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Reply | Swansea City : The confusing decision making for a whole season
at 21:07 6 May 2024
Do you honestly think the centre backs splitting to the point they are both close to the touchline and the fullbacks pushing that far forward isn’t exactly what he’s instructed them to do?
Grimes, who is a far better ball carrier and distributer than any of our centre backs, dropping between the centre backs is part of that. |
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Reply | Swansea City : The confusing decision making for a whole season
at 15:48 6 May 2024
Watch him when he’s playing alongside Allen, who demands the ball and makes runs, which either put him in a position for a more constructive pass or draws markers away from other players. Compare that to how he looks when he plays alongside Fulton (or Patino Saturday) who doesn’t.
He’s far more forward thinking and instinctive when he’s got options ahead of him.
Yes, he does nearly always play safe, because as frustrating as it is, it’s better than a 50/50 ball.
The last paragraph - that’s clearly the instructions Gtimes and the two centre backs are given. They split, the fullbacks push on and Grimes drops into the middle. If you think they should be more central, Grimes should be further forward and the fullbacks further back, fair enough but that’s a Williams thing not a Grimes thing. |
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Reply | The Summer Transfer Rumours Thread
at 17:12 5 May 2024
The games we were getting an hour out of him were the games we noticeably dropped off after an hour. Before that, when he was coming on for the last half hour, people were asking ‘why don’t we play like that in the first half’
Could be a disaster if he’s constantly unavailable, but if we can get an hour out of him most games, it’s well worth it. |
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Reply | Swansea City : The confusing decision making for a whole season
at 16:27 5 May 2024
The passing backwards and sideways is more often down to the player receiving than ball, or the player that doesn’t make a run into space that enables the more progressive pass, than the player actually passing it. Not Grimes specific. Applies to anyone in that role.
As Richard says, the more our fullbacks are asked to push up, the further back Grimes sits. He almost always looks better with Allen in the team when he’s got more freedom and a teammate always looking to give him a decent passing option. |
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Reply | Swansea City : Grimes misses a penalty in a return to bad old ways
at 15:22 5 May 2024
Those are separate things. I was never concerned about relegation.
But I agree with you. I haven’t enjoyed this season. We’ve had too many games like yesterday. Huffing and puffing while organised opponents nullify us effectively.
Staying up doesn’t make it an acceptable season.
I do enjoy watching us when teams attack us like Norwich did, but we’re easy to set up against and stifle.
I’m also a bit concerned about this summer. I don’t know what kind of funds are available and if we spend them as badly as we did last year we could be in trouble. |
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Reply | Swansea City v Millwall : Match day thread
at 14:55 5 May 2024
Yes absolutely. If Cullen, or Yates for that matter, is a lone centre forward, he is a practically impossible target from a cross. Odds increase slightly if it’s whipped in low to attack the near post, but still very much unlikely. There is the odd anomaly where the defenders don’t pick him up like Cardiff at home.
You would think we’d at least have Paterson or Cooper or the opposite winger arriving at the edge of the box to make a cutback an option.
Ronald occasionally tries to drive at goal, Govea has done the same in his cameos and the fullbacks do look to overlap them or burst through inside the winger to be played in. We look far more threatening doing this than crossing in for strikers who aren’t going to get on the end of them. |
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Reply | Swansea City : Grimes misses a penalty in a return to bad old ways
at 14:41 5 May 2024
The position was important at the time some people were worried about relegation because there were five or six teams between us and the bottom three and we were running out of games. One or two of the bottom clubs going on a run and overtaking us was feasible. All of them doing it really wasn’t. My posts throughout said the same.
If we play like we have on general since Williams was appointed, we’ll stay up again. That’s a really low bar to set though and I agree the performances aren’t great to watch, particularly at home against teams who come to stifle us.
Happy? No I won’t be. I’m not happy now. There’s a difference between being extremely confident we’d stay up and being happy with either the league table or the performances. |
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Reply | Swansea City v Millwall : Match day thread
at 11:30 5 May 2024
We had two shots on target including a penalty. We tried to attack centrally more in the second half but still had no penetration. I wouldn’t call winning a penalty and otherwise not really threatening a success.
We’ve been on a decent run, but he hasn’t found a way to play without the type of striker his system needs, nor has he adapted the style to suit the players he’s got. |
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Reply | Man City VAR Penalty
at 19:41 4 May 2024
I was all for VAR when it was announced and if implemented the way it was promised, I still would be.
If it takes 15 replays and 4 minutes to make a decision, it’s not a clear and obvious error. Run with the on field decision. |
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Reply | Swansea City v Millwall : Match day thread
at 19:08 4 May 2024
Don’t disagree and there have been plenty of similar games this season. Some we’ve nicked (Rotherham) others that have gone like today.
We’ve got no penetration through the middle and neither Cullen nor Yates are either prolific or an aerial threat. We’re easy for bog standard, organised teams to defend against. Doesn’t really matter how many crosses we get in, they aren’t a threat.
Had the two strikers turned out the way Watson and co must have banked on, we’d be a different proposition. |
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Reply | Swansea City v Millwall : Match day thread
at 18:48 4 May 2024
I think a reliable finisher and a midfielder who could open up teams who park the bus would transform this team. Ironically, a Piroe and an Ntcham would do it.
They knew what we needed a year ago, but misjudged Yates and Kukharevych. Not sure if Ginelly could have done the Ntcham role or even if we banked on selling him.
With no one able to drive at defenders and create spaces or win free kicks, we’re fairly easy for teams like Milwall to defend against. They had no ambition and we barely got a shot on target. Rotherham nearly managed it. |
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Reply | Oba and out
at 18:34 4 May 2024
It was a stick to beat Russell Martin with. Some people will never turn that down. |
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Reply | Loan players helping or hindering the squad?
at 04:15 4 May 2024
That would be a reasonable comment had we spent more than £2m on Sagoe Jr and were likely to spend the summer trying to get his wages off the books. [Post edited 4 May 4:20]
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Reply | Loan players helping or hindering the squad?
at 20:57 3 May 2024
Are we confusing loans with recruitment in general this season? We would’nt have had a thread like this when we had Guehi, Gallagher, Brewster etc in the team.
If we went through all our signings this season, Yates, Kukharevych and Pedersen are all bigger headaches than Ashby, Patino, Sagoe Jr or any of our loan players. Of course, there are successes like Key, Tymon and Rushworth in both camps too.
For me, we should only be signing loan players that improve our starting eleven and we’ve generally failed to do that this season, but that’s more down to poor recruitment and is evident with our permanent signings too. |
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Reply | Ipswich
at 09:47 1 May 2024
Personally I’d rather get rid of the big teams. Doesn’t look likely now, but I’d rather Leeds went up and Southampton won the playoffs. We’d be more likely to finish above Ipswich than either of them next season |
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Reply | A centre forward who does not like heading the ball.
at 19:24 30 Apr 2024
It was different when everyone played 442 and lots of teams had a powerhouse and a finisher up front.
You’re right, he’s definitely better suited to playing off a target man, or even a player like Piroe who worried defenders and opened up space for him.
He’s quite versatile, but I don’t think he has the attributes to play up front on his own. Very difficult without physicality or serious pace. |
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