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He's a good player, but not our best by some distance, most would say not even the best. A very good player though. Rodgers obviously knew about the clause.

He likes his open letters, this one to us Swansea fans http://www.thisissouthwales.co.uk/story-16301404-detail/story.html%20, that was shortly before he went back on his written agreement not to come in for any Swansea players for at least 12 months. An agreement he signed for Swansea to allow him to talk to Liverpool. Its in the papers as well (who knows if true) that he's lining up Williams (our centre half) as a replacement for Aggar who he's apparently allowing to go in an attempt to raise cash, probably to buy the rest of our team. We find it amusing he's supposedly signing the keeper who left us at the end of his contract last year, after playing an important in getting us up, he preferred warming a bench at Wolves as he felt they had a better chance to stay up.

Our chairman Huw has a record of pulling surprises from his hat, two of the last 3 managers in line for the Liverpool job shows he has a nose for a decent manager. The only bad manager he has picked since he became chairman was the first, when in a moment of panic he selected the first team captain, one of a handful of players we had left. He arranged trial games to tempt players and signed half a dozen lemon's. After 4 months with us firmly rooted to the bottom of the 4th tier, Huw sprung into action and appointed the first of 5 managers that took us up to where we are now. Brian Flynn, Kenny Jackett, Roberto Martinez, Paulo Souza and Brendan Rodgers, all played their part to get us where we are. Jones was No2 here with Martinez, so Huw obviously saw something in him and has not been rebuffed by constant rejections, he was offered the job when Martinez left but he chose to follow Martinez, he was reportedly offered the job when Sousa left as well. Laudrup appears the favourite now in any case just wish it was all over though, so we can start the pre-season.

Hence my reference that we don't have 9 million plus players, if we stay up 3-4 years. hopefully we'll slowly evolve and get better players into those important positions

Cisse carry on with quality like that and champions league looks attainable for you guys

We get a lot of the 'this is boring' comments by opposition fans, especially when their team doesn't touch the ball a lot. Our game is based on patience, keep possession while looking to probe forward, if nothing shows, don't do a hit and hope, keep the ball. That way the oppo don't get that 50/50 ball and attack us, while you don't have the ball you don't score and while your chasing shadows your players tire. Doesn't always work obviously as your one up, but its worked often enough this season for us to be almost safe. I'm sure all us Swans fans would love to see more going on in the oppo's box, maybe that will happen when we can just nip out and buy players for 9 million plus. Until then we'll stay patient. Until about 3-4 years ago our record buy was just over 300K and that record had stood since 1981. Looking at some of your guys comments, it appears your bigger fans of the 'Stoke City' style, if you can call it that.

I just listed a few sites in the 'Links to Other Clubs' Message Boards' sticky thread above.

Swansea City Planet Swans Guestbook Vital Swans and a general all English team list http://www.fanbase-links.co.uk/

Absolutely incorrect there. At Liverpool and Arsenal we played more possessive and attacking football. The reason we were defensive this game was simply we were pushed back and had to be. You forced us further back and pressed us up high whenever we had the ball, this forced us into more passing mistakes than the usual games we play. The best substitution for Swansea was when Best went off.

We seem to have no answer at the moment. One thing your doing well is pressing us when we have the ball (that rare occasion), we just haven't got off the blocks. Was glad the whistle went.

We were one of the teams who turned down Ba when he first came over for trials at various clubs Apparently there was a question mark on his medicals

This reminds me of when we played up here against you in the Championship. Played the first half like rabbits in the headlights, you punished us that game. We haven't turned up yet it seems.

http://fourfourtwo.com/blogs/statszone/archive/2011/12/16/liverpool-defend-smart-newcastle-face-different-challenge-amp-rio-fills-vidic-void.aspx Well guess that's somewhat reassuring. thats cause we pass it on the floor (usually in our half )

Dyer was dropped to the bench last game and Routledge played, Routledge also played in the place of Sinclair recently too. Dyers not been at his best last few games, some think its because the usual right back Angel Rangel is out injured, Dyer and Rangel play well together and the replacement, Jazz Richards a youngster, who's improving each game, but is not the attacking player that Rangel is. Routledge has played well when called upon and if he plays will be through the fact he's earned it with his performances. Still not scored though.

Recently Routledge, Dyer and Sinclair have been rotated, so very good possibility of a Routledge start. He's played very well too.

How has Neil Taylor being doing for your lot? How highly do you rate him? He's been playing very well, links well with Sinclair on the left. Highly rated really. We've lost a little on the right though with Angel Rangel being injured, he links well with Dyer. Routledge started instead of Dyer the last game.

I've supported Newcastle as a second team since 1969. Swansea (Town as they were then) were in the 4th division. The nearest first division teams were in London or Birmingham. As a schoolboys, all the kids had their favourite 1st division teams as seen on match of the day about which they would talk about in the school yard. Mostly Leeds, Chelsea, Man U and Everton in those days, for whatever reason I chose Newcastle and stuck with them ever since. I suppose it does seem strange to those who are born and brought up in a City where there is a 'giant' in footballing terms steeped in history, but when your local team is more used to the lower echelons and the nearest 'big' team is 100's of miles away your perception is different as you grow up. Swansea is and always has been my number 1 team as the programs going back to the 60's hold testament to. Newcastle was a great excuse to nip down the pub to watch the mid week games (before I moved to Canada). Used to frequent the Barley Mow in Duke Street a lot when I lived in London too.

Hi guys, Swansea (and Newcastle) fan here, a rare game I actually want Newcastle to lose as its my home team. We're due an away win, we have been close. Our away record has been poor in terms of results as a few have picked up on. Man City 0-4. first game was 0-0 until they brought on their sub whose worth was more than our entire team (including the bench), all goals in the last half hour. Arsenal 0-1, was looking like it was going to be scoreless before a very uncharacteristic mistake by Vorm, where he rolled the ball out at pace and it hit the back of Angel Rangel's legs straight to Arshavin who couldn't miss. Chelsea 1-4 nuff said. Norwich 1-3, we never really started this game, one of the few where we did actually play bad. Wolves 2-2, we threw away a 2 goal lead. Liverpool 0-0, we both had chances to score. Blackburn 2-4, done by the Yak, we didn't play bad just had no answer to Yakubu who scored 4, we pulled back to 2-3 then had Allen sent off for a very weak yellow (his own fault his first yellow was for throwing the ball away). they played some rough tactics, as did Villa the week before which lost us 3 players for this game. So yes our away form is not good but apart from Norwich we haven't been too bad. We'll play keep ball and what's the bet Routledge will score his first prem goal.

Taylor of Swansea with nasty head injury, they just spent 7 minutes strapping him carefully onto a stretcher.

To be honest I have no idea what this will hold for us, like any fan hoping for the best, we'll be in our own mini league at the other end more likely. Target 1 is to beat Derby's record. Not too hopeful tonight, we seem to freeze away to the bigger team, we did against Leeds in the first away game, we did against Newcastle a couple of years ago. A draw would seem a magnificent result. Think QPR will have a long hard season, Blackburn don't look too healthy, Norwich and Wigan may struggle. If we can stay above at least 3 I'll be happy come May.

Swansea are 20% owned by the supporters trust. We're lucky that the rest are owned by local business men who are also fans.

I thought he was one of their most promising players. No, they would be Joe Allen, Daniel Alfei and Lee Lucas

Taylor was at the Swansea training camp today with the team. Some say he cut a lonely figure. http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11095_7034812,00.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Absolutely not. The Premier League has already destroyed the dreams of the vast majority of teams and their fans and you think it would be an idea to kill their dreams completely. Is this the only way you think Newcastke would win anything??? You choice of teams awe inspiring. Why have places for current 3rd division teams and none for current Premier league teams, if history and size is all that matters, why include Wigan. If anything like this ever happened I would find another sport to spend all my money on.

Doubt this very much, a dick of a Journo for the Mirror (Paul Smith) who for some reason has something against Swansea is posting these things ion his twitter site. He also says Ashley Williams to QPR (again quoting a non-existent 1 mill buy-out clause). We turned down 2 mill for Williams last season. Smith later owned up to winding the Swans fans up. Taylor signed from Wrexham last summer for 35K initially, this raised to 150K after add ons. He didn't start the season as first choice but eventually made his way in. Quite young and still learning. Some of our fans think we need someone more experienced in this position for the Premiership.