{"id":17311,"date":"2010-04-12T07:03:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T07:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.staging28.planetswans.co.uk\/?p=17311"},"modified":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T11:26:01","slug":"monk-looking-to-take-the-positives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2010\/04\/12\/monk-looking-to-take-the-positives\/","title":{"rendered":"Monk Looking To Take The Positives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Swansea City captain was looking for the positives after the Swans were beaten by a late goal at Bristol City at the weekend &#8211; a result that dropped them down one place in the league table.<\/p>\n<p>With three games left to go in the season, the Swans are 2 points clear of Blackpool after the seasiders were beaten 4-1 by already promoted Newcastle on the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Monk told the Western Mail &ldquo;The way we make things right is with togetherness and spirit, we&rsquo;ve got that in abundance. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;You just have to get the attitude right. It has to be spot-on week in, week out.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We can&rsquo;t dwell on this defeat.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We have to dust ourselves off, make sure we train hard and get the three points at Barnsley.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We do look at the other results. But, realistically, what can we do about them.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;If they are doing well and winning their games and we&rsquo;re not, then it&rsquo;s our fault.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;All we can do is win our game.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We still have the two-point gap and now there is one less game to go.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We have to see that as a positive.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We know it will take some work and it&rsquo;s never easy for any team to get across the line. We are not worried about it though.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The way I look at things, it&rsquo;s just great to be fighting at this end of the table. It&rsquo;s exciting because there is something riding on every game and that&rsquo;s where we want to be.&rdquo;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Swansea City captain was looking for the positives after the Swans were beaten by a late goal at Bristol City at the weekend &#8211; a result that dropped them down one place in the league table. With three games left to go in the season, the Swans are 2 points clear of Blackpool after [&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-17311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17311","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=17311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}