Hello old friends and new!
It's fair to say the last 2 or so weeks have just about been my best as a Swans fan.
It's been surreal since the last 15 minutes of the play off second leg against a superb Forest side where in the space of 15 seconds when my emotions went from high anxiety to delirium (when Pratley scored from the halfway line) and then the whole Wembley experience and being part of a day when for the first time in their history the team were watched by 40,000 plus of their own fans.
A day which eclipsed Preston in May '81 which if anything was a fitting reward for all the players and fans but especially for the board and the trust whose hard work made it possible.
The joy has been tempered somewhat by the loss of Fabio Borini, possibly one of the greatest players ever to wear the white shirt. He will be missed, especially as it turns out he wanted to stay. I believe the lawyers have been all over his contract but can't release him from it. It would have been worth paying £3 million to Parma just to release him because he will be worth far more than that if his goals keep us up.
Anyway I really enjoyed the day and the new Wembley simply blew me away. It makes the millenium stadium look like the old vetch. Far far superior.
The match at 3 nil going into the break should have been safe but even then I was nervous and so my fears came true with that amazing Reading fightback.
But after the fourth I think anyone would find it hard to deny us our triumph, especially since we did finish third. Somebody in work told me it was the first time ever the third placed team had gone up in the history of the second tier play offs. Is this really true? If so even more reason to celebrate breaking a hoodoo. It's only the fourth place that hasn't done it now lol.
The goals - four from four on target - just go to show how devastating we are going forward. Sinclair's hat trick was fantastic but for me Dobbie's goal was world class, almost Klinnsmanesque! Watched in real time it was a tremedous piece of skill. Top, top drawer.
Anyhoo, I'll stop blubbering on now and search the rest of the articles. BTW, did Aussie and Daiswan "make the change"?
It's fair to say the last 2 or so weeks have just about been my best as a Swans fan.
It's been surreal since the last 15 minutes of the play off second leg against a superb Forest side where in the space of 15 seconds when my emotions went from high anxiety to delirium (when Pratley scored from the halfway line) and then the whole Wembley experience and being part of a day when for the first time in their history the team were watched by 40,000 plus of their own fans.
A day which eclipsed Preston in May '81 which if anything was a fitting reward for all the players and fans but especially for the board and the trust whose hard work made it possible.
The joy has been tempered somewhat by the loss of Fabio Borini, possibly one of the greatest players ever to wear the white shirt. He will be missed, especially as it turns out he wanted to stay. I believe the lawyers have been all over his contract but can't release him from it. It would have been worth paying £3 million to Parma just to release him because he will be worth far more than that if his goals keep us up.
Anyway I really enjoyed the day and the new Wembley simply blew me away. It makes the millenium stadium look like the old vetch. Far far superior.
The match at 3 nil going into the break should have been safe but even then I was nervous and so my fears came true with that amazing Reading fightback.
But after the fourth I think anyone would find it hard to deny us our triumph, especially since we did finish third. Somebody in work told me it was the first time ever the third placed team had gone up in the history of the second tier play offs. Is this really true? If so even more reason to celebrate breaking a hoodoo. It's only the fourth place that hasn't done it now lol.
The goals - four from four on target - just go to show how devastating we are going forward. Sinclair's hat trick was fantastic but for me Dobbie's goal was world class, almost Klinnsmanesque! Watched in real time it was a tremedous piece of skill. Top, top drawer.
Anyhoo, I'll stop blubbering on now and search the rest of the articles. BTW, did Aussie and Daiswan "make the change"?
