Swansea v Ipswich

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keith margam

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Swansea v Ipswich Sat 8 Nov 15:00

A ‘worldie’ goal and a sucker punch goal ended in our fifth defeat of the season last night.

Two wins from the last ten games is not good enough from this squad. They are under performing. They promised so much and expectations were high from fans, but they have not delivered.

Twenty nine shots from the last two games and just two goals and one point to show for it. We are stuck in a pattern of win one, draw one, lose one.



Next up, it’s Ipswich who are coming to town on Saturday, and the last game before the International break.

We have a poor home record so far, two wins from seven. Last home game we beat Norwich, who are down the bottom of the table and have forgotten how to win.

Ipswich were relegated from the PL after just one season and are presently in 9th position.

Last away match Ipswich won 1-4 at QPR, who beat us last but one home match.

It’s hard to be optimistic for this one. Can we turn it around, we have shown more attacking intent in the last few games, surely it’s going to come together soon and we can score some goals. You don’t score, you don’t win.
 
Looking for some positives:

I liked both Widell and Inoussa today, both look raw and need time but there is definitely something there with both.

Eom looked more confident and had another decent attempt with his right after cutting in. Not ready to give up on the guy to be honest.

The goal was what we should be seeing more often. Nice inter play, Tymon cutting it back and a player in the centre to finish the chance. The players can do it.
 
Swansea 1 (Franco 50’)
Ipswich 4 (Clarke 36’, Burgess 55’og, 81’og, Azon 76’)

The worst performance of the season and probably the worst refereeing too as we slumped to another home defeat. A four goal hammering dished out by a far superior Ipswich team who outmuscled us and outplayed us for only their second away win of the season, further helped by our former Ipswich player Burgess gifting them two own goals.

Eight yellow cards, five to Swans players with The Blues exaggerating fouls at each Swans tackle, to which the naive ref obliged by handing out cards like confetti.

No excuses, we were a shambles, except for a ten minute spell at the beginning of the second-half and I don’t know where we go from here.

Do we stick or twist with Sheehan? Lots of cries for ‘we want Sheehan out’ at the end of the match, but will the owners give him more time?
 
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I am still in shock this morning after watching that horror show yesterday.

The Southampton match was bad enough but yesterday was a new low.

All the hype of quality players being brought in and how it was going to be a new era with ambitious new owners.

The reality is with a third of the season already gone, the recruitment team have flopped, most of the 13 new players have flopped, the coaching team have flopped and fans are staying away in droves.

We do not have an experienced Championship manager, he is a rookie.

Was his success as interim manager last season down to ex-Huddersfield manager Mark Fotheringham?

Fotheringham left in the summer and is now with Celtic.

Ironically, Darren O’Dea came the other way as Sheehan’s new assistant and nothing has gone right since, but coincidence or not, Celtic are back to winning ways.
 
keith margam said:
I am still in shock this morning after watching that horror show yesterday.

The Southampton match was bad enough but yesterday was a new low.

All the hype of quality players being brought in and how it was going to be a new era with ambitious new owners.

The reality is with a third of the season already gone, the recruitment team have flopped, most of the 13 new players have flopped, the coaching team have flopped and fans are staying away in droves.

We do not have an experienced Championship manager, he is a rookie.

Was his success as interim manager last season down to ex-Huddersfield manager Mark Fotheringham?

Fotheringham left in the summer and is now with Celtic.

Ironically, Darren O’Dea came the other way as Sheehan’s new assistant and nothing has gone right since, but coincidence or not, Celtic are back to winning ways.
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Maybe this is harsh on the current coaching set up but I would be hesitant to judge many of the new players until we’ve seen them under new management. At the moment, it looks as if they are low on confidence and don’t really understand what they should be doing on the pitch. That’s hardly an environment to get an accurate picture of a player for me. Some have stood out positively regardless (Galbraith) which to me shows that we do have a certain amount of quality available to us.
 
keith margam said:
I am still in shock this morning after watching that horror show yesterday.

The Southampton match was bad enough but yesterday was a new low.

All the hype of quality players being brought in and how it was going to be a new era with ambitious new owners.

The reality is with a third of the season already gone, the recruitment team have flopped, most of the 13 new players have flopped, the coaching team have flopped and fans are staying away in droves.

We do not have an experienced Championship manager, he is a rookie.

Was his success as interim manager last season down to ex-Huddersfield manager Mark Fotheringham?

Fotheringham left in the summer and is now with Celtic.

Ironically, Darren O’Dea came the other way as Sheehan’s new assistant and nothing has gone right since, but coincidence or not, Celtic are back to winning ways.
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It's getting worse and worse but we really struggled against an Ipswich side that were far better than all of our recent opponents.

In others we've managed to at least dominate possession without creating chances but yesterday we couldn't even get out of our own half in the first 45.

Sheehan's success was down to a squad that was already established, he just needed to tweak things here and there but it's completely different when a caretaker then has to take on a newly built squad and implement his own ideas. There's a reason why 7/10 caretakers who are sacked within 12 months - they rarely work out.

For me, he's got to go this week - it's the perfect time to look for a new manager during the 2-week break. Sheehan doesn't fit the mold of a Swansea City manager.
 
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Maybe this is harsh on the current coaching set up but I would be hesitant to judge many of the new players until we’ve seen them under new management. At the moment, it looks as if they are low on confidence and don’t really understand what they should be doing on the pitch. That’s hardly an environment to get an accurate picture of a player for me. Some have stood out positively regardless (Galbraith) which to me shows that we do have a certain amount of quality available to us.
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Agree, I'd like to think most of them would look a lot better with a much better manager in place to get the best out of them. They are being held back by a manager who's main focus is on our out of possession play and it really shows in our performances. We really don't have a clue what to do with the ball.
 
VitalSwansea said:
Agree, I'd like to think most of them would look a lot better with a much better manager in place to get the best out of them. They are being held back by a manager whose main focus is on our out of possession play and it really shows in our performances. We really don't have a clue what to do with the ball.
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Yep, I thought it was obvious yesterday. So many times we have a single player on the ball for 5-6 seconds, they lift their head to assess their options and just end up launching the ball forward down the channels. When we do try and play, it’s so laboured and it takes us way too many passes just to get the ball to Tymon out wide.

People who saw Sheehan’s preseason presentation said it was mostly out of possession stuff and that really does show.

I think we’re missing a proper 10 but would like to see a double pivot midfield of Stamenic (when he’s ready of course) and Galbraith with maybe Widell in front of them. I honestly feel like we’ve got enough quality to be competing in the top 10. I don’t understand the arguments that the players aren’t good enough to be honest.
 
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