| Next manager who do we want? 15:40 - Nov 11 with 9927 views | RhonddaSwans |
I am starting this thread with an obvious candidate.
Brendan Rodgers would be a dream A return to a real footballing identity.
As his assistant or under 21s boss I would take BBM from Cardiff just to show how superior we are as a club.
Other candidates that I wouldn’t mind
Mr Carrick awesome footballing mind has worked at this level could be a good punt.
I just hope this is done by Sunday to give the new boss time to start bedding his ideas in.
Thank you Swans owners for giving us our club back.
On the weekend was one of the first games in a number of years that I wasn’t looking forward to the game that we had lost before kicking a ball.
Now Alan has gone perhaps we can now get a leader whose voice isn’t like taking a full packet of Valium.
He had clearly lost the dressing room.
This season the only game that really stands out was the forest one .
Onwards and upwards anyways names and curveballs in the thread also will be sticking the next manger odds on this thread periodically.
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| Next manager who do we want? on 22:03 - Nov 13 with 1661 views | RhonddaSwans |
| Next manager who do we want? on 13:03 - Nov 13 by jack247 |
Can’t really agree with that first sentence. Rangel, Dyer, Williams, Bodde, DeVries, even players who don’t get the credit they deserve like Gower, Bessone and Bauza all came in and flourished under Martinez. Most of them for next to nothing.
Rodgers’ football was comparable. Sousas was effective in a Steve Cooper way. Before Martinez, we had a workmanlike team relying on Trundle and one or two others to produce a bit of magic.
Yes, he stabbed us when he left and I had a grudge against him for a while too, but I’m judging him as a manager, not as a man. |
Martinez made us a modern club we were like Newport are now in size really playing at the vetch.
Flirting with going out of the football leagues.
Our Spanish revolution was our catalyst.
Angel Rangel most valuable signing ever, value for money wise.
But we also can’t forget trundle or big Leon .
God we were unplayable on our day when we were on the rise .
If they scored 4 we would score 5.
Roberto will never be forgotten time is a healer and he gave us all some of the best times ever with his foundations.
Taking J Gomes was the one that pissed me off the most tbh. | |
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| Next manager who do we want? on 22:16 - Nov 13 with 1627 views | KeithHaynes |
| Next manager who do we want? on 22:03 - Nov 13 by RhonddaSwans |
Martinez made us a modern club we were like Newport are now in size really playing at the vetch.
Flirting with going out of the football leagues.
Our Spanish revolution was our catalyst.
Angel Rangel most valuable signing ever, value for money wise.
But we also can’t forget trundle or big Leon .
God we were unplayable on our day when we were on the rise .
If they scored 4 we would score 5.
Roberto will never be forgotten time is a healer and he gave us all some of the best times ever with his foundations.
Taking J Gomes was the one that pissed me off the most tbh. |
Probably a few years passed after 2001 and Martinez turning up 😉 |  |
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| Next manager who do we want? on 07:22 - Nov 14 with 1497 views | Dr_Winston |
| Next manager who do we want? on 22:16 - Nov 13 by KeithHaynes |
Probably a few years passed after 2001 and Martinez turning up 😉 |
Innit.
This desire to credit Martinez with everything about our rise up the tables has always been a bit odd. Anyone with any sense knows full well that the first person to instil a serious bit of professionalism on the footballing side was Kenny Jackett.
When KJ got the job the players were mid table league two and dropping, unfit and focused only on their next night down Wind Street. When he left we were knocking on the door of the Championship.
Martinez certainly deserves credit for instilling a style of play that was both pleasing and successful, but didn't move the dial an awful lot in terms of our league placing. From top end L1 to mid table Championship.
There were a number of people who were due credit for our rise up the leagues overall. Putting all the credit for that at the feet of one manager who wasn't here that long and did his best to tear it down on the way out is pure fantasy. |  |
| 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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| Next manager who do we want? on 07:55 - Nov 14 with 1441 views | Whiterockin |
| Next manager who do we want? on 07:22 - Nov 14 by Dr_Winston |
Innit.
This desire to credit Martinez with everything about our rise up the tables has always been a bit odd. Anyone with any sense knows full well that the first person to instil a serious bit of professionalism on the footballing side was Kenny Jackett.
When KJ got the job the players were mid table league two and dropping, unfit and focused only on their next night down Wind Street. When he left we were knocking on the door of the Championship.
Martinez certainly deserves credit for instilling a style of play that was both pleasing and successful, but didn't move the dial an awful lot in terms of our league placing. From top end L1 to mid table Championship.
There were a number of people who were due credit for our rise up the leagues overall. Putting all the credit for that at the feet of one manager who wasn't here that long and did his best to tear it down on the way out is pure fantasy. |
Some posters need to learn our history before posting about it. Some managers although not necessarily popular did the hard miles and some took the glory. |  | | |
| Next manager who do we want? on 07:58 - Nov 14 with 1443 views | Dr_Winston |
| Next manager who do we want? on 07:55 - Nov 14 by Whiterockin |
Some posters need to learn our history before posting about it. Some managers although not necessarily popular did the hard miles and some took the glory. |
Spot on.
I'd even credit Sousa with just as much as Martinez for our ultimate success. To take over a side that could easily have gone into a tailspin and not only stabilise it, but actually improve on the league finish was damned good work. Rodgers certainly benefitted from the defensive work that he did. | |
| 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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| Next manager who do we want? on 08:00 - Nov 14 with 1427 views | Whiterockin |
| Next manager who do we want? on 07:58 - Nov 14 by Dr_Winston |
Spot on.
I'd even credit Sousa with just as much as Martinez for our ultimate success. To take over a side that could easily have gone into a tailspin and not only stabilise it, but actually improve on the league finish was damned good work. Rodgers certainly benefitted from the defensive work that he did. |
The change of ground also had a massive impact and accelerated our growth. | | | |
| Next manager who do we want? on 08:13 - Nov 14 with 1394 views | Dr_Winston |
| Next manager who do we want? on 08:00 - Nov 14 by Whiterockin |
The change of ground also had a massive impact and accelerated our growth. |
Might not have had the same impact if we hadn't been promoted into it as well. KJ delivered that promotion when some people were calling for him to be sacked because we weren't top of the table. | |
| 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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| Next manager who do we want? on 09:15 - Nov 14 with 1312 views | PawelAbbott |
I always think Flymn did a fantastic job. Not just avoiding relegation, but the 2003/4 season team has to be one of the most entertaining teams we have ever had.
We had decent crowds at the end of the previous season as survival was exciting. They could have drifted away again, but that team was so entertaining to watch the crowds stayed and we received nationwide coverage on Soccer AM | | | |
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| Next manager who do we want? on 09:20 - Nov 14 with 1301 views | Dr_Winston |
| Next manager who do we want? on 09:15 - Nov 14 by PawelAbbott |
I always think Flymn did a fantastic job. Not just avoiding relegation, but the 2003/4 season team has to be one of the most entertaining teams we have ever had.
We had decent crowds at the end of the previous season as survival was exciting. They could have drifted away again, but that team was so entertaining to watch the crowds stayed and we received nationwide coverage on Soccer AM |
About the first ten games of the 03/04 season were entertaining. After them we were mostly shite and spiralling back down the table.
Flynn was a lazy prat who had to be forced to play his strongest team at the end of the proceeding season and couldn't be bothered to turn up for work more than three or four days a week in his second. | |
| 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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| Next manager who do we want? on 09:43 - Nov 14 with 1225 views | Whiterockin |
| Next manager who do we want? on 09:15 - Nov 14 by PawelAbbott |
I always think Flymn did a fantastic job. Not just avoiding relegation, but the 2003/4 season team has to be one of the most entertaining teams we have ever had.
We had decent crowds at the end of the previous season as survival was exciting. They could have drifted away again, but that team was so entertaining to watch the crowds stayed and we received nationwide coverage on Soccer AM |
Trundle joined us in the summer of 2003 ans was the sole reason we were featured on Soccer AM. There was also the Helen Chamberlain link.  | | | |
| Next manager who do we want? on 09:58 - Nov 14 with 1184 views | jack247 |
If people want to slate Martinez for the way he left the club, then count me in. Devious rat.
If we want to look at it objectively and separate that from the job we did when he was here, then giving Jackett and Sousa equal credit for our rise from a bog standard league one/two club is perplexing.
We’re talking about brining in the players I mentioned above, some of who would become PL regulars and implementing a style of play that whether people like it or not, we were synonymous with during our best period in the last 40 years.
Making professional footballers act professionally after Flynn didn’t and tightening us up at the back because Martinez had taken the goal scorer he brought in on a free are both commendable and both played a part, but it’s not exactly the same magnitude.
By all means include Kevin Reeves in that. | | | |
| Next manager who do we want? on 10:02 - Nov 14 with 1174 views | PawelAbbott |
| Next manager who do we want? on 09:20 - Nov 14 by Dr_Winston |
About the first ten games of the 03/04 season were entertaining. After them we were mostly shite and spiralling back down the table.
Flynn was a lazy prat who had to be forced to play his strongest team at the end of the proceeding season and couldn't be bothered to turn up for work more than three or four days a week in his second. |
That's still ten games more than the previous 10 years put together. | | | |
| Next manager who do we want? on 10:13 - Nov 14 with 1141 views | Whiterockin |
Gary O'Neil down to 7/1 with oddschecker, if it actually means anything. The only real movement. | | | |
| Next manager who do we want? on 18:40 - Nov 14 with 798 views | RhonddaSwans |
| Next manager who do we want? on 07:55 - Nov 14 by Whiterockin |
Some posters need to learn our history before posting about it. Some managers although not necessarily popular did the hard miles and some took the glory. |
Some posters first manager was actually John Hollins .
I can remember grit and determination but the football become beautiful under roberto.
The new stadium 🏟️ the optimism of being on the up.
Unless you had been around in the 80s it was a new world. Bare in mind the only real success pre going into the top leagues was losing in the fa cup semi final V Preston North End in the 60s ( roughly I am trying to remember off the top of my head.
Mangers come and go ownership groups and the chairman and the board make football clubs. But what makes us so special is the fans who never give up on us no matter what.
Tony petty could have killed our club but for the new generation of Jacks all they know is success and a brilliant team to watch on the pitch.
They have no idea of where we were and I honestly hope we can get back up to the big time.
Martinez brought the Spanish players over and changed the culture of the club.
I can remember reading Roger Freestone talking about a boss who come in and it was a bad training session but the new gaffer thought it was great.
Might have been Jan molby.
Having to sell our best players like stu Roberts to signing 10 million pound players is crazy.
Huw Jenkins and co will always be the best thing that has happened in my lifetime supporting the Swans.
The best history lessons I have got is off you lot here.
Like 1983 and a few other of you older lads taking about the terraces and the true experiences.
Remember if someone is unsure 🧐 throw your opinion into the ring.
There are quite a few lads here that have probably forgotten more than I will ever know about the club.
It’s mad how if Roberto didn’t matter how we can still feel so hurt by him going.
But I do agree with you he does get a bit too much credit.
In the 90s after falling back down the leagues it was the new ownership group in 2000s that really deserve the credit and our trust.
Without the trust we wouldn’t even have a club or be playing in the Welsh leagues. | |
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| Next manager who do we want? on 21:46 - Nov 14 with 628 views | RhonddaSwans |
He gets the club fair play when I was thinking we needed an older head to take over this is way better.
You can feel the passion in his words one day tatey will be back then.
You have to agree with his assessment overall to be fair.
We are all sick of the excuses the football has been awful all season the pre season friendlies should have told us that we had made a massive mistake. | |
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| Next manager who do we want? on 21:50 - Nov 14 with 604 views | RhonddaSwans |
He gets the club fair play when I was thinking we needed an older head to take over this is way better.
You can feel the passion in his words one day tatey will be back then.
You have to agree with his assessment overall to be fair.
We are all sick of the excuses the football has been awful all season the pre season friendlies should have told us that we had made a massive mistake. | |
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