Colliers v Jack’s match day thread

Another frustrating day, poor finishing and some poor passing when breaking out has cost us.
Following last season's playoffs it's typical that Swansea will probably confirm our relegation by losing to Reading on Monday.

 

Just got back into the City centre for a night out in Swansea. When I got back to the hotel room ar lass said “good point then”. My bad, but I just couldn’t be arsed to explain.

I actually thought that was one of our better away performances, but our finishing was woeful.

In truth we’re going down because we are the worst or second worse team in the Division - we may see which on Monday. In a ‘normal’ season we would have been down in February! A truly dreadful awful pitiful season. Let it end.

 

If Reading hadn't had their points deduction we'd be 15 points from safety. An appalling season and one that the owners have to take full responsibility for including very poor head coach appointments and Conway's bizarre transfer recruitments.
The only positive for me is that we're not going down as the worst championship team in history.
Hope we can keep Morris and Woodrow but expect a fair few departures to try and balance the finances.

 

Fair effort a suppose when i was expecting a easy Swansea win but the damage was done way back last summer under Conways watch. P.S I thought Styles was crap when he came on .

 

I can sit back tonight and say they gave it a go

 

That's the most unrelated bizarre two sentences I've ever read on here.

You may as well have said
There's a saying in showbusiness, never work with children or animals, and it's absolutely bang on. I don't like pasta.

 

Good call.....no probs with selling our fated internationals who have not performed to last seasons standards, but if we keep Morris and Woodrow we will be a threat next year

 

Come on, that is some claim!!

What Dreamo said actually makes sense and is related.. i.e. 'You are at your most vulnerable when you've just scored' (false sense of security / relaxing too much after scoring), and we are particularly vulnerable because Walton is between the sticks (Dreamboy's opinion that Walton adds to that vulnerability, of course). But definitely related.

 

Ps the children, animals and pasta thing had me laughing, very random

 

Don’t agree with the comments about it being a good strike by Ntcham.

I like Jack Walton, I think he’ll be our first choice goalkeeper next season and I’ve no issue with that. He’s also made a number of saves today.

But he really ought to have saved that shot. It wasn’t hit with pace and it wasn’t in a corner, in fact it was quite close to him if you look.

As I say, I’m not castigating the lad long term, but that was a mistake in my view.

 

We also just sat off them and made no attempt to win the ball in the lead up, and there was nobody anywhere near the goalscorer when he shot.

 

Exactly that. A goalkeeper's mistakes often stand out more than most because they are often critical. But if you looked at all the individual errors our players have made over the course of the season, the goalkeeper's (Collins or Walton) would be near the bottom of a very long list.

 

Take away Derby and Reading's point deductions and we would already be relegated, based on footballing performance alone.

The only crumb of pride to play for is to finish ahead of Peterborough so as not to be the worst on-field team in the Championship this season. I'm not convinced we're good enough to achieve that, but we'll find out more on Monday.

The writing has been on the wall for weeks, despite the mini-upturn in form, which was too little and came far too late to make a difference. We are exactly where we deserve to be.

Two away games at Swansea, both 1-1 draws, less than a year apart, but an absolute chasm between them in terms of their significance. No-one realistically expected a repeat of the miracles of last season, but it takes a unique amount of collective incompetence for such a deterioration to have been possible in such a short space of time.

We have a significant rebuilding process ahead of us, and I fear it's going to be a number of years until we can look forward to Championship football again. It's not beyond us to challenge for promotion next season, but we're in a significantly weaker position than when we were last there.

Today's game wasn't the cause of this, and by all accounts we competed reasonably well this afternoon, but achieving the same result as our previous visit there provides something of a book-end around the worst period I can recall as a Barnsley supporter (and I include the administration period within that).

 

Exactly. It has happened plenty today where a team have let in a goal within five minutes of scoring one. The team who score are on a high and don't always switch back on straight away. The goal is celebrated and the opposition are trying to focus on a response to what's just happened. Walton I just don't rate and don't think dropping a league will make a difference.

 

Yep, agreed. On Walton, the jury still out for me but Collins has proven himself to be the better keeper the last year and a half.