S25/26 | The Official Match Thread | Bristol City 3 Swansea City 0 | Att: 23,842 (2,483 Away) | 22/11/25 | The EFL Championship | Ashton Gate

[Menston4128]

As others reported on here. He didn't go over to the crowd at the end. If that's the case glad he is gone. I'm looking for excuses, but clearly the players knew he was off and unhappy. And you can see that in tactics. O Dea for me and I'll eat my words on this has done more damage than good to this club.

I agree that O'dea has been poor for Swansea, but who really cares if a manager (or player) goes and claps the supporters at the end of a game.

Why is that a thing in football, I dont want clapping for supporting my team.

BTW what I do want is a performance full of passion and endeavour and maybe a sprinkling of skill.

 

[Swans Jack]

I agree that O'dea has been poor for Swansea, but who really cares if a manager (or player) goes and claps the supporters at the end of a game.

Why is that a thing in football, I dont want clapping for supporting my team.

BTW what I do want is a performance full of passion and endeavour and maybe a sprinkling of skill.

I care and many others do. It's a sign of respect for fans who travel
This is not a debate about who does and doesn't go to games. It's out respecting fans who travel the most out of the whole league and put money into the club.

 

[J_B]

I agree that O'dea has been poor for Swansea, but who really cares if a manager (or player) goes and claps the supporters at the end of a game.

Why is that a thing in football, I dont want clapping for supporting my team.

BTW what I do want is a performance full of passion and endeavour and maybe a sprinkling of skill.

I agree. There's so much noise about fist pumps, clapping, whether a manager sits down or stands up and what he wears.
Send out a team that's organised, plays with heart and skill and all the above is irrelevant.

 

[Michu78]

I never thought cooking food and cleaning dishes during the game was more enjoyable than watching us, I caught about half hour of the game today and that was enough.

 

[Whaleoilbeefhooked]

As others reported on here. He didn't go over to the crowd at the end. If that's the case glad he is gone. I'm looking for excuses, but clearly the players knew he was off and unhappy. And you can see that in tactics. O Dea for me and I'll eat my words on this has done more damage than good to this club.

 

[Whaleoilbeefhooked]

Don’t blame that Bozo, blame the bozos that hired him !

 

[Whaleoilbeefhooked]

I agree that O'dea has been poor for Swansea, but who really cares if a manager (or player) goes and claps the supporters at the end of a game.

Why is that a thing in football, I dont want clapping for supporting my team.

BTW what I do want is a performance full of passion and endeavour and maybe a sprinkling of skill.

Why does everybody blame the manager?
Where’s the professional pride by overpaid (Oh no, I have to play twice in a week) prima donnas ?

 

[Bluenile]

So that's what we've come down to, we need Fulton to steady the ship? Might as well go down and play in League One NOW! Forget any thoughts of moving up this league and the Premier League, it's League One and Fulton as a manager to take us into League two. Insane!

 

[monmouth]

I agree that O'dea has been poor for Swansea, but who really cares if a manager (or player) goes and claps the supporters at the end of a game.

Why is that a thing in football, I dont want clapping for supporting my team.

BTW what I do want is a performance full of passion and endeavour and maybe a sprinkling of skill.

I would have told him to sod off* if he’d patronisingly tried to applaud us after that shitshow. Like Cullen waving his arms at us to cheer when they manage to get a corner. Concentrate on doing your job, and whang it in the onion bag, instead of putting it 30 yards over the bar pal.

*Well, I wouldn’t have, because I’d already buggered off home, but you know what I mean

 

[Menston4128]

I care and many others do. It's a sign of respect for fans who travel
This is not a debate about who does and doesn't go to games. It's out respecting fans who travel the most out of the whole league and put money into the club.

Most of the clapping / chest pumping is gaslighting, but if it floats your boat then fine.

For me the players and manager show fans respect by their level of performance. The managers performance for me is how he coaches and sets up the team etc..

 

[tardylum]

Today only reinforced that Sheehan and his backroom staff did not fancy Widell or Yalcouye at all. Widell at the start and results got so bad that he needed to try something and so he was used a little bit by the end. Yalcouye started the first few games and has barely seen the pitch since. O'dea used neither off the bench despite the awful result I do not care if Yalcouye wears a Swansea shirt again but alongside Inoussa, Matos needs to figure out if Widell is worth bothering with very quickly or he can be moved on in January to make space for players we can actually play.

Right now other than Burgess, Vigouroux, Tymon and Galbraith, I do not know who should be starting every week. So few players have failed to show anything positive for weeks. Even among those four there have been ups and downs but you have to find a consistent core in some positions. The midfield is a big issue right now because we feel so far away from figuring out who should play and what there roles are, it feels like all of them are very similar and none of them want to or can sit and play the Fulton role.

 

[Andrew - North Hill]

There's so much noise about fist pumps, clapping, whether a manager sits down or stands up and what he wears.

Completely agree.

I couldn't give a toss if we had a quadruple amputee dressed as the Fairy Godmother in the dugout, as long as he won more games than he lost and his team entertained us.

 

[tardylum]

“Individually, Franco, Stemenic, Galbraith, Yalcouye are all capable at this level”.

So everyone keeps saying. And yet we’re dreadful. Maybe, just maybe, they aren’t actually as good as people think.

This. This. This!

We have seen Franco a lot at this level now and he is not a bad player at this level but is fairly limited and average. Stamenic was not the Fulton upgrade he was promised as and seems to be more of a number eight. Jury still out on him. Galbraith is a good footballer and is the one I can understand people arguing is being hurt by the team and system, but he is also probably a number eight. I do not understand why people are so certain about Yalcouye, he has not played in a league anybody watches and he has been average at best for us so far and barely played but also looks like a number eight who is limited going forward. The desperation for Widell to play more is just blind hope that he offers something different because those four overlap so much and do not excel where we really need player to right now.

 

[JackSomething]

This clapping/acknowledging the fans stuff, I think the players should absolutely do that (especially away games) no matter the result, thank the team for their support.

I think the manager should shake hands with the opposition coaching staff and be straight down the tunnel preparing what he's going to say to the players in the dressing room. I'm pretty sure that was Roberto's routine and I always appreciated that he never made it about him at the end of a game.

You can see why managers do it, Russy's fist pumps seem to have been a big factor in why a section of Swans fans still pine for him. At least that's the only reason I can think of.

 

[Andrew - North Hill]

The stats for this game, are so deceiving it’s quite remarkable, If I do a footy bet, I usually take a glimpse at previous stats, but watching this game and what the stats show, the stats really flatter the Swans, which was a diabolical performance! Ah well, hopefully things will improve.

It wasn't diabolical, in fact most of our performances this season have not been diabolical, our problem is - and I think @Jackareme alluded to this in an earlier post today - we are painfully shite in both boxes.

Between both boxes we are reasonably neat and tidy, today was no different, but we make crappy individual mistakes for fun at the back and our forward players pack all the punch of an under-6s team at the other end.