{"id":91144,"date":"2024-04-06T18:23:55","date_gmt":"2024-04-06T17:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/?p=91144"},"modified":"2024-04-06T18:23:55","modified_gmt":"2024-04-06T17:23:55","slug":"williams-we-had-nothing-lukes-assessment-of-unacceptable-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/2024\/04\/06\/williams-we-had-nothing-lukes-assessment-of-unacceptable-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"Williams: &#8220;We had nothing&#8221; &#8211; Luke&#8217;s assessment of unacceptable performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can call it refreshing honesty or you can call it stating the obvious but Luke Williams comments after the 2-0 defeat at Middlesbrough summed up the Swans afternoon in a nutshell after he declared the performance &#8216;unacceptable&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>A whole load of descriptions could easily of been used, some of them probably unprintable as the Swans delivered one of the worst performances in a season full of dreadful performances and should leave the team as a minimum totally ashamed as they make their way back to South Wales.<\/p>\n<p>Any repeat of that kind of performance in the upcoming two games and the dot com could start becoming a more hostile environment than any of the players have experienced during the easy life they seem to have created for themselves in Swansea.<\/p>\n<p>After all the noise of the week leading up to the game of improvements and progress the Swans delivered a display that was devoid of anything that we hear and it is now time for each of the players to keep their mouths shut and deliver on the pitch.\u00a0 \u00a0There is no other way to go forward from here.\u00a0 \u00a0We have heard all the positive noises during the course of the season but for each of them who speaks the performance we see is as far from the noise as is possible.\u00a0 \u00a0Bar of course Cardiff which did enough to paper over the cracks for a few weeks but we cannot survive on just despatching Cardiff in derbies.\u00a0 \u00a0We need to be better than that.\u00a0 \u00a0Much better.<\/p>\n<div class=\"getty aligncenter\"><a id='CUVA299jSJt3UWFzxfG2zQ' class='gie-single' href='http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/2136569440' 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:'CUVA299jSJt3UWFzxfG2zQ',sig:'-MDOvQQg63Em5-o9Zqzwx3YW7PtazfBlnFpPHeVgIvg=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'2136569440',caption: false ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe way we played today was unacceptable,\u201d said Williams.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was completely unacceptable, it was lacking in energy and conviction. We concede two ridiculous goals, we showed nowhere near enough for our supporters to watch that and be happy with what they saw.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had nothing. We got players into unmarked positions in the box, the number of times we get close and overhit a cross or make a bad touch. It\u2019s just sloppiness, there is not enough focus or concentration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe did not turn up. Think of the supporters who have travelled up here, excited to come and see their side in this stadium and we produce that. It\u2019s absolutely brutal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a big football club, we are one division away from the Premier League. We cannot play football like that again, what would be the point of that?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to be better than that in the games ahead, it better be blood and thunder.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Swans now have Stoke (Wednesday night) and Rotherham (Saturday) to &#8220;look forward to&#8221; but given the nature of the last three performances there are no positives to take into those games and it simply has to be a performance and two wins.<\/p>\n<p>That turns unacceptable into acceptable.\u00a0 For now.<\/p>\n<div class=\"getty aligncenter\"><a id='1qs-ZMvcQWVRKab8zOxunQ' class='gie-single' href='http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/2136569188' 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:'1qs-ZMvcQWVRKab8zOxunQ',sig:'u_S43QcWu5uehv492wYLN1hw9KuU9hj92R5im0Lp_E0=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'2136569188',caption: false ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can call it refreshing honesty or you can call it stating the obvious but Luke Williams comments after the 2-0 defeat at Middlesbrough summed up the Swans afternoon in a nutshell after he declared the performance &#8216;unacceptable&#8217; A whole load of descriptions could easily of been used, some of them probably unprintable as the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":91145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[293,49,306],"tags":[774,540,554],"class_list":["post-91144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-first-team","category-news","category-reactions","tag-luke-williams","tag-middlesbrough","tag-swansea-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91144","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=91144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91146,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91144\/revisions\/91146"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jackarmy.net\/wp67\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}