• Thank you very much | Diolch yn fawr

    All at JackArmy.net would like to thank everyone who has played a part on this site over the past 25 years whether that is through writing, contributing, moderating, posting or just visting and reading.

    Without any of you the work that has gone into the site would have been pointless and we will always be proud that we built, generated and managed a community that was such a big part of the Swansea City supporting life for so long.

    It has been a pleasure to bring to you the site for so long but the time is now right to turn the lights out for the last time but we do it both with a heavy heart and a sense of pride driven by the so many messages received since we announced the closure.

    The site will remain here for a period until we archive and mothball it for the last time later this summer but all aspects are in a read only format.

    Thank you though for all the memories

    Phil Sumbler
    Owner, jackarmy.net

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    Season 24/25| The Official Match Thread | Watford 1 Swansea City 0 | Att: 16,739 | The EFL Championship

    I'm not happy to see Harris injured, not at all, but he is a loan, and given that the team is suddenly in 'push on' mode it is an opportunity to develop one of our own players. Vipotnik is suddenly getting into good positions and receiving the ball, being part of switching sides in front of...
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    New Manager

    Spain have given up trying to make 'keep it on the floor' football work, so has everyone else who actually wins. The counters are simple, easy and well known. You can keep it on the floor for long periods, but you have to be prepared to chip and use movement. That's what Laudrup did when he was...
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    New Manager

    He wants to manage a team. If does well in the last 10 and Swansea don't keep him on, he will go elsewhere, as a manager who now has 'EPL credentials'. I dread the Board bringing in a new wunderkind who rapidly finds that the team can't play his system and retreats into a defensive borefest of...
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    Michael Duff Sacked ...

    How do you know he got a pay-off? He may have fallen foul of performance measures and got very little.
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    New Manager

    I liked what Sheehan did last time he was in charge, I think he was the best of the last four managers, a view reinforced by Saturday. My fear is that the Board will get the guy 'they really want' who will turn out to be yet another Messiah with a system who plays lots of players out of position...
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    New Manager

    It would make sense to see if Sheehan can get some performances out of the team. Even if they see Sheehan as strictly temporary it would help to persuade people to come here if the players look a bit better than they did under Williams. I would be a sound reason to not rush things.
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    New Manager

    Whoever it is, please no more of this vanity of playing guys out of position. 2nd rate managers all insist on doing it to prove how 'insightful' they are, the guy has one decent half hour and they do the whole "I wuz right!" thing. Never mind the fact that he's lost and useless the rest of the...
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    Williams may have gone but the real problems at Swansea City still remain

    The appointment of Montague has at least two explanations, 1. The obvious one, that they brought him in to support Williams and then suddenly Williams position became untenable (results, losing the dressing room, insulting the club), their view changed and they sacked him in a volte face. 2...
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    That's OK, if people tell me I don't know what I'm talking about, experience has taught me they...

    That's OK, if people tell me I don't know what I'm talking about, experience has taught me they are probably right. But thank you for clearing away the unpleasantness, it's better without.
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    Swansea City Have Parted Ways with Head Coach Luke Williams

    As I thought. Coleman is the kind of manager who will enthuse to all and sundry, including yourself, about what a wonderful job you are doing, then his gofer puts the latest stats on his desk, you're below the line and you get sacked in the morning. It's a common style of management in the US...
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    We Need A Manager Bounce - Badly

    You should try it, the fresh air is good. It would make you a better person.
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    We Need A Manager Bounce - Badly

    I am fairly sure that Coleman is the kind of manager who believes in giving full support and he will eulogise to your face about the wonderful job you are doing, and sack you in the morning. I've known a few, there is no middle ground, you are wonderful and then suddenly you are out.
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    We Need A Manager Bounce - Badly

    When Ronald arrived he set the league on fire, I saw in the Guardian "Championship Swansea have captured a Premier League player". Now? Why is that?
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    We Need A Manager Bounce - Badly

    Actually, I liked the way they played under Sheehan, so I will suggest we let Sheehan do until he stuffs up.
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    Season 24/25 | Stoke City 3 Swansea City 1 | Att: 21,256 | The Official Match Thread | The EFL Championship

    I said at the time that I thought the sale was part of a wider deal, I still think so. Something like "You scratch our backs by buying this embarrassingly over valued thing in our portfolio at book value, and we'll sell this other thing to your mate at a knock down price. That way we all look...
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    Season 24/25 | Stoke City 3 Swansea City 1 | Att: 21,256 | The Official Match Thread | The EFL Championship

    If have no inside information, but I always thought that Duff was undermined by the "but he's not Russ" elements in the team, who could only think of playing the way Martin did things and would sulk if it was anything else. The player I thought was the centre of that has left now, so perhaps we...
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    Season 24/25 | Stoke City 3 Swansea City 1 | Att: 21,256 | The Official Match Thread | The EFL Championship

    It's a fascinating style of management. Force the team to play in a style that is 10 years out of date, with absurd restrictions on what they are allowed to do on the pitch. Then if they manage to get in front, take off the best players and completely disrupt the rhythm to ensure they lose, as I...
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    Where Do We Go From Here? Wiliams Is Killing Us! Any Suggestions?

    Swansea play a time-warp of 2010 tactics. The counters were established 10 years ago, nobody successful plays that way any more, the world has moved on. Watching the opposition, you can almost hear the briefing they were given, the tactics they have been told to use, that are very easy to...
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    Grimes To Save The Nation

    The problem with the pipeline is that the guys who have come out of it and shown class have moved themselves ASAP to other clubs. Net, it's not profitable business, and it doesn't make a team. They get into the first team and within a year their agent is spreading 'rumours' about this or that...
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    Grimes To Save The Nation

    I suspect that Grimes playing under Bellamy is a very different proposition to Grimes under Martin/Williams. Bellamy is a guy who, 1. Demands that the ball goes forward. 2. Is happy to shout, and keep on shouting at those who don't listen. 3. Has a vocabulary that would make a CPO blush. 4. Has...

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