I'm certainly looking forward to another Premiere League season , doesn't mean I won't be looking back a the mess created by the board this season and wonder what might have been.
Most on here are able to have more than a single thought daiswan , you can live in your " Crystal Ball " and pretend the season went well and figure the board did a great job this season but most like to think outside the ball
After yesterday's performance, the Board's unwillingness to seek the best person for the job, Monk's lack of credentials .... it feels like a funeral, or being around the last, tormented, lingering months of a person doomed to die. After Martinez, Sousa and Rogers left there was anguish, but also some sense of optimism and excitement at the arrival of the new manager. This is time there is anguish and no sense of optimism. We have seen the future in the last three months - it is grim. And to cap it all Williams, Monk's fawning devotee, switched off at the end of the game and scored an own goal ... not that he was particularly switched on for the rest of the game. If you cannot keep it focused and engaged for the whole game for your "idol" then really what does that say about Monk. If Williams succumbs to a "****-it" moment then why should the rest, seeing that, try as well. We have dead wood in the Club - Monk and Williams. But it's impossible to prune the dead wood when it's the trunk of the tree. This is what the Club has done - moved the dead wood into the trunk of the tree or the core of the Club. Bye, bye innovation. Bye, bye Prem league. Our future can be seen by looking at the last three months. We have all moaned about managers only having a plan A. Yesterday a plan A would have been a step up.
The atmosphere and the standing ovation at the last match of the season totally refutes everything you said yankee and a typical response of someone not there....
I have two eyes, a brain, and the advantage of listening to commentators during the game. Others have reported that a good many of the crowd left the ground at the end of the game and even before that. Were you there or watching from the nearest illegal pub. The starting setup that Monk persisted with until the first sub was a mess. We played with two forwards - Bony and Routs. We left Davies without a winger protection on our left flank - time after time South had oceans of space and tons of time out there whenever they switched the ball. We were consistently out maneuvered in midfield. We yielded 60%+ possession for the entire game .... at home. Our passing was bereft of quality. If this was a Plan A then we are f**ked; if this was Monk trying something new .... the message is clear, FFS stop trying and re-read whatever notes Martinez, Sousa, Rogers and Laudrup left behind. If HJ was worried about losing our ethos ... yesterday it didn't turn up. Is it lost or dead? Even the most ardent Sousa critics must admit that not even under Sousa's worst moments were we ever as bad as yesterday.
Well, I've got a plan A and a plan B after reading your posts over the last couple of months: Plan A - shoot myself because there's nothing to live for. or Plan B - take the summer off from Swansea's (alleged) woes, enjoy the World Cup, Wimbledon, Tour de France, US & British Open Golf. I think I'll opt for.......Plan B
Aswan, it's like going to sleep to block out some bad news. Trouble is, it's still there when you wake up.
Southampton pushed 3 up to the edge of our area whenever Vorm had the ball (either at his feet or from a goal kick). That meant we had to go long instead of playing it out from the back. The general plan, as a lot of teams do, is overload one half of the pitch and stick the ball into the middle of that area. Bony won his fair share of headers from this but we failed most of the time to retain possession as a result. Therefore, Southampton had a huge percentage of possession because they keep and pass the ball as well as any team in the Premier League. How do you counteract that? Have a taller team? I don't know, but it's been a failing over a multitude of seasons.
I'm going to join you. I'm still waiting for the alarm to go off and wake up to find it's all been a bad dream.
We have not yielded as much possession to any team not even to the likes of City. South were not that great yesterday, we just had nothing to offer. And we are supposed to be one of the top passing teams in the league. A team playing really well would have murdered us yesterday.
Actually, since there is absolutely nothing in my power that I can do to affect the outcome of who is manager next season, there seems little point in getting too wound up over it, and having the 'summer off' seems like a good idea.
I'm with you Aswan I'm having the summer off. Pity the poor folk who have booked to go to Sunderland however. Might just sleep through next weekend.
Dai, I was there yesterday afternoon, just as I was for the last game in each of our previous 2 seasons in the PL. As much as I would love to agree with you, I thought yesterday's post match atmosphere was the worst of the 3. Whilst those remaining may have been standing, the vast majority of the crowd had departed. Perhaps 2 years ago, the win and the Elvis costumes helped raise spirits, and although we lost to Fulham 12 months ago spirits were high because last season we had won the League Cup and retained our PL status quite comfortably. Yesterday was not helped by a poor performance and conceding a late goal.
Well i thought it was brilliant and fans were showing the team and monk their appreciation at the final whistle , If you were there then you could not have failed to see the response that monk got ....
