S25/26 | The Official Match Thread | Stoke City 2 Swansea City 1 | Att: 23,089 | 13/12/25 | The EFL Championship | The Bet365 Stadium

[jackharris]

 

[jackharris]

 

[Captain_Sham]

We have to start beating teams in the top half of the table or its going to stay uncomfortable all season. We still havent beaten anyone above 17th in the table(we are 18th)

 

[Ringwood]

Stoke are 22nd in the form table and have stopped scoring.

Team selection hopefully will get us something.

 

[WentToSchoolWith]

£12 for an away ticket, very tempting. Shame I'm moving house and would risk the sanctity of my relationship by going.

 

[WentToSchoolWith]

Wonder if using Galbraith as an inverted full-back is going to be part of strongest eleven moving forward? Fixes two of our weaknesses - Key defensively, and settling on our best midfield. He's barely a right back with the ball, so not sure we're even missing out on his playmaking by sending him there, the only question would be his defensive prowess.

 

[Glyn1]

Stoke are on the same run as us in their last 6 won 2, lost 4.
Definitely can go there with confidence up.

You are being too kind to them. They only won one of their last six, including two losses at home. I don't know what's gone wrong for them but this is a great time to play them.

 

[Glyn1]

And for whatever reason they also score very few goals in the 2nd half.

 

[monmouth]

If we can somehow win this and Hollywood No Stars lose or draw, we would be able to leapfrog them with a win next Friday. I know it’s unlikely, but that would add a bit of extra spice to what I think might be a good crowd.

 

[Swansea93]

If we can somehow win this and Hollywood No Stars lose or draw, we would be able to leapfrog them with a win next Friday. I know it’s unlikely, but that would add a bit of extra spice to what I think might be a good crowd.

They looked awful against Hull last night I’d fancy our chances against them to be honest.

 

[theallseeingdai]

Wonder if using Galbraith as an inverted full-back is going to be part of strongest eleven moving forward? Fixes two of our weaknesses - Key defensively, and settling on our best midfield. He's barely a right back with the ball, so not sure we're even missing out on his playmaking by sending him there, the only question would be his defensive prowess.

He ran the show against Oxford, so it could work. Moving him forward has also worked later in the game. As long as we can avoid the liability of Key we should be good

 

[jackharris]

If we can somehow win this and Hollywood No Stars lose or draw, we would be able to leapfrog them with a win next Friday. I know it’s unlikely, but that would add a bit of extra spice to what I think might be a good crowd.

It is already a home sell out and I’d like to think they will sell all their 2,076 tickets?

 

[monmouth]

It is already a home sell out and I’d like to think they will sell all their 2,076 tickets?

Added spice it is then.

Shows what a draw they are now. I doubt we'd sell out for another mid table club.

 

[Ringwood]

Is the Wrexham game actually sold out?

 

[jackharris]

Added spice it is then.

Shows what a draw they are now. I doubt we'd sell out for another mid table club.

We have had good crowds the last 2 games with the ticket offers. Over 18,100 for the last match with 1,100 away fans included. It’s also our only game over the Christmas period. We play home against WBA on New Years Day. They are a draw because people want to be part of their hugely successful documentary. They can sit down in a few months time to say we were there for that match, if it gets included.