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Reply | Is Jay Fulton undroppable ?
at 18:31 2 Nov 2026
Widell in particular has made no secret about how much he looks up to Fulton.
Said it before, but I'd be very surprised if there's not a coaching job waiting here for him when he does decide to wind down his career. Club management respects him. Players he's played with in the past respect him. Players he's playing with now respect him.
Incidentally I only recently learned that hus dad is Steve Fulton, who I can remember as a player too. |
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Reply | Swans Scores this Season
at 13:46 1 Nov 2026
This is more like what we need. If Vipi, Idah and Stewart can eventually all get into double figures, another three or four players coming close would be a huge improvement and give us a bloody good shout of the playoffs.
Interestingly, Vipi is only two goals shy of Idah despite playing four hours less football, and most of that off the bench. |
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Reply | Swansea City v Blackburn Rovers : Match Thread
at 12:52 1 Nov 2026
The issue with Stamenic has been there all season. He's too slow on the ball. I think he's got it in his locker to play quicker, but it seems very much like a Grimes situation to me. He's got to be forced to do it.
Also similar to Grimes in that there are a lot of people who insist that he's one of the first names on the teamsheet when yesterday proved that we can manage quite nicely without him. Maybe are even improved by it.
The midfield balance was damn near perfect yesterday. Fulton snuffing out any issues defensively allowed Eustaquio the freedom to act as an offensive weapon. We moved the ball a lot faster and a lot smarter than we have for much of the season.
I'd still prefer a more out and out creative option to Widell as much as I rate basically everything else he does, but if we picked the same three again for Pompey I'd have no complaints. [Post edited 1 Nov 12:54]
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Reply | Swansea City v Blackburn Rovers : Match Thread
at 10:16 1 Nov 2026
One of the things that does make me wonder is why he's never had a Scotland call up. Not sure they've had the strength in depth over the last 10-15 years to reasonably ignore a player with nigh on 400+ career games, three quarters of which have come at either Premier League or Championship level. |
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Reply | Poland
at 10:09 1 Nov 2026
On their own terms.
Like I said, happy to be part of the EU, but disinterested in going the whole hog. Massively anti-migration, which I suspect would swing things the other way if a Tusk Government starts following Commission orders.
Poland represent an option that those in charge of the EU project would like to see erased. Willing to be part of a community of nations, but still very much their own country. There is a very obvious emphasis in Western European Governments particularly to shut down opposition to the Globalist approach by any means necessary. Tusk is very much part of that group. |
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Reply | Swansea City v Blackburn Rovers : Match Thread
at 10:00 1 Nov 2026
Fulton has always been a consistently decent player. Feels like I've spent a lot of time over the years making that argument. It's also absolutely not a coincidence that Leon and Joe recommended to Matos that he go straight into the team for VM's first game in charge. They knew the score.
This is just the first time since maybe the Cooper era where he's been a regular starter as opposed to someone dropped in for a game or two here and there. It also helps that he's no longer being blamed for what happened when he got paired with Grimes. |
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Reply | The changing income tax landscape
at 08:52 1 Nov 2026
The minimum wage is at least £3ph too high. Add in the additional costs of hiring someone and it's no real surprise that the job market for young people has been devastated. Why hire someone with no experience when they cost just the same as someone with plenty?
There is a strong economic argument for not having a minimum wage at all, but that's probably a step too far.
They should have a four or five year pause on increasing it and raise the personal allowance instead, but that won't happen because Labour voters need their handouts. |
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Reply | Poland
at 08:28 1 Nov 2026
Finished the last election as head of the second largest party, but leading a coalition of pro-EU/left wing/Globalist types.
To be honest, after spending much of the last several centuries as a puppet state of a larger entity (usually Russian) I'd expect most Poles to feel completely the opposite. |
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Reply | Goals ? The answer is staring Matos straight in the face
at 22:17 31 Oct 2026
Obvious issues with rustiness and a lack of match sharpness are being overlooked a little (his first touch was often a bit lacking), he's clearly a decent player and had a good game overall today.
I'm not sure however that he's a player we actually needed as he didn't contribute an awful lot more than a Vipotnik not starved of game time and chances would have.
Hopefully he'll remain injury free for a period and he can force himself into the conversation of first choice forward a bit more. |
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Reply | Poland
at 18:56 31 Oct 2026
From what I can gather (I know a couple of Poles) they don't mind being in the EU but on their terms, and are prepared to stick two fingers up if that's not an option. They're not interested all that much in open borders, surrendering the Zloty or enacting basically every dictat that comes from Brussels. A bit like we were really.
Tusk has been maneuvered back into power to break this deadlock and integrate the Poles more, and is trying to get rid of anyone that can stop him. |
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Thread | Poland
at 18:35 31 Oct 2026
The EU up to their usual tricks of subverting democracy when things don't go their way. Rerun votes, attempts to ban anti-EU politicians, even downright election rigging. No tactics appear to be low enough for the Globalists to utilise them.
Wouldn't piss the Poles off in this day and age though. |
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Reply | Swansea City v Blackburn Rovers : Match Thread
at 18:32 31 Oct 2026
Excellent response to the disappointment of last week.
It would be easy to claim that Blackburn were poor but I don't think we gave them any chance at all in that first half to get a foothold in the game our press was so good.
The pairing of Fulton and Eustaquio in midfield was on top to the point where we should probably thank whatever virus took Stamenic out of contention. Jay covering the deeper role (and the defensive work he did in the second half deserves huge applause) freed SE to basically run the game. What a footballing brain he's got. Was always where he needed to be, and some of his passes were almost "no look" given his awareness of what was going on around him.
I'll single those two out, but everyone played well. Starters, subs, the lot. [Post edited 31 Oct 18:40]
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Reply | Did history just repeat itself with Michu and Vipotnik?
at 17:56 28 Oct 2026
"Four full defenders plus a deep lying midfielder and a CM who can motor back and fore should be a solid enough base to attack from"
Is what I said. Yes, occasionally a fullback will get forward and it's down to a midfielder to tuck in. That still leaves almost half the team in either a full on or relatively defensive role when we attack. We can surely afford a few more numbers getting into the final third?
If we're pushing on we need more than two or three players in the danger areas. We can certainly spare a midfielder to do more than just help out with the defence.
I guess I'm just not hugely fond of worrying more about how to contain the teams we're playing than in imposing ourselves on them. It drove me nuts when Paul Clement used to do it (and arguably cost us our place in the Prem as a result) and it annoys me now. |
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Reply | Did history just repeat itself with Michu and Vipotnik?
at 08:19 28 Oct 2026
The problem with that is that it makes us reactive rather than proactive, which has been the problem for much of the season against almost all but the poorest opposition. We generally react well when the opposition has the ball. When we have it ourselves we're not proactive enough.
Setting up defensively just invites opposition onto us, which is bad enough away but a major problem at home. If we moved the ball quickly on the counter then it might work as a sucker punch tactic, but we don't.
Four full defenders plus a deep lying midfielder and a CM who can motor back and fore should be a solid enough base to attack from. We have to start consistently picking the players who can win us games, not just the ones we hope will prevent us from losing. |
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Reply | Did history just repeat itself with Michu and Vipotnik?
at 09:54 27 Oct 2026
I don't think we were leaky on Saturday because we suddenly decided to take the game to QPR. They caught us cold and a couple of otherwise reliable players had arguably their worst games for us.
I do take your general point about a Fulton/Stamenic combo being generally more defensively solid though. Maybe things would have been different on Sat. |
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Reply | Did history just repeat itself with Michu and Vipotnik?
at 09:20 27 Oct 2026
Stamenic is a big, strong unit. He should be motoring through midfield but rarely makes headway. Just faffs about a bit. Fulton can play a nice pass but isn't someone we should be relying on to.open teams up. Eustaquio is a capable #6.
I think the capability is there but maybe the emphasis has been a bit one sided on the press as opposed to what we do when we've won it back. |
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