What!!!! you take what is said on here to be the fact. OMG there are more armchair supporters who live away and some at home on this site than on any other forum Try reading the EP on line and you will see what everyone is saying and it is nowhere near what you think
"Swansea City boss Michael Laudrup has completed the £12million signing of Wilfried Bony. Laudrup told reporters: "While Michu did extremely well with 22 goals, you can't put everything on the shoulders of one man, especially when he is not regarded as a centre forward. "Hopefully Bony, who is very powerful, will take the pressure off and score some of those goals for us, although I am still looking for everyone in the team to chip in."
Yes, I've just watched the BBC Wales news at 10:30pm where they interviewed 3 random people on the streets of Swansea who were all happy with his appointment as manager.
I live and work in the city center and trust me not many fans are happy. They, like me are worried because we feel that we should have gone for the best man for the job and don't feel monk is. Anyway he's our new manager now and hope he can do the job. For the doubting fans Sunderland is a must win IMO!
Umm not sure when you last went online Dai but you will find that the majority of comments are not positive!! Having said that only 29 people have bothered to make a comment so not exactly a fair representation.
Unlike previous appointments we have seen monk operate in about 17 games,for most people that is enough to make an informed opinion . This is why the majority of fans are a bit worried,they have seen with their own eyes how hit and miss monk has been and the games we won have been against some very poor opposition . However, it is time to move on and wish him all the best,he is our new hero and leader and will be received this way , he has had his honeymoon though and there will be no excuses when the season starts . As mentioned before there are no guarantees with any manager and better guys than monk have got relegated,I believe that given time monk will be a good coach but in the premier league mistakes and tactical errors are punished . We all wish monk well that's the main thing but opinion is saying that most are worried not blindly happy as some suggest .
What concerns me is that I hope he has the ability to change plans during games. I watched Southampton have the freedom of the touchlines last week and he did nothing about it. We were so narrow that their fullbacks and wingers had so much time out wide. Yet he did absolutely nothing to address this. That is what scares me his lack of experieence if we continue that way next year it is goodbye PL. Dai it may be the case that people want him where you are. But, in my local and my football club it is about 80 - 20 against his appointment.
Let the bells ring and the banners fly...... this is the beginning of a plan to survive till we can't, on a shoestring budget . If we keep a majority of our present team we will do well , if the team fractures and Monk has to rebuild .......were in for a wake up call . One things for sure , if we go down we go down with a sh#tload of money and a manager with some expierence .All the best to Garry , looking forward to next season and the unknown of it all .
I've looked all over the media at polls and comments etc, and there is an overwhelming groundswell of disappointment at Monk's appointment, easily reaching the ratio of 80/20 that Trundles mentions. Can they all be wrong? Time will tell of course but if they're right it won't be long before we'll be heading for Griffin Park rather than Goodison Park. Perish the thought!! Monk should feel at home though.
Which is why some of you wanted an experienced number 2 and I wanted a director of football to give a hand etc. hopefully a DoF will be installed soon.
Agree with this. Ever since Monk looked like getting the job, I've hoped and prayed that we would appoint a DoF. I also think it should be someone who can step in and manage when/if Monk gets sacked.
Cant see that happening ,Huw Jenkins is the director of football at Swansea and i cant see him giving that up myself. Its an interesting point you make though, we heard everybody at the club speak highly of Pep and his plans for the youth of Swansea yet within months of him being here he appears to have left that job and has now become an assistant coach to the first team ! If we scouted him to head up our youth why the fook is he now doing a totally different job ? we spending money on developing our youth structure and the guy we selected to head it up is now off doing something totally different! From the outside it all looks a bit like the cheap option , there are so many contridictions at the Swans lately, surely we will get somebody else in to help the coaching? or to help the youth set up ?
I'd like to see Hoddle take over the youth and scouting systems at the Liberty. His football academy in Spain is very highly talked about and the way he envisages football being played is similar to ours, not to mention that he could provide Monk with some crucial experience etc should and when he needs it. To put a positive spin on things, maybe Pep is better than the club thought and have fast tracked him to the first team.
But has more experience than the entire Swansea coaching set up put together, experience that would prove invaluable.
There is not a person other than Martinez or Rodgers that could be better than monk. We unknowingly had that experience with laudrup and we all saw what a disaster that was. If jinx had known that laudrup was not going to stick to the swans philosophy then he would not have touched him with a barge pole. So rather than employ another laudrup he is given monk a chance as there is nobody else who knows the club better. Nobody is saying that monk can do well but out of everyone and how he has got the players backing him then i can see exactly where jinx is coming from and he could do very well and get us back in the top ten and even a European spot. Nobody knows until he has tried and if the club are satisfied then so am i...
OK, I must be really new ... because I don't get it ... not a wind-up, I'm serious. Please explain to me, and perhaps others, exactly those elements of our Philosophy that Laudrup departed from. So if you would, please state the element of the Philosophy and then how Laudrup departed from it. Others please feel free to help Dai out, I'd really like a comprehensive list. If this cannot be qualified and quantified then nobody has any basis for judging Laudrup or Monk or anybody else that follows or has gone before. We are not talking about win/loss record, but elements of the Club's Philosophy ... because frankly I think there is a nebulous sense of what that is among all members of the forum and elsewhere, but it's not written down anywhere I know of and it appears to be one of those words that get spouted out that hangs in mid-air with nothing to back it up .... kinda like "best interests of", which is one of the most subjective meaningless pieces of bull**** anybody could ever say.
