{"id":16253,"date":"2009-04-11T06:06:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-11T06:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=16253"},"modified":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","slug":"allen-we-are-going-to-keep-trying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2009\/04\/11\/allen-we-are-going-to-keep-trying\/","title":{"rendered":"Allen &#8211; We Are Going To Keep Trying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Swansea City midfielder was speaking on the eve of the Swans game against Norwich and less than a week after he opened his goalscoring account with what he thought was to be a winning goal at Ninian Park.<\/p>\n<p>That wasn&#39;t to be but Allen is just glad to be off the mark and he said &ldquo;I went from absolute elation to despair in just a couple of minutes at Cardiff<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The high of scoring was fantastic. You could see how much it meant to the supporters, but we were brought back down to earth with the penalty decision.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The goal has been a long time coming. I&rsquo;ve never been that much of a goal scorer, so it&rsquo;s really nice to chip in. It&rsquo;s something that I need to add to my game.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Until it&rsquo;s mathematically impossible that we can&rsquo;t make it, we&rsquo;re going to keep going,&rdquo; Allen said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Every game we&rsquo;re going to keep playing. We&rsquo;re going to try to make it. That&rsquo;s our focus for the remainder of season.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The performance at Cardiff was decent and we&rsquo;re going to try to remain positive and use that when we face Norwich.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We have to keep the possibility of reaching the play-offs alive in our performances and pick up maximum points.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo; We haven&rsquo;t had a game at home for a while and I think it&rsquo;s what the players and supporters need. We have to play our style of game. We&rsquo;ve got the ability and have to show the quality to rise above them.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Allen&#39;s comments were taken from the Wales Online website &#8211; you can read the full article by visiting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.walesonline.co.uk\/footballnation\/swansea-city-fc\/2009\/04\/11\/swans-starlet-joe-allen-keen-to-make-his-mark-91466-23362628\/\">http:\/\/www.walesonline.co.uk\/footballnation\/swansea-city-fc\/2009\/04\/11\/swans-starlet-joe-allen-keen-to-make-his-mark-91466-23362628\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Swansea City midfielder was speaking on the eve of the Swans game against Norwich and less than a week after he opened his goalscoring account with what he thought was to be a winning goal at Ninian Park. That wasn&#39;t to be but Allen is just glad to be off the mark and he [&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":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16253","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=16253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}