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Swansea fans reaction to LT leaving.

I'll probably regret posting this, but I rattled this off when I got home from work and saw the news. This was my undeniably biased and narrow-minded reaction to a legend leaving my club. It might give you an insight into one Swans fans reasons for liking him so, and just to well, let you know who it is you've taken on:

At around 16:00 hours today, Friday 27th of July, a piece of me died.

Well ok, that's just hyperbole, but I'm still gutted he's been sold to Bristol City. I just can't stand the idea of him playing for another club. A part of me feels like I'd rather he had to retire through injury than pull on another club's shirt. But then I am weird.

After so many s*** seasons that almost saw us go bust (again), he came and just lifted everyone. I remember the first time I saw him when he made his league debiut for us, a cocky blond-haired scouser with a swagger and his shirt hanging out. He scored of course, but it wasn't the goal that made the impression, it was the swagger. Not since Ritche Appleby did we have a player with a swagger, an edge. The problem with Ritchie was, well, he was bonkers. A fruitcake. Trundle was mentally fit for anything the game threw at him.

Trundle was so good for our fans. Here was a player who was undeniably better than all of the opponents players week in week out, even before you found out who was playing for the opposition you knew he was going to be the best player on the pitch - and so did they. Opposition fans feared him, opposition players feared him, opposition managers feared him, and it felt good. It filled us with pride.

He wasn't the only player of course, and we weren't a one man team, but he was a talismatic figure in all things SCFC on and off the pitch. He put us on the news, in the papers, all over Sky TV. He raised the profile of the club. Meet a fan of another club and instead of "Swansea?, didn't you nearly go bust and get relegated a couple of years ago?", it was "Oh Swansea, Lee Trundle! I wish we'd sign him, great player, I'd love to see a player like that playing for us, I love watching his skills on TV"

Of course, you had a lot of envy that manifested itself in a constant barracking of him by opposition fans, but he took it all in his stride, and it seemed to spur him on. He usually shut them up by sticking a couple of goals in their net or toying with their centre-half like a cat playing with a cornered mouse.

He was an entertainer of course. Not only accidentally, but often deliberately. It's a wonder some opposition donkey didn't stick one on him the number of times he used to tease players by playing keep-ball right in front of them, taunting them like a matatdor roared on by the adoring crowd.

He scored some wonderful, wonderful goals - goals that will live forever in the memory. The goal in the Football League Trophy final is worth his 4 years of pay alone. As I say, it's more than the 20 goals a season he gave us, it was the PRIDE in your team. After years of utter tat we had something to smile and gloat about; something to sing about; something any mass of frequently-disapponted people yearns for: a hero.

Nodody's perfect, there were downsides, not everyone loved him, but this note isn't at home to negativity. You can read plenty of that elsewhere from the 'realistic' folk - those who simply see Trundle leaving as 'good business'. We are not cut from the same cloth.

I'm not going to go through all the great memories as that would take too long, I just thought I'd offer up a little off the cuff note on the man, and I look forward to hearing of his exploits at Ashton Gate where I sincerely hope he succeeds and creates a new set of adoring fans, even if they can't read or write but can drive tractors...;)

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Swansea fans reaction to LT leaving.

I'll probably regret posting this, but I rattled this off when I got home from work and saw the news. This was my undeniably biased and narrow-minded reaction to a legend leaving my club. It might give you an insight into one Swans fans reasons for liking him so, and just to well, let you know who it is you've taken on:

At around 16:00 hours today, Friday 27th of July, a piece of me died.

Well ok, that's just hyperbole, but I'm still gutted he's been sold to Bristol City. I just can't stand the idea of him playing for another club. A part of me feels like I'd rather he had to retire through injury than pull on another club's shirt. But then I am weird.

After so many s*** seasons that almost saw us go bust (again), he came and just lifted everyone. I remember the first time I saw him when he made his league debiut for us, a cocky blond-haired scouser with a swagger and his shirt hanging out. He scored of course, but it wasn't the goal that made the impression, it was the swagger. Not since Ritche Appleby did we have a player with a swagger, an edge. The problem with Ritchie was, well, he was bonkers. A fruitcake. Trundle was mentally fit for anything the game threw at him.

Trundle was so good for our fans. Here was a player who was undeniably better than all of the opponents players week in week out, even before you found out who was playing for the opposition you knew he was going to be the best player on the pitch - and so did they. Opposition fans feared him, opposition players feared him, opposition managers feared him, and it felt good. It filled us with pride.

He wasn't the only player of course, and we weren't a one man team, but he was a talismatic figure in all things SCFC on and off the pitch. He put us on the news, in the papers, all over Sky TV. He raised the profile of the club. Meet a fan of another club and instead of "Swansea?, didn't you nearly go bust and get relegated a couple of years ago?", it was "Oh Swansea, Lee Trundle! I wish we'd sign him, great player, I'd love to see a player like that playing for us, I love watching his skills on TV"

Of course, you had a lot of envy that manifested itself in a constant barracking of him by opposition fans, but he took it all in his stride, and it seemed to spur him on. He usually shut them up by sticking a couple of goals in their net or toying with their centre-half like a cat playing with a cornered mouse.

He was an entertainer of course. Not only accidentally, but often deliberately. It's a wonder some opposition donkey didn't stick one on him the number of times he used to tease players by playing keep-ball right in front of them, taunting them like a matatdor roared on by the adoring crowd.

He scored some wonderful, wonderful goals - goals that will live forever in the memory. The goal in the Football League Trophy final is worth his 4 years of pay alone. As I say, it's more than the 20 goals a season he gave us, it was the PRIDE in your team. After years of utter tat we had something to smile and gloat about; something to sing about; something any mass of frequently-disapponted people yearns for: a hero.

Nodody's perfect, there were downsides, not everyone loved him, but this note isn't at home to negativity. You can read plenty of that elsewhere from the 'realistic' folk - those who simply see Trundle leaving as 'good business'. We are not cut from the same cloth.

I'm not going to go through all the great memories as that would take too long, I just thought I'd offer up a little off the cuff note on the man, and I look forward to hearing of his exploits at Ashton Gate where I sincerely hope he succeeds and creates a new set of adoring fans, even if they can't read or write but can drive tractors... ;)

That's a truly beautiful and poetic piece, fair play to the writer!!! As a description of what the man means to the jacks, it is moving and I hope he can emulate this for us! Lee that is, not some anonymous heartbroken jack... :city::city::city::city:

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Got a bit of stick for that from a couple of Cardiff, you have to worry.

HUW JENKINS MONEY WILL NEVER REPLACE LEE TRUNDLE.

Swans chairman Huw Jenkins was in philosophical mood as he entered the post-Lee Trundle era at the Liberty Stadium despite meaning many miles away on the club's pre-season tour to Holland.

Although Bristol City failed to reveal their million pound man yesterday, Jenkins accepted the fact he was a Bristol City player. The Western Mail states that the hold up was over his image rights deal but now everything has been concluded according to the Chairman

"It's done and dusted and we have to accept that Lee is a Bristol City player," said a downbeat Jenkins.

"The hitch was that for whatever reason, the proposed transfer moved a bit too quick for our liking and the paperwork involved.

"It was an oversight on somebody's part and it was rushed a little bit.

"There was a few parts not completed and we needed full coverage before agreeing to it.

"Everything we requested though has now been completed and Lee is now their player."

He added, "From my point of view, it's a very sad day and situation for Swansea City.

"We just couldn't give him Championship football next season and took into account those wishes and Lee's commitment to Swansea over the last few years.

"As much as we wanted to keep Lee focused and tried to persuade him to stay with us, we've reluctantly agreed for him to join Bristol City.

"Nobody wanted him to go, but some things are just out of our control. If players have ambitions to test themselves at a higher level then there's nothing we can do.

"The timing couldn't be worse, but keeping an unhappy player or a player who is forced in the corner to stay with us is certainly not the right thing before the start of the season.

"But Championship football was one thing we couldn't offer and at his age it was an opportunity he wanted to take up, especially when he thought the offer from Bristol City was a good one.

"Ask my daughter and she says he's worth £10m. It was never about the money. No amount of money is going to replace him on and off the field and it's going to take a long time to get over it.

"The manager can go out to find more players to keep the club going forward,

"Roberto is well in advance of most clubs because we signed most of our players before pre-season and got four or five possibilities lined up

"Life after Lee Trundle will be hard as he brought his own personality and attributes to the side. But other players will bring theirs.

"Yes, the players and results will solve the problem, but short-term any sort of money won't make up for losing him."

He went on, "It's a backward step, but it has to be overcome. I think the plus point is that we have Roberto, who is a great manager.

"Lee has carried the club forward with his personality on and off the field, but I think Roberto is someone the supporters look up to take the club forward

"And, while it's disappointing, we have to move on a get over it."

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