hypochondriac

And third have a game in hand.

Yep it was said many times when the season started that it would happen so not a surprise. If we do go up though I would really want us to get another keeper with Bazunu as backup. Expect we wouldn't though.

Judt watching the Ipswich game and they look shite. Not sure if it's just an off game for them but they've hardly done anything so far.

Agree with that. I was saying the other week I was surprised it hasn't happened more often this season. At least it ultimately doesn't matter.

Another day we would have scored 5 or 6. I think changing so much of the team disrupts us to some degree but the gamble has paid off and now we can have some fresher players for Monday.

We look great but the longer we go without scoring, the more I worry its going to be one of those games.

Any idea why Downes is out?

Yes and it's a bugger to lose him as we don't really have an adequate replacement unlike other positions.

Would any of their players get in our team?

Maybe he's had some underlying issues from the food poisoning. That shit can be bad and hang around for months.

Keeper injury normally means he stinks the place out or has a worldie. Let's hope for the former.

Not sure I rate Charles or smallbone that highly. Alcaraz is good but inconsistent. Certainly a risk.

A weaker starting 11 today I reckon. We may still win but I'm not sure it will be as convincing.

Fair enough. I expect it's all those tough away games then that swings it for them.

I think we have had some pretty easy fixtures though. The real test will come against some of these better teams away from home. Avoid defeat or even win in a couple of them and we will increase our chance massively.

Alex McCarthy is the real face palm.

Interesting they have Leeds with a higher chance of top 2 than us. Not sure I'd agree but maybe due to the fact that we haven't scored as many.

Someone is suggesting that Downes could be out. Has anyone heard anything?

Problem with that is that Swansea failing to score in the last game had very little to do with us and quite a bit more to do with their poor finishing and composure.

It will cost us eventually, maybe in these tough away games we have in March and April. Need it sorted for the run in.

You could have made the exact same point about Nathan Jones though. He was a complete cretin at the time and time has proven that to be even more correct. No doubt an emotional outburst like that was incorrect but I can understand it even if I disagree. Smugly posting about it months later seems a bit classless to me, particularly because some of those same posters have shown that they have also made their share of dumb posts in the past.

Also worth point out that after a similar period of time people were calling Nathan Jones a cretin and were proven to be 100% correct whilst those defending him had some egg on their face. Like with most of these things, sometimes knee jerk opinions and emotional outbursts will be right and other times they're not.

I'd have to go back to look. Regardless, the amount of space they were getting down the left during the early part of the game was not good and led to chances that on another day could have resulted in us conceding is my point.

I have never called for Martin to be sacked and was defending him earlier in the season, but I absolutely understand why a large portion of the fanbase had little faith in the board's judgement given how terribly they fucked up appointing Nathan Jones. At the conclusion of those 4 losses it absolutely seemed like we were throwing away a chance to achieve something this year and that the board had gone for another clever appointment of a manager that Swansea fans and the evidence told us stuck slavishly to his tactics without changing them. We'd also just lost four in a row and some fans are going to express that frustration by getting pissed off and venting on here. I absolutely understand why some of them would do that so dragging up old posts from months ago is poor for in my opinion. We've all said thibgs that with hindsight would be incorrect.

They won the free kick because of the space on our left hand side.