Season 24/25 | The Official Match Thread | Swansea 0 Millwall 1 | The EFL Championship

[monmouth]

Get the first goal. Sit back. Get another on the counter.

 

[Smurph]

If we can't sell significant numbers in the South Stand with the kids initiative the alarm bells should be ringing.

Far too many are bored and not entertained for the family casual fan to make an effort to attend.

Our business model continues to spiral downwards but Coleman especially tries to convince us otherwise.

Loads they could be doing inside and outside of the ground to make it a real day out rather than just turn up for ninety minutes of football.

Plus scoring the odd goal or two and playing with some attacking intent would help.

Like everything football is an entertainment experience and the key part of that is people are looking more for experiences these days.

Ones they like to remember and not try to forget

 

[WentToSchoolWith]

Looking at the stadium map on the ticket site is quite funny to me. Kids for a Quid incentive has noticably bumped up the numbers in that stand (admitedly, only to about 70% full as opposed to the usual 40%), but it's nearly all just people who usually sit on the fringes on the West and East. So now there's just barren wasteland in the final stretch and corners where there are usually a decent number of fans.

It is literally re-arranging the deckchairs on the titanic

 

[sainthelens]

0-0 written all over it.

 

[Swanjaxs]

Coleman is over here to play golf and pick up a fat salary. He'll get a lump sum eventually, then head back over the pond without a backward glance.

The next level.

 

[Andrew - North Hill]

Coleman is over here to play golf and pick up a fat salary. He'll get a lump sum eventually, then head back over the pond without a backward glance.

The next level.

Spot on. There is zero difference between him and Pearlman from a few years back. Used car salesmen got lucky.

 

[Smurph]

Spot on. There is zero difference between him and Pearlman from a few years back. Used car salesmen got lucky.

I think Coleman edges it by purely chatting constant shit.

 

[RodgerTheDodger]

Grimes will have 2,784 touches of the ball, Ronald will have 15 and Vipotnic 4. After the game fans will ask "Why can't we score?". There will be cries of "Our front guys are useless, there's no goals in this team".

Maybe, but what is clear is that there's no goals in this way of playing.

 

[FearOfAJackPlanet]

I think Coleman edges it by purely chatting constant shit.

That first tweet was a cracker and it carried on from there.

 

[AusinIsOurHero]

He's surely got to try something different tomorrow?
They're right next to us in the table, score more (obviously) but concede more too.
If we just get 90 mins of the same tripe then the mood will turn very quickly.

 

[RodgerTheDodger]

He's surely got to try something different tomorrow?
They're right next to us in the table, score more (obviously) but concede more too.
If we just get 90 mins of the same tripe then the mood will turn very quickly.

At one point in the Ipswich game they had 6 players blocking channels and pressing the 3 Swansea guys who had the ball. OK, they worked the ball out of the press, didn't lose it, moved it across the pitch, then looked up and chipped. But by that time the Ipswich players had fallen back and their defence was organized - it was too late.

If they had moved the ball back quickly and chipped as the press came on the 7 Swansea players in front of them would have been facing 4 Ipswich players, but they didn't do that. It was at that point I realized that there is a serious problem.

 

[Smurph]

At one point in the Ipswich game they had 6 players blocking channels and pressing the 3 Swansea guys who had the ball. OK, they worked the ball out of the press, didn't lose it, moved it across the pitch, then looked up and chipped. But by that time the Ipswich players had fallen back and their defence was organized - it was too late.

If they had moved the ball back quickly and chipped as the press came on the 7 Swansea players in front of them would have been facing 4 Ipswich players, but they didn't do that. It was at that point I realized that there is a serious problem.

We need to get the ball in to the opponents final third a lot quicker than we currently do. It's like you've just mentioned the amount of time we spend faffing about it with allows the opposition to get back in to shape.

The amount of times the ball over the top is on and we ignore it is criminal.

 

[AusinIsOurHero]

Just seen LW comments in his presser & for me the following is a real red flag:

"We're a difficult team to play against, which is good. We can have the ball, which is also good. We need to score more goals but we're not in a terrible place.
I think it just needs to click into gear".

Nothings changing for tomorrow lads... He's simply going to persevere with what he's doing until something happens.

 

[Smurph]

Just seen LW comments in his presser & for me the following is a real red flag:

"We're a difficult team to play against, which is good. We can have the ball, which is also good. We need to score more goals but we're not in a terrible place.
I think it just needs to click into gear".

Nothings changing for tomorrow lads... He's simply going to persevere with what he's doing until something happens.

We need to start calling him Captain Obvious.

Team hasn't scored or looked like scoring for a while, if he can't recognise things need to change by now, then he never will.

 

[monmouth]

We need to get the ball in to the opponents final third a lot quicker than we currently do. It's like you've just mentioned the amount of time we spend faffing about it with allows the opposition to get back in to shape.

The amount of times the ball over the top is on and we ignore it is criminal.

We're more likely to spend a dozen passes 'beating' the press and then pass back straight into it!