Match Day Thread Everton v Swansea

Give them my regards. I'm surprised they haven't been over to congratulate us, they seemed quite keen to come and chat a little while back

 

Very welcoming on their Matchday tread title too .

 

I think you need to go far further back than that, anyway for what it's worth:

The people seem to have called themselves Cumbri the same way that the Welsh call themselves Cymry (most likely from Brittonic 'kom-brogī meaning "fellow countrymen"). It is likely that the Welsh and the Cumbric speaking people of what are now southern Scotland and northern England felt they were actually one ethnic group. Old Irish speakers called them "Britons", Bretnach or Bretain. The Norse called them Brettar. In Medieval Latin, the English term Wales and the term Cumbri were Latinised as Wallenses "of Wales" and respectively Cumbrenses "of Cumbria". The usual English usage was to call them Welsh. In Scots, a Cumbric speaker seems to have been called Wallace, from the Scots Wallis/Wellis "Welsh".

A more controversial point is the surname Wallace. It means “Welshman”. It is possible that all the Wallaces in the Clyde area were medieval immigrants from Wales, but given that the term was also used for local Cumbric speaking Strathclyde Welsh it seems equally if not more likely that the surname refers to people who were seen as being "Welsh" due to their Cumbric language. Surnames in Scotland were not inherited before 1200 and not regularly until 1400. William Wallace (known in Gaelic as Uilleam Breatnach – namely William the Briton or Welshman) came from the Renfrew area – itself a Cumbric name. Wallace slew the sheriff of Lanark (also a Cumbric name) in 1297. Even if he had inherited the surname from his father, it is possible that the family spoke Cumbric within memory in order to be thus named.

 

Fabulous win.Heart stopping (again) at the end.
Taylor was targetted as weak link.We got away with it.
Poor ,no schoolboy,marking for their goal.
Weeks break which I'm happy with,gives the new management time to work with the squad and hopefully new faces.
Well done all.

 

An enormous, enormous, enormous, enormous victory . If we had drawn I would have been delighted, to get a win away from home against our bogey team is ****ing fantastic. I'm absolutely delighted with that win.

At times we played really well, retaining possession but for the majority we offered very little threat in the final third. We'd come good in the second half I thought, releasing our speedsters to finish Everton off. Fat chance. Guidolin parked the bus.

Yes we rode our luck at times and Lukaku could have had a couple, but he didn't. Guidolin didn't change anything. Why change a team when they are all doing their job? Sometimes it wasn't pretty, we just leathered it out of the box. But it worked.

We've just banked a huge three points and hopefully we can push on from two successive wins.

As for the Ki knockers (and they're a growing band), play back the last two matches and have a look at his overall contribution. Yes, he has his faults (who doesn't), but have a look at his overall contribution to the working of the team. you may be surprised

 

I am actually a die hard Ki fan, just check out my posts when he was sent to Sunderland. But even I have to admit he is floating around like a Fairy at the minute, but he still contributes some key game changing moments...........

 

My thoughts as well, if he (Guidolin) suffers from stress he`s in the wrong job with the wrong team. How many hearts missed a beat or two in that last half hour?

Still, a cracking result, one that I thought we`d never get. Let`s hope we can crack on from here now and put together a run of results to get us away from that dreaded drop.

 

He's certainly shying away from the physical aspect of the game. If he improved on that he'd probably be a 15 million pound player! He's a bit like Jonathan de Guzman, does a lot of unnoticed work which benefits the team enormously

 

I think Ki is at his best linking defence and attack he does make me nervous when he faces our goal and makes a back pass.. We could do with a mid fielder who can burst forward quickly and powerfully like Besic did for Everton today, I don't think any of our current midfielders have that in them.

 

It was like the parting of the Red Sea when Besic ran forward, exactly the same as when Defoe ran straight at us at The Liberty last season and scored. That point was probably the main disappointment for me today, that we haven't learnt from last season and it nearly cost us. But that would be nitpicking

I'd agree that having a midfielder who drives into the penalty box would be lovely

 

Heart stopping, the wife had to jump on my chest during injury time!!

 

http://www.teamtalk.com/news/swansea-victory-surprises-new-coach-guidolin

 

Ki and Britton are our "Transformers " they do their jobs together well .When Britton was taken off against Sunderland you could see Ki's game drop .
The criticism of Ki and or Routledge is unfounded compared to all players playing imo , but they take the brunt for some reason .When Ki , Britton and Siggy are on form , they are our way forward .
On a side note , Gomis didn't even make the bench , the writing is on the wall imo ....gone or benched with crazy wages , Eder looked good when he first came on ( whistling ) .

 

Gomis was missing because his wife/girlfriend has given birth.

 

In France.

Swansea sea air must be too strong.

 

Oh .....hehe, thought I was onto something there ...

 

The writing on the wall roofer is a baby..............

 

Who knows , he may come back all full of piss and vinegar ready to roll because of his little one ...congrats to him if they've given birth , good luck if they haven't .

 

Seen this?

From around the 18th/19th minute....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b06z5pkb/motd2-extra-24012016

Seems we don't know what we are doing, shouldn't have sold Jonjo......

 

What a great interview with Guido , I think we're dealing with a straight shooting honest guy , just like Curtis ...Very happy about the way this guy comes across .