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You seem to have a down on Sheehan whatever he does.

Sheehan’s strategy wasn’t to try not to win. What a strange thing to post. It was obviously to defend deep and take at least a point, if not snatch all three on the break. He may well have intended to put in a more attacking formation for the last 10 minutes like he did against Derby. The goal...

Nicking a point with a bore draw is actually a really good strategy, George Graham built a career on it. Gets monotonous after a while but so does champagne if that’s all you get to drink.

Pretty much everyone who has expressed a view on this season’s Championship expects Boro to finish 6th or 7th and be genuine play-off contenders, with the Swans around 11th to 13th. So your advice to the manager would have been ‘don’t go defensive away from home against a team that usually beats...

Let’s hope these reports are correct (and not just clickbaiters taking Phil’s report from earlier today and running ahead of themselves). Going to be a nervous day or two waiting for confirmation (or not).

While I massively agree with your post overall, I am not sure that being a supporter requires someone to park their critical faculties and provide unreserved adoration 100% of the time, like one of Mao’s young communists in the Cultural Revolution. But supporters should generally look for - and...

Maybe Sheehan told his players to clear the ball asap and not try to pass their way out of defence because Burgess isn’t totally in synch with his new colleagues yet, or Conway is known for nicking the ball off defenders (I have no idea). If he didn’t intend that to happen he had an opportunity...

People said the same thing about the Derby game, where we came away with all three points. This time we came away with nothing, but we were one set-piece error away from taking a point against a team that most people expected to beat us. They were limited to three shots on target all game. OK...

The source for that ‘McBurnie turned down a bigger offer from Swansea’ story is the same Alan Nixon who reported that we were front runners to sign him. Keith is reporting that we did not make an inquiry about him, let alone an offer, and that certainly fits the known facts better than Nixon’s...

What, that he throws players under the bus and never accepts responsibility for himself? Unlikely, as one of the things that people like about Sheehan is his honesty and willingness to be self-critical.

I know this is off topic, but can anyone tell me when I get to be a named player? Is it 500 posts? And do I get a say in who that is? I would love to be Tony Millington. Or Wilf Milne.

Phew! Sheehan is safe for another week!

Oh, I think we can carry on blaming the last regime for quite a bit longer, owners and managers alike.

We have only dropped one place since yesterday 🙄

He did, particularly against Derby as I recall (much to people’s annoyance but it did the job).

Yes, you have been very consistent in that regard. I can see why people don’t like Jay, I just don’t share that view.

To be fair to him, he put in some decent shifts under Sheehan last season. Worrying that he seems to have reverted in the pre-season games to that ponderous, backward passing type of football we saw too much of when he was partnering Grimes, but he is capable of better. Not saying you are guilty...

And Eom. I imagine both will be subbed pretty early

https://swans100.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/1928-29.pdf

The first two football matches in Britain to feature squad numbers were Swans away at Chelsea and Wednesday v Arsenal in August 1928