A dump of a city??

[Bluenile]

Reading an article on NewsNow about us and Ollie McBurnie, and referring to our capture of Cameron Burgess. This final paragraph felt to me as if made by someone who's never even visited Swansea.
"Ask the Valencia CEO . . . . . . . . He is probably scratching his head even this morning wondering what happened with Cameron Burgess. Well, the club with no money, and who are struggling in a dump of a city just railroaded you mate. Sometimes you can’t have everything you want."

 

[cmajack]

Reading an article on NewsNow about us and Ollie McBurnie, and referring to our capture of Cameron Burgess. This final paragraph felt to me as if made by someone who's never even visited Swansea.
"Ask the Valencia CEO . . . . . . . . He is probably scratching his head even this morning wondering what happened with Cameron Burgess. Well, the club with no money, and who are struggling in a dump of a city just railroaded you mate. Sometimes you can’t have everything you want."

Swansea is a beautiful place to live , particularly when the weather is as lovely as it has been lately. Valencia is an amazing city though , having spent a few days there when they played the Swans .

 

[Darran]

Reading an article on NewsNow about us and Ollie McBurnie, and referring to our capture of Cameron Burgess. This final paragraph felt to me as if made by someone who's never even visited Swansea.
"Ask the Valencia CEO . . . . . . . . He is probably scratching his head even this morning wondering what happened with Cameron Burgess. Well, the club with no money, and who are struggling in a dump of a city just railroaded you mate. Sometimes you can’t have everything you want."

Who wrote it?

 

[Copamundial]

He’s not far wrong though is he, outside of Mumbles and the Gower Peninsula it’s a dump.
What’s happened to the City centre is disgraceful, great if you want to go on the lash but forget it if you want to buy something as basic as a pair of decent jeans.

 

[JackSomething]

He’s not far wrong though is he, outside of Mumbles and the Gower Peninsula it’s a dump.
What’s happened to the City centre is disgraceful, great if you want to go on the lash but forget it if you want to buy something as basic as a pair of decent jeans.

Go to the majority of cities with similar population sizes and you'll see similar. I keep banging this drum, but out of town retail parks and online shopping have decimated city centre retail. You suggest to a teenager today that they should go clothes shopping in the city centre and they'd likely think you were a bit weird.

Times have changed and Swansea is at least trying different things to adapt - moving council staff into the city centre, renewing Castle Square, focusing more on hospitality and leisure, etc.

 

[Ichabod Crane]

Who wrote it?

Paul Abbandonato

 

[Professor]

Go to the majority of cities with similar population sizes and you'll see similar. I keep banging this drum, but out of town retail parks and online shopping have decimated city centre retail. You suggest to a teenager today that they should go clothes shopping in the city centre and they'd likely think you were a bit weird.

Times have changed and Swansea is at least trying different things to adapt - moving council staff into the city centre, renewing Castle Square, focusing more on hospitality and leisure, etc.

To be frank the centre/shopping area of affluent Bristol is a hole except Cabot Circus. The restaurants and nightlife are Old Bristol, Clifton and trendy areas like Stokes Croft. Weston despite close to 100,000 population is all out of town and Stoke and Newcastle U-L make Swansea look salubrious. Liverpool and Manchester have vibrant cities but dead surrounding towns.

 

[Darran]

He’s not far wrong though is he, outside of Mumbles and the Gower Peninsula it’s a dump.
What’s happened to the City centre is disgraceful, great if you want to go on the lash but forget it if you want to buy something as basic as a pair of decent jeans.

Yeah but as sad as it is most people don’t leave the house to go shopping anymore.

 

[Swansea93]

Who wrote it?

 

[Ichabod Crane]

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One of our own calling Swansea a dump. Fair enough.

 

[ABSwan]

One of our own calling Swansea a dump. Fair enough.

To be fair, he's just repeating what the Ipswich (and other) fans have said about Swansea.

 

[Ichabod Crane]

To be fair, he's just repeating what the Ipswich (and other) fans have said about Swansea.

Well the Ipswich and other fans can say what they like, I love Swansea and find it sad when our own slate it.

 

[Woody Woodpecker Song]

One of our own calling Swansea a dump. Fair enough.

If you read the article it's a dig at the Ipswich fans who were calling us tinpot.
Just stating how we persuaded the player to sign for us over Rangers and Valencia.

 

[ABSwan]

Well the Ipswich and other fans can say what they like, I love Swansea and find it sad when our own slate it.

I think you're still missing the point. He's not saying it because he thinks Swansea is a dump.

 

[Martyn - Derwydd]

One of our own calling Swansea a dump. Fair enough.

I think it was intended as a back handed response to Ipswich fans calling us a tin pot club