Bye bye Swansea!

IanMcL · Post by **IanMcL** » Wed May 09, 2018 9:47 pm

Unless they score shedloads on Sunday, the Welsh clubs exchange places.

Alfie Mawson coming our way?

KRBFC · Post by **KRBFC** » Wed May 09, 2018 9:48 pm

Hopefully, he would be a good signing, I still think Clucas would fit us nicely with Arfield leaving, similar workhorse versatile players.

martin_p · Post by **martin_p** » Wed May 09, 2018 9:50 pm

Isn’t that two relegations in a row for Clucas?

Cubanclaret · Post by **Cubanclaret** » Wed May 09, 2018 9:51 pm

Well chuffed for Huddersfield.
Swansea was a pretty crap hunting ground for us, 3 defeats out of three and 5 out of 6 defeats in total.
A long haul too.
Give me the Magic Rock brewery any day !

Diesel · Post by **Diesel** » Wed May 09, 2018 9:52 pm

Replaced by Cardiff, great.

claretspice · Post by **claretspice** » Wed May 09, 2018 9:54 pm

Agree with that Clucas shout, and theres a decent player in Tom Carroll too. Mawson might be one who needs to play alongside a Mee type rather than replace him. Needs a talker I suspect.

Sad to see Swansea go, in a sense. Been a great advert for what a small club can achieve for many years. But now a reminder that for smaller clubs, gravity catches up eventually - what we have to do is learn from Swansea went wrong and we might just be able to cheat gravity a little bit longer.

claretspice · Post by **claretspice** » Wed May 09, 2018 9:57 pm

martin_p wrote:Isn’t that two relegations in a row for Clucas?

Yes, but he's still a decent player.

boatshed bill · Post by **boatshed bill** » Wed May 09, 2018 9:59 pm

claretspice wrote:Yes, but he's still a decent player.

On the bench, yes.

gandhisflipflop · Post by **gandhisflipflop** » Wed May 09, 2018 10:02 pm

Really happy to see Swansea go down just because of Olsen and his antics at their place this season against us.

evensteadiereddie · Post by **evensteadiereddie** » Wed May 09, 2018 10:06 pm

Small club but bankrolled to buggery.

Longside4evr · Post by **Longside4evr** » Wed May 09, 2018 10:07 pm

Land of their fathers won't help them now, but all for clubs our size keeping a foot hold and giving it a good shot.
We do need to learn from mistakes and where it went wrong for Swansea and take in as many pointers and build our own armour to try and avoid this fate. If we manage it right and go the way we are going we could grace this division for quite some time yet.

starting_11 · Post by **starting_11** » Wed May 09, 2018 10:10 pm

Relegation party at the Marriott?

claret10 · Post by **claret10** » Wed May 09, 2018 10:13 pm

Swansea replaced by Cardiff, West Brom replaced by Wolves.....good job them lot in Shadsworth have been so crap last few years or else we could have been in trouble after their promotion "heroics" this year

Noble Peter · Post by **Noble Peter** » Wed May 09, 2018 10:13 pm

Does that mean the b4stards will be playing in Europe as well

claretfern · Post by **claretfern** » Wed May 09, 2018 10:18 pm

Been very lucky Huddersfield, imo...playing both Man City and Chelsea when both of those clubs had nothing to play for. Any other time would have been a different story.

claret10 · Post by **claret10** » Wed May 09, 2018 10:21 pm

To be fair Chelsea still needed a win to put the pressure on for 4th.....Brighton have proved they are no pushovers and could quite conceivably get a point at Anfield on Sunday.

FWIW we have got to be happy that all 3 promoted clubs have stayed up......3 "established" Prem teams have gone....2 of which have been somewhat of bogey teams to us over the years

dsr · Post by **dsr** » Wed May 09, 2018 10:24 pm

claretfern wrote:Been very lucky Huddersfield, imo...playing both Man City and Chelsea when both of those clubs had nothing to play for. Any other time would have been a different story.

Chelsea would have been level on points with Liverpool and potentially above Tottenham if they'd won. Champions League qualification is something to play for.

Vegas Claret · Post by **Vegas Claret** » Wed May 09, 2018 10:25 pm

zero luck, Hudders battled like we do, superb

agreenwood · Post by **agreenwood** » Wed May 09, 2018 10:39 pm

claretspice wrote:Yes, but he's still a decent player.

Swansea fans appear to detest Clucas.

conyoviejo · Post by **conyoviejo** » Wed May 09, 2018 10:43 pm

claretfern wrote:Been very lucky Huddersfield, imo...playing both Man City and Chelsea when both of those clubs had nothing to play for. Any other time would have been a different story.

Bullschite.

tim_noone · Post by **tim_noone** » Wed May 09, 2018 10:48 pm

claretfern wrote:Been very lucky Huddersfield, imo...playing both Man City and Chelsea when both of those clubs had nothing to play for. Any other time would have been a different story.

Arsenal had nothing to play for ...and spanked us!

Ashingtonclaret46 · Post by **Ashingtonclaret46** » Wed May 09, 2018 10:51 pm

tim_noone wrote:Arsenal had nothing to play for ...and spanked us!

Not true. Arsene resigned because of the discontent of the fans ---not the players, therefore, the players wanted to give him a proper send off on his last home game after 22 years and even those fans who had been boycotting the games recently turned up to see it happen.
On the other hand ---we had nothing to play for.

tim_noone · Post by **tim_noone** » Wed May 09, 2018 10:55 pm

Should have been a draw....

BennyD · Post by **BennyD** » Wed May 09, 2018 11:28 pm

It was.

KRBFC · Post by **KRBFC** » Wed May 09, 2018 11:34 pm

martin_p wrote:Isn’t that two relegations in a row for Clucas?

Must be crap then

KRBFC · Post by **KRBFC** » Wed May 09, 2018 11:35 pm

claretfern wrote:Been very lucky Huddersfield, imo...playing both Man City and Chelsea when both of those clubs had nothing to play for. Any other time would have been a different story.

Yeah right, very lucky to play Chelsea away who were playing for top 4.

mdd2 · Post by **mdd2** » Wed May 09, 2018 11:37 pm

Bet Jack is pleased he left the Swans

rincon · Post by **rincon** » Thu May 10, 2018 12:24 am

Pleased for Huddersfield, they've played with enthusiasm and spririt and managed what we didn't do, the first time, stay up.
Real backs to the wall defending, the last two games and exiting to watch.
It means a shorter trip for us next season, so what's not to like? let's just leather the Yorkshire gits next season

KeighleyClaret · Post by **KeighleyClaret** » Thu May 10, 2018 12:42 am

Ashingtonclaret46 wrote: On the other hand ---we had nothing to play for.

We did - 6th place could have been ours with a win, we would be level on points now with a home game left, and Arsenal an away game having won no points whatever away in 2018. So it definitely wasn't a dead match. 6th would have sent us straight to the Group Stages.

IanMcL · Post by **IanMcL** » Thu May 10, 2018 4:24 am

It was just too hot and we got sucked into the occasion.

Chobulous · Post by **Chobulous** » Thu May 10, 2018 7:20 am

evensteadiereddie wrote:Small club but bankrolled to buggery.

Thought that was Brighton

TheOriginalLongsider · Post by **TheOriginalLongsider** » Thu May 10, 2018 7:44 am

Huddersfield same spirit as Burnley. Well done, that was great stuff last night!

Woodleyclaret · Post by **Woodleyclaret** » Thu May 10, 2018 7:45 am

A real shame great fans and a proper town team.Also it was an easy away trip down the M4.Unlike the slog up to West Yorkshire.

nil_desperandum · Post by **nil_desperandum** » Thu May 10, 2018 7:59 am

Woodleyclaret wrote:A real shame great fans and a proper town team.Also it was an easy away trip down the M4.Unlike the slog up to West Yorkshire.

You mean Swansea City?
Some on here calling it small perhaps not aware what a big place Swansea is. With a quarter of a million inhabitants it's larger (by population ) than 7 other PL clubs, has quite a lot of urban areas nearby, and is 40 miles away from the next League club. There's no reason why its shouldn't be able to sustain top-flight football - especially with the financial backing it has.
Well done Huddersfield - though it's still twice as "big" as Burnley in terms of population.

Spijed · Post by **Spijed** » Thu May 10, 2018 8:19 am

Aren't Huddersfield bankrolled by their chairman as well?

claretspice · Post by **claretspice** » Thu May 10, 2018 8:25 am

agreenwood wrote:Swansea fans appear to detest Clucas.

Wouldn't be the first player to make a bad move, and find that it doesn't work out. Only a year ago his stock was as high - perhaps higher - than Harry Maguire's, and he was under serious consideration for an England call up.

You can make a decent argument that that's exactly the sort of story which we've been good at exploiting to get good value in the last couple of years. Westwood and Cork decent examples of something similar.

RocketLawnChair · Post by **RocketLawnChair** » Thu May 10, 2018 8:34 am

What is the obsession with us signing players from the relegated teams it doesn’t make them cheap their contracts dictate that. We didn’t sign anybody from last seasons relegated teams although the year before we did JBG and Pope who had been relegated to league one.

TVC15 · Post by **TVC15** » Thu May 10, 2018 8:35 am

Ashingtonclaret46 wrote:Not true. Arsene resigned because of the discontent of the fans ---not the players, therefore, the players wanted to give him a proper send off on his last home game after 22 years and even those fans who had been boycotting the games recently turned up to see it happen.
On the other hand ---we had nothing to play for.

SD and the players have been brilliant this season but this “nothing to play for” stuff seems lame. Before the game SD was saying it was an important game and that if we beat Arsenal we had a chance of 6th place.

We just played awful in very difficult hot conditions against a team who were up for the game and have a brilliant home record this season - we’ve not been great in last few games and were due a bit of a thrashing

Top Claret · Post by **Top Claret** » Thu May 10, 2018 9:07 am

Good riddance Swansea after the dirty tricks you played on Southampton and well done Huddersfield Town

MiltonKeynesClaret93 · Post by **MiltonKeynesClaret93** » Thu May 10, 2018 11:54 am

Top Claret wrote:Good riddance Swansea after the dirty tricks you played on Southampton and well done Huddersfield Town

All that happened was the sun came out over the bank holiday weekend and people phoned in sick to spend time in the sun rather than work. Because they work in a hotel around food they claim diarrhea and legally cannot work for 24/48 hrs. They hotel was then forced to cancel large groups bookings as they didn't have the staff.

Chobulous · Post by **Chobulous** » Thu May 10, 2018 12:02 pm

The whole affair was Mark Hughes getting his excuses in early in case he needed them.

Lancasterclaret · Post by **Lancasterclaret** » Thu May 10, 2018 12:05 pm

Carlos Soundbiteo leaving at the end of the season.

claretonthecoast1882 · Post by **claretonthecoast1882** » Thu May 10, 2018 12:14 pm

Lancasterclaret wrote:Carlos Soundbiteo leaving at the end of the season.

Good to see someone has turned the dickheads BBQ off. Hopefully he treats everyone to a funny analogy on his sacking at the weekend.

tiger76 · Post by **tiger76** » Thu May 10, 2018 1:47 pm

RocketLawnChair wrote:What is the obsession with us signing players from the relegated teams it doesn’t make them cheap their contracts dictate that. We didn’t sign anybody from last seasons relegated teams although the year before we did JBG and Pope who had been relegated to league one.

Andrew Robertson was in a relegated team at Hull he's not done too badly at Liverpool.

tiger76 · Post by **tiger76** » Thu May 10, 2018 3:11 pm

Lancasterclaret wrote:Carlos Soundbiteo leaving at the end of the season.

Being linked with Coleman,couldn't cut the mustard at Sunderland doubt he'll cope in the valleys.

Guich · Post by **Guich** » Thu May 10, 2018 4:47 pm

mdd2 wrote:Bet Jack is pleased he left the Swans

They'd probably have stayed up if he hadn't. And we'd have been about 10th.

What a deal

Dejavu · Post by **Dejavu** » Thu May 10, 2018 4:53 pm

Wouldn't mind either of the Ayew brothers.

RocketLawnChair · Post by **RocketLawnChair** » Thu May 10, 2018 5:01 pm

tiger76 wrote:Andrew Robertson was in a relegated team at Hull he's not done too badly at Liverpool.

So approx 75 players got relegated and one as done well in a team that cost about £300 million to assemble

Stan Tastic · Post by **Stan Tastic** » Thu May 10, 2018 5:29 pm

Dejavu wrote:Wouldn't mind either of the Ayew brothers.

A Swansea fan said yesterday that if you added them both together you still wouldn't get one decent player.

Blackrod · Post by **Blackrod** » Thu May 10, 2018 5:36 pm

Can't think of one Swans player I would want. Different with Stoke and WBA.