{"id":14902,"date":"2007-10-29T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-29T00:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=14902"},"modified":"2020-10-29T08:25:41","modified_gmt":"2020-10-29T08:25:41","slug":"way-almost-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2007\/10\/29\/way-almost-there\/","title":{"rendered":"Way Almost There"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As his new team mates prepare to face his former club, Way knows that the long wait is almost over as he looks to kick start a Swansea career that has gone nowhere since Kenny Jackett paid \u00c2\u00a3150,000 for his services back in January 2006 &#8211; a signing that was hailed as one of the better ones of that January spending spree.<\/p>\n<p>However, sightings of Way in a Swansea shirt have been rarer than Wales qualifying for major Championships after setback after setback has kept Way out of the fold and on the sidelines.<\/p>\n<p>But with just a minor injury to now shake off before staking his claim, Way is still looking forward to a trip back to his old club even if he will just be one of many Jacks there as spectators. Speaking via the club&#8217;s official website, Way said &#8220;They are our bogey team but this is a new era for Swansea City and hopefully things will change on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Games between the two clubs are always tight, but Yeovil have always tended to edge it at their place. But with the way we are playing, I&#8217;m confident we can go there and do a job this time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Way also paid tribute to Yeovil manager Russell Slade, adding: &#8220;He has done a fantastic job down there, especially last season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He has obviously got a good eye for players and does well to attract them to Yeovil. It&#8217;s a great family club and players like Terry Skiverton are key to keeping the club moving forward.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m looking forward to going back there, even if it&#8217;s just as a spectator, and I suppose I&#8217;ll have to answer the thousand questions again as to why I&#8217;m not playing!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Way hopes to continue his comeback, ironically again against Yeovil next Wednesday in a reserve fixture at 2pm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As his new team mates prepare to face his former club, Way knows that the long wait is almost over as he looks to kick start a Swansea career that has gone nowhere since Kenny Jackett paid \u00c2\u00a3150,000 for his services back in January 2006 &#8211; a signing that was hailed as one of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":453,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/453"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}