Dark Munster

Yeah I actually hope Leicester win all their remaining matches (except against us of course), to take points off our rivals. We have no hope of catching them.

Wait, they'll be back. They are usually either crap or win the whole thing. I wish England could do that.

If the players aren’t doing what he wants then he’s failing as a manager. The players are good enough (at this level), they’ve proven that, so it’s no excuse crying “they aren’t doing what I want them to do.”

Puel got us to a final playing exciting football on the way, beating PL teams all the way (including Liverpool twice) and very unlucky to lose the final. He took us to 8th in the PL despite losing three key players at the beginning of the season and VVD and Fonte later due to injury and being sold. Plus he was competing against PL teams each week, not Championship dross. If he’d had Koeman’s squad with Mane, Pelle, big Vic we wouldn’t have had to play the “ turgid” football he was accused of which was necessary to grind out results being without those players and having Yoshi and Stephens as our CBs. I’d say that makes him a decent manager. If we had one of the crap Championship squads and were where are now in the league I’d say RM is doing a great job, just like the Ipswich manager certainly is. It’s quite simple, with the squad we’ve got we should be doing better.

That's a perfect summary. It seems he has the players on board, whether for good or bad tactics, even Aribo was up to speed today which is very promising. If he could just meditate about where he's going wrong (i.e. stubbornly going back to tippy tappy crab Russball), realise that will never work, then the potential is there for a successful season. But it has to start now. He needs to abandon possession just for the sake of it, but to be brave and front-footed. Shit, did I just say that? I sound like Nathan F*cking Jones.

Good grief, it's the manager's job to make sure the players play to a system, that's what he's been paid millions for. Blaming the players is no excuse. And who is saying when we play well the manager shouldn't get credit? I'm not saying that, and I don't think anyone else is. The point is very simple, we've played tippy tappy crab football for the majority of the season, and dropped many points as a result. His record before us makes it clear it's his strategy. Hopefully he's learnt his lesson, but I doubt it, since he's been doing this since he started coaching. We should be out playing most teams in this division with the squad we have. Not winning every match of course, but we should be up there with Ipswich. Him claiming we need time is a load of bollocks.

High % of possession isn't a problem, it's what you do with it (or more precisely don't do with it).

Did he actually appear? I heard he was out injured.

Disagree, it's when the team ditches Russball they look much better going forward, and defensively. Leeds first half being a prime example. Against Preston it was Russball for most of the match and we were lucky to get a draw against very limited opposition. He does seem to be a good man manager, which is important, so I'll give him that. He just needs to dump the Russball and play to the squad's strengths. There is no excuse for us to be 10 points behind Ipswich (having played one more match) and to have one of the worst defensive records in the league.

Exactly. Can this leopard change his spots? History says no, but let's see, We've had some patches of good performances, here and there (first half Leeds, large parts of today). But still those are an oasis surrounded by tippy tap crab Russball most of the time (including our last match). If he can put his ego aside and abandon his Russball we certainly have the squad to do well. And we aren't on his back because he's British FFS. Is he aware of what we fans thought of Mauricio The Clown Pellegrino, Selles (he's Spanish, right?), the Dutch Laurel and Hardy pair, etc., even Claude Puel (a decent manager but despised by many because he had the charisma of a sloth).

Only necessary for equalisers or winners.

They seem to be missing Piroe.

That's not entirely true. Ramsus W. Ankersen and his puppet Wilcox think he's the new Pep, and he's going to turn us into Man City/Barcelona. Instead Ankersen's turning us into f*cking Swansea (while emptying Dragan's wallet). Swansea fan's quote from earlier in the year: "Yes we have useless owners, a useless chief executive, but worse of all is we have a terrible manager who is completely out of his depth in the championship."

I’d be more than happy. Unfortunately Dragan seems incapable of seeing through their bullshit.

Both those two highlighted. They are not mutually exclusive.

No, it was Martin out since Sunderland, or certainly Leicester. Do keep up. Apart from the first half against Leeds, when tippy tappy crab Martinball was temporarily abandoned due to 4 successive appalling performances, it's gone back to his normal hopeless tactics and style, with last minute goals papering over the cracks. Imagine this season if we had Ipswich's manager and they had Lego. Do you think Ipswich would be 10 points clear of us, with a game in hand? A very good chance it would be the other way around.

That would be nice, but I doubt it. Lego's tippy tap, crab, propaganda football is exactly what RA and JW love. Those deluded morons honestly think that with that crap they are creating a new Man City. Ankersen after watching RM's Powerpoint presentation a few days ago.

Apart from Leicester name two more that are better.

Goalkeeper too.

If they get deducted 12 points this season then the team who finished third from bottom last season should be very pissed off. Luckily we were so crap that we comfortably finished bottom.

Which given our squad is completely unacceptable.

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Yes, but it wasn't that great a difference, and also you can blame SR for not getting a striker that every man, woman and their dog knew we needed. One of the reasons Ralph ended up broken. I'm not saying we should be flying as high as Villa are now (although with Emery you never know). But it grates seeing two clubs diverge by such a wide margin in one year due to sheer, unadulterated, mind boggling incompetence.

Villa thrash West Ham 4-1 and are up to fifth, a point behind Liverpool in third. A year ago they and we were both floundering in the lower parts of the PL. Then they appointed Unai Emery, and we appointed Ankersen's genius pick Nathan F*cking Jones. Now they have a good shot at qualifying for the Europa League, who knows even CL (and with Emery you can't bet against them doing well in the Europa League). Meanwhile we're fighting to make the championship playoffs with a manager that most Swansea fans were delighted to see the back of.

For half of that match we didn’t play conducive to winning.