S25/26 | The Official Match Thread | Sheffield Wed 0 Swansea City 2 | Att: 19,740 | 3pm, 30/08 | The EFL Championship | Hillsborough Stadium

[Malaga]

Cullen has one type of goal in him - tap in from close range. Build the team around that and he'll score plenty of goals for us, if we manage to get the ball to his feet. Sadly no team can afford to focus their entire goal scoring strategy on such a limited option, particularly when it is so easy to defend against.

Pretty sure Cullen has scored a few from outside/edge of the box but I still don't think he should lead the line as he's not really a striker, a hard worker yes but shouldn't be in the mix as a CF

 

[Dr. Winston]

Cullen has one type of goal in him - tap in from close range. Build the team around that and he'll score plenty of goals for us, if we manage to get the ball to his feet. Sadly no team can afford to focus their entire goal scoring strategy on such a limited option, particularly when it is so easy to defend against.

It is a skill in itself to know where and when to be, and perhaps the only area where he's arguably better than Vip.

But otherwise yeah. He's so limited in basically every other requirement of a forward, and not up to much else even in the position that some people think he's good at, that he really shouldn't be getting much game time in a team with playoff ambitions.

I'd have not been bothered to see him leave when his contract was running out. Instead we extended it.

 

[Swans Jack]

I said it throughout Martin’s and Williams tenures that we were nowhere near the required fitness levels. That just showed how clueless and unprofessional those two were. O believe Duff tried to address it but wasn’t there long enough to have any real impact. We are like I said light years different to this time last season.

100%. Think Duff tried but as you said wasn't here long enough. Williams training was rumoured to be terrible and many players reportedly thought it was basic and laboured.

 

[waynekerr55]

100%. Think Duff tried but as you said wasn't here long enough. Williams training was rumoured to be terrible and many players reportedly thought it was basic and laboured.

Duff's training was from the 1970s. Running without the ball is generally bollocks, especially when you can do drills/small sided games with the ball that gets players running as hard and in game specific situations

 

[Neath_Jack]

No sign of Andy Cole this weekend?

Has anyone seen him and Steve Shingles in the same room before?