The Swansea City defender was clearly in a mood to take a swipe back after hearing the comments from Jay Bothroyd ahead of the game when he said Swansea were not the same team as last year.
And the Welsh international was in the mood to knock Cardiff’s route one football when he told the Western Mail “I don’t know when they turned into Stoke City.”
Stoke have been much criticised in the past two years for their route one football under Tony Pulis and Ash was clearly thinking the Swans’ visitors were turning into a similar side after the game at the Liberty.
And on the subject of Bothroyd’s pre-match comments, Williams added “We believe we don’t get the respect we deserve from every team – and Cardiff sum it up
“We believe they think they’re better than us, and it riles us.
“Every week it’s identical – no one talks about us anywhere.
“People think we’re just a pretty passing team and if teams get at us they can win,” he added.
“But maybe those watching this game will have realised that’s not the case, because we showed we can also dig in when we have to.
“Soon someone’s going to have to start paying attention.
“Hopefully, this win will have gone a fair way to doing something about it.
“I still doubt if people will be talking us up as play-off contenders, so we have to keep shoving it down their throats.
“Then when we get up there, it’s a fact, people can’t argue.
“And we’ll keep going about our business and keep playing football the Swansea City way.
“I don’t think the whole match was the prettiest spectacle,” said the 25-year-old centre-half.
“I think we played OK, but I don’t know when they turned into Stoke City.
“Every throw-in, free-kick and even from the kick-off, they went route one.
“We thought they’d have played a bit better football like they did last season.
“We were missing the height of Garry Monk at the back, so maybe that was in their thinking.
“We thought they didn’t have much else, so we just wanted to stand strong, which we did.
“Monks is a massive part of the team,” he said. “Tatey has played at centre-back loads of times, so that wasn’t an issue.
“But when we saw Monks limping before kick-off and he said he couldn’t play, a few of us worked hard to make sure no-one dropped their heads. And it seemed to work.”
