Steve McClaren insisted Swansea’s 3-0 win over QPR flattered the Welsh side. https://www.westlondonsport.com/qpr...reline-flattered-swansea#.W6-4qyhO8K8.twitter
So Swansea take a punt on a manager who has worked a miracle on a tiny Swedish club with zero resources but has never managed in the Championship, knowing they need a rebuild and parachute payments won’t last forever. Bit of a rocky start but they are 7th. We get in yet another has been (yep, I thought he would be a step up on Holloway who I never want back at the club too). Add to the most impatient fans around and what do you get? Groundhog Day. What we needed was a manager who can work a miracle at a tiny club with no resources. But the fans would moan about getting a virtual unknown in. Catch 22.
I assure you that was at least as bad as West Brom. For the first 15 minutes we looked ok against a Swansea team clearly devoid of confidence and happy to let us knock it around without offering much. The first goal was defended atrociously first by Rangel to lose the header and then by one of the two identical, equally useless centre-halves to be second to the loose ball. But then just nothing at all. No width. No ability to win the ball in midfield. Freeman and Eze lacking interest entirely and ineffective but still our better players. Wells trying but totally isolated while Hemed just not offering anything at all, probably because he’s a target man playing in a team with no wide players. Full-backs do their best but neither offer anything beyond the halfway line. I’d gladly never see Lynch play for us again. But the absolute defining moment of the game was the decision to bring Smith on for Eze. As moronic a move as you will ever, ever see a professional football manager make and with it any vague chance of one of our aimless attacks somehow finishing with the ball in the goal. What grip of the midfield we had was totally ceded and they completely overran us for the remainder of the game. Dreadful all round but almost entirely Mclaren’s fault this time. Bad times on Hair Island.
Sorry lads and lasses but got what I was expecting. We've never done well against Swans. We move on but with Reading's confidence up after drawing with Brentford before our visit eyes to them on Tuesdsy and then Derby at home, it's hard to see where next points are coming from. Whatever the question it does not look like Steve M is the answer.
Funnily Reading have started winning as we have started to lose. Typical going to the Fakes when we are crap. That's all I need going there having that weird lot taking the P. I will have a few extra beers to numb me if we embarrass ourselves.
I didn't have lofty ambitions for this season - a team with vim and vigour, full of effort and improving youngsters with a league position above last season would have done me. But any promise we had has been pissed away by alienating players who did well for us and sidlining most of the young players. Even if we somehow cling to survival the cost to player development already looks catastrophic. Not a good day to be an R is it?
It's the thing about the young players that pisses me off most. I was amongst those that thought McClaren would be a good appointment for developing young talent, but he's completely the opposite. They have all been shipped out or ignored. Except Eze, who, apart from the Millwall game, has been played out of position and then got hooked today to bring on Matt ****ing Smith!
I didn’t see any finishing today nor did I see much starting it could of been a pre season friendly in my mind These players were rested How on earth does SM think you get consistent football at a club like ours in the current environment? You play your best team every match until you get something to happen We simply do not have the active talent at the moment ... give Scowen, Freeman and Mass to any other manager in this league and watch them express themselves Eze the same SM is a disease on this squad he is killing what we have Manning on fire Little Smyth shot to bits Scowen gone These are good players To get in a few loans says it all to me It’s actually funny to watch SM fail in a warped way. First we lose all respect via TFand his bollocks and then we employ the joke of U.K. management Mid Hair Oxbow You couldn’t make it up The final episode for me would be Steve Cotterill as he is the lord of the untalented U.K. managers These people unfortunately albeit maybe nice people? are losers Hughes Redknapp hassenbaink McClaren etc they are failures QPR does not deserve this imo Get a QPR man in and stick with him win or lose or get a French manager What a **** shower
SM is a liar and clueless on footballing matters always has been he’s a yes man and only interested in himself
tbh lads, as a Swans fan I did not expect a 3-0 win (as mentioned a few times we cant score) and after reading this thread I wonder how long McLaren has??
The thing that is worrying is when Holloway was manager it seemed half supported him and half wanted him out. I am yet to see a poster support SM. That says a lot.
The difference is Ollie actually cared about the club, it's clear Schteeve only cares about himself...
How much have we shelled out in both manager and players since TF joined ............ and what do we have to show for it? Someone has done well out of it but it hasn't been the club. The only thing we have been consistent of is being a Bollywood soap opera with lots of noise & tears. The Production company is no Steven Spielberg. The Director of Football is too busy smiling at the tv camera and signing autographs to do anything worthwhile. The Musical Director is inaudible of being heard, hence the players don't listen to him. The plethora of Actors and Casts could fill a football field and nothing more. The Location Manager couldn't secure a new training ground if he tried. and the Extras ( us fans ) have been stuck under a tent waiting for a sunny day since, The Ten Commandments. Just hope those funding the production don't cut their losses and walk away ............ or do l?
We couldn't do much worse, just have a look at where Accrington Stanley are on gates that rarely exceed 2,500, so many examples of clubs with a fraction of our financial resources punching way above their weight. Our profligacy has been matched only by our ineptitude...
Reading and Derby next week. If the team doesn't turn up for those, the Island may well be on his way
