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Reply | Swansea City v Blackburn Rovers : Match day thread
at 12:23 21 Jan 2026
It's not just the pressing. It's what he does when he has the ball. That momentum shift between being proactive and reactive.
We did it a lot better against Brum than we did last night, but it's massively important that we've got at least one midfielder who wants to drive play forward. |
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Reply | Swansea City v Blackburn Rovers : Match day thread
at 12:12 21 Jan 2026
When we signed them all in the first place I was hoping for a bit of rotation.
Of them all the most irreplaceable at the moment is arguably Widell just because he's a midfielder who plays mostly on the front foot and I'm not sure any of the others can do that. Franco maybe.
Having that extra bit of attacking intent in the middle instead of playing three basically interchangeable CM's has been a big factor in our improvement IMO. |
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Reply | Swansea City v Blackburn Rovers : Match day thread
at 11:35 21 Jan 2026
Possible that he's looking at it as a way to get his better players into the team rather than picking the best players to suit the team.
Can't argue with his results even if most would agree that we may be better off doing it differently. |
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Reply | Swansea City v Blackburn Rovers : Match day thread
at 10:27 21 Jan 2026
I'm still not convinced that we're asking Stamenic to do the right job. He's an excellent ball winning type, but he often struggles when we're asking him to dictate play.
Think he got a little bit marooned last night which is why midfield looked disjointed. We get away with it when Galbraith is in the middle because he takes a lot of that role on. |
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Reply | Cardiff Rugby
at 22:21 20 Jan 2026
Swansea council should not be spending a penny of taxpayers money on a dispute between two private organisations. |
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Reply | Swansea City v Blackburn Rovers : Match day thread
at 22:17 20 Jan 2026
I think if we'd played as well as we did on Saturday we'd have put five on them. Blackburn were easily the worst team I've seen down here this season.
Not sure if it was heavy legs or just one of those nights, but some annoyingly bad habits made a reappearance. Far too many backwards balls putting ourselves under just as much pressure as Rovers did. Midfield struggled all game and it wasn't a shock to see them all replaced.
Still, you can only beat what's in front of you and we did so quite comfortably in the end. Vipi far and away my MOTM. An almost complete Number 9 performance, it's just a shame we couldn't give him the chance to complete the hat trick.
On a side note, we really need to move past the point where Oli Cooper and Liam Cullen are viable first team options, even on the bench. Both were abject when they came on. If Cullen didn't have a knack for scoring the odd goal he'd contribute absolutely nothing. |
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Reply | Booze ban
at 12:23 20 Jan 2026
There are silly little things like the hospitality curtain thing that could probably be done away with, but I certainly wouldn't support people being able to drink in the stands. |
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Reply | Trump rubbishes Chagos deal
at 09:40 20 Jan 2026
He's losing his marbles.
He's right, there's nothing about the Chagos Deal that isn't idiotic, but to rant like this less than a year after his Government backed the deal just makes him look unhinged. [Post edited 20 Jan 9:41]
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Reply | Booze ban
at 06:54 20 Jan 2026
Bad enough that you've got the prats who arrive late for kickoff or feel the need to go for a burger five minutes before half time now without adding the ones who can't go 45 minutes at the football without a beer.
It'll end up like the Rugby where people are up and down every five minutes waiting for someone to pass with three beers that they're trying not to spill. |
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Reply | Cardiff Rugby
at 21:36 19 Jan 2026
It is curious timing.
For all their success on the pitch though the city has never really embraced the Ospreys. You could drive past the stadium on almost any match day and you'd barely notice that there was a game on, so even if they were still there they'd have been a candidate for the chop.
Llanelli pull in the biggest crowds and have a stadium. Cardiff is never going to be without a team. I believe that Rodney Parade is also WRU owned so they're going to want a team there).
Ospreys were disposable. |
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Reply | Cardiff Rugby
at 21:09 19 Jan 2026
Like I said, Ospreys were always the most likely to go. |
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Reply | Cost of Rachel's U-turns
at 15:03 19 Jan 2026
I see they've been all over Twitter declaring what a good deal it is that we've secured for offshore energy when it's twice the price of gas when you take all the artificial costs out of it (carbon taxes etc). |
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Reply | Vipotnik
at 14:44 19 Jan 2026
I like that. Made me chuckle. [Post edited 19 Jan 14:44]
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Reply | Vipotnik
at 14:24 19 Jan 2026
Is it worth playing all that many through balls for him? He's not the quickest. |
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Reply | Vipotnik
at 11:22 18 Jan 2026
Depends what others are doing. There's not much need for him to go sprinting to close the keeper down if his options are already blocked off. All they can basically do then is boot it long.
Better for him to be free to react to any loose balls that might emerge from the press IMO. |
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Thread | Vipotnik
at 10:21 18 Jan 2026
Moves level with Adam Armstrong of Southampton at the top of the Championship scorers list with eleven league goals.
Interestingly (according to the BBC), he's done it having played two fewer games and with FORTY fewer shots on goal. Hard to avoid the assumption that if he'd been created more chances in the first half of the season he'd be comfortably leading the standings by now. He's having an excellent season.
In contrast, Richard Kone has just five goals overall. Big step up from League One for him, especially at the price QPR paid. |
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Reply | Swans v Blues : Chris Davies under real pressure this weekend
at 07:49 18 Jan 2026
Also worth pointing out that the team looks a lot better and more attacking/aggressive when our midfield doesn't comprise of three central midfielders all trying to do essentially the same job.
We always needed a presence pushing forward into the attacking third, something Sheehan forgot. |
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