Jacket said:
Listen, he's not gonna play football like Laudrup or Brenda, that is quite clear. The best we can expect is Cooperball, and in a nutshell that's what we're seeing at the moment, without the results of course. However, since any replacements are also likely of the same kind of style, i.e. old Nath the xG bollox brains, I don't think any changes will be made because of the style of football, or lack thereof. So as we're not going to see tiki taka or anything resembling it, I reckon he needs to be given a couple more games to sort things out results wise. After all, it's only been two games since a significant number of signings were made. He had the international break granted, but Scummer Page kind of spoiled that by taking Cabango and Cullen on a trip up the Baltics for no apparent reason.
We dont have the players to play a la Laudrup or Brenda.....show me the likes of Rangel,Ash,Chico,Leon,DeGauzman,Michu,Routeledge,Dyer,Siggurdson,SInclair,Pratley, just to name a few in our current squad
The "Swansea way" was how we did things in total as a club, not just what we did on the pitch through the Martinez, era we sourced players we thought could play to our "system" we also had a good base of players who had come from PL clubs in their early days Tate, Monk, Gower, Leon we added some "cheap" Spanish flair,loaned Gomez a pearl compare things with what we have now. It also extended beyond the pitch with Martinez working to bring the club together,the youth team ate with the first team after training ...this could be seen in our days using the Glamorgan now David Lloyds, there was a band of brothers feel to the squad. This began to disentegrate druing Laudrups time ....remember the Chico incident?
This DNA we talk about was long since destroyed in the PL years .
Martins football was nothing like Martinez's under Roberto the ball went forwards at pace rarely did we pass it around the back four , Sousa beefed us up defensively as Roberto mantra was you score 1 we will socre 2 etc then Brendan added some polish but all these guys had players suited gto the play and had been around the philosphy now we seem to source purely on budget.
We have a set of owners who care not for style of play or appreciate our history their focus in getting to the PL where they can reap rewards even make us saleable to recoup some monies perhaps.
Things are not great at the moment but if we sack Duff now who replaces him? Cam Toshack? turned down at least twice by the club and what coaching pedigree does he have?
The names of past players such as Ash and Rangel are being bandied around ...neither has any coaching pedigree and amongst the current crop of "senior" pros these two mean nothing...Its always great to be sentimental as fans... O
Funnily it seems at Barnsley and Cheltenham Duff played some good football maybe his head has been mixed up by gthe powers at be ....talking to him about being results focused over style etc following their experience of our previous manager...maybe he is trying to placate them and in doing so is not getting it right. The football is mostly crap and lacking in result but we were all prepared to give Martin time perhaps because many believed passing the ball around in our half was entertaining football....who knows ...I dont believe we will get relegated but time is ticking..but I fear we will become even more a basket case of a club as we knee jerk and become like Watford but without their financial clout
