Hell I hope so, we've have milked your comedy value for far too long, look forward to seeing you in the big league then next season!........
What a suprise we change our formation to a more attacking 442 and stop hoofing those long balls down the pitch and start playing to our strengths and suddenly we look like title contenders. Better late than never malky. without trying to reitterate the previous posts i thought noone was truely a class above the championship on that one performance, amazing buy malky Couldnt help but notice he reverted back to 451 with his don cowie in the last 10 minutes (which suddenly felt very worrying considering we were 3-1 up). I just hope he doesnt go back to 451 in the away games as our strongest play style is clearly attack by far!
Very hard to keep up that level of performance for rest of the season but if you can (or somewhere very close to it) you should finally make the big time. I was very impressed with what I saw although the stream i used was "stop/start" all the time.
Not suggesting there is not more to come, just suggesting that keeping it going all season is easier said than done. Of course it can be done, all the Championship winners do it. Sometimes the 2nd place team are good all season but not always and of course 3rd -6th are the more consistent teams but none of them manage it ALL season
Canary Where did you find the stream you were watching? I don't get home too often these days, and looked for one bleedin everywhere I could think of yesterday - would appreciate a link? RI
Found it (eventually) on VIP Stand but as I said, it was not too great. Very "stop/start" throughout, normally when there was action on the edge of the penalty box! I get this so many times when watching Norwich and it drives me bloody mad!
Just think how different last season could have been if we had signed Noone in the January window. With form like that he might have been the boost we needed in the second half and enabled Miller to do away with his terrible lack of goals. Anyway that is history and, on the strength of yesterday, a great future for this season. Not a below average performance on the park and while the likes of Noone, Whitts, Hudson and McNuggs were so impressive, I really liked the look of Tommy Smith. I had raised a number of doubts on here about his signing having never seen him do that well against us and wondering how he would fit in. How wrong was I? The guy has a great footballer's brain which showed in his positional sense and relationship (already) with McNuggs. He is also not short of some pace and ghosted past their players on more than one occasion. Also, rarely misplaced a pass. Mind you on one occasion HH was playing at rb when Kev went forward on a forray. Just shows the team ethic MM has already instilled. Also, while Wolves were poor second half and appeared to lack a bit of bottle (where was Karl Henry - he normally puts himself about and gets their team going?) they were a real threat in the first half and Marshy had to make some good saves. And we nearly saw McNuggs score, albeit at the wrong end towards the end. I thought Jolly Rog didn't have a bad game. He and Stearman really had their hands full with HH and Maynard and then having to cover Zubar who had an absolute nightmare trying to control Noone. Great to see Rog acknowledging our crowd although their manager can't have been too pleased when he did the Ayatollah on request when under pressure with a corner at the Canton End. Great new version of the Swans anthem and Ebanks-Blake can't have enjoyed the stick he took although fair do's to the guy he kept on smiling.
