Let’s see what you are made of – your chance to prove talk isn’t cheap

Wednesday, 10 April 2024, 8:23
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The Swans entertain Stoke City at the Swansea.com Stadium with the words of Luke Williams seemingly ringing in their ears as he talked about an unacceptable performance at the weekend in which the Swans had “nothing”

Much has been written since then about the fact that those words could have been used many times over the past few seasons but tonight none of that matters, all the players have to do is deliver on the pitch both with style and result.ย  ย  It is time to see a performance where they look like a group of players intent on earning their lucrative salaries and also a group of players who care about the badge that they are fortunate enough to wear.

We do not want to hear the usual rubbish of “togetherness” and pointless words that reflect into a performance on the pitch that makes more people want to switch off from watching a game and makes people reluctant to attend games with the smallest crowd of the season expected this evening given the midweek date and the forecast for yet another wet and miserable day here in South West Wales.

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What frustrates more is that the team showed against Cardiff what they are capable of but we seem to have created a position where more than a couple of the squad believe that beating Cardiff is the be all and end all.ย  ย It’s important to us but we need to put in more than a couple of performances every season.ย  ย Five games remaining this term require five performances and everyone should believe that they are playing for their futures.ย  ย It’s not that difficult is it?

For the rest we will leave it to Luke Williams and his programme notes – “We return home knowing we simply have to do much better than we did against Middlesbrough at the weekend.

“The performance at the Riverside Stadium was simply unacceptable. We were completely lacking in energy and conviction.

“In the lead-up to the game I spoke about the importance of mentality, and wanting to make sure we have the hunger and appetite to keep pushing to reach a higher level.

“There will be those of you who will have watched our last few performances and feel you have not seen the same levels you saw in the win against Cardiff City. I want you to know I agree with you.

“We thoroughly deserved to win that day, but you cannot perform in that manner – on the back of building up to that sort of display – and then allow yourselves to dip.

“We have to strive to be more than just an okay team. To me, that is soul-destroying. We simply have to always want more.

“This club has a proud history, and it is a huge responsibility to work and play for Swansea City.

“We have wonderful supporters who travel far and wide to cheer on this team, and they deserve far better than the display we served up on Teesside.

“We have to be better, itโ€™s as simple as that. We cannot have a repeat of that.ย 

“The nature of football means you may not always perform as you want to. You can play well and lose or play poorly and win, but there are certain elements you simply have to have when it comes to energy and intensity; and they were not sufficiently there on Saturday.

“We want to turn in a vastly-improved showing against a Stoke side who are in a similar part of the table to us.

“We have to do better for you, and for this football club.”

Those are the words – now deliver on the actions.

JackArmy.net Predicts: Swansea City 2-0 Stoke City

The Swans game against Stoke kicks off at 8pm this evening and is live on Sky Sports Football.

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ARQS

First Team Player

341 messages 22 likes

We know exactly what they're made of.

Let's hope that we manage to stay up without these frauds pulling the wool over anyone's eyes in the process.

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Fbreath

First Team Player

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I wonder how much hot air will come out of the club today before kick off

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Roger Freestone

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Let's not see what they are made of, that's why we're in this position.
Hopefully they can muster up some effort and get us the four points needed, then most of them can fuck off...

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Mel Nurse

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Hopefully, not a lot. The time for talking is over, they need to start producing performances.

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Roger Freestone

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The team will be fascinating and show if he has any balls and awareness of reality at all. Especially after his programme comments backing up his annoyance at his chosen team at Boro.

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Alan Waddle

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No is the answer Mon, Same old same old.

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Mel Nurse

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Fair play, can't fault any of them for that display, this evening. Credit where it's due.

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Roger Freestone

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Yep, it did come off. They all tried their hardest. A lot of limitations out there, but we knew that. All you can ask is 100% effort and we got that. We need it every game.

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jonboyswan

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First time this season in my opinion that we have had our first choice back 4 and low and behold a clean sheet. In a poor season i do carry hope that this very young back 4 can become an exicting base to work on from.

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Phil Sumbler

Been watching the Swans since the very late 1970s and running the Planet Swans website (in all its current and previous guises since the summer of 2001 As it stood JackArmy.net was right at the forefront of some of the activity against Tony Petty back in 2001, breaking many of the stories of the day as fans stood against the actions where the local media failed. Was involved with the Swans Supporters Trust from 2005, for the large part as Chairman before standing down in the summer of 2020.

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