Williams apologies for Bournemouth FA Cup shambles

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Williams apologies for Bournemouth FA Cup shambles

Luke Williams was in apologetic mood as he spoke to S4C after the Swans were humiliated in the FA Cup at Bournemouth finding themselves on the back of a 5-0 def

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[Copamundial]

Needs to apologise to those fans that travelled forget about the players, they’d have travelled home in relative luxury and been well paid for what was a disgraceful performance.
Forget tactics, some of the individual performances last night were disgraceful.

 

[Ringwood]

Looking forward to my refund for player imposters last night.

 

[newquay]

I think we should cut LW some slack - up against one of the best young managers in The Prem.

Big respect to Grimes’ very very good midfield’

Iraola: Cherries' 'really aggressive' approach thwarted 'very technical' Swansea

ANDONI Iraola believed his side’s “really aggressive” pressing denied Swansea City the chance to impose their game during Cherries’ emphatic…

www.bournemouthecho.co.uk

 

[monmouth]

I think we should cut LW some slack - up against one of the best young managers in The Prem.

Big respect to Grimes’ very very good midfield’

Iraola: Cherries' 'really aggressive' approach thwarted 'very technical' Swansea

ANDONI Iraola believed his side’s “really aggressive” pressing denied Swansea City the chance to impose their game during Cherries’ emphatic…

www.bournemouthecho.co.uk

They are not even mid table and just lost 0-4 to Liverpool. So what exactly is our aspirational benchmark? We could, and should have got much closer to them as a mid ranking championsip team. Grimes was pish - again.

 

[sainthelens]

Our collection of apologies over past few years are off the scale. Just cut and paste.

 

[Nocountryforoldjack]

He should also apologise to Bournemouth for not giving them a game at all.

 

[newquay]

They are not even mid table and just lost 0-4 to Liverpool. So what exactly is our aspirational benchmark? We could, and should have got much closer to them as a mid ranking championsip team. Grimes was pish - again.

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As one of the top 10 posters across all Swans forums, you’re better than that.

Bournemouth are joint 4th in the EPL form table for the last 10 games - alongside Man City and Arsenal.
It takes a new manager at least 10 games to bed in - after which Iraola has very cleverly rocketed Muff into the top 4 form table.

A proper football intellectual, Iraola studies the game to the nth level and works 1:1 with his players to maximise their latent talents. See Solanke, and how Iraola dismantled and rebuilt his game and he’s now in the current Top 3 goal scorers in the Prem, already scored twice as many goals as he did the whole of last season.

Iraola - the next Guardiola, apparently.

Read his post match comments - was properly prepared to nullify our ‘very very good midfield and technical game’ with uber aggressive press. Outsmarted Luke by a country mile, let’s hope Luke learns from it and now has Iraola as his inspiration and benchmark for best practice.

 

[bakajack]

I agree with Newquay, Bournemouth are no mugs on current form and besides losing 4-0 to a Liverpool side who are running rampant at the moment and top of the Premier League is nothing to be ashamed of.

Of course we didn't help ourselves with our willingness to give the ball away at every opportunity and play right into their aggressive press but as much as Bournemouth took their foot off the gas in the second half we also stepped up and changed things around.

Williams needs to learn from this game though as I can bet you that between this and the Southampton game a lot of sides will be studying the footage to see how best to get us to shoot ourselves in the foot like that.