So, Steve Cooper has once again guided his team to the playoffs. Well done to him, say I. Let's have a big round of applause for his achievement. Three cheers wouldn't go amiss. Have I gone deaf ?
So it would seem. Perhaps if I included some anti Cooper abuse, etc., in the thread, the replies would flood in. Nothing quite inspires the mob more so than a chance to insult and demean others, especially those more successful than themselves. Pathetic bunch.
Lib has a point. There are 18 teams left in the Championship who would dearly love to be in our position. And two years in a row is no mean achievement. But it's the poor performances of the last 3 months that is dampening the mood. This year's play-off place was built on the first half of the season and certainly not the second.
He may well have point but it's always lost within his incessant attacks on posters whose opinions he holds with such disdain
Thanks for the positive feedback, aswan. But be careful, and look over your shoulder, as there are several posters who won't like the tenor of your post. The team are in the play offs, what does it matter when they actually amassed the points required. There's one moronic poster who described the achievement as being " flukey ". That's Cooper's acievement in leading the team.
Getting into the Play Offs - especially into the Play Offs in 2 successive seasons - is most certainly no mean feat - and it would have been welcomed and accepted by most fans before a ball had been kicked before the season started. However, there are a number of things/factors that have caused fans to question Cooper’s Management capabilities - performances, tactics (particularly a seeming inability to react to in game situations) and substitutions: even Sky pundits have recently started to pick up on things, leading one to state that he couldn’t believe that we were in a play off place ..... Indeed, in a recent poll of c600+ Swansea fans, 2/3rds wanted a Managerial change - quite a staggering figure given that the Swans were not only in a play off place, but automatic promotion was still within the Swans’ control. So why was that the case? I believe that there were a number of factors: 1) last season we started really well but then tailed off badly mid-season, before doing really well towards the end of the season. There was a view that the good start was due to the team (and Cooper) benefitting from Graham Potter’s good work the previous season, with results going badly when Cooper’s style became more ingrained. The great finish was viewed by many as due to Rhian Brewster. Yes he probably came only because of Cooper but he (Brewster) got us into the Play Offs 2) This season many performances were turgid, the team was set up ‘not to lose’ rather than to go out and win: if we went 1-0 up (even in the first few minutes as was the case at Luton) we then parked the bus. That is not the ‘Swansea Way’ - a way that Cooper said he wanted to follow / re-instill. I suspect that if we fail in the Play Offs, Cooper will be successful in getting the England U21 job - a role to which he is currently, arguably better suited. As it so happens, I sat next to the previous incumbent who had come to the Liberty - on Gareth Southgate’s behalf - to watch a couple of players. Believe it or not, he asked me what I thought of them - I gave him my opinion - I’ve no idea if he took on board what I said (I doubt it very much), but I can honestly and truthfully say that the one I said deserved to be called up to the Senior Squad was called up - and got a cap!
Giving clueless his due I did intimate a week or so ago that we were tactically just scrapingin to the play offs playing poorly to give our opponents a false idea that we are worse than we actually are...the other conspiracy theory is that the players are not performing so that they can retain their places in another season of championship football with us whilst promo would mean that many of them would be released.....
@LIBERTARIAN help us understand your posting motivation. That way we can either put you on mute, or join in. Many thanks.