S25/26 | The Official MATCH Thread | Southampton 0 Swansea 0 | Att: 27,265 | 18th Oct | The EFL Championship | St Mary’s Stadium

[jackharris]

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[Menston4128]

I don’t think it’s just Sheehan but, unless he ups his game, it is also Sheehan. Some of these players offer very little, and even less if one is looking for consistently good performances. When Fulton is brought on and I think ‘well that might improve things’ then I’ve either snorted a kilo of marching powder or we are in a hole. I was away and didn’t see the two Sheffield games, but the other 8 I’ve seen have been a tough gig to watch.

Maybe it’s better in the ground. I hope so, for those that make the effort to pay for it live, but I do wonder if I’d have fallen for the Swans as an 11 year old watching this. Maybe there wasn’t much else to do in 1970, but I don’t ever remember being bored, in fact I was engaged fully throughout. We were often rubbish but we went forward whenever we had the ball. Can’t imagine Brian E passing back to Alan W from the edge of the opponents box after playing ten tippy tippy back and fore up a blind alley passes with Vic G.

Football is much different game now than in 1970 and sadly not all the changes are for the better. Much of the excitment has been sucked out of the game. Two things I think have lessened the game is the amounts of money involved (prime example is the talk of staging Premier League home games in other countries) and the biggest issue for me is that they now coach athletes to play football rather than scouting footballers.