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Recent content by Dr. Winston

  1. Dr. Winston

    Vipotnik

    Cullen doesn't get anywhere near starting upfront, ever, unless Sheehan has gone clinically insane or both Idah and Vipotnik are injured. Vip has possession at the moment so you'd think that he'll start against Hull.
  2. Dr. Winston

    Vipotnik

    People continually overlook the importance of confidence to a strikers game. Vipotnik upped sticks to another country at a relatively young age after effectively losing his job, then spent the first two thirds of the season playing for a moron who had no idea how to use him. Despite this he...
  3. Dr. Winston

    The Summer Transfer Window Thread

    Primarily why I've tended to lay off the "Our transfer windows have been shite!" narrative. We've signed some decent players, but we've appointed some hopeless managers. The three years wasted between Russy and Luke Williams did us more damage than anyone we brought in during a transfer window.
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    The Swan Dive: why Swansea’s attendances have taken a plunge?

    The madness is that in terms of income it wouldn't actually make a massive difference. Say, for a basic example we sold 18,000 STs at full whack of £459, that works out at around £8.2m. In reality a fair chunk of those would be concessionary prices so the actual amount would probably be closer...
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    The Swan Dive: why Swansea’s attendances have taken a plunge?

    Even in the 70's they couldn't beat New Zealand.
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    The Swan Dive: why Swansea’s attendances have taken a plunge?

    In terms of day to day interest it's not even close to a 50/50 split and hasn't been for about 20 years. People still turn out for a piss up on Six Nations days but have little or no interest in club rugby. If you added the attendances of all the Swansea Rugby clubs (Dunvant, Glais etc) to the...
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    The Swan Dive: why Swansea’s attendances have taken a plunge?

    Unless there are expenses involved that make it non-cost effective, taking season tickets off sale makes no sense. Keep them on sale, but reduce the price by £20 for every game that passes. Plus I'd certainly look at the kids pricing. Considering how much we've spent over and above our entire...
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    The Summer Transfer Window Thread

    Placing restrictions on supply thus driving prices up plays into the hands of the richer teams anyway. Probably even more so than the alternative. When we've reached a point where you're looking at a club paying £35m for a player (albeit a very good one in Guehi) and thinking "Christ, that's...
  9. Dr. Winston

    The Summer Transfer Window Thread

    Window should be done away with altogether. Back to the way it used to be. One transfer deadline late in the season.
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    The Swan Dive: why Swansea’s attendances have taken a plunge?

    Sounds about right. And we were a club on the up at the time having not spent four or five years playing football tedious enough to drive away supporters.
  11. Dr. Winston

    Vipotnik

    You're quite right. As this is a discussion over which one of them served the team better as a striker last season Cullen being top scorer doesn't actually matter as most of his goals came when he played in a completely different position. Glad we sorted that out. I haven't decided anything...
  12. Dr. Winston

    When Deadline Day Was Just March: Ceefax, ClubCall, and the Lost Art of Waiting

    Enjoyed this read. Was a better system for me. All transfer windows have done is push up prices and wages as desperate clubs have less time to make deals happen.
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    Vipotnik

    No. No he wasn't. Not in goals scored when playing upfront, which are, after all, the raison d'etre of a striker. The figures are pretty clear on that. A 5/6 week purple patch when he wasn't even playing upfront seems to have convinced a lot of people otherwise. Including you it would seem...
  14. Dr. Winston

    The Summer Transfer Window Thread

    He does seem to have woken up a bit since moving to Coventry. I just found it amusing that, as per usual, it was the other midfielders who were being targeted by high profile clubs.
  15. Dr. Winston

    The Summer Transfer Window Thread

    Poor Matt Grimes. Always the Bridesmaid.

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