keith margam
Vital Football Legend
Sheffield Wednesday v Swansea Tue 22 Oct 19:45
Next up is another away fixture, this time a 458m round trip via the M4/M5 to South Yorkshire and a night match in Sheffield.
A tough ask for the Jack Army after the 496m return journey via the M4/M6 to Blackburn, East Lancashire.
An expensive few days for our loyal away supporters too, with each trip costing about £100 between ticket and coach travel. Not sure if the team will be staying up North with it being only 69m distance between the grounds.
We meet up again with our ex-player and loanee last season Jamal Lowe, who was an unused sub in the Owls 0-2 home defeat to Burnley on Saturday.
He scored 9 goals in 24 appearances for Swansea last season and was available on a free transfer from Bournemouth this summer but we couldn’t afford his wages.
Both teams with two wins in the last six games, both teams lost their last game, Swans are without a win in their last four matches.
A bit of a crisis then at Swansea with no player capable of scoring a goal under the present system of play, 8 goals scored in the 10 matches this season and 1 goal scored in the last 4, making us the lowest scoring team in the Championship.
Ironically Luke Williams last club Notts County were scoring for fun whilst he was managing them, 117 goals scored in their promotion season.
So what’s gone wrong? Is it the system of play under LW, the selling of our best players until the well has dried up, the recruitment of inferior players on low salaries to replace them, poor management at the top, or a combination of all.
We have an inexperienced and on the face of it a well-meaning investor/chairman in place, but he’s controlled by parsimonious majority owners Kaplan and Levien from afar, who are seemingly more interested in splashing the cash at DC United. It’s no wonder we are struggling. It’s been a downward spiral since they took over in 2016.
Back to the match, and another boring defeat on the cards as things stand.
Next up is another away fixture, this time a 458m round trip via the M4/M5 to South Yorkshire and a night match in Sheffield.
A tough ask for the Jack Army after the 496m return journey via the M4/M6 to Blackburn, East Lancashire.
An expensive few days for our loyal away supporters too, with each trip costing about £100 between ticket and coach travel. Not sure if the team will be staying up North with it being only 69m distance between the grounds.
We meet up again with our ex-player and loanee last season Jamal Lowe, who was an unused sub in the Owls 0-2 home defeat to Burnley on Saturday.
He scored 9 goals in 24 appearances for Swansea last season and was available on a free transfer from Bournemouth this summer but we couldn’t afford his wages.
Both teams with two wins in the last six games, both teams lost their last game, Swans are without a win in their last four matches.
A bit of a crisis then at Swansea with no player capable of scoring a goal under the present system of play, 8 goals scored in the 10 matches this season and 1 goal scored in the last 4, making us the lowest scoring team in the Championship.
Ironically Luke Williams last club Notts County were scoring for fun whilst he was managing them, 117 goals scored in their promotion season.
So what’s gone wrong? Is it the system of play under LW, the selling of our best players until the well has dried up, the recruitment of inferior players on low salaries to replace them, poor management at the top, or a combination of all.
We have an inexperienced and on the face of it a well-meaning investor/chairman in place, but he’s controlled by parsimonious majority owners Kaplan and Levien from afar, who are seemingly more interested in splashing the cash at DC United. It’s no wonder we are struggling. It’s been a downward spiral since they took over in 2016.
Back to the match, and another boring defeat on the cards as things stand.
