| Swansea City v Blackburn Rovers : Matchday Thread 22/23 11:38 - Aug 1 with 27241 views | NotLoyal |
It’s the first home game of the EFL season for Swansea City, the next home game will be the second and so on. It was the same last season as well, and it didn’t even get a mention, so this time around let’s pause for a second and have some consideration for consecutive numbering. For counting purposes it’s unrivalled. Oh and by the way, don’t steal my info like you do stories ya belting prunes.
Refs and stuff
STEPHEN MARTIN
Craig Taylor and Lee Venamore
Fourth Official : Ollie Yates
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Swansea City: Andy Fisher; Nathan Wood, Kyle Naughton, Harry Darling; Joel Latibeaudiere, Jay Fulton, Matt Grimes (captain), Ryan Manning; Joel Piroe, Olivier Ntcham, Michael Obafemi.
Substitutes: Steven Benda, Ben Cabango, Jamie Paterson, Matty Sorinola, Ollie Cooper, Cameron Congreve, Liam Cullen.
Blackburn Rovers: Thomas Kaminski, Callum Brittain, Harry Pickering, Daniel Ayala, Sammie Szmodics, Sam Gallagher, Scott Wharton, Ryan Hedges, John Buckley, Ben Brereton Diaz, Lewis Travis (captain).
Substitutes: Aynsley Pears, Tayo Edun, Bradley Dack, Tyler Morton, Jack Vale, Ash Phillips, Tyrhys Dolan.
Referee: Stephen Martin.
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| Swansea City v Blackburn Rovers : Matchday Thread MONDAY update on 22:42 - Aug 2 with 2568 views | Fireboy2 |
| Swansea City v Blackburn Rovers : Matchday Thread MONDAY update on 22:40 - Aug 2 by raynor94 |
Make that any level headed fan who saw his debut |
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| Swansea City v Blackburn Rovers : Matchday Thread MONDAY update on 20:48 - Aug 3 with 2289 views | BryanSwan |
| Swansea City v Blackburn Rovers : Matchday Thread MONDAY update on 22:40 - Aug 2 by raynor94 |
Make that any level headed fan who saw his debut |
Agree with you there, Woods did alright, Darling wasn't too bad either. Sorinola had a bit of a stinker on the other hand.
A Joe Allen debut is all we are missing. |  |
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| Swansea City v Blackburn Rovers : Matchday Thread : WEDS update on 20:55 - Aug 3 with 2266 views | builthjack |
This will be a very hard game. Hopefully 3 points, but not the end of the world if a point. |  |
| Swansea Indepenent Poster Of The Year 2021. Dr P / Mart66 / Roathie / Parlay / E20/ Duffle was 2nd, but he is deluded and thinks in his little twisted brain that he won. Poor sod. We let him win this year, as he has cried for a whole year. His 14 usernames, bless his cotton socks.
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| Swansea City v Blackburn Rovers : Matchday Thread : WEDS update on 22:03 - Aug 3 with 2215 views | Flashberryjack |
| Swansea City v Blackburn Rovers : Matchday Thread : WEDS update on 20:55 - Aug 3 by builthjack |
This will be a very hard game. Hopefully 3 points, but not the end of the world if a point. |
With our fragile defence, anything is possible. |  |
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| Swansea City v Blackburn Rovers : Matchday Thread : WEDS update on 22:33 - Aug 3 with 2185 views | builthjack |
| Swansea City v Blackburn Rovers : Matchday Thread : WEDS update on 22:03 - Aug 3 by Flashberryjack |
With our fragile defence, anything is possible. |
The fact is that since we left the golden land, we have been a selling club. Made a small fortune on transfers. So always going to be tough getting back there. | |
| Swansea Indepenent Poster Of The Year 2021. Dr P / Mart66 / Roathie / Parlay / E20/ Duffle was 2nd, but he is deluded and thinks in his little twisted brain that he won. Poor sod. We let him win this year, as he has cried for a whole year. His 14 usernames, bless his cotton socks.
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| Swansea City v Blackburn Rovers : Matchday Thread : WEDS update on 22:42 - Aug 3 with 2178 views | Whiterockin |
| Swansea City v Blackburn Rovers : Matchday Thread : WEDS update on 22:33 - Aug 3 by builthjack |
The fact is that since we left the golden land, we have been a selling club. Made a small fortune on transfers. So always going to be tough getting back there. |
Being a selling club is keeping us on an even keel. Like us it is hard for most to get to the Premier League but we are unlikely to crash and burn like some "big" clubs. |  |
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| Swansea City v Blackburn Rovers : Matchday Thread : WEDS update on 22:59 - Aug 3 with 2152 views | raynor94 |
| Swansea City v Blackburn Rovers : Matchday Thread : WEDS update on 22:33 - Aug 3 by builthjack |
The fact is that since we left the golden land, we have been a selling club. Made a small fortune on transfers. So always going to be tough getting back there. |
But every club is a selling club, we have to live with the fact that we may have to sell a player every season.
You say a small fortune, but these sums seem to be keeping us on a even keel |  |
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| Swansea City v Blackburn Rovers : Matchday Thread : WEDS update on 23:07 - Aug 3 with 2139 views | KeithHaynes |
| Swansea City v Blackburn Rovers : Matchday Thread : WEDS update on 22:59 - Aug 3 by raynor94 |
But every club is a selling club, we have to live with the fact that we may have to sell a player every season.
You say a small fortune, but these sums seem to be keeping us on a even keel |
Man City sold Sterling. |  |
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| Swansea City v Blackburn Rovers : Matchday Thread : WEDS update on 23:13 - Aug 3 with 2128 views | raynor94 |
| Swansea City v Blackburn Rovers : Matchday Thread : WEDS update on 23:07 - Aug 3 by KeithHaynes |
Man City sold Sterling. |
The list is endless | |
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| Swansea City v Blackburn Rovers : Matchday Thread : WEDS update on 23:15 - Aug 3 with 2123 views | builthjack |
| Swansea City v Blackburn Rovers : Matchday Thread : WEDS update on 22:59 - Aug 3 by raynor94 |
But every club is a selling club, we have to live with the fact that we may have to sell a player every season.
You say a small fortune, but these sums seem to be keeping us on a even keel |
Indeed. The £93.4 million transfer profit we made in the three years following relegation helped us. | |
| Swansea Indepenent Poster Of The Year 2021. Dr P / Mart66 / Roathie / Parlay / E20/ Duffle was 2nd, but he is deluded and thinks in his little twisted brain that he won. Poor sod. We let him win this year, as he has cried for a whole year. His 14 usernames, bless his cotton socks.
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| Swansea City v Blackburn Rovers : Matchday Thread : WEDS update on 23:52 - Aug 3 with 2078 views | Dr_Parnassus |
| Swansea City v Blackburn Rovers : Matchday Thread : WEDS update on 22:42 - Aug 3 by Whiterockin |
Being a selling club is keeping us on an even keel. Like us it is hard for most to get to the Premier League but we are unlikely to crash and burn like some "big" clubs. |
We have been a selling club for the last 25 years.
Being a selling club is what brought our success so it’s strange people think it will hinder it.
The year we got promoted to the Premier League I think we spent about £2m. Maybe not even that.
After 6 years in the Premier League we had sold £100’s of millions worth of talent, Bony, Ayew, Sinclair, Allen, Williams, Davies, Vorm, Hernandez, Llorente, Gylfi, Cork etc etc etc. Our net spend was still at break even. It was only in our 7th year when spending spiralled did we lose our place.
So this notion of being a selling club means you can’t achieve your goals is nonsense. It’s essential to achieving our goals.
Ironically this season we have only sold Downes, that’s less than most of our seasons. Yet people are playing down this season like their life depends on it. We have never been more geared up and more prepared to attack a season from the start than this one. |  |
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| Swansea City v Blackburn Rovers : Matchday Thread : WEDS update on 00:16 - Aug 4 with 2088 views | KeithHaynes |
| Swansea City v Blackburn Rovers : Matchday Thread : WEDS update on 23:52 - Aug 3 by Dr_Parnassus |
We have been a selling club for the last 25 years.
Being a selling club is what brought our success so it’s strange people think it will hinder it.
The year we got promoted to the Premier League I think we spent about £2m. Maybe not even that.
After 6 years in the Premier League we had sold £100’s of millions worth of talent, Bony, Ayew, Sinclair, Allen, Williams, Davies, Vorm, Hernandez, Llorente, Gylfi, Cork etc etc etc. Our net spend was still at break even. It was only in our 7th year when spending spiralled did we lose our place.
So this notion of being a selling club means you can’t achieve your goals is nonsense. It’s essential to achieving our goals.
Ironically this season we have only sold Downes, that’s less than most of our seasons. Yet people are playing down this season like their life depends on it. We have never been more geared up and more prepared to attack a season from the start than this one. |
Trying to live the dream gets harder every year mate.
As for this season, if it wasn’t for Obafemi’s lack of concentration we would be three points up 👠| |
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| Swansea City v Blackburn Rovers : Matchday Thread : WEDS update on 02:35 - Aug 4 with 2030 views | Dr_Parnassus |
| Swansea City v Blackburn Rovers : Matchday Thread : WEDS update on 00:16 - Aug 4 by KeithHaynes |
Trying to live the dream gets harder every year mate.
As for this season, if it wasn’t for Obafemi’s lack of concentration we would be three points up 👠|
Does it though?
It gets harder in the Premier League as costs spiral and as a club with 20,000 stadium in the back of beyond its hard to keep up with everyone around us, small fish fighting to stay relevant. Not our natural position in football and probably never will.
At this level we should be stronger as time goes on, not weaker. As time goes on there should be less disruption to the squad, planning should be easier and we have the freedom of operating on an even keel with a budget that will pretty much always eclipse more than half this league.
Just look at squad disruption numbers per season after relegation, I’m not counting players like Kieron Freeman who were never really involved:
Year 1: 7 out (not including loans)
Year 2: 6 out (not including loans)
Year 3: 5 out (not including loans)
Year 4: 5 out (not including loans)
Year 5: 2 out (not including loans)
Squad is more settled now than it’s been in a long time with less player disruption we have had since relegation - and it’s oozing with quality.
We also have a trend of getting stronger in this league with time:
2008-09 - 8th
2009-10 - 7th
2010-11- 4th
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2018-19 - 10th
2019-20 - 6th
2020-21 - 4th
(2021-22 - Russ - 15th)
Every championship stint we have had, we have got stronger with each season and that has been the case with increasing and decreasing budgets from the season before.
That trend stopped with Russell Martin.
As for Saturday, that’s football I guess. They could have also finished their chances. Fisher was forced into some excellent saves and was put to work far more than the Rotherham keeper.
Draw seemed a fair result. Which is a minimally acceptable result really, bottom of the league fodder away from home. Not a disaster but not good either.
We need to bounce back and take a win here first home game of the season. We have written off a season for these specific moments. [Post edited 4 Aug 2022 2:50]
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| Swansea City v Blackburn Rovers : Matchday Thread : WEDS update on 07:06 - Aug 4 with 1998 views | Whiterockin |
| Swansea City v Blackburn Rovers : Matchday Thread : WEDS update on 00:16 - Aug 4 by KeithHaynes |
Trying to live the dream gets harder every year mate.
As for this season, if it wasn’t for Obafemi’s lack of concentration we would be three points up 👠|
I reckon we would have two points more, but my maths were never good. | |
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| Swansea City v Blackburn Rovers : Matchday Thread : THURS update on 08:19 - Aug 4 with 1919 views | felixstowe_jack |
Last weekend's attendance at football league matched was 449,870 the highest for 13 years on the opening weekend.
The championship is third most watched league in Europe behind the PL and Bundesliga.
Average attendances
Championship 18,341 up 13% on last year
League one 12,407 up 11%
League Two 6,742 up 53% | |
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| Swansea City v Blackburn Rovers : Matchday Thread : WEDS update on 13:07 - Aug 4 with 1785 views | vetchonian |
| Swansea City v Blackburn Rovers : Matchday Thread : WEDS update on 22:33 - Aug 3 by builthjack |
The fact is that since we left the golden land, we have been a selling club. Made a small fortune on transfers. So always going to be tough getting back there. |
We were a selling club before then after our first season in the championship under Martinez we sold our manager and his back room staff including scouting sold our top scorer in Jason Scotland and lost the midfield marvel that was Jordi Lopez the next season we finished 9th in the league that season the following season we finished 8th
At the end of the 2011/12 season we sold our Manager along with promising midfielder Joe Allen to Liverpool as well as Scott Sinclair a key goalscorer sold to Mancity the next season we won our first major trophy | |
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| Swansea City v Blackburn Rovers : Matchday Thread : WEDS update on 14:08 - Aug 4 with 1744 views | 3swan |
| Swansea City v Blackburn Rovers : Matchday Thread : WEDS update on 02:35 - Aug 4 by Dr_Parnassus |
Does it though?
It gets harder in the Premier League as costs spiral and as a club with 20,000 stadium in the back of beyond its hard to keep up with everyone around us, small fish fighting to stay relevant. Not our natural position in football and probably never will.
At this level we should be stronger as time goes on, not weaker. As time goes on there should be less disruption to the squad, planning should be easier and we have the freedom of operating on an even keel with a budget that will pretty much always eclipse more than half this league.
Just look at squad disruption numbers per season after relegation, I’m not counting players like Kieron Freeman who were never really involved:
Year 1: 7 out (not including loans)
Year 2: 6 out (not including loans)
Year 3: 5 out (not including loans)
Year 4: 5 out (not including loans)
Year 5: 2 out (not including loans)
Squad is more settled now than it’s been in a long time with less player disruption we have had since relegation - and it’s oozing with quality.
We also have a trend of getting stronger in this league with time:
2008-09 - 8th
2009-10 - 7th
2010-11- 4th
……………………..
2018-19 - 10th
2019-20 - 6th
2020-21 - 4th
(2021-22 - Russ - 15th)
Every championship stint we have had, we have got stronger with each season and that has been the case with increasing and decreasing budgets from the season before.
That trend stopped with Russell Martin.
As for Saturday, that’s football I guess. They could have also finished their chances. Fisher was forced into some excellent saves and was put to work far more than the Rotherham keeper.
Draw seemed a fair result. Which is a minimally acceptable result really, bottom of the league fodder away from home. Not a disaster but not good either.
We need to bounce back and take a win here first home game of the season. We have written off a season for these specific moments. [Post edited 4 Aug 2022 2:50]
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Year 5 only 2 out ???
From the squad haven't we had Hamer, Smith, Dhanda and Downes | | | |
| Swansea City v Blackburn Rovers : Matchday Thread : THURS update on 15:00 - Aug 4 with 1686 views | Thrasher6 |
| Swansea City v Blackburn Rovers : Matchday Thread : THURS update on 08:19 - Aug 4 by felixstowe_jack |
Last weekend's attendance at football league matched was 449,870 the highest for 13 years on the opening weekend.
The championship is third most watched league in Europe behind the PL and Bundesliga.
Average attendances
Championship 18,341 up 13% on last year
League one 12,407 up 11%
League Two 6,742 up 53% |
42,000 at Sunderland will have helped that figure....but it's still good to see |  |
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| Swansea City v Blackburn Rovers : Matchday Thread : THURS update on 17:33 - Aug 4 with 1577 views | STID2017 |
Looking forward to Saturday.
3-2 Swansea.
Obafemi two, Piroe one |  |
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| Swansea City v Blackburn Rovers : Matchday Thread : WEDS update on 18:06 - Aug 4 with 1547 views | guthrieintherain |
| Swansea City v Blackburn Rovers : Matchday Thread : WEDS update on 07:06 - Aug 4 by Whiterockin |
I reckon we would have two points more, but my maths were never good. |
Could have had one point less if it were not for a fine display from Fisher. | |
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| Swansea City v Blackburn Rovers : Matchday Thread : THURS update on 20:50 - Aug 4 with 1443 views | Catullus |
Every club is a selling club.
One match does not decide if a player is atrocious or brilliant.
We want Allen in but only if he's fit.
I haven't seen anyone defend Sorinola. The wing back thing will continue to be a problem for us, in my opinion.
People are saying a draw is Ok, I disagree, I want a win BUT if it is a draw it depends on the performance. A dour draw with loads of pointless possession won't cut it. | |
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| Swansea City v Blackburn Rovers : Matchday Thread : THURS update on 21:17 - Aug 4 with 1421 views | vetchonian |
| Swansea City v Blackburn Rovers : Matchday Thread : THURS update on 20:50 - Aug 4 by Catullus |
Every club is a selling club.
One match does not decide if a player is atrocious or brilliant.
We want Allen in but only if he's fit.
I haven't seen anyone defend Sorinola. The wing back thing will continue to be a problem for us, in my opinion.
People are saying a draw is Ok, I disagree, I want a win BUT if it is a draw it depends on the performance. A dour draw with loads of pointless possession won't cut it. |
c'mon Cat you need to get with the process...we cant expect to win we were crap in the 90s so dont have expectations | |
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| Swansea City v Blackburn Rovers : Matchday Thread : THURS update on 21:58 - Aug 4 with 1385 views | Fireboy2 |
| Swansea City v Blackburn Rovers : Matchday Thread : THURS update on 20:50 - Aug 4 by Catullus |
Every club is a selling club.
One match does not decide if a player is atrocious or brilliant.
We want Allen in but only if he's fit.
I haven't seen anyone defend Sorinola. The wing back thing will continue to be a problem for us, in my opinion.
People are saying a draw is Ok, I disagree, I want a win BUT if it is a draw it depends on the performance. A dour draw with loads of pointless possession won't cut it. |
I've said that sorinola had a decent game, he cut back inside alot on Saturday because he's right footed and is playing the left only because we don't have a left footed wing back, if we do get a left footed wingback that RM wants then sorinola will be put on the right. | | | |
| Swansea City v Blackburn Rovers : Matchday Thread : THURS update on 22:24 - Aug 4 with 1364 views | felixstowe_jack |
How many fans are Blackburn bringing? | |
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| Swansea City v Blackburn Rovers : Matchday Thread : THURS update on 22:41 - Aug 4 with 1339 views | magicdaps10 |
| Swansea City v Blackburn Rovers : Matchday Thread : THURS update on 21:58 - Aug 4 by Fireboy2 |
I've said that sorinola had a decent game, he cut back inside alot on Saturday because he's right footed and is playing the left only because we don't have a left footed wing back, if we do get a left footed wingback that RM wants then sorinola will be put on the right. |
I don't think that's the case FB. I think Sorinola will be the no 1 left wing back, Manning will be his cover.
I think a right wing back is going to be priority with Sorinola to play the left side.
I think the only way that Sorinola might be used on the right side is if we don't get a right wing back in and Martin's hand is forced as the season goes on......Joel L if the main right wing back after the window then I am sure there will be a juggle with Sorinola. |  |
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