S25/26 | The Official Match Thread | Oxford 0 Swansea 1 |Att: 11,413 | 29/12/25 | The EFL Championship | The Kassam Stadium

[eteb]

My mindset. Let's secure championship football and assess where we are at with Ronald and Franco. Personally if we could replace with better then I would be happy the issue we have really is, if we flog Ronald and let's say we brought in a Benson, we would of ended up with a worse player. Ronald shows glimpses but we need better. Franco to some extent as well.

Get rid of both I think, unless Franco improves rapidly. Both have decent enough external reputation and at a goood age so would attract decent money

 

[eteb]

They’re not mugs if they beat Soton, who have been in good form. We could really do with a win to get us moving again and push us further away from them, but a draw is pretty much a minimum requirement here.

Would snap hand off for a draw here. We'll do Brom comfortably

 

[monmouth]

Get rid of both I think, unless Franco improves rapidly. Both have decent enough external reputation and at a goood age so would attract decent money

I think Franco is suffering badly from role ambiguity. I can’t really see how any two of Galbraith, Stamenic and Franco play in the same midfield without similar issues. This is the problem when you buy players to trade, not components of a team to ‘jelly’ together. One of the differences between Championship Swansea 2008-11 and Championship Swansea now. We weren’t looking to ‘trade’ anyone then, we were looking to build and keep a team together.

 

[Captain_Sham]

I think Franco is suffering badly from role ambiguity. I can’t really see how any two of Galbraith, Stamenic and Franco play in the same midfield without similar issues. This is the problem when you buy players to trade, not components of a team to ‘jelly’ together. One of the differences between Championship Swansea 2008-11 and Championship Swansea now. We weren’t looking to ‘trade’ anyone then, we were looking to build and keep a team together.

I havent been impressed with him lately. He was great last season. Too many chefs. He is too prone to falling over nonsense like Rolando and Eom . Inoussa is rapidly joining those ranks. We need more Widells.

 

[monmouth]

I havent been impressed with him lately. He was great last season. Too many chefs. He is too prone to falling over nonsense like Rolando and Eom . Inoussa is rapidly joining those ranks. We need more Widells.

He’s not what he was, that’s for shewer. Unfortunately the others are what they were.

 

[Captain_Sham]

It early in the season for a game to feel this important, but it sure feels like it to me.

 

[monmouth]

It early in the season for a game to feel this important, but it sure feels like it to me.

Me too.

 

[jackharris]

I have a good feeling about tonight. It will of course not be easy, but I think things will click. Funnily enough the mystic seaweed was swept in upside down in this morning’s high tide and that means our away results will be reversed.

Snoop Dogg says it’s written in the weed.

 

[J_B]

We're now at the point in the season where it's a statement fixture. We've been shite on the road and they're decent at home.
Win and we make a statement that we're not relegation candidates, lose and we are.
It's probably going to be a draw and the uncertainty goes on and on.

 

[Ringwood]

Matos needs to get this team firing away from home. We have given both Cov and Stoke decent games now time to get away points over the line.

 

[Whaleoilbeefhooked]

Get rid of both I think, unless Franco improves rapidly. Both have decent enough external reputation and at a goood age so would attract decent money

I’ve been told Ronald McDonald isn’t the sharpest tool in the box, true or untrue, I don’t know. But perhaps it would explain why various managers / coaches have had difficulty in coaching him to change his footballing habits. ie. not beating a man, constantly hitting the ball against a player when trying to cross the ball, and making us a laughing stock by continually falling over, when a player has the audacity to breath near him.
Franco I would class slightly different, in that he doesn’t go down as much, but still annoyingly too much.
His main fault being he drops in and out of games, but when he’s on, he makes a difference to our midfield, but can’t do it for 90 mins.

 

[eteb]

I’ve been told Ronald McDonald isn’t the sharpest tool in the box, true or untrue, I don’t know. But perhaps it would explain why various managers / coaches have had difficulty in coaching him to change his footballing habits. ie. not beating a man, constantly hitting the ball against a player when trying to cross the ball, and making us a laughing stock by continually falling over, when a player has the audacity to breath near him.
Franco I would class slightly different, in that he doesn’t go down as much, but still annoyingly too much.
His main fault being he drops in and out of games, but when he’s on, he makes a difference to our midfield, but can’t do it for 90 mins.

In fairness he's been beating full backs lately but doesn't/can't do anything after that!

 

[Ringwood]

I’ve been told Ronald McDonald isn’t the sharpest tool in the box, true or untrue, I don’t know. But perhaps it would explain why various managers / coaches have had difficulty in coaching him to change his footballing habits. ie. not beating a man, constantly hitting the ball against a player when trying to cross the ball, and making us a laughing stock by continually falling over, when a player has the audacity to breath near him.
Franco I would class slightly different, in that he doesn’t go down as much, but still annoyingly too much.
His main fault being he drops in and out of games, but when he’s on, he makes a difference to our midfield, but can’t do it for 90 mins.

Ronald is clever... he has mastered being offside better than anyone.

 

[Swans Jack]

I’ve been told Ronald McDonald isn’t the sharpest tool in the box, true or untrue, I don’t know. But perhaps it would explain why various managers / coaches have had difficulty in coaching him to change his footballing habits. ie. not beating a man, constantly hitting the ball against a player when trying to cross the ball, and making us a laughing stock by continually falling over, when a player has the audacity to breath near him.
Franco I would class slightly different, in that he doesn’t go down as much, but still annoyingly too much.
His main fault being he drops in and out of games, but when he’s on, he makes a difference to our midfield, but can’t do it for 90 mins.

All I see on social media is Franco and Ronald hanging around in their favourite barbers playing pool. Now Widell has been in recent ones. Maybe Ronald need to spend his spare time on working on crosses and Franco needs to learn how to be consistent. Either way, I suppose that's the difference between Championship and Premier league players. You can't have off days when you up against it.

 

[jackharris]

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