{"id":56677,"date":"2022-03-10T07:27:04","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T07:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/?p=56677"},"modified":"2022-03-10T07:27:04","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T07:27:04","slug":"the-jack-army-moves-to-blackpool-in-big-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2022\/03\/10\/the-jack-army-moves-to-blackpool-in-big-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"The Jack Army moves to Blackpool in big numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Jack Army will be moving en masse this weekend to head to the North West coastline and a weekend in Blackpool as the Swans look to put behind them the miserable 5-1 home defeat to Fulham on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Long before the team had taken to the pitch on Tuesday, the Swans sales for the game had passed 1500 in what has always been a fairly traditional longer trip for visiting football fans and that isn&#8217;t a statement made by the number of miles north of Birmingham.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">More than 1\ufe0f\u20e3,5\ufe0f\u20e30\ufe0f\u20e30\ufe0f\u20e3 tickets have been sold for our trip to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BlackpoolFC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BlackpoolFC<\/a> on Saturday. \ud83d\udc4f\ud83d\udc4f<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfab\ud83d\udc49 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uQ1p8a4FcC\">https:\/\/t.co\/uQ1p8a4FcC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SzzmEBJERa\">pic.twitter.com\/SzzmEBJERa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Swansea City AFC (@SwansOfficial) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SwansOfficial\/status\/1500916694109155328?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 7, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Russell Martin and his side have often talked about the passion of the Swans travelling away support and that will be no different on Saturday afternoon as the Swans look to put together back to back wins on the road after the frustrations at places like Stoke and Sheffield United.<\/p>\n<p>With sales continuing during the week it will certainly be a bumper away following at Bloomfield Road and it is for that support that Korey Smith hopes the Swans can get the result<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had quite a heavy loss against Sheffield United and we bounced back very well,&#8221; <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swanseacity.com\/news\/korey-smith-we-have-build-first-half-performance\">Smith told the club&#8217;s official website<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019ve got an opportunity to do that again on Saturday and we\u2019ve got a lot of games to come between now and the international break.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019ll be looking to continue our good performances that we\u2019ve had over the last few games until that red card and hopefully get the result.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Jack Army will be moving en masse this weekend to head to the North West coastline and a weekend in Blackpool as the Swans look to put behind them the miserable 5-1 home defeat to Fulham on Tuesday night. Long before the team had taken to the pitch on Tuesday, the Swans sales for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[293,49,203],"tags":[666,339,608],"class_list":["post-56677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-first-team","category-news","category-opinion","tag-blackpool","tag-korey-smith","tag-the-2021-22-season"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56677","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}