Have fun with your long throws. At this rate you'll have scored 2 goals from open play by May. Wow, I'm so jealous!
Granted, I wasn't there, but that probably makes me more qualified to know how many fouls there were in that game, as I saw all the replays. Any other team would have conceded a lot more free kicks than you did today.
WRONG!!! you obviously havent read the above posts by your fellow supporters, you are a very good side and will stay up but accept defeat not just jump on the "stoke are cheats, thugs" bandwagon. I thought better of Swansea fans to be honest. We dont like watching how we play half the time but it has kept us in the prem, and hopefully it wont be like this for many more years. Good luck for the rest of the season
Dont give it the big "I am" mate after just 20 odd games in the prem, youre making yourself look a bit silly
I'm not! I was saying the same thing in League One. I'd rather lose than play that way. That's my opinion and I'm entitled to it. What I will say is that once it was 2-0 we were never going to win, but until you got that 2 goal cushion your tactics were, at the very best, verging on rough-housing. After that you didn't need to as you'd already got what you needed. Like I say though, 1 goal from open play in 2 months in the league? I'm disappointed we lost, but oh so thankful I'm a Swans fan and not a Stoke fan.
Nothing to do with the big I am. If you genuinely think your team is the future of Premier League football then great. When I look at Stoke I see a team that can get results like any other team on its day but plays like a team from over decade ago. If you fans are cool with that then fine. All we're saying is that it's not 'us'. Most Swans fans would find that abhorrent, win or lose.
We got no probs excepting defeat , ask Norwich . It's the manner in which some teams have to except victory to get points , glad it's you & not us ... Goodluck not killing somebody the rest of the season Lol !!
I WAS accepting a victory and I was nice eairler in this thread?? WTF why a post that smacks of WUM is ridiculous? We will stay up I HOPE Swansea do too.. but LEARN to defend and DON'T play footie in your'e OWN area it nearly cost you.. more than once. ONE save by Begovic say's it all..
"LEARN to defend" check our stats for the season before you make ridiculous comments. But you're right about not testing your keeper. Cardiff just lost so it's not all bad. They played well though.
Agree thought they were unlucky. Must be heart wrenching going to Wembley all these times and not winning.
The only way to defend against Stoke is industrial strength armor Lol !! . P.S. Cardiff's rag bag group were awesome today in the face of a long , enduring game , credit to the team
Good luck for the rest of the season Stoke. In third now, so keep it up. http://www.stokecityfc.com/page/FoulPlayLeague/0,,10310~20111,00.html
From someone that was actually at the game and not sitting in front of the box whinging, I'll give you a fair assessment. Firstly I was over the moon when I saw Vorm was not in goal as to be honest he and your 2 wingers are your best players by far. Your stand in German goalkeeper was abyssmal as considering you are a relatively small side he should have come for everything but didn't and paid the price. Pulis had done his homework on your wingers threat and had 2 men on them all game and cancelled them out to the point he took them both off and tried a more direct through the middle approach which still failed. As regards Stoke being "dirty ****s" as you so eliquently put it, we were no more dirty than Swansea as your players ankle tapped, pushed and shoved all through the game but I'm not complaining as it's a contact sport. Howard Webb had a brilliant game and was fair to both sides. Swansea play neat passing football but to be honest again that's all it is with no killer finish and you paid the price for that. You are a small, quick side with neat passing but could not out muscle Stoke today and that's why you lost at the set pieces. Your manager needs to beef up the defence for next season and then you may start to get a few more results going your way oh and get a better goal keeping number 2 and a striker that can finish!
Strange how the fans from 18 other clubs have the same conclusion we have. Your bullies, you play hoof ball and can't score from open play. But, if your content with that, rather you than me. P.s. how many players have had a broken bone after playing Stoke? Good luck for the rest of the season.
Most honest Stoke fans don't like the way we play either but it's our club and we support them. As regards the broken bones that could be the same for any club in the Football leagues and since we have been in the prem just the one Ramsey which was not a bad tackle either. I think you will find that Arsenal have the worst disciplinary record in the prem, that other side that play tippy tappy football with ballerina type players! At the end of the day it's a man's game and if your players pull out of tackles for fear of getting hurt then they should be playing a non contact sport!
Also until Hutth got sent off for a slide in the snow we had gone 37 games without a red card so we can't be that dirty! Go check how many Arsenal have had this season!
Who mentioned Arsenal? You won fair enough, but you need to admit that sometimes the way you play and the tackles made, wouldn't look out of place on a rugby pitch.
