Moore Praise For Swans Fans Knowledge

The Swansea City striker will return to Derby County tomorrow having spent three months on loan there earlier this season prior to his switch to the Liberty Stadium in January.

And he revealed how much he is enjoying life at Swansea – particularly around their style and the patience of the supporters in watching that style.

“I’ve never played for fans who are quite as understanding as Swansea in terms of knowing their football,” Moore told the Western Mail

“It’s a bit surreal in many ways; you go to any other ground and you make a sideways pass and fans are booing you because they want you to boot the ball up the pitch.

“It’s totally different here which is great – and it saves me getting bumps on my head from whacking long balls forward.

“All the players are appreciative of it because it makes our jobs and what we’re trying to do a lot easier.

“It helps because we’re coming to a crunch time where you have to put results together. And we know that might mean we’re going to have to win ugly at times over the next 10 games.

“It’s a very hard league to get out of so you have to stay together, don’t talk too much about it and just go out there and do it.

“We can’t believe we’re better than we are and make sure we get ourselves over that line.

“We have to stay humble and use that humility to get to where we want to.”

And on his return to Pride Park, Moore added “It can be hard for any team in front of your fans when you’re not winning

“Derby are a great club with great support and the fans were always behind us when I was there, but perhaps they’ve been unhappy at some of the recent performances.

“They are a big club all set up to do well and perhaps they’re in a bit of a transitional period where they could have to cut the wage bill.

“It’s not happened for them recently, but this is a hard league and it can happen to anyone.

“So we can’t look at where they are in the table because they have better players than their position suggests.

“The manager knows what he is doing and the chairman has faith in him. I worked with Martin O’Neill and they are cut from the same cloth – very hungry and prepared to work very hard.

“I think they’ll turn it around and I hope they do, so we have to make sure we’re at our best.”