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Reply | Swansea City V Cardiff City match thread
at 20:49 8 Feb 2014
Never said that Cornelius was quality striker. I can easily understand those that think he was both overrated and in over his head. Just liked the irony...
Nationalistic garbage? Surely you have no knowledge on how Norwegians/Swedes/Danes like to pic on each other whenever there is a chance...
I agree that "Swansea played today as I felt they would all season".
But saying that ML was only motivated by naked self-interest is just stupid . So is your remark about Danish fans.
By the way. A manager who "grits teeth"? Anyone can do that - and say Monk did that while loosing several games - would that then be a quality? Engaging in a fight during training is apparently also a quality of his...
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Reply | Swansea City V Cardiff City match thread
at 20:12 8 Feb 2014
Here is a thought.
Say ML was behind the team today with a 3-0 win. Who would then be talking about sacking? It was a panic move by HJ.
Thanks to ML the team has so much quality that it can easily do without Monk. He is just picking up the points laying before him. IMO Swansea will easily get 40 points or more this season, no matter if it is ML or Monk who is in control.
ML gave Swansea so much. It was an overreaction to let him go. And yes - he would probably leave this summer - but instead of having to pay him (like now) Swansea could have made good money on him. Sacking him seems like a poor business plan.
Anyway, ML or Monk, it was nice to see Cardiff getting beaten today. For a Dane it is even better, when a Norwegian guy (Ole) looses. Not to mention that Cardiff sold their Danish player (Cornelius) back to FC Copenhagen loosing quite some money on the deal. Cornelius returned the favor by making a hattrick in his first appearance for FC Copenhagen yesterday.
Now Swansea is looking good in 10th position and I would not be surprised if we get another 3 point against Stoke in the next game. First game ended 3-3 which, if I am not mistaken - was quite an unfair result (they equalized in 90+5). |
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Reply | Laudrup speaks via the LMA
at 14:55 6 Feb 2014
In this case however it seems that HJ is the one with the high blood pressure...Bacon is good though..
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Reply | Laudrup speaks via the LMA
at 14:20 6 Feb 2014
To the point. He would have loved to stay and finish the season in style. As far as staying longer - I am not sure. But it could have been a happy ending for both, and instead having to pay him, we could have made good money of him.
Sacking him shows just how much HJ is not able to keep his calm - like peeing in your pants to keep warm. Either way Monk is lucky. If successful he will gain credit although the quality of the squad is by far good enough to manage by them selves. If total failure he can always blame ML.
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Reply | Laudrup speaks via the LMA
at 14:06 6 Feb 2014
I would love to see his defence :)
Defence? That should be easy.
"Our reasons would include, poor results": - Just about the same as last season.
"lack of motivation for the job" - Based on what?
"disappearing to France" - Disappearing? Hardly the case..
"losing the dressing room" — Accusations from players outside the start 11 or just unhappy players. All clubs have those, and they will always make noise…
"training ground fights" — That is not new in the PL - and it was just one fight. Oh — wasn’t Monk involved? Nice manager skills..
"lack of communication" - In what regard? To the press maybe?
Apparently he was sacked by letter. Real classy. Other than that he is being respectful about Swansea — so it could seem that it would be the other way around… [Post edited 6 Feb 2014 14:09]
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Thread | Are we doing so bad that ML needed a sack (last year compared to this year)
at 12:50 5 Feb 2014
Last year was exceptional and in many ways a season much better than we could expect.
Facts: last year we managed to grab 8 point from our games against the top 7:
(Arsenal 3, United 1, City 1, Chelsea 1, Everton 1, Liverpool 1 and Tottenham 0)
If you take those points of the table — we would have ended at 38 point — 2 points away from relegation.
When looking at budgets, players and so on, then any point against top 7 must be considered as a bonus.
This season we have — so far — managed to grab just 1 point (Liverpool) against the top 7 (same teams as last season). Of the 14 games against the top 7 we only have 4 games left (Chelsea (home) and Arsenal, Liverpool and Everton (away)). Still we have managed to gather 24 points (23 if taking away Liverpool).
Is the team performing poorly in terms of getting points on the board? Say it does and it continues to do so. By that rational, it would mean that we should only manage to get the same amount of points that we have gotten so far against the teams we remain to meet (not from top 7): West Bromwich, Norwich, Stoke, Southampton, Aston Villa, Newcastle, Sunderland, Hull, Crystal Palace and Cardiff.
So far we have gotten 16 point in those 10 games, and by adding them to 23, we will end at 39 point (40 when including the 1 point against Liverpool).
Is that a crises? 6 points less than last season? Considering the amount of games played this season (adding up last year by winning the Cup), where we are still in the FA (beating United) and still in the Europa League, and comparing that with the lack of quality entering the squad not to mention the injuries among key players, one should actually be surprised, that we are not placed lower in the table already.
Face it. Last season started out against teams not in top 7 and after a fantastic start, we settled. Halfway after having met top 7 we were good in the middle of things. Then came more games against teams not in top 7, and we looked good. In fact so good that supporters tend to forget, that we only got 6 points in our last 10 games last season. 6 points in 10 games!
Now it is sort of the other way around. We started out tough with many games against top 7, and now we are at it again (almost done). We have 14 games left and of those, just 4 games against teams in top 7. Some argue that we have gotten too few points over the past 7-8 games. Other than a win against Fulham and a loss to West Ham we have met: Tottenham, United, City, Villa, Chelsea, and Everton (we managed 1 point against Villa). Five teams from top 7 and 0 points. That was to be expected.
With the games ahead there is absolutely no way that we should be afraid of relegation med ML in control. With Monk it might be a different story, however the quality of the team alone should do the trick and keep Swansea in PL. But sacking ML should never have been an issue.
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