S25/26 | The Official Match Thread | Coventry 1 Swansea 0 | Att: 30,139 | Boxing Day | The EFL Championship | The CBS Arena

[Londonlisa2001]

You could probably have a debate about that in respect of Tom Carroll, but Patino and McEachran did the square root of sod all in a Swansea shirt so quite how you can compare them to Galbraith, personally that is beyond me.

It isn’t about what they produced in a Swansea shirt, I said he reminded me of the type of player they were.

Very technical, quick feet, busy, lots of energy. No coincidence Patino, McEachran and Galbraith are all products of top club academies.

I like Galbraith, I’ve said so any number of times, but yesterday he had a poor game. against Wrexham he had an excellent game and deserved the MOTM award.

I think it’s reasonable to judge a player on actual performance rather than what people think they are seeing.

This happens all the time on here. Some players can do no wrong and some can do no right.

I think he may well go on to be a very very good player and if so we will make a lot of money on him, but at the moment he isn’t as good as some on here seem to believe.

 

[Londonlisa2001]

Seen a lot of cov posts saying we're one of the best they've played this year and we'd be there or there abouts in playoffs if more clinical

I think we'll be closer to those than relegation come end of season. Difference under matos in a month, with confidence at its lowest, is huge

It’s amazing how many teams say we’re one of the best when they’ve just beaten us.

 

[Smurph]

That Friday match was so very frustrating against the league leaders.

I did, however, feel a huge amount of emotion whilst watching our team go toe to toe with them, which is a vastly different feeling to the numb inevitability of it all that I’ve felt a lot of the time over the course of this season so far.

I’m no longer seeing our players going through the motions as much as I was when they were playing under Sheehan.

The performances, week on week are slowly getting better, and I myself have been roused from my zombielike slumber as a result.

As for the performances themselves being converted into the results that those performances have truly deserved, it’s a case of build it and they will come.

Our home form has improved drastically in a short period of time as well.

During our Prem days I always felt on our day we could beat anyone at home when the stadium was rocking.

 

[Londonlisa2001]

By all accounts he’s only scored two goals and one assist in 23 outings, and isn't very productive mun.

One assist in half a season is not a great return for a player who takes a lot of our free kicks and corners.

 

[Smurph]

One assist in half a season is not a great return for a player who takes a lot of our free kicks and corners.

For some context Stamenic has one assist and is one goal behind Galbraith.

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[Londonlisa2001]

For some context Stamenic has one assist and is one goal behind Galbraith.

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I’m one of the few that thinks Stamenic may turn out to be a better signing than Galbraith.

 

[Smurph]

I’m one of the few that thinks Stamenic may turn out to be a better signing than Galbraith.

Hard to disagree with that.

 

[J_B]

Stamenic is also over a year younger than Galbraith which may surprise a few people.

 

[monmouth]

Seen a lot of cov posts saying we're one of the best they've played this year and we'd be there or there abouts in playoffs if more clinical

I think we'll be closer to those than relegation come end of season. Difference under matos in a month, with confidence at its lowest, is huge

I think we'll be ok Eteb, but a team that can't cut it in both penalty boxes (and that's us so far all season) is in severe risk of falling through the trap door, there's no two ways about it. We simply have to improve or we're in serious peril. I think Monday is actually pretty big.

 

[Jackareme]

BOTH good signings IMO.
On a complete tangent, I have thought for many years that officiating is stacked against us. One of the easiest ways to influence a game we saw yesterday.
How often do our ball winner midfielders or defenders get an early yellow card? Particularly when similar or worse offences get ignored.
Stamenic yesterday was a case in point. What better way to handicap a team then to stop then tackling for 80 minutes?
Conspiracy theories got to love them!

 

[monmouth]

BOTH good signings IMO.

Yes, but I'm not sure they can play together. cashing in on the Galbraith hype (not what I want) might not do us any damage in the round.

 

[SeaJack]

Our home form has improved drastically in a short period of time as well.

During our Prem days I always felt on our day we could beat anyone at home when the stadium was rocking.

The good news for me, is the home form is improving just at the right time, as my sister very kindly bought me a half season ticket as a Christmas present, which means that I should be witnessing a continuation of the Renaissance under Vitor Matos in house so to speak.

Thanks to the generosity of the club, who also offered up a couple of freebie tickets to anyone who bought a HST for the Oxford Utd and Portsmouth home matches, I got a chance to cheer on the lads when they bagged that historical win against Pompey.

The West Brom clash on the 1st Jan will be the first game of the New Year ticked off using my HST card, and I’m feeling very optimistic for a win.

I will of course be bracing myself for a torrid 90mins plus stoppage time against the WB bully boys, but I believe that we’re more than capable of getting a goal or two against them.

 

[Smurph]

The good news for me, is the home form is improving just at the right time, as my sister very kindly bought me a half season ticket as a Christmas present, which means that I should be witnessing a continuation of the Renaissance under Vitor Matos in house so to speak.

Thanks to the generosity of the club, who also offered up a couple of freebie tickets to anyone who bought a HST for the Oxford Utd and Portsmouth home matches, I got a chance to cheer on the lads when they bagged that historical win against Pompey.

The West Brom clash on the 1st Jan will be the first game of the New Year ticked off using my HST card, and I’m feeling very optimistic for a win.

I will of course be bracing myself for a torrid 90mins plus stoppage time against the WB bully boys, but I believe that we’re more than capable of getting a goal or two against them.

That's a lovely Christmas present, sounds like you've got a cracking sister, very thoughtful of her.

Saying that come May 2026 you might not be speaking to her after putting you through the rest of the season

 

[Whaleoilbeefhooked]

I think we'll be ok Eteb, but a team that can't cut it in both penalty boxes (and that's us so far all season) is in severe risk of falling through the trap door, there's no two ways about it. We simply have to improve or we're in serious peril. I think Monday is actually pretty big.

Totally agree. I’m starting to get sick of these opposition fans saying….“They were one of the best sides we’ve played” and then still loosing 5 away games on the trot.
When you have Ronald McDonald and Eom as supposedly part of your attacking threat, then you are going to be in trouble.
Is Inoussa the answer, I don’t know.
Who is driving forward from midfield, setting up lots of chances for Vipotnik or Idah ?
No matter how you try to butter it up, we haven’t the ammunition to be a side that can score that many goals.

 

[SeaJack]

That's a lovely Christmas present, sounds like you've got a cracking sister, very thoughtful of her.

Saying that come May 2026 you might not be speaking to her after putting you through the rest of the season

Lol, I’m made of more sterner stuff now, ever since the Swans was sold by the sellouts to the down and outs way back in 2016.

When I jumped on board even further back in 2005, I was a starry eyed dreamer of what could be achieved with our team on the pitch and the club as a whole.

I wasn’t a bona fide Swans supporter, or a football fan in general, when the dark days of Tony Petty engulfed the city, so I was spared the torment that the fans, the club, and the city itself endured at the time.

By the time I switched from being an entry level Arsenal fan in 2003 into a more dedicated and invested supporter of my home club and team, the sun was already shining brightly on our city in football terms.

However, those dark clouds that had been banished to the horizon, for so many years after the heartbreak of Petty with his attempts to destroy the club, are never too far away.

Cue the sellouts in 2016, and all that went on with Jenkins and Co’s decision to hand over the keys of the club to buyers who had no idea how to drive a milk float let alone a Ferrari.

That sordid sale, with the subsequent decline which eventually led to our relegation from the Premier League, and the many years since, languishing in the Championship, was the first real test of my loyalty to the club.

I could so easily have gone back to supporting Arsenal, a Premier League level club who, more often than not, were always vying for the top four Champions League qualification positions.

However, this was not an option for me, and I boldly made the decision to stick with my home club “through thick and thin”.

Granted, these aren’t the worst of times by far, as many a poster on here will attest to.

But the sale of the club in the manner it was sold, and the gaslighting of the fans at the time by some of our own, about the new owners being “next level”, really did leave a substantial psychological scar in my psyche.

I’ve learned what it really means to be a football fan, and being able to take the rough with the smooth more often than not when supporting a club and team such as ours.

Hopefully, the dark days of Kaplan and Levien are now in the rear view mirror with the new owners on board, and we can finally look up with anticipation at promotion rather than downwards with trepidation at relegation.

In other words COYS.