I ve heard it been touted from various sources that this is the biggest game in our history but although i m getting mighty excited by the replay tomorrow in my lifetime I can think of at least 4 more important matches... ....starting with... 4 Preston 81 -as a 15 year old amongst 10,000 Jacks it was something pretty special and capped our meteoric rise from the old 4th into unchartered territory where we more than held our own...for one season! The fact that we got there for the first time in our history makes it very big nevertheless. 3 Notts Forest play off semi final - i know it was only a semi and we ve had plenty of other promotion/relegation deciders but this is up there for me epitomised by the franticness and drama of the match itself - when im feeling a bit down i just go to You Tube and look for THAT Darren Pratley moment of magic! 2 Reading play off final - after Notts Forest I really did think we were destined to win (summed up by the ´this is our day!´speech by Huw Johns on the pitch before the match). We were in the right place at the right time, this is bigger than Preston because all the factors came together to herald an era of the Swans with at last a sustainable future; good football, economic stability, fan involvement and very sound decision making behind the scenes. 1 HULL! - I threw up before the match (okay I had had a few the night before!) and I could barely focus on the events on the pitch, the consequences of losing were just too big to take in. Where would we be now if the ref hadnt given a dodgy pen or Jason Thomas hadnt tried that sublime chip into the top corner - its UNIMAGINABLE! This for me was THE wake up call and the birth of a new era. Any thoughts?
Reading at wembley without doubt for me, but closely followed by the Hull game. Unbelievable that both games landed up 4-2 to us, we had 2 penalties in each game, and a swans player scored a hattrick in both. The forest game was exciting but if we didn't beat them the reading game wouldn't have happened. And as a kid I loved the Preston away game.
Hull game was critical to the survival of the club as we know it.....the most important by far. Without that, there would be no Forest semi, Reading final or Chelsea game and Premier league football would seem like a pipe dream.
Yes Hull was the most important game along with the game the week before when we managed to win at Rochdale which set up our chance of survival. As swimaway says without those two games we would never have climbed up four divisions to be where we are now playing premier league football and been able to attract players and a manager of such high calibre.
Quite a few of the matches prior to Hull were also major matches for the Club - every one was like a cup final.
Yes - I was at Rochdale too - in the last 10 mins when we were one up they kept lumping balls into our box as if their lives depended on it -seriously nerve racking stuff!!
Hull game for me, obviously all the preceding games in the season were as important but Hull was the pivotal moment in the clubs history.If we had cone down then who's to say how long it would have taken us to get back up .
It depends how you look at it though, does the biggest game necessarily have to be the most important ? I still maintain the Reading game as we would have still survived as a club, just look at Wrexham. But it would have taken us longer to get where we are. Still I think all four of these games are more important than the game tomorrow. Actually I think every single premier league game is more important than this game, or the wembley final if we get there .
Hull game for me, obviously all the preceding games in the season were as important but Hull was the pivotal moment in the clubs history.If we had cone down then who's to say how long it would have taken us to get back up .
all them games are in the past and the chelsea game tomorrow is huge for the fact we could get to our very first major cup final and if we do that would eclipse tomorrow....
I can understand why people go for Hull but I'm with Jager even though it's a close run thing. We may have been relegated but who's to say we wouldn't have bounced back eventually? So much was at stake against Reading, and what you've witnessed over the past couple of seasons wouldn't have happened. The Championship is a dog of a league to get out of and survival this season means the TV money goes up substantially, securing the future for the Club long term. Good debate though. Maybe in the not too distant future it'll be the Europa Cup Final
Good luck tonight - my other half's from Ystraddgynlais so have taken in a few games at the Vetch and Liberty over the years when we have been down for Xmas, half-terms etc - would hope you have every 'neutral' in the country rooting for you tonite...
Fosse. If we make the Final I suspect everyone will go for Bradford, which is understandable. My feeling is that whoever wins tonight will win the Cup, but you never know.
KJ, world is full of ifs and buts. The win against Hull Kept us in the league. With out that win there may ever have been a Swansea City and we wouldnt have been able to get to the Reading game. Using the same logic, if we had lost to Reading who is to say we wouldnt have done what they did a year later and win the league. (I know they are struggling now). So using that arguement surely our first ever game a 1-1 draw against Cardiff, because with out that none of this could have happened.
