v Swansea City (h) - 19/10/2024

[joey_big_nose]

2 minutes ago, yankfan said:

We seemed to drop our line since the goal 

Yeah weve obviously gone very counter attacking. We had a back six for a while there... Not convinced we've really got the pace for that approach...

[RTM08]

1 minute ago, joey_big_nose said:

Yeah weve obviously gone very counter attacking. We had a back six for a while there... Not convinced we've really got the pace for that approach...

Weirdly I think counterattacking has been our best look for a number of years now, despite the lack of pace. That said, Eustace seems to like us to sit further back than I'm comfortable with, and at home it's a bit of an odd choice. 

We'll see in an hour or so if it was the right one.

[USABlue]

Can we please play in the 2nd half.  God this is a tough watch.  We are winning but can we please get involved as an attacking unit, tame tonsay the least

[joey_big_nose]

1 minute ago, RTM08 said:

Weirdly I think counterattacking has been our best look for a number of years now, despite the lack of pace. That said, Eustace seems to like us to sit further back than I'm comfortable with, and at home it's a bit of an odd choice. 

We'll see in an hour or so if it was the right one.

Yeah it looks a real late 80s Arsenal approach... Just hold onto the 1-0.

Long time since I can remember us going so defensive against a similarly resourced team at home.

[Andy]

Dull half, but we just about did enough.
Getting 3 points today is the priority, no matter how we achieve it.

Swansea like possession, but it's almost exclusively pointless possession.

Thought Dolan started really well today, but ended up too far away from Mak to support him every time he was holding up the ball.
Seems that JE likes his 60-minute subs, so lets hope we don't leave it too late and we're still leading at that point.

[yankfan]

3 minutes ago, RTM08 said:

Weirdly I think counterattacking has been our best look for a number of years now, despite the lack of pace. That said, Eustace seems to like us to sit further back than I'm comfortable with, and at home it's a bit of an odd choice. 

We'll see in an hour or so if it was the right one.

Has looked very much like the end of last campaign where we set up to hold on from min 1…only difference is it started after scoring 

[NeilInBristol]

2 minutes ago, RTM08 said:

Weirdly I think counterattacking has been our best look for a number of years now, despite the lack of pace. That said, Eustace seems to like us to sit further back than I'm comfortable with, and at home it's a bit of an odd choice. 

We'll see in an hour or so if it was the right one.

Gotta agree.

 

I think he's quite cautious still. But he seems to manage home games well this season (so far) so I trust him.

 

Let's see if we can get another goal.

 

Some of the stats against Swansea are great, they don't come back from 2-0 down for example. 

[alcd]

41 minutes ago, alcd said:

Commentary on website is only background noise. The pathetic amateurs can't even get their microphones to work. Absolute joke of a club!

Why don't the idiots shut off the background mics? Are they even aware nobody is listening to this rubbish transmission?

[moerpho]

1-0 after a pedestrian first half. Like the look of Cantwell. Beck and Dolan ok. Gueye trying and working hard. Did I say 1-0? Put me to sleep 2nd half as long as we keep those 3 points. COYB!!!

[USABlue]

35 minutes ago, Trinidad Rover said:

Beck is so so so much better than Pickering 

That Swansea winger would be having Picks for breakfast, good player Beck is wish we could sign him permanent and another like him on the other side

[joey_big_nose]

Loving the half time music... Seems a but unusual?

[Cherry Blue]

Gueye is excellent. Ref gave a couple of wrong decisions but he cant/wont change his mind. 4th official had word with Swan manager for not returning ball. Good half.

[davulsukur]

Really not a fan of the sitting back with everyone in our own half tactic. It's just asking to concede.

[Exiled in Toronto Mk2]

With Hyam and Pears, we are unable to play out from the back; with Hedges and Dolan we don’t have enough quality to benefit up front from Mak’s first touch and Cantwell’s any touch, and with Trav and Tronstadt we don’t have enough to win the ball back.

[moerpho]

Who is this ref? He’s been ok in my view. Not to many errors and no main character syndrome. 

[BigBar]

Beck been really impressive. Calling out for a decent left back for years. Gueye been useful holding it up but we have been wasteful once he has laid it off. Can't well busy but uncharacteristically sloppy, same for Dolan. Need to settle it down second half and not invite them on or the inevitable will happen. 

[Gordon Gekko]

Puressence blasting away at half time! whoever picked that tune give yourself a pat on the back, cracking band!

[RTM08]

It does seem odd on the face of it, going all out to get players like Gueye and Cantwell to keep the ball higher up the field and then sit on the edge of our own box at home against a mid to low table side. That surely can't have been the plan coming into the season?  

I'll take what points we can get of course, but it does worry me that we lack the nous to put our foot down on our own turf.

[Adam C]

Just now, Gordon Gekko said:

Puressence blasting away at half time! whoever picked that tune give yourself a pat on the back, cracking band!

Even better, Voodoo Ray on now. What a tune

[doctorryan]

2 minutes ago, moerpho said:

Who is this ref? He’s been ok in my view. Not to many errors and no main character syndrome. 

Fucking Webb has the whistle today.

[moerpho]

3 minutes ago, doctorryan said:

Fucking Webb has the whistle today.

So it’s just a false dawn and we are due some shitbaggery on display?

[roversinmyblood]

That was a penalty

[moerpho]

That was a decent kick to the balls

[Old Codger]

Still very even and Swansea grinding out chances. We need someone from Rovers to stamp their mark on this game, in a positive sense, of course.

[Old Codger]

Wednesday have equalised against the Dingles 🙂

Oops, my bad. Dingles have doubled their lead... sorry. 😞

Edited October 19, 2024 by Old Codger