The manner of the defeat is also a worrying trend and comes on the back of some poor and inconsistence performances in those nine games and gives the Swans some things that need some work on over the two weeks of the international break.

Those things though will not be helped by the fact that the squad will be depleted by those heading off on international duty so the management and players have to find a way around that to halt the run of form that has seen the Swans drop 10 places in the table.

Yesterday Bafetimbi Gomis called on everyone to stick together and after the game at Norwich the words of skipper Ashley Williams echoed that sentiment and called on everyone to be united รขโ‚ฌล“We believe in what we do and the message will be to stick together in tough times,รขโ‚ฌย he said.

รขโ‚ฌล“It is a bit of a tough time, thereรขโ‚ฌโ„ขs no escaping that. We are not where we want to be and we are not playing how we want to be.

รขโ‚ฌล“Itรขโ‚ฌโ„ขs time to start looking at ourselves and the team and how we can affect it – a bit of honesty and realisation of the situation.

รขโ‚ฌล“Iรขโ‚ฌโ„ขve been in this situation and itรขโ‚ฌโ„ขs not nice, and I donรขโ‚ฌโ„ขt really plan to be in this bad moment for a long time.รขโ‚ฌย