Jerseybean Posted August 20, 2021 Report Share Posted August 20, 2021 As my first effort at starting a match day thread ended with us beating Reading I feel compelled to start today’s proceedings! Friday night under the lights at Ashton Gate, just three days after an excellent away win, live on Sky, seems like the ideal time to record our first home win since 26 January and in so doing provide NP’s first win at home. Swansea City parted company with Steve Cooper in the closed season, he has been replaced by Russell Martin, who previously was at MK Dons. They haven’t won in the league this season having picked up just one point from their opening three games. However, they did beat Reading 3-0 in the Carabao Cup. Their new manager has raised questions about their fitness (sound familiar?) and has managed expectations by saying: ‘This is going to be a season of transition. We have to prepare people for that in terms of expectation. That doesn’t mean it’ll be a season of pain!’ (Sound familiar?) They have several familiar faces, Korey Smith, Liam Walsh, both are expected to be unavailable due to injury, (sound familiar?) and Jamie Paterson. Matty James v Pato (if selected) will be an interesting contest. While nAndy King and more recently Kasey Palmer have both featured for the Swans. Last season they finished fourth, we drew with them 1-1 at AG and beat them 3-1 away. NP may be forced to make changes to a winning team as King and Pring both picked up knocks at Reading, he also may feel that some fresh legs are called for. Guessing Sky will be saying something like both these teams will be looking to kick-start their poor starts to the season. Our home form has been awful for ages and back-to-back wins would be a huge boast and mean that our points for after the opening four league games, isn’t too shabby. I’m going for a 2-1 City victory. I have CM and MJ as scoring our goals, so on something of a bizarre side note what do they both have in common with the Swansea manager? Let’s get the weekend off to a winning start by getting right behind the team and fully playing our part in turning around our home form. Let’s get fortress Ashton Gate back again and help to make it hard for teams to beat us. Of course we need the team to perform to excite us, but if we can create an intimidating atmosphere for away teams imagine what we can achieve and what memories we will have. COYR. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUSSEL85 Posted August 20, 2021 Report Share Posted August 20, 2021 A win tonight and it’s a really good start to the season, a defeat and it’s a bad start. Got to love early days, joint top Friday or possibly 15th-18th by Saturday evening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Army 75 Posted August 20, 2021 Report Share Posted August 20, 2021 Gone early I like it. Feeling quite optimistic about tonight. COYR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomThumb84 Posted August 20, 2021 Report Share Posted August 20, 2021 2-0 City tonight. Weimann and Palmer late on off the bench. If we get the win tonight then this is a good start to the season. I just feel Reading was so pivotal and these players will be different knowing they can win as a group. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Major Isewater Posted August 20, 2021 Report Share Posted August 20, 2021 We will have eight days until we meet Cardiff ,our next opponents so we need some positives from our match tonight ,for the morale ,to carry us over the break. We all know football is an unjust game where anything can happen but I feel that we should get a victory tonight.The whole of the club will be on a high after the winning feeling returned and will want it to continue in front of the home fans . The Swans are in a state of flux and we should be a bit ahead of them in terms of teamwork. They are another club of a similar size to us who have had some success in recent years and are in a transitional period as they try to reset. The City old boys should help them stabilise whilst not making them apparent promotion candidates. I am hoping for a continuation of our ‘ baby steps’ to playing like Largish Nige wants us to and an entertaining game with at least a goal or two for us . Let’s do it, (let’s fall in love .) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bcfc01 Posted August 20, 2021 Report Share Posted August 20, 2021 Miserly 5/4 with Skybet. If we can repeat the work rate and commitment from the Reading game we should win against a currently struggling Swansea side. 2-1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phileas Fogg Posted August 20, 2021 Report Share Posted August 20, 2021 Good match thread @Jerseybean. Watching the Swansea presser yesterday I think we're playing them at the right time. Russell Martin speaks well and is both pragmatic & realistic. He made it very clear Swansea are nowhere near where he wants them in terms of conditioning and match readiness. They've had a difficult pre-season with injuries/covid issues. Now is as good a time as possible to play them IMO. They've got a good squad so it won't be easy, but I think this is a real opportunity especially as we're at home. We don't look that tight defensively yet so I think both teams scoring is fairly likely. 3-1 Weimann, Martin and Scott for us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spike Posted August 20, 2021 Report Share Posted August 20, 2021 My only concern is they have a couple of players who know this club well and will be looking to make a statement. Swansea are a tough team on their worst days so I'm just hoping we really are motivated after the win and can actually keep the defence in check. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin phantom Posted August 20, 2021 Admin Report Share Posted August 20, 2021 7 minutes ago, Spike said: My only concern is they have a couple of players who know this club well and will be looking to make a statement. Swansea are a tough team on their worst days so I'm just hoping we really are motivated after the win and can actually keep the defence in check. Are any of them available? I though all three were missing this evening Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southport Red Posted August 20, 2021 Report Share Posted August 20, 2021 2 minutes ago, phantom said: Are any of them available? I though all three were missing this evening I’m having a Senior Moment @phantom who is the third? I can only think of Korey and Walsh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garland-sweden Posted August 20, 2021 Report Share Posted August 20, 2021 Looking forward to the gamewith good vibes. 2-1 City, hope my feeling is right. COYR !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BCFCGav Posted August 20, 2021 Report Share Posted August 20, 2021 Really excited for this one. Should be a corker. I'd like to see Janneh playing at some point, otherwise I'm quite happy to go with whatever Nige thinks best. Let's put in a big performance from the stands tonight people. The Jacks on a Friday night isn't just any game! COYR. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin phantom Posted August 20, 2021 Admin Report Share Posted August 20, 2021 8 minutes ago, Southport Red said: I’m having a Senior Moment @phantom who is the third? I can only think of Korey and Walsh. Jamie Paterson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Son of Fred Posted August 20, 2021 Report Share Posted August 20, 2021 1 hour ago, Jerseybean said: As my first effort at starting a match day thread ended with us beating Reading I feel compelled to start today’s proceedings! Friday night under the lights at Ashton Gate, just three days after an excellent away win, live on Sky, seems like the ideal time to record our first home win since 26 January and in so doing provide NP’s first win at home. Swansea City parted company with Steve Cooper in the closed season, he has been replaced by Russell Martin, who previously was at MK Dons. They haven’t won in the league this season having picked up just one point from their opening three games. However, they did beat Reading 3-0 in the Carabao Cup. Their new manager has raised questions about their fitness (sound familiar?) and has managed expectations by saying: ‘This is going to be a season of transition. We have to prepare people for that in terms of expectation. That doesn’t mean it’ll be a season of pain!’ (Sound familiar?) They have several familiar faces, Korey Smith, Liam Walsh, both are expected to be unavailable due to injury, (sound familiar?) and Jamie Paterson. Matty James v Pato (if selected) will be an interesting contest. While nAndy King and more recently Kasey Palmer have both featured for the Swans. Last season they finished fourth, we drew with them 1-1 at AG and beat them 3-1 away. NP may be forced to make changes to a winning team as King and Pring both picked up knocks at Reading, he also may feel that some fresh legs are called for. Guessing Sky will be saying something like both these teams will be looking to kick-start their poor starts to the season. Our home form has been awful for ages and back-to-back wins would be a huge boast and mean that our points for after the opening four league games, isn’t too shabby. I’m going for a 2-1 City victory. I have CM and MJ as scoring our goals, so on something of a bizarre side note what do they both have in common with the Swansea manager? Let’s get the weekend off to a winning start by getting right behind the team and fully playing our part in turning around our home form. Let’s get fortress Ashton Gate back again and help to make it hard for teams to beat us. Of course we need the team to perform to excite us, but if we can create an intimidating atmosphere for away teams imagine what we can achieve and what memories we will have. COYR. Yes,hope your good start continues! It's Friday.... It's 'orrible Swansea... It's time for a home win.. Nothing else will do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davefevs Posted August 20, 2021 Report Share Posted August 20, 2021 Tonight is the game Rennie earns his corn. Swansea are a team you don’t want to be chasing the ball around against, after an energy sapping Reading win. I know both sides played Tuesday, just it would have taken a lot out of us getting that first win physically and mentally. We therefore need a team that can continue the improving press when we don’t have the ball, and so we can play at the tempo we did in spells on Tuesday. So for me sport’s science plays it’s part in team selection and subs. There are several candidates who could be swapped, cognisant that Baker was unlucky to miss out too. Simpson and Martin are the obvious ones. Weimann on the back of his ACL too. O’Dowda hopefully fit (fit enough to be in crowd - NP) too. We are allegedly fitter but tonight will test that selection policy. Very easy to say “next game is 8 days away”, but no point playing a slightly fatigued side, and worse still someone in the “red zone” getting injured. 18:45 team announcement will be interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pillred Posted August 20, 2021 Report Share Posted August 20, 2021 29 minutes ago, Phileas Fogg said: Good match thread @Jerseybean. Watching the Swansea presser yesterday I think we're playing them at the right time. Russell Martin speaks well and is both pragmatic & realistic. He made it very clear Swansea are nowhere near where he wants them in terms of conditioning and match readiness. They've had a difficult pre-season with injuries/covid issues. Now is as good a time as possible to play them IMO. They've got a good squad so it won't be easy, but I think this is a real opportunity especially as we're at home. We don't look that tight defensively yet so I think both teams scoring is fairly likely. 3-1 Weimann, Martin and Scott for us. Especially as we are at home, I hate to break it to you but. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murraysrightplum Posted August 20, 2021 Report Share Posted August 20, 2021 Feels like a huge game even though it’s so early in the season! Get a win against a struggling Swansea and we consolidate the belief after Saturday. Lose at home against struggling Swansea and the players and fans may fall into thinking we’re in for a tough season. Take a draw?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phileas Fogg Posted August 20, 2021 Report Share Posted August 20, 2021 45 minutes ago, pillred said: Especially as we are at home, I hate to break it to you but. Am I missing something? Oh, because we're pretty bad at home. True. What I mean by opportunity is a chance to change that and use the momentum from Tuesday. To achieve anything this season we need to transform our home form. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Posted August 20, 2021 Report Share Posted August 20, 2021 1 hour ago, phantom said: Are any of them available? I though all three were missing this evening Patto was the only one that featured on Saturday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KegCity Posted August 20, 2021 Report Share Posted August 20, 2021 2 minutes ago, Phileas Fogg said: Am I missing something? Oh, because we're pretty bad at home. True. What I mean by opportunity is a chance to change that and use the momentum from Tuesday. To achieve anything this season we need to transform our home form. Feels like a good chance to get a home win and kick on doesn't it? Should be a good atmosphere and Swansea are struggling at the moment. 3 points would then have us considerably more confident too. I'd like to see Massengo start if King isn't 100% fit. Played well against Reading and can be box-to-box. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cider red Posted August 20, 2021 Report Share Posted August 20, 2021 Whats the expected crowd? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedRock Posted August 20, 2021 Report Share Posted August 20, 2021 Feeling very confident, a 4-0 tonight. It’ll be 3-0 at half-time - which is always a dangerous score - but a Palmer goal in the 90th minute will mean, finally, I will be able to relax and enjoy football for the 3 minutes of injury time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bcfc01 Posted August 20, 2021 Report Share Posted August 20, 2021 43 minutes ago, Davefevs said: Tonight is the game Rennie earns his corn. Swansea are a team you don’t want to be chasing the ball around against, after an energy sapping Reading win. I know both sides played Tuesday, just it would have taken a lot out of us getting that first win physically and mentally. We therefore need a team that can continue the improving press when we don’t have the ball, and so we can play at the tempo we did in spells on Tuesday. So for me sport’s science plays it’s part in team selection and subs. There are several candidates who could be swapped, cognisant that Baker was unlucky to miss out too. Simpson and Martin are the obvious ones. Weimann on the back of his ACL too. O’Dowda hopefully fit (fit enough to be in crowd - NP) too. We are allegedly fitter but tonight will test that selection policy. Very easy to say “next game is 8 days away”, but no point playing a slightly fatigued side, and worse still someone in the “red zone” getting injured. 18:45 team announcement will be interesting. It would be tempting to select some who may be feeling Tuesdays game with a good break after this game, but with all the indicators to hand with regard to fatigue etc, I would think that whoever is selected is fit enough to play. NP doesn't seem the type to play fatigued players or risk player injury and Rennie seems to be a step up from the previous regime and has the confidence of NP so he will have a say as well. FWIW, I think there will be minimal changes (not knowing the injury/fatigue situation). King took a heavy knock so Massengo in for him. Not sure if Pring has an injury but Palmer in for him if he has. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YGBjammy Posted August 20, 2021 Report Share Posted August 20, 2021 1 hour ago, Davefevs said: Tonight is the game Rennie earns his corn. Swansea are a team you don’t want to be chasing the ball around against, after an energy sapping Reading win. I know both sides played Tuesday, just it would have taken a lot out of us getting that first win physically and mentally. We therefore need a team that can continue the improving press when we don’t have the ball, and so we can play at the tempo we did in spells on Tuesday. So for me sport’s science plays it’s part in team selection and subs. There are several candidates who could be swapped, cognisant that Baker was unlucky to miss out too. Simpson and Martin are the obvious ones. Weimann on the back of his ACL too. O’Dowda hopefully fit (fit enough to be in crowd - NP) too. We are allegedly fitter but tonight will test that selection policy. Very easy to say “next game is 8 days away”, but no point playing a slightly fatigued side, and worse still someone in the “red zone” getting injured. 18:45 team announcement will be interesting. This makes me slightly apprehensive, finally found a team that "clicked" but due to how quick the fixtures come we might have to pick it apart a bit. Happy with HNM in midfield in place of King, and hopefully O'Dowda in place of Pring if Pring gets moved to LB to give JD a rest. I'm not sure what to do about right-back though; interested to see if Simpson can play 2 games in 4 days. Could we see Vyner back or maybe even Kalas there? Up front I hope Weimann and Martin are okay; but Weimann only just back from injury and Martin isn't exactly young. Let's see if Dave Rennie and Pearson's preseason has worked! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobbie Posted August 20, 2021 Report Share Posted August 20, 2021 15 minutes ago, RedRock said: Feeling very confident, a 4-0 tonight. It’ll be 3-0 at half-time - which is always a dangerous score - but a Palmer goal in the 90th minute will mean, finally, I will be able to relax and enjoy football for the 3 minutes of injury time. Nothing like a win to change the mood! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdivision Posted August 20, 2021 Report Share Posted August 20, 2021 Feels like something of bellweather match to me. Tuesday was one of those 'perfect storm' night games: big reaction to Saturday's loss to Boro, noisy and passionate away following, Reading missing a few players. Can we back it up? Players might find it hard to play with the same intensity. Three days is the minimum for an effective turn around after a hard game. Don't mind a few changes to freshen it up but there aren't loads of options. Massengo for the injured King seems likely. Vyner for 35yo Simpson - possible. Weimann and Martin gave a lot on Tuesday, but there are no obvious like-for-like swaps. At least Swansea have had the same programme. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weepywall Posted August 20, 2021 Report Share Posted August 20, 2021 1 hour ago, bcfc01 said: Miserly 5/4 with Skybet. If we can repeat the work rate and commitment from the Reading game we should win against a currently struggling Swansea side. 2-1. That's the first time we have been favourites for a long time, I think even FGR were favourites against us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Bard Posted August 20, 2021 Report Share Posted August 20, 2021 1 hour ago, Davefevs said: Tonight is the game Rennie earns his corn. Swansea are a team you don’t want to be chasing the ball around against, after an energy sapping Reading win. I know both sides played Tuesday, just it would have taken a lot out of us getting that first win physically and mentally. We therefore need a team that can continue the improving press when we don’t have the ball, and so we can play at the tempo we did in spells on Tuesday. So for me sport’s science plays it’s part in team selection and subs. There are several candidates who could be swapped, cognisant that Baker was unlucky to miss out too. Simpson and Martin are the obvious ones. Weimann on the back of his ACL too. O’Dowda hopefully fit (fit enough to be in crowd - NP) too. We are allegedly fitter but tonight will test that selection policy. Very easy to say “next game is 8 days away”, but no point playing a slightly fatigued side, and worse still someone in the “red zone” getting injured. 18:45 team announcement will be interesting. Massemgo Wells Nagy and Vyner will start for King, Pring or Scott, Simpson and Martin. Nagy to protect Vyner on the right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcusX Posted August 20, 2021 Report Share Posted August 20, 2021 1 hour ago, Cider red said: Whats the expected crowd? Looked busy when I was trying to buy tickets. South Stand had no availability, there were pockets of seats in the Lansdown but only a few hundred. Dolman had a bit of space tbf Could we break 20k? Not sure how many Swansea will bring Looking forward to it, my first game back at AG in far too long. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LondonRobin Posted August 20, 2021 Report Share Posted August 20, 2021 9 minutes ago, MarcusX said: Looked busy when I was trying to buy tickets. South Stand had no availability, there were pockets of seats in the Lansdown but only a few hundred. Dolman had a bit of space tbf Could we break 20k? Not sure how many Swansea will bring Looking forward to it, my first game back at AG in far too long. Swansea had less than 100 tickets left yesterday Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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