Swansea match thread

[cruzFOX]

Wow we were a really good team under Enzo in the championship. That team would have been 3-0 by now. Yes they played a lot of passes but when they surged forward things would happed. Miss the engine and drive of KDH. Miss Vardy too. Daka just runs around - for a striker he’s a really oddball player.

[Fox85]

1 minute ago, CrispinLA in Texas said:

Daka's so embarrassing. We really aren't the team for him, heard all his goals for his previous team were tap-ins aswell 

In fairness we look better with him in the side than out of the side.

[cruzFOX]

James is saving us with his goals in these games 

[Vowels]

Oh and where does scampi fit in? Is that just mushed up prawn in breadcrumbs? Or batter? Or is scampi an actual creature?

 

 

[Fox85]

1 minute ago, Brooksy said:

Why are we sitting on the 1-0? So frustrating 

I dont think we are sitting on it i think we are defending for our lives currently 

[WigstonWanderer]

So far so good 

[Xen]

1 minute ago, cruzFOX said:

Wow we were a really good team under Enzo in the championship. That team would have been 3-0 by now. Yes they played a lot of passes but when they surged forward things would happed. Miss the engine and drive of KDH. Miss Vardy too. Daka just runs around - for a striker he’s a really oddball player.

The same team that lost 11 games that season and came worryingly close to blowing automatics?

[Filbert Fireworks]

With the blue steel wall of Vesty and Faes probably best to defend the lead now. Ideally bring James off and bring skippy on to hold the line................ What could possibly go wrong? 

 

Edited 4 October 2025 by Filbert Fireworks

[5waller5]

Look like we’ve responded to Marty’s criticism

[5waller5]

We also look like we’ve been using our set piece coach! 

[LinekersLugs]

4 minutes ago, cruzFOX said:

Wow we were a really good team under Enzo in the championship. That team would have been 3-0 by now. Yes they played a lot of passes but when they surged forward things would happed. Miss the engine and drive of KDH. Miss Vardy too. Daka just runs around - for a striker he’s a really oddball player.

But this team is a shadow of that team 

 

let’s compare apples with apples here 

[cruzFOX]

Just now, Xen said:

The same team that lost 11 games that season and came worryingly close to blowing automatics?

Oh yeh I forgot about that lol. I meant before that slow down. Maybe fatigue or complacency creeped in but the 1st half of that season they were good. Much better than what we’re watching now.

[Sunbury Fox]

Some nice combinations and a great goal but we just don't seem to control games like we did last time in the Champo. 

[Paninistickers]

3 minutes ago, Fox85 said:

I dont think we are sitting on it i think we are defending for our lives currently 

And doing so rather well. We need to introduce a threat on the break which I think suits us

[Brooksy]

NUGEEE

[Pliskin]

I yearn for a game where we score 3 goals!

[JimJams]

7 minutes ago, South Shire Fox said:

Hanging on here. Wingers have been dreadful. Id take Monga off at half time, spent most the game on his arse. Must realise after the second dive that he isnt going to get a free kick so why carry on? 

Then surely as manager, you'd just tell him to cut it out and give him a bit of direction rather than subbing off one of our more talented players for... who exactly?

[steveb]

Chill people, we are winning.

Afew lazy players out there today need a kick up the arse at half time and if they wake up we should romp it (i know i just read what i wrote, but you gotta have faith)

[Dan]

I will slaughter 90% of what we do but James is the best signing we've made probably since Fatawu.

[enmac]

31 minutes ago, 80footgiraffe said:

Fawa has conked out - any links?

Still working for me. Refresh? 

[funkyrobot]

6 minutes ago, cruzFOX said:

Oh yeh I forgot about that lol. I meant before that slow down. Maybe fatigue or complacency creeped in but the 1st half of that season they were good. Much better than what we’re watching now.

We had a better squad than we do now is the reason we were better!!

[jimsmallman]

If anyone has a link so I can watch the second half over here in sunny Italy I would be most grateful. 

[Mike the Metal Ed]

Foxes TV trying desperately to bring us the commentary.

Could they not?

[Jon the Hat]

Just now, funkyrobot said:

We had a better squad than we do now is the reason we were better!!

And a better manager on the evidence so far.

[inckley fox]

1 minute ago, Xen said:

The same team that lost 11 games that season and came worryingly close to blowing automatics?

Despite having Mads, Vardy, Dewsbury-Hall and Ndidi among their number. And possibly breaking PSR limits (and, therefore, cheating).

 

It was by no means an extraordinary achievement to stumble over the finish line with the most expensive second tier side in history. If we carry on telling ourselves that everything was wonderful under Enzo, and that's the way forward, then not only are we giving undue credit to the club, and making unfair comparisons with Cifuentes (who has a far harder task) but we're also kidding ourselves about where we should go from here on in.

 

Enzo achieved exactly what he was tasked with achieving, and should have achieved. Well done to him - because plenty of managers have failed to deliver the absolutely deliverable. But we shouldn't go thinking that, for just one beautiful year, the club got everything spot on, nor that it was an unequivocal success.