Russell Martin spoke last night about the boos which his side suffered in the 1-1 draw against Rotherham United and reassured his players that the current negativity will mean little at the end of their careers.<\/p>\n
A poor display was met by a dissatisfied crowd reaction after the Swans let a lead slip again and yet more woeful defending to allow repeated transfer target Chiedozie Ogbene to net at the second attempt.<\/p>\n
In the end another game passed the team by and despite the manager trying to calm things within the dressing room the general belief amongst the fanbase – as I see it – is that the booing is aimed at his management rather than the young players.<\/p>\n
Nobody can argue that players like Ollie Cooper are doing their very best and the fans couldn’t be more behind the majority of the team but the frustration from the stands comes from the over 18 months of mistakes and poor tactics.<\/p>\n
There have been good points but the run of form that we see now can’t be ignored and the repeated cries of “we need to learn” has worn thin amongst the fanbase to the point that a management change is inevitable.<\/p>\n
On the booing: “It doesn’t affect me, but it affects the team,” Swansea’s head coach said.<\/p>\n
“I have been there as a player – I have been booed my own fans as a captain of the club when you are giving everything.<\/p>\n
“The senior lads spoke [in the dressing room after the game], just saying to the lads, how you react to these type of moments will define you as a footballer.<\/p>\n
“There is so much disappointment in football, so many tough moments, and the resilience and courage you show is what defines you.<\/p>\n
The manager says the club is filled with anxiety at present after the poor run of resulrs and lack of strengthening in the January window.<\/span><\/p>\n “We have spoken a lot about it, but speaking about it and then overcoming it on the pitch is really different. We have to try to help the players overcome it.<\/span><\/p>\n “They are trying their very, very best, we just need something to spark us back into life and get that confidence back.”<\/span><\/p>\n “The form we are on, it’s been tough. But I would say the majority of performances haven’t [been poor].<\/span><\/p>\n “When you contextualise it, it’s not just what’s going on on the pitch. It’s about January, before that. The team needed help [in the transfer window]. We needed help and it hasn’t happened.<\/span><\/p>\n “But it’s gone. There’s no point in moaning about it.<\/span><\/p>\n “We have to make do with what we have got, which is more than enough to finish the season strongly.”<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Russell Martin spoke last night about the boos which his side suffered in the 1-1 draw against Rotherham United and reassured his players that the current negativity will mean little at the end of their careers. A poor display was met by a dissatisfied crowd reaction after the Swans let a lead slip again and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":459,"featured_media":73362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[293,49,203,306],"tags":[556,636,665],"class_list":["post-77322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-first-team","category-news","category-opinion","category-reactions","tag-rotherham-united","tag-russell-martin","tag-the-2022-23-season"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77322","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\/459"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}