Lets take some Libertys! Swans away Match Thread (3.3.18)

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  • Pearces_Left_FootPearces_Left_Foot
    A poor performance Swansea have good home form recently beating Liverpool and arsenal we need to perform against burley Southampton Stoke and Everton at home to stay up
  • baracks_a_hammerbaracks_a_hammer
    No not Moyes, like his predecessor his hands seemed to be somewhat tied when it came to squad improvements.
  • baracks_a_hammerbaracks_a_hammer
    Pearces_Left_Foot said:

    A poor performance Swansea have good home form recently beating Liverpool and arsenal we need to perform against burley Southampton Stoke and Everton at home to stay up

    The first three of those really. Because if we go into the final game of the season needing points to stay up it becomes a complete lottery
  • SuzanneClaretSuzanneClaret
    edited March 2018
    It doesn’t become a lottery, a lottery requires the numbers you have chosen to be pulled from a ‘hat’ at random with no way to affect the outcome,

    Requiring points to stay up on the last game of the season requires us to score goals and keep a clean sheet or score more than the opposition. This is not a lottery, not when the outcome is in our hands.
  • ASLEFshruggedASLEFshrugged
    It was a transfer window for a manager who might be here next season if he want to stay and if the board want to keep him.
  • YeoldhammerYeoldhammer
    i dont think it matters if we survive or not, there are too many replacements the club need to make with the squad and it just will not happen.
  • IronHerbIronHerb
    Of course it matters if we survive or not.
  • YeoldhammerYeoldhammer
    can you imagine Big Sam relegating us at home on the last day of the season ;lol
  • Cuz1Cuz1
    Think he would have a wry smile
  • FortuneseekerFortuneseeker
    ASLEFshrugged said:

    It was a transfer window for a manager who might be here next season if he want to stay and if the board want to keep him.

    But surely he would want to have the calibre of player within the squad to ensure we stayed up so he could continue managing in the Premier League as this is supposed to be the job he gets redemption in?

    Agree with baracks the last window was underwhelming and we all know who could have made it more successful. ;sofa
  • SuzanneClaretSuzanneClaret
    He won’t though and he’s got more than enough to worry about at Everton to be looking our way.
  • baracks_a_hammerbaracks_a_hammer
    He’s kept Everton up though tbf (or as near as damn it)
  • SuzanneClaretSuzanneClaret
    edited March 2018
    Ask the Everton fans how they feel about it. If their fan forums are anything to go by, exactly the same as the majority in here felt.
  • baracks_a_hammerbaracks_a_hammer
    I agree, their natives are far from happy - for different reason to us. They will be in the Prem next season though
  • SuzanneClaretSuzanneClaret
    As will we....


    I believe.
  • IronHerbIronHerb
    I must say the White Flag shop I opened earlier in the season is doing a roaring trade. Who'd of thought it?
  • thornburyironthornburyiron
    Blind faith Suze. We are the team who are in a downward spiral at the moment and before that started when we were on an unbeaten run we were mostly drawing.
    I still believe we are going yo be dependent on relying on other teams to fail but some of those teams appear to have woken up to the situation they're in whereas we haven't.
  • baracks_a_hammerbaracks_a_hammer
    edited March 2018
    Unless we plan to surprise the likes of Man City or Chelsea, we could do with waking up next week v Burnley
  • IronHerbIronHerb
    But thorn that is no different to every season ever. The teams who go down don't get as many points as those who stay up. That's how leagues work!
  • SuzanneClaretSuzanneClaret
    Not blind faith Thorn, no.

    But I do believe...
  • thornburyironthornburyiron
    Not sure I understand what you're point is IH. What I meant was other teams seem to realise that they're in a fight but we don't. If the expectation this season is 40 points are needed then I don't see us getting to that figure so I hope that it's a few less than that and three other teams don't get there either.
    We are only one game away from the bottom three and the way we are shipping goals our goal difference is not likely to help us.
  • baracks_a_hammerbaracks_a_hammer
    Luckily for us we have six homes games left and it is perfectly feasible for us to achieve a positive result in 5 of them. However none of this will arrive gift wrapped on a plate. It will be zero points if yesterday’s application is showed. It’s getting a little tedious seeing the likes of Adrian and others showing fighting talk on the website and then not backing it up on the field. Talk is cheap.
  • Jorderz_Moyes_will_be_MoyesJorderz_Moyes_will_be_Moyes
    Other teams have been thumped by rivals. Our fans seem so quick to give up.

    Swansea got battered by Brighton last week. Bournemouth got battered by Huddersfield. Huddersfield got battered by West Ham. Leicester got batter by Palace. Leicester battered Southampton. Everton got battered by Southampton. Newcastle got battered by Watford.

    We were utterly dreadful yesterday, with a makeshift defence and a 9-10 awful individual performances.

    But it happens. We are not the only team it happens to.
  • thornburyironthornburyiron
    I think everybody knows that but we seem to have cornered the market on totally dreadful performances
  • IronHerbIronHerb
    But we haven't. West Brom, Stoke and Southampton are lighting up the division with their magical performances....
  • IronHerbIronHerb
    edited March 2018
    thornburyiron said:

    Not sure I understand what you're point is IH. What I meant was other teams seem to realise that they're in a fight but we don't. If the expectation this season is 40 points are needed then I don't see us getting to that figure so I hope that it's a few less than that and three other teams don't get there either.
    We are only one game away from the bottom three and the way we are shipping goals our goal difference is not likely to help us.

    You keep saying that we are dependant on other teams slipping up but we are not. It's in our own hands.
  • thornburyironthornburyiron
    Those three you mention aren't playing in exciting games but they aren't necessarily putting in abject performances especially away from home. We've shipped more than 2 goals per game, the worst in the league and we haven't been beaten by top class football in a lot of those games.
  • thornburyironthornburyiron
    IH of course it's in our own hands but are you confident the way we are playing that we will get the points we need. I'm not at the moment.
  • IronHerbIronHerb
    edited March 2018
    Yes I am. We have played 2 poor games recently, Brighton and Swansea, but lots of people forget the games where we played ok.
  • baracks_a_hammerbaracks_a_hammer
    IH

    Not sure I fully agree with you. Season 09/10 was a truly abject season under Zola. We pretty much stayed up by default due to pompey’s administration and hull/Burnley capitulation.

    Season 06/07 we were in deep trouble. Then the likes of our third party owned striker, Noble, Green, Zamora et al literally fought and lit up the season to keep us up.

    For sure our fate is in our hands but the way we set about things yesterday smacked of the players almost thinking things will work themselves out by itself
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