S-Clarke

and the 2nd.

lol.

It's all gone horribly wrong

If WHU keep going for this, we could have a record score here. Barnsley are that inept.

They are simply atrocious. A sorry excuse for a football team.

God, this co-commentator does my head in. So clueless.

Not today, nope. But if they rack up a big score today which is looking likley, then our GD isn't as far away.

game well and truly over. Let's hope Barnsley can keep the score respectable otherwise our GD becomes catchable.

I was confident before this as I felt Barnsley could frustrate WHU, but an early goal has killed it IMO.

This will be a cricket score.

WHU's team looks pretty potent (kick off in 5mins) Vaz Te and Maynard in attack, lots and lots of pace....come on barnsley.

As you see with us though, it's not about individual talent - it's about getting the right sort of players and the right attitudes to build a team. Swansea know how each other play, Leon Britton isn't a world beater at all - but he knows his job and his team mates trust him. Having a proper 'team' is much more important than having loads of overpaid stars, IMO. I'm sure to opposition fans we have quite a few average players in their eyes, but we all function as a team which counts for more.

That sort of relaxed attitude can sometimes bring out the best in players..... It could go 2 ways. WHU could win comfortably without breaking sweat as Barnsley didn't get a s hit, or Barnsley could really throw an upset by relaxing and playing to their maximum - whilst catching WHU off guard.

I totally see your point, but being top most of the year and being within touching distance of winning something is too good to just shrug off. Promotion is obviously the important thing and the end goal is the same in either position, but to see us lift a proper championship trophy would be magic. We will probably never ever get the chance to win a league again. (not in my lifetime anyway!)

Oh and on the debate about us coming 1st or 2nd, of course I want us to come bloody first. I want us to be the champions and I want to see us lift up the most attractive trophy in English football, I don't want to see us lift some micky mouse 2nd place trophy. I want top. I'd never seen us top a league until this season and winning championships isn't something that'll ever happen regularly here - so let's do it when we have this chance. People shouldn't play down how big an opportunity it is, coming 2nd would be a bit of a anti climax.

Just seen that Readings gaffer has won the manager of the month award, ahead of Adkins. Cue a timely blip.

That was a bummer, Leeds held out for so long and then contrived to miss the chance of the game. Still a fully expected result, especially with a depleted Leeds team and the fact they were down to 10 men. Bit of a ****ter it came in the last 5 minutes though.

Bugger. That's that then.

This has confused me as well, he's not had a chance at this level for anyone to decide he's not up to it - yet quite a few have decided he's not up to it. Bizarre. He will score goals at this level if given the chance and the service, I am 110% sure of that. He hasn't turned crap overnight and he was bought with an eye on the championship too.

Alot of the Guly criticism is unjustified too, especially the lazy comments. He worked harder than most at the weekend. But as i've said, some people have made their mind up about him....and that's that.

He makes a huge difference to us, and it does increase their chances of getting something by a large % if he's not fit. Our entire game plan is focused around him and our attack does not function correctly without Lambert, not a single bit. He's got a terrific relationship with the full backs, Lallana and Guly when he plays - it's kind of telepathic at times and as he's barley missed a game for us we clearly don't have a clue what to do when he's not in the team, as we haven't really prepared for that eventuality too much - which is fair I guess, why waste time preparing for worst? Hopefully though as we're at home we can get the ball down a bit and pass it, we shouldn't need to hit it long - although you'd have to say that alot of our success comes from that long ball held up and laid off by Rickie... 10 assists and 28 goals in all comps tell you that he's involved in almost half our goals this year. Scary.

Bit of a ****ter, he gave us that pace and movement in behind which we didn't have earlier in the season. He gave us an additional option in our game plan basically. We should still be ok though (providing Lambert is back)

Nah, we'll be ok. I thought the same after the game but looking at the sequence of results that need to happen for us to fail makes me much more confident. WHU realistically need to win 80-90% of their games, as we'll still pick up 6 or 7 pts minimum. The title is another kettle of fish though...

Whats your problem with him? He's been excellent since he's been on sky.

You're quite clearly on some sort of sad wind up. You've been saying we're going to lose before we've played any game this season, so far they've proved you very wrong. You're looking a bit of a prize pillock btw.