{"id":68371,"date":"2022-08-22T07:30:23","date_gmt":"2022-08-22T06:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/?p=68371"},"modified":"2022-08-21T18:39:37","modified_gmt":"2022-08-21T17:39:37","slug":"its-a-results-business-and-ours-arent-good-the-fans-vote-against","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2022\/08\/22\/its-a-results-business-and-ours-arent-good-the-fans-vote-against\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s a results business and ours aren&#8217;t good &#8211; the fans vote against"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was very easy on Saturday to react after another disappointing home performance where the result seemingly was in little doubt from the early stages and the Swans went through another ninety minute performance where the chances of us celebrating a goal was slim at best.<\/p>\n<p>One point from the nine available this season at the Swansea.com stadium tells its own story but the frustration of the Swans crowd goes back further than that.<\/p>\n<div class=\"getty aligncenter\"><a id='SEuiC7K_QmZkT2DGoV_HPQ' class='gie-single' href='http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1242613775' target='_blank' style='color:#a7a7a7;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal !important;border:none;display:inline-block;'>Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'SEuiC7K_QmZkT2DGoV_HPQ',sig:'1IaTWVvoq3JSxgPlS4MiMcATSeBjEuJOuGodtPMA17w=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1242613775',caption: false ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/div>\n<p>Saturday was Russell Martin&#8217;s twenty-sixth home league game in charge of the Swans.\u00a0 Out of the seventy-eight points available from those games, the Swans have secured just thirty-six.\u00a0 Nine wins and nine draws have been coupled with eight defeats.\u00a0 \u00a0Thirty-two goals in twenty-six games tells another sorry statistic and when you factor all of that in the frustration seen after Saturday becomes much clearer.<\/p>\n<p>Almost immediately after the game on Saturday long term poster Mr Swerve had opened a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/forum\/viewtopic.php?f=2&amp;t=9779\">poll on the forum<\/a><\/strong> as to how people felt about the future of Russell Martin with, at time we started to pen this article (6pm Sunday) two in three voters voting for it being time for a change in management.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not from a small cross section either with more than 360 votes cast at the time of writing which backs up the noises we are hearing at home games for a side who have not won at home in seven attempts.<\/p>\n<p>It is difficult to see the club making a managerial change given the precarious nature of our finances but the reality comes is that the Swans are 20th in the league at this point and having won just one game this season thanks to our inability to hold onto a two goal lead on two occasions.\u00a0 \u00a0This is not a pressing of the panic button just yet but the warning signs are more than obvious to most of us.<\/p>\n<div class=\"getty aligncenter\"><a id='trfQ6XAeQktboQ1fxZlpEQ' class='gie-single' href='http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1242615198' target='_blank' style='color:#a7a7a7;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal !important;border:none;display:inline-block;'>Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'trfQ6XAeQktboQ1fxZlpEQ',sig:'6c08Qz5HOEBoSCMtkqWduNcNG-Fr_zy-Ik7mVo1GqMQ=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1242615198',caption: false ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/div>\n<p>Our <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2022\/08\/21\/there-is-really-only-one-place-the-buck-stops-next-level-and-all-that\/\">article yesterday<\/a><\/strong> generated much discussion in some very interesting places but highlights the predicament that we have.\u00a0 \u00a0The manager is losing the fans support, he has no support from the owners it seems and you wonder whether he has the support of all his squad.\u00a0 It has been much publicised about the players he does not want here and yet the depth of the squad is laid bare when you consider that some of them are within the matchday squad and even the team at times.<\/p>\n<p>Russell Martin has now been at Swansea for more than a year and clearly has a view in his mind of how he wants his teams to play.\u00a0 \u00a0The challenge for us as Swansea fans is that style of play does not match the personnel that we have and the players do not seem to be adapting to it.<\/p>\n<p>A look at Saturday&#8217;s starting line up saw the following players starting &#8211; Andy Fisher, Harry Darling, Nathan<\/p>\n<div class=\"getty aligncenter\"><a id='y2QAt31GSyF8j4MF4ZbXyA' class='gie-single' href='http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1242388900' target='_blank' style='color:#a7a7a7;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal !important;border:none;display:inline-block;'>Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'y2QAt31GSyF8j4MF4ZbXyA',sig:'5nga-FwKvHy_X_b1VTOCB_SMqL2EE24yuqJ5_iFTyIc=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1242388900',caption: false ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/div>\n<p>Wood, Marty Sorinola, Joe Allen, Olivier Ntcham and Michael Obafemi all start.\u00a0 \u00a0Each of them a Russell Martin signing and whilst Matt Grimes has been here way before the Martin era it is clear since he arrived that the manager builds his side around them.\u00a0 \u00a0That just leaves Ryan Manning, Ben Cabango and Joel Piroe as players the manager did not sign.\u00a0 \u00a0This his largely his team and worryingly they are not adapting or pulling the potential from his playing style.<\/p>\n<p>Russell Martin will be more than aware that he needs to have things turning around and quickly and there are easier places to go than Middlesbrough and Stoke when you are under pressure but that is what is facing the Swans in the next two games.<\/p>\n<p>For all of last season he bemoaned the lack of a pre-season but that was always going to signpost a judgement based on this season and the early evidence gives more than enough signs for concern.<\/p>\n<p>Football remains a results business at all levels and when results start to go against you there is often just one outcome when you are a football manager.\u00a0 \u00a0We all want Russell to turn this around, the question is can he or will the votes for the poll eventually mirror the votes in the boardroom?<\/p>\n<p>Time will, as ever, tell.<\/p>\n<div class=\"getty aligncenter\"><a id='Y639Xr9nQJN2kPbncg7pMg' class='gie-single' href='http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1242483412' target='_blank' style='color:#a7a7a7;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal !important;border:none;display:inline-block;'>Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'Y639Xr9nQJN2kPbncg7pMg',sig:'rgR4ZifW-G-_Xw3EaG91q2cqKNVd9MK-kbcMBb5YqaA=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1242483412',caption: false ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was very easy on Saturday to react after another disappointing home performance where the result seemingly was in little doubt from the early stages and the Swans went through another ninety minute performance where the chances of us celebrating a goal was slim at best. 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