis ------------- | |
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| Monk - Coward on 09:41 - Jan 18 with 1963 views | Jackfath |
| Monk - Coward on 09:40 - Jan 18 by _ |
Let's not get carried away with the term coward here, it was deliberately used for emotion. It's very true, however that Monk hid away all game, I'm sorry but that was cowardly and he knows it. There was no direction from management and certainly no direction on the pitch itself. Now you'd think Monk who likes to teach his players everything and to get them to play the way he wants them to play, to play like he used to play would've been up and at them pretty much as soon as he saw them crumbling in front of his very eyes....you know like he is every game, in his technical area with instruction.
The sycophants on this site are now just comical. The Swans never have a bad game and Monk can do no wrong. We didn't put one single creative move together yesterday and the performance should never ever be tried to be justified, not in any single shape or form. Regardless of the much superior players Chelsea have our performance was shocking and Monk should be shouldering the whole blame.
This could knock us back tremendously coming after Bony's departure. I know we've got players coming back but we've probably got players that aren't exactly happy either. We've got to deal with the Jon Jo situation, Taylor, keep Gylfi happy now he's lost the guy he linked up so well with and we need a good, solid centre DM and quick.
Lisa asked who my side would've been.
I would've gone with
------------- Fab -----------------
Rangel - Fede - Ash - Taylor
---------Carroll - Fulton ----------
Emnes - Siggy - Routledge .
------------ Gomis ------------- |
Are you prepared to call GM a coward to his face? |  |
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| Monk - Coward on 09:45 - Jan 18 with 1953 views | onetimejack |
Oh look Mathew is trolling already this morning the fukcing weasel. |  |
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| Monk - Coward on 10:07 - Jan 18 with 1917 views | Jackfath |
| Monk - Coward on 09:45 - Jan 18 by onetimejack |
Oh look Mathew is trolling already this morning the fukcing weasel. |
Please keep on topic, there's a good boy. | |
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| Monk - Coward on 10:10 - Jan 18 with 1910 views | Jokeren1943 |
| Monk - Coward on 09:39 - Jan 18 by MattG |
When I saw the team, any meagre confidence I had disappeared immediately.
I was amazed to see us trying to go 4-4-2 against Chelsea and thought at the time that Fulton should have started rather than Oliveira to match up the numbers in midfield and keep Gylfi in his rightful position. It might not have changed the final result but I'd much rather have seen Fulton subbed off for a more attacking option at 65 or 70 mins with us 1-0 or 2-0 down than to see him subbed on, effectively a defensive change, when we were already 4-0 down.
Having gone 4-4-2, I think Barrow had to start on the bench because, for me, he doesn't have the defensive discipline that would be needed. Tiendalli for Rangel was an odd one but presumably a straight manager's pick.
Did Monk get things wrong? Certainly. However, I do feel that whatever he did would have been little more than damage limitation, particularly after such an early first goal. The fact that he didn't make any changes at half time indicated (to me and the guys I sit with, at least) that he wanted to give the same players the chance to make some amends in the second half for what had happened in the first - a more scientific version of "you f*cked it up - you put it right". An improved showing in the second half suggests that the players must have bought into this mindset to some extent - if they felt he was hanging them out to dry, I would expect to have seen further capitulation.
Did Monk make mistakes? Certainly - it's not the first time and it won't be the last but provided he learns and improves as he did after the Villareal pre-season game, it isn't the end of the world but a coward? Nah, that's just internet posturing at it's finest / worst. |
Agere, it was clear before match start, that we would lose the midield battle - thereby lose the war.
And it just show how essential Ki and Shelvey is for the balance on the team - both offensively but also defensively. |  | | |
| Monk - Coward on 10:19 - Jan 18 with 1877 views | Jackfath |
| Monk - Coward on 09:39 - Jan 18 by MattG |
When I saw the team, any meagre confidence I had disappeared immediately.
I was amazed to see us trying to go 4-4-2 against Chelsea and thought at the time that Fulton should have started rather than Oliveira to match up the numbers in midfield and keep Gylfi in his rightful position. It might not have changed the final result but I'd much rather have seen Fulton subbed off for a more attacking option at 65 or 70 mins with us 1-0 or 2-0 down than to see him subbed on, effectively a defensive change, when we were already 4-0 down.
Having gone 4-4-2, I think Barrow had to start on the bench because, for me, he doesn't have the defensive discipline that would be needed. Tiendalli for Rangel was an odd one but presumably a straight manager's pick.
Did Monk get things wrong? Certainly. However, I do feel that whatever he did would have been little more than damage limitation, particularly after such an early first goal. The fact that he didn't make any changes at half time indicated (to me and the guys I sit with, at least) that he wanted to give the same players the chance to make some amends in the second half for what had happened in the first - a more scientific version of "you f*cked it up - you put it right". An improved showing in the second half suggests that the players must have bought into this mindset to some extent - if they felt he was hanging them out to dry, I would expect to have seen further capitulation.
Did Monk make mistakes? Certainly - it's not the first time and it won't be the last but provided he learns and improves as he did after the Villareal pre-season game, it isn't the end of the world but a coward? Nah, that's just internet posturing at it's finest / worst. |
I like this. | |
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| Monk - Coward on 10:19 - Jan 18 with 1881 views | dobjack2 |
Like many when I saw the team I thought that they would murder us.
I didn't understand the line up before the game and I don't understand it now.
We were missing 3 midfielders: ki -away shelvey - self imposed stupidity, leon - injured yet we didn't play 3 in midfield.why?
Fulton should have played otherwise what's the point.
Also leon is getting on and picking up knocks so we cannot rely on him as an ever present, shelveys indiscipline means he is missing games. Instead of 6 midfielders we need one more.
A defensive mf and 2 full backs are a priority. How have we let ourselves get into this position.
I hope that off the field action is not affecting our focus on the playing staff. Similarly I do hope that the bony profit is not going to end up in dividends. | | | |
| Monk - Coward on 10:20 - Jan 18 with 1876 views | perchrockjack |
Looks like we really might have problems.
I m pretty irate and therefore any further comment would be inappropriate. | |
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| Monk - Coward on 10:27 - Jan 18 with 1858 views | monmouth |
| Monk - Coward on 09:40 - Jan 18 by _ |
Let's not get carried away with the term coward here, it was deliberately used for emotion. It's very true, however that Monk hid away all game, I'm sorry but that was cowardly and he knows it. There was no direction from management and certainly no direction on the pitch itself. Now you'd think Monk who likes to teach his players everything and to get them to play the way he wants them to play, to play like he used to play would've been up and at them pretty much as soon as he saw them crumbling in front of his very eyes....you know like he is every game, in his technical area with instruction.
The sycophants on this site are now just comical. The Swans never have a bad game and Monk can do no wrong. We didn't put one single creative move together yesterday and the performance should never ever be tried to be justified, not in any single shape or form. Regardless of the much superior players Chelsea have our performance was shocking and Monk should be shouldering the whole blame.
This could knock us back tremendously coming after Bony's departure. I know we've got players coming back but we've probably got players that aren't exactly happy either. We've got to deal with the Jon Jo situation, Taylor, keep Gylfi happy now he's lost the guy he linked up so well with and we need a good, solid centre DM and quick.
Lisa asked who my side would've been.
I would've gone with
------------- Fab -----------------
Rangel - Fede - Ash - Taylor
---------Carroll - Fulton ----------
Emnes - Siggy - Routledge .
------------ Gomis ------------- |
That was the side I was expecting (with Leon for Fulton as I didn't realise he was injured). I was astonished to see what we went for. Son of Villareal. Now Even Scarier.
Apart from Tremmel, that was a league cup trial side for earlier in the season out there. Against Chelsea.
I expect Monk - and the players - to come out fighting against Southampton (I've kind of lost a bit of interest in Blackburn at the moment). |  |
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| Monk - Coward on 10:34 - Jan 18 with 1842 views | perchrockjack |
In the context of the season as a whole, next game at Blackburn is huge as it will show much about what fire we have.
It's a chance foe those out of form and confidence to front up before soon.
This result could either be a blessing in disguise or a litmus test as to wherecwe really are.
I feel pretty much shattered right now.
Over to you garry | |
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| Monk - Coward on 10:37 - Jan 18 with 1838 views | _ |
| Monk - Coward on 10:19 - Jan 18 by dobjack2 |
Like many when I saw the team I thought that they would murder us.
I didn't understand the line up before the game and I don't understand it now.
We were missing 3 midfielders: ki -away shelvey - self imposed stupidity, leon - injured yet we didn't play 3 in midfield.why?
Fulton should have played otherwise what's the point.
Also leon is getting on and picking up knocks so we cannot rely on him as an ever present, shelveys indiscipline means he is missing games. Instead of 6 midfielders we need one more.
A defensive mf and 2 full backs are a priority. How have we let ourselves get into this position.
I hope that off the field action is not affecting our focus on the playing staff. Similarly I do hope that the bony profit is not going to end up in dividends. |
I keep hearing from many we are skint and the Bony money is again going on infrastructure. I keep hearing about a wage bill that has restricted our movement in the market place and I keep hearing we're not going to make any decent signings in this window.
i hope the Directors do well by us. I also hope they don't gain personally from more dividends and winning contracts from improving our infrastructure.
We need to re-invest the majority of the Bony money and we need to get our asses together and get scouting the many, many leagues in the world. There was talk of an Eastern Europeanyoungster from Anderlecht recently....well why can't we be the club that's finding these gems, not picking them up second hand when they're already £10m plus by then.
There's a Bony pre Vitesse out there right now. Let's get on it. | |
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| Monk - Coward on 10:38 - Jan 18 with 1834 views | MattG |
| Monk - Coward on 10:07 - Jan 18 by Jackfath |
Please keep on topic, there's a good boy. |
I'm still trying to work out why he's got an issue with me.
Even tried to derail a thread I started in the Tickets forum last week about Park & Ride options.
Baffling. | | | |
| Monk - Coward on 10:39 - Jan 18 with 1832 views | lifelong |
| Monk - Coward on 10:34 - Jan 18 by perchrockjack |
In the context of the season as a whole, next game at Blackburn is huge as it will show much about what fire we have.
It's a chance foe those out of form and confidence to front up before soon.
This result could either be a blessing in disguise or a litmus test as to wherecwe really are.
I feel pretty much shattered right now.
Over to you garry |
Our next home league game is far more important than the FA cup game. |  | | |
| Monk - Coward on 10:40 - Jan 18 with 1826 views | monmouth |
Yes on reflection, the Blackburn game is probably vital to confidence. Whatever team we put out, losing to a championship mob would not be helpful. I'm focused on Soton because I want to see us balls out proving we can compete with a very good side, and a very good manager. | |
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| Monk - Coward on 10:40 - Jan 18 with 1826 views | _ |
You're not much of a poster at the best of times but lately you've excelled yourself. | |
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| Monk - Coward on 10:40 - Jan 18 with 1824 views | budegan |
Is it possible that Fulton wasn't picked as being at the wrong end of a stuffing would be no good for his confidence and do him far more harm than good?
Also whether done for effect or not, calling GM a coward is out of order and I'm confident that the OP wouldn't dream of saying it to his face. | | | |
| Monk - Coward on 10:40 - Jan 18 with 1824 views | taff999555 |
Absolutely spot on. Monk tactically inept. Sat down through the entire game as he didn't have a clue how to change things. Had no answers whatsoever. No standing in the technical area encouraging his players, just sat back and let his team get rolled over. Disgusting. | | | |
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