We have a good team...

When that poster puts something up that is well thought out and articulated can someone please take a screenshot?

 

Lose away to Stoke, with a very dodgy penalty decision changing the game, and you lot are going into meltdown? When did our fanbase get so fickle!

 

When we all kept with the times and realised we are a better team than stoke, and that we watched the game and realised it could have and should have been more than 2-1 after our 2nd half performance.

Its no different to us being angry at the away game at West Ham last season, some as far as saying its why we should sack ML. (silly people lol) the result isn't in question, the performance is. And our 2nd half performance would have resulted in a battering by a half decent team. Southampton may have put 10 past us

 

Nothing wrong with Bony that isnt wrong with most players , confidence is wanning and we need to get someone in to re-insert confidence.Neither Bony or Michu were or are "" one season wonders"" , both were and are disillussioned theyre 2nd season .

 

Amat??Injured??How could monk drop him after those performances he put in?

 

Great comments.

Compare Bony with Crouch (they are both front men for their clubs)
Bony worked all over the pitch, made plays for others and wasn't given a scoring opportunity by the team but made a couple himself.

Crouch - stayed up front and flapped his arms.

 

He used to slag Danny Graham off the season he finished as one of the top scorers in the P.L.

 

Not surprised. He seems to zero in on someone and put all his bile into a hate campaign. It's ridiculous.

 

Except Monk had only one injury and one suspension to deal with compared to 9 absentees for ML!

 

we have a very good team - when they click - and when they do they are a joy to behold like the first 30 minutes today and because of that im very proud to support a team that tries to play good football. unfortunately thats not the whole story, we blow hot and cold, we let teams back into games, we reduce the tempo and we make bad decisions all over the park including the manager. theres a lot of new faces this year and a newish manager so lets see how we respond to the problems we are facing right now because the potential to be a very decent, stable premier league side is definately there.

 

Shame games last for 90 minutes though!

 

Nobody seems to have noticed that in three of the last five games refereeing decisions have handed the impetus to the opposition, and it does make a difference. The opposition get a massive boost, the ill treated start to withdraw into their shell.... especially when in those games the opposition are allowed to use physical tactics but we are punished for veering away from the pure football.

Things like that make a team start to question if they are being targeted.

 

While not wishing to gloss over any current inadequacies, here are some winless sequences during our time in the Premier League:

2011-2012
L-D-D-L (games 1-4, Brendan Rodgers)
D-L-D-L (games 11-14, Brendan Rodgers)
D-L-D-D (games 16-19, Brendan Rodgers)
L-L-L-L (games 30-33, Brendan Rodgers)

2012-2013
D-L-L-L-D (games 3-7, Michael Laudrup)
L-L-D-D (games 16-19, Michael Laudrup)
L-L-L-D-D-L-D (games 29-35, Michael Laudrup)

2013-2014
D-D-L-L-D-L-L-L (games 15-22, Michael Laudrup)
D-L-D-L-L-D (games 26-31, Garry Monk)

As you can see, winless streaks of 4 games or more are not uncommon. I accept there may be underlying factors in there e.g. season effectively over or Europa League taking its toll.

Just trying to get some perspective

 

Well said Exile, it's why I have not jumped on this threads bandwagon, what you have stated is spot on, and hopefully we will click sooner than later, our Captain let the team down today with his poor leadership and game, he let our backline go to pieces, and Williams needs to man up when playing against the likes of Stoke etc!.......................

 

A place for everything and everything in it's place can make good football teams. Swansea have some very good players!!

 

Ok not a place for everything llol,there's no more place for Rangel, Gomis and Emnes lol

 

It's known as paranoia.

It's very easy,not to mention convenient,to blame others for the team's failures and inadequacies.

It can almost become a way of life,and if that happens, it's probably time to quit.

 

I agree with this to some extent, and all our Managers have complained about this, including Sousa, but Monk needs to deal with this behind the scenes, and unless the club demonstrate a diary sheet of every game that these refereeing decisions are impacting our points tally, then we will just have to grin and bare it..............

 

Would be useful to see the teams played too, as this current streak includes, Stoke, Newcastle, Sunderland, Southampton, Chelsea - games many would have hoped for around 8-10 points from. We picked up 2, so a 20-25% haul.

 

Nice post,aswan,but had you included the current winless streak,the picture would be more compelling.