• 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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    The FA Cup

    2nd November 1991, U2 were top with 'The Fly'. Adams was top the week before. It's shite, so don't bother.
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    Williams out

    But have they made an absolute mess of the last three windows? If you were a striker trying to further your career, would you go to a club where you will be lucky to get double figures touches of the ball in a game, any game? Frankly, if anyone else was interested, you'd go there. Not much the...
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    Williams out

    I am now of the opinion that there are two workable options, 1. Sack Williams and try someone else. The trouble with that is that Williams has made the defence effective, which is very valuable and hard to do in this league. 2. Get in a DoF with some authority over the metrics used to judge...
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    Season 24/25 | The Official Match Thread | Swansea 0 Millwall 1 | The EFL Championship

    At one point in the Ipswich game they had 6 players blocking channels and pressing the 3 Swansea guys who had the ball. OK, they worked the ball out of the press, didn't lose it, moved it across the pitch, then looked up and chipped. But by that time the Ipswich players had fallen back and their...
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    Season 24/25 | The Official Match Thread | Swansea 0 Millwall 1 | The EFL Championship

    Grimes will have 2,784 touches of the ball, Ronald will have 15 and Vipotnic 4. After the game fans will ask "Why can't we score?". There will be cries of "Our front guys are useless, there's no goals in this team". Maybe, but what is clear is that there's no goals in this way of playing.
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    Season 24/25 | The Official Match Thread | Sheffield Wednesday 0 Swansea City 0 | EFL Championship

    People are surprised at the lack of goals, but they really shouldn't be. It is now obvious how to defend against this way of playing, and even an on form Michu would get nothing. You can't expect front players, or wingers, to do much if by the time they receive the ball the opposition defence...
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    Season 24/25 | The Official Match Thread | Sheffield Wednesday 0 Swansea City 0 | EFL Championship

    If the defensive midfield hang on to the ball for 10 seconds after winning it back, then the opposition back line will be fully organized. If you insist on working the ball on the floor out of the mildest press your wingers will be tight marked by the time you've done it. If you keep moving the...
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    Wrexham at home.

    I like that they play "Men of Harlech", I like "Cwm Rhondda", it's a superb piece of music. How Wales ended up with "Hen Wlad FY Nhadau" I will never understand.
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    Wrexham at home.

    Since Mrs. Reynolds said "It's 'no' until you get rid of that goddamned soccer club". They were in all black to commemorate the Gresford Colliery disaster, September 22nd 1934.
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    Luke Williams ahead of West Brom | Press Conference

    But Swansea are playing a much more 'pure' form than City play. A City player under pressure near goal will welly it every time, de Bryne especially loves the 45 degree chip forward across into space between the opposition midfield and back line, they get a lot of goals that way. They also get a...
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    Luke Williams

    Swansea had something unique at that time. They had spotted the power of playing on the floor, short passes and holding possession. No one else in the English leagues was doing it, none of them knew how to play against it, so it was very successful. That advantage is gone. Every team knows how...
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    Season 24/25 | The Official Match Thread | Swansea City vs Wycombe Wanderers | The Carabao Cup

    Barcelona stopped playing this 'keep it on the ground at all times, bar crosses' because they stopped winning. Everybody knows how to handle it, block the channels forward from the man on the ball, no need to defend areas, rush press when someone at the back gets isolated on the ball, as they...
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    Summer 2024 Transfer Rumours

    Regarding this transfer window, I'm mildly optimistic. I have a strong impression that Williams knows how he wants the team to be as a footballing entity and when asked "How about this guy" will give a useful opinion. Contrast that with, 1. Russell Martin. His first 'must have' import was...
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    The Euro 2024 Thread

    Has he risen to the standard of kn*B in his old age? There is hope for him then.
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    The Euro 2024 Thread

    Foden was superb. It's noticeable that Bellingham has zero rapport with the rest of the team. If there's an incisive pass with Bellingham involved, the receiver runs the wrong way, whether it's him making the pass or receiving the pass. I'm beginning to think he does things the Real Madrid way...
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    The Euro 2024 Thread

    My God! The Oranje can all count off two bars of the music, and two bars back again, completing the measure. A bit beyond England fans I think.
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    Championship Playoff Final

    Martin with complete freedom at Swansea was a very different manager to Martin working under Jason Wilcox at Southampton. For one thing they never fully adopted the Martin defensive system.
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    Uncle Russ

    Russell is finally managing to instil the basics of proper defending in his Southampton players. 1. Watch the ball at all times. It's the ball you want so that's what you should watching. 2. Defenders should stand together in groups, then you have the players to rush on to their attackers. 3...
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    Cardiff City 'claiming £104m in compensation from Nantes' ...

    It could well be. Sometimes companies mount legal actions simply to look good to an outside audience. If Tan is in trouble in Malaysia that might explain it, it would give him something to point to. But the delay suggests to me that there has been a change in the case, a legal opinion, a new...
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    Cardiff City 'claiming £104m in compensation from Nantes' ...

    This is a different argument. Before they were saying Solana never became a Cardiff player, so they were not liable for the transfer fee. Now they accept that he did become one of theirs, but then subsequent actions of Nantes then got him killed and damaged their club. I have no idea if they...

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