{"id":84705,"date":"2023-08-13T18:42:52","date_gmt":"2023-08-13T17:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/?p=84705"},"modified":"2023-08-13T18:42:52","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T17:42:52","slug":"now-what-i-expected-fans-react-to-the-defeat-at-west-brom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2023\/08\/13\/now-what-i-expected-fans-react-to-the-defeat-at-west-brom\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Now what I expected&#8221; &#8211; fans react to the defeat at West Brom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Swans experienced a first defeat in eleven competitive games at West Brom yesterday but it was the reaction of the fans that spoke volumes on the nature of the performance.<\/p>\n<p>Swans boss Michael Duff was honest enough in his assessment to the game but &#8211; as with the draw against Birmingham last week &#8211; we asked a simple question on the performance itself after the game with the question &#8211; &#8220;thoughts on today&#8217;s game?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The responses were far less this weekend than last but the reaction just the same although maybe it was the response from a West Brom fan that summed it up the closest with this reply<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">As an Albion fan I thought you were really poor, not the possession based game I was expecting from you. Could of easily shared the honours, we were in tatters at the back the final 25. Poor game with 5 goals.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tom Preston \ud80c\udd6a (@itstompreston) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/itstompreston\/status\/1690415915307806721?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 12, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>It seemed a reasonably fair reflection on a Swans performance that was pretty poor for the large parts but capitalising on defensive uncertainty in the home back line could easily have earned us a point that not many could have argued that we deserved.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/VetchUltra\/status\/1690427682662567936<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Terrible. Not good enough. 4-3-3 incoming<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Shropshire and Midlands Jacks\ud83e\udda2 (@ShropshireJacks) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShropshireJacks\/status\/1690402091376758785?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 12, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Swans experienced a first defeat in eleven competitive games at West Brom yesterday but it was the reaction of the fans that spoke volumes on the nature of the performance. Swans boss Michael Duff was honest enough in his assessment to the game but &#8211; as with the draw against Birmingham last week &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":452,"featured_media":84704,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[293,49,203],"tags":[1509,1561],"class_list":["post-84705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-first-team","category-news","category-opinion","tag-the-2023-2024-season","tag-west-brom-3-swansea-city-2-efl-championship-12th-august-2023"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84705","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\/452"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}