{"id":77327,"date":"2023-03-04T09:57:14","date_gmt":"2023-03-04T09:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/?p=77327"},"modified":"2023-03-04T09:57:14","modified_gmt":"2023-03-04T09:57:14","slug":"former-england-goalkeeper-says-swans-results-unacceptable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2023\/03\/04\/former-england-goalkeeper-says-swans-results-unacceptable\/","title":{"rendered":"Former England goalkeeper says Swans results unacceptable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps Sky Sports were rather disappointed that the fixture they chose for Monday night&#8217;s live coverage turned into a bottom half of the table slog between Rotherham and Swansea City.<\/p>\n<p>And undoubtedly the people who tuned in with little other live football on Monday night would have been similarly unimpressed with the quality of play on offer at the Swansea.com Stadium as the Millers were good value for at least a point.<\/p>\n<p>But the main talking point between the pundits after match was where exactly Swansea are going so badly wrong and the focus was on the manager after a downbeat interview with plenty of excuses.<\/p>\n<p>Former Tottenham and England goalkeeper Paul Robinson and former Crystal Palace striker Clinton Morrison were in the studio and both had their own views of not just the game but the current predicament down in SA1.<\/p>\n<p>Robinson bluntly stated that a draw for Russell Martin&#8217;s team wasn&#8217;t good enough and that with the players at the manager&#8217;s disposal a point is not enough at home to a Rotherham side battling the drop.<\/p>\n<p>Morrison was more sympathetic towards the manager believing he was a good coach but was struggling with the lack of acquisitions during the January transfer window.<\/p>\n<p>Robinson also stated that the manager&#8217;s demeanour and attitude post match would struggle to motivate the Swansea City players going forward.<\/p>\n<p>It comes as Sky Sports commentator Andy Hinchliffe said this: <em><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">\u201cSwansea have to be very careful.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">&#8220;If they lose Ryan Manning, Russell Martin in the summer\u2026 that club could implode. They\u2019ve got to sort it out quickly.\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Lots of work to be done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps Sky Sports were rather disappointed that the fixture they chose for Monday night&#8217;s live coverage turned into a bottom half of the table slog between Rotherham and Swansea City. And undoubtedly the people who tuned in with little other live football on Monday night would have been similarly unimpressed with the quality of play [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":459,"featured_media":58672,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[293,49,203,306],"tags":[556,665],"class_list":["post-77327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-first-team","category-news","category-opinion","category-reactions","tag-rotherham-united","tag-the-2022-23-season"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77327","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=77327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}