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I will let you into a little secret here. Some of our magazine issues are a nightmare to put together. Over 10,000 words every month (most of which are comprehendible even if spelled incorrectly) can at times become a lot like work, especially during a dull month where little really happens. It is very fair to say that this issue wasn’t one of those.

Where to start? It’s been a crazy few weeks for the club. The Chico antics at West Ham, the sacking, the appointment, Napoli, Liverpool, Napoli again, oh yeah and the Cardiff win (which actually doesn’t really get a mention this issue, says it all I suppose). It’s been generally good. If we had beaten Palace then I think we could say that it had been a very good start under the new leadership but performances have been better and we are clearly more of a team. We have loads in the magazine about Monk and so I won’t get into it much here and you will soon read how much I rate him and how I think he is the right man. But did you notice how when Nathan Dyer got injured at the end of the first half against Palace and had to go off the field on the other side of the pitch, Monk sent Routeldge to the opposite flank so when Dyer came on the field he was instantly on the correct wing? It was a leaders call, an instant recognition of the situation and an instant decision. Something which we haven’t had over the last two seasons. Little things but important steps. It was noticeable that game that we didn’t really have much leadership ON the pitch in the second half, when the game was slipping away, we didn’t really have many players showing too much influence there. We have a couple of weeks off now and I expect us to come back even more organised and maybe get that on-field leadership going to. As easy as it has been to write for this issue, I kind of hope that the next one is a bit more difficult though, if that makes sense.

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Contents 4: Top ten Jack B’s We talk to Anthony James about his cousin Robbie

20: Jackanory Tribute to Robbie James

24: Pics of the month 26: Thumbs Up All Round

28: Jokes By Spense 34: Geraint Evans

36: Right Man - Right Time

42: Simon Robbins 44: More From Spense

48: Public Apology

50: Picture Quiz

52: What the fans think 56: The Swansea Way 60: Race to Player of the Year

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We printed an article a few issues back about ‘what makes a fans hero’. There were a number of different attributes which a player or person needs to be deemed a legend at a club and our next Jack B had them all. Playing 482 times for the Swans, scoring 115 goals and being an integral part of our first rise through the leagues. Our next Jack B is the great Robbie James I met up with Robbie’s cousin and former Swans team mate Anthony James to talk about Robbie and his wonderful playing career. What is your earliest memory of Robbie whether football wise or family? I can go football and family wise because my father actually managed a side that Robbie played in as a youngster at about 13 or 14 and he basically stood out then because even at that time there was a number of

clubs after him. There was Chelsea, he was back and fore to Cardiff a lot and obviously Swansea were looking at him. But that’s my earliest memory, he played for Brynmill I think and I used to be running around with the sponge and helping out like that. So I remember him as early as that. Did he stand out as a youngster? There was a number of clubs looking at him as I just said. It was different in those days as you would actually know then whether a scout was watching you. There was nothing cloak and dagger about it. I can remember one of them, I think his name was John Hudges and he was a Cardiff scout but you would know that they were there. There was a circle of about four or five of them, they were always around and watching the games on a regular basis and so he did stand out, he was strong then but an out and out goalscorer. At the time he was a striker but a real out and out goalscorer. Did he play much rugby as a kid? His pace and strength would have been an asset there. I’m not aware of it, purely football. He went to a Roman Catholic school, I think it was Bishop Vaughn and it was purely football. It was always football, I’ve never know Robbie to play rugby. Now in my case, I went to Bishop Gore school and I had to do it where as in Bishop Vaughn it was all football and so I think Robbie was just football. I don’t think that he ever really played rugby. I agree

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that he would have been built for it but you have to remember that his stature came later, he was always quick and strong but he never had the chest that he had as an adult, as a youngster he was quite lean. He wasn’t a lump then I can assure you. When did he first have facial hair and when did he first model that moustache? Well I went there (Swansea City F.C) at ‘76, he had it then (19 years old). It was very much a part of the ‘70s. I always remember him having it, obviously not as a kid but as an adult, he always had it. Can you remember his debut? No, I saw him playing at 16 but not his debut. My parents did. But he played as a 16 year old and I saw him play then. Did he look 16? Did he look out of his depth then? I think that Harry Gregg wanted the team to play; well he wanted the youngsters to play. There were a lot of strong players in that team, a guy called Paul Bevan and a guy called Micky Evans who were just known as hard as nails really but when it came to the youngsters then it was all football, football, football. So Greggy encouraged the youngsters, he knew that if they had hard men behind

them that Robbie could go on and play football. Even going through the youths and going into the reserves, Greggy wanted youngsters to play football and Harry Griffiths was exactly the same, they both wanted people to play football and so Robbie was always known as an outstanding finisher and an outstanding footballer but they never did anything other than encouraging him to play because they had all the solidness around him to protect him a bit.

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What kind of inspiration was seeing a young local lad come through the ranks and play regularly for the Swans, let alone your cousin? Forget the cousin side of it, he was massive. And what a lot of people don’t realise is that in the community he would be in the schools, he would present medals, he would do all sorts. Anywhere in the whole of South Wales, if he was asked to do something then he would do it. And he would be regularly going to events all over the place and as an inspiration, he was a local lad, local focus who would go to anything to help people. The amount of presentations I saw him go to, I don’t know how he got all the time to be honest with you. I can’t even remember him saying no to anyone. You hear stories about him giving his kit away and what have you but I always remember anything he was asked to do – he would. He’d got to Sandfields: down the church or up a school, junior leagues, he was out there without wanting to be out there if you get me. A massive inspiration. When you were in the youth team and looking to progress, did he inspire you to believe it was possible? You don’t even have to compare ‘could I do what he does’ because we all had different abilities but you just always knew that you would have an opportunity. And he was from here, where as Curts was from the Rhondda, (he was still classed a local) but Robbie was a Swansea boy and we all felt that if he could do it then we all could do it. We would get an opportunity. You can’t match ability with ability obviously but we knew that we would get an opportunity. I think there were 13 apprentices when I was down there and every one of us felt that we would get a chance and were given little opportunities. The club did it as well as Robbie but he would always relate to you, he would never lose that side of him. He would come in the changing rooms and he obviously trained with the pro’s when he went pro but he made a point of making sure that we were acknowledged really. Forget the family side of things but he always made the effort to speak to us youngsers.

Robbie played a big part in the 77/78 promotion to division 3, scoring 17 times. Was he already one of the main players of that team? Yes absolutely, he was key in the plans and he was a focal point. You almost felt that any time he got the ball or went down the side lines that he will create either a chance for someone in the middle or to finish something off. He always had something in his locker, in the dying minutes of a match you always felt that he had a goal in him. Some tried too hard but he seemed to just be able to do it, as in ‘right we need one now Rob’ and he had something in him. In the last few minutes you would feel that ‘Robbie will get something’ and you felt like that whether watching it or playing in it.

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people would regularly be called into the office, whether they were in the team or out of the team or whatever. But he was one of these where someone else would tell you not him. It would come from the boss. Robbie was very modest. He might come out with a beaming smile on his face but it would be the boss who would say ‘he’s got in the Welsh squad’. Robbie wouldn’t say anything; he was very modest in that way. Swansea completed the rise to the top league in ’81. How big a part do you feel Robbie played in the remarkable rise?

You played your part in the following season’s promotion, what was Robbie like with you? Was he protective at all?

Massive, You talking about Preston with that picture which has lasted for ever which I think is Jeremy, Alan and Robbie and that picture is still printed now. He was such an integral part, he was key. To me Curt and Robbie were key because of their ability to change games and its not about being disciplined or organised because they had all that but they could change games, Robbie could change a game – Alan could change a game. I think you get a lot of players (and I don’t mean to sound disrespectful here) who are journeymen but sometimes you get someone who could do something on a sixpence – well he was one of those.

Very much so, to the point that I roomed with him every time we went away. We were playing on Boxing day and taken away to the ‘Countryman’ on Christmas night of all places and me, him and Curt roomed and we had a glass of larger between us and a sandwich, that was our evening meal before we played on the Saturday. It was We’d be drawing or we would be one down and bang, he very much that if they could then I was put with Robbie, I would pull something out of the bag and we would be think that he did it naturally but I also think that the club made a thing of it to but yeah he would look after me; very back in it and he had that ability. He was a special player. much so. Robbie took to the top flight like a duck to water. How good was he then? Comparing him to the other top Robbie made his Wales debut in 1978, in a side that players in that league. was challenging to reach the major tournaments, can you remember him hearing about being in the Something came to me once, everywhere he went, he was squad/his first game? club captain and I mean everywhere through all his career, every single club he played for and for me that his more No, I can’t, it’s going a long way back. But it certainly wasn’t like it is today. My recollection of anything like that about his ability as he wasn’t a shouter and a baller, yes he was that you were pulled into the office, it wasn’t a case of would have a few words here and there but it was all about his ability which I think speaks volumes about what it is announced on TV it was literally a case of you had a he was about. phone call through the manager first and called in. I can’t remember it happening but I remember the series of He left to go to Stoke and then Leicester and QPR, events. He would have been pulled into an office and we making a lot of friends along the way. Do you know used to train the day before games at the ground and

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He returned in ’88. Was he the same player? I know he played a few different positions. At that point I had gone, Id moved away with work and everything else. I think he was cleverer coming back: he didn’t rely on his strength as much. His strength was there to take him through a tackle but he wouldn’t be powering past people. He was a very intelligent footballer, even though he is known for his strength and pace he was a very intelligent footballer who would change games. I think he did it more with his intelligence at that point, even though he was still strong, he wouldn’t put the afterburners on all the time because he didn’t have it but he could pick a pass. I mean we look at Hernandez now and when he is on fire now then he’s our best player, when he’s not then he is useless but with Robbie he could pick that pass but he would always give a shift. I think that later on he was more reliant on that pass than he was flying past people. Bit like Giggs in his later years? Yeah, obviously a very different frame but the same dynamic. But he did have that craft. It was all about the football brain and picking the right pass. A very, very intelligent football brain. He was known for his pace and strength but I think that that overshadowed his footballing ability slightly. I remember when Toshack came down here and I though that all he could do was head the ball but we had a rude awakening when we could see him pass the ball because he was taught by Liverpool and you had to be able to pass but to me Robbie was outstanding passing wise, more than he was power.

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Do you think he would have got into football management? I think yes. He was doing his stint in Llanelli, he was at Western Super Mare, he was at Merthyr, he then went to Llanelli and it was all building his CV up a little bit and so I think his next natural step, which was pretty close as we understand, was to be back involved in the club, very much as Alan is. Not as a meet and greet basis but as a coaching basis. I think he would have been a very good manager, I think he wanted to be. He was still playing and so he never had that feeling of not being able to influence a game in that way and so I don’t know how he would have coped with that because it is a different dynamic, when you can do something on the pitch to change a game then it’s a big dynamic but when you have to step back and do it from the touchlines it’s a different challenge. Laudrup has just had to do it. At the end of the day, he could do everything on the pitch but couldn’t make people do it. I think Robbie would have done well, its something that he wanted to do. I never got the impression that he would have moved away from football

in any capacity, he would always have wanted to be involved and he would have been able to pass on his influence. He was a good leader without ever being in your face.

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What is your favourite memory of Robbie? I think the two Spurs games in the ‘70s. When we drew in our place and beat them up there. Again, I was involved but I never actually played. I played against Oxford on the Saturday and Robbie and I actually got the headlines, the ‘James Cousins’ something. And then we played against Spurs at home and I idolised Tottenham as a youngster, they were my second club and to watch him at that level and see him up at White Hart Lane was just superb. It was an amazing period. Even though for most people, the promotion to the top flight was the biggest memory, for me Spurs games were unbelievable. Fantastic memories. At that point, we were little Swansea and we were playing massive Tottenham who had Villa and Ardiles; big stars. And we went on the pitch and outplayed them and the magic of that win stands out and he was integral in that. I could pick some of his great goals but for me that was my massive memory of him and the club. A really big thanks to Anthony James for meeting up with me for this interview. I discovered a lot about Robbie James from speaking with Anthony and through a bit of research (yes I do some work now and then) and the more I looked into Robbie James the more I realised what an amazing man he was and how lucky we are to of had him as a major part of this club. Without doubt a very worthy member of our top ten Jack B’s.

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Tributes from Planet Swans Remember him playing against Stoke at the Vetch (2nd season old first division I think) we won 3 nil I believe and Robbie was on 99 goals. He just could not score and this was typified by a shot (on a boggy Vetch Field) that beat the keeper and then stuck fast on the goal line!! Also remember him coming into a pub I worked in (when he was playing for Cardiff ) and my mate "refused to serve the scummer"!! and Robbie just laughed because he knew my mate. : Catullus Robbie took an amazing penalty............no messing about he just WACKED it! when he was stuck on 99 goals I remember he had a penalty at the east end......first time I ever saw him miss one! miles over the bar....His surge of pace with rugged strength was amazing to watch as he never looked like he was running fast it looked like a quick shuffle but he sure did the biz for us...a true legend borinifanclub

When we won the Welsh Cup against Kidderminster at The Vetch in '89 the trophy was presented on the pitch was thousands of fans also on the pitch (as I recall). One fan decided it would be a good idea to grab the trophy and parade it to the North Bank. Robbie strides over, gives him a look of "oi, I think that's mine sunshine" and grabbed the trophy back off him. You didn't mess with our Robbie! - NeathJack I played with him in brynmill colts youth team. played just the same in junior leagues as he did as a pro remember that his dad used to give him grief from the touchline: mawdlamjack

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T��b� U� A�� R��n� It seemed to the rest of the footballing world that Tony Pulis was jumping into a sinking ship when he got aboard the Crystal Palace boat, deep rooted at the foot of the league. Leaking goals at regular intervals, struggling to find the net at the other end, it appeared to us all that relegation was just a case of inevitability.

The emergence of Canas alongside Leon has also been interesting. On paper, we would be forgiven for thinking that Canas is playing as a second defensive midfielder but he is almost more of a box to box player in this role, regularly making serious strides to getting into the opponents box.

They may still go down but should they avoid the drop then the former Stoke manager has to win manager of the year. He inherited a set of players who he couldn’t add to for a couple of months and got those same players to keep clean sheets and be hard to beat.

Napoli had two second choice centre backs playing at the Liberty. Wilfried Bony ran to close them down at any possibility; I didn’t know he could run. This was clearly a tactic and one which I don’t think we would have done a few weeks earlier under Laudrup. It was really pleasing to see a small detailed tactic and that Bony clearly listened and followed it.

Comparing that situation to the one Garry Monk finds himself in is certainly harsh on his former boss but lessons can be learned from Selhurt Park as to what a bit of hard work and organisation can achieve. As I write this, we have played 3 games with a full strength eleven (excluding Everton in cup) and conceded one goal which was a rather unfortunate one against Stoke. The back four is the same back four under Laudrup but it already looks more solid. Slight tactical changes going forward have already been noticed, our wide men are wide and Pablo looks a revelation through the middle. The side already looks more organised and slight tinkering and specific tactics seem to be implemented at times.

Tony Pulis is an extremely experienced Premier League manager and expecting the youngest manager in the league to revitalise our season in the same way is possibly a bit much but I’m certainly very impressed with the start he has made. Garry composes himself in a very relaxed manor off the field and yet clearly demonstrates the passion and determination needed on it (or just to the side of it). Huw Jenkins knows him, he would know what the other players think of him and so by appointing him then we all know that Garry is regarded highly in the dressing room and I think that the early performances are showing just that.

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"My parents have been there for me, ever since I was about 7." David Beckham "I would not be bothered if we lost every game as long as we won the league." Mark Viduka "Alex Ferguson is the best manager I've ever had at this level. Well, he's the only manager I've actually had at this level. But he's the best manager I've ever had." David Beckham "If you don't believe you can win, there is no point in getting out of bed at the end of the day." Neville Southall "I've had 14 bookings this season - 8 of which were my fault, but 7 of which were disputable." Paul Gascoigne "I've never wanted to leave. I'm here for the rest of my life, and hopefully after that as well." Alan Shearer "I'd like to play for an Italian club, like Barcelona." Mark Draper "You've got to believe that you're going to win, and I believe we'll win the World Cup until the final whistle blows and we're knocked out." Peter Shilton "I faxed a transfer request to the club at the beginning of the week, but let me state that I don't want to leave Leicester." Stan Collymore "I was watching the Blackburn game on TV on Sunday when it flashed on the screen that George (Ndah) had scored in the first minute at Birmingham. My first reaction was to ring him up. Then I remembered he was out there playing." Ade Akinbiyi "Without being too harsh on David Beckham, he cost us the match." Ian Wright "I'm as happy as I can be - but I have been happier." Ugo Ehiogu "Leeds is a great club and it's been my home for years, even though I live in Middlesborough." Jonathan Woodgate "I can see the carrot at the end of the tunnel." Stuart Pearce "I took a whack on my left ankle, but something told me it was my right." - Lee Hendrie

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So it’s been quite a month, on the strength of my last article calling for his head the board decided to get rid of Laudrup. Obviously, I’m flattered that Huw takes my opinions to heart but I couldn’t help having a crisis of conscience... had we done the right thing? I mean, we just don’t sack managers, have we become one of those reactionary teams? I was worried. Then we played Cardiff, and Stoke, and Everton and Napoli and Liverpool and Napoli again and I knew we’d done the right thing. Here’s a shocker though, we only won one of them (it was a good one though eh?). What’s made me happy though is the performances, those lacklustre “when do we go home” showings we were making under Laudrup were gone, this team is up for it now.

We could have beaten Liverpool, we should have beaten Napoli. That’s mental. What Gary and Alan between them have brought to the club is far more than “knowing where the kettle is” these are men that have been here through thick and thin. They’ve seen the club at it’s worst and they were a big part of turning it around, they don’t just believe in the philosophy they breathe it. They’ve seen it work, seen where it’s taken us and they’ve grown with the club. What better people could we have to take us forward. I’ll confess that after the West Ham game I genuinely thought we’d go down, that we’d be one of those clubs that think there are worse teams below us and get caught out. I didn’t trust us to win the must win games, to commit to the run in of the season and I thought for the complacency of the manager and the players we’d be punished. No more.

We’re not one of those clubs, we made a change when it needed to be made, and we didn’t rush in to anything, we won’t be doing a Fulham or a Cardiff. Monk and Curtis may not turn out to be the long-term solution to the problem (in Huw we trust) but for now, for the way you can see they motivate the players we should all be grateful. Because I’ve not written as many words as I normally do I’ll try and write a joke for you... Two Jacks in a pub, one says to the other “did you go see the circus a few weeks back” “yeah, we beat ‘em 3-0” Geraint Evans is a comedian and writer you can book, hire or generally just be friends with for a pint. Don’t judge him on that joke though.

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Ri�h� M�� – Ri�h� T�� . Saturday 1st of February 2014, Swansea City faced West Ham in one of many matches to be played between two sides fighting for survival. Nobody would have thought that the game would see the end of Laudrups reign. I can’t recall a manager ever going from a position of relative job security to being dismissed after one match, certainly not after a 2-0 away loss. Having said that, it was inevitable and the right call. The performance that day was atrocious, absolutely shockingly bad but worse than that was the way we set ourselves up which obviously lead to that embarrassing performance. Andy Carroll is a nightmare. He has always enjoyed playing us and always been a threat against us and he was inevitably going to be the danger man. A school boy playing Football Manager would know that the best way to deter that threat is to have a high line so that any flick-ons are into less threatening areas and to get close to him and win the second balls. We did none of these.

Players need to take some responsibility I agree but the buck stops with the gaffa. Either we played the tactics he implemented, which was to have a deep backline and not man mark their talisman or the players ignored his tactics, which in many ways is even more worrying. Our Former Great Dane (I will let you decide whether the ‘former’ is for ‘our’ or ‘great’) spoke of a wasted weeks preparation after the game, implying that the issue was that the players ignored his tactics. This was massive alarm bells ringing through my ears. Firstly this suggested that he had totally lost the dressing room and secondly, if he implemented a high line (which surely he must have) then why did he sit in his chair for ninety minutes while our back four stayed deep? I hear the arguments of, ‘his management style was fine when all was good’. Our performance against West Brom last season was the best I have ever seen from us and one of the best first half performances I have seen from any team in the Premier League. So why have we gone backwards? What went wrong? The Europa League and injuries have clearly played their part and it is ironic that it is more than possible that he will still be in a job should we have not won the League Cup last year but our downward spiral started back then, before this seasons injury crisis and the Europa matches. We finished eleventh in our first season in the Premier League under a very well organised Brendan Rogers. Did we have the eleventh best set of players that season? Nowhere near but we made up for our lack of individual talent by being hard to score against and hardworking. As a team, we deservedly finished mid-table and were pretty consistent throughout the whole season. Brendan left and the Laud came in and with him came some real quality players to add to our organised side. The likes of Michu, Chico and Pablo settled in quickly into

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our set-up, De Guzman and Ki looked good signings and We have gone one down in far too many games this because of the size of the club. Swansea are a big club and Johnbasic Cornforth said when he’s in the Ben Davies slotted in where Neil Taylor stood. Our season Matty: seasonWell through organisational mistakes, the sort have got the fan base, they were struggling when I arrived bedroom with Jane he has a beard then. started with a massive bang and we found ourselves in which we grew accustomed to under Martinez. While in league 2 at the time but when I got there I couldn’t the top half of the table all season and were almost managed by the Spaniard, we would regularly ‘batter’ believe the fan base. P.cteams We’ll but go for thataway thenwith a 2-2 draw having concede disappointed to finish ninth after a poor end of the come season. Did we have the ninth best set of players then? from two set pieces. I since found out that we never DoPossibly. you keep in touch with any of the swans players if Massive thanks to Paulset-pieces for puttingunder up with and practiced defending theMatty now Everton so who? manager. trying to make sense of his questions. Matty says he was I speak with Tateyhas and Roberto once quiteagain a bit still. Our personel improved this season. Most top bloke and he was a great player for us. noticeably, adding the goal threat of Wilfried Bony but If you have read a few Jack Swans then you will know t If Harry Potter has magicaland powers Shelvey, Amat, Pozuello Canaswhy does he need I still hold a grudge against ‘Judas’ glasses? have certainly improved the depth of but I can’t hide from the fact that I haven’t got awith clueno dobig youname normally get answers for that? the squad improved us, brought in better Wedepartures. do usually get they are is not usually very good On answers, paper, our squad players and has played a massive easilybut better than first about two as good as the part in our current success. I do th answers they are our usually seasons, individually our players have (looking back) that he left at the question butone collectively, there is to noit right time, that we needed someo Askimproved me another I will come back doubt in my eyes that we have got to come in and sure up our defenc worse. and give us some organisation an Why does Tarzan not have a beard? think that the same is said of now Is this a wind up? I’ve never had questions like this in my and Laudrup. life,We played some wonderful football in our first season in the Premier League as weNo did in the first halfof ofmagazine last seasonthat we are The squad we hold now is better Matty: this is the kind but what seems to be overlooked time than when Laudrup came in. He h andGstime again is that we were solid at been brilliant at picking players an Roofing qtr portrait.ai 1 30/06/2013 23:54:36 P.c Help me out on this one the back and had great foundations. his legacy will be this squad as we Every side is a better team when 1-0 as our first major trophy. He was th up but our record is extreme. When right man at the right time but he we score first, we get something from has gone at the right time and we the game, when the opposition do – now need another right man at th we don’t. right time and that ‘right man’ will someone who is well organised not someone who can People have banged on about our lack of goals this find the next Michu. season and although it would have been nice to have scored a few more, I am certain that we would have I’m certain that Garry Monk is that man. When Roberto scored more if we had conceded less. We look a threat left, we brought in Souza and although there are a pretty much every game when it is 0-0, when sides have hundred reasons to dislike those days, we improved on to look to score against us instead of sitting on a lead our league position and Brendan acquired an organise which has been handed to them. team.

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Last season, our central midfield consisted primarily of Jonathan De Guzman, Leon Britton & Ki Sung-Yueng, who were essentially vying for two spots given Michu's preference for playing behind the frontman (who for a good swathe of the season was Danny Graham). This season we've seen Ki loaned out, leaving De Guzman & Leon with new signings Jose Canas & Jonjo Shelvey for company in the centre of the park. Michu played a couple of games up top early this season and has since missed out a lot through injury, so I'm going to concentrate on the four we'd consider "central midfielders". Let's start with passing. We do like a pass in SA1 don't we? Leon & Jono's pass completion is pretty much the same as last year, Leon's down a percent or so to 90.7% and De Guzman's marginally better than last season's at 89.6%. The two newcomers to the team this year figure pretty much as you'd expect - Canas's is almost identical to Leon's at 90.6% with Shelvey a little lower at 84.1%. Given he enjoys more of an attacking role that's to be expected, and he also has the least average passes per game with 52.2, with De Guzman averaging 60.3, Canas 61.4 and Leon 64.8. He was always going to have the most wasn't he? Interestingly when compared with last year's Leon and De Guzman are actually playing about ten more passes per game - a sign of how much we've been retaining possession this year even if on occasion we've struggled to do anything with it. That takes us neatly to chance creation. While you'd expect Canas and Leon to boss the passing charts, you'd probably fancy Shelvey & De Guzman to come out on top when it comes to passes in the final third, and it works out fairly predictably. Leon plays 0.3 key passes per game, Canas 0.1 (ouch). but Shelvey manages 1.3 De Guzman 1.8. Goals and assists are also an area you'd expect there

to be a disparity, and you'd be right - Canas and Leon have no goals and assists between them. Shelvey, however, now has five goals and three assists while his Dutch teammate has one goal and four assists. You don't score without shooting, and that's neatly reflected in the stats too - Jonjo has 2.3 shots per game, Jono 1.6, while Leon & Canas come in at 0.3 and 0.1. In terms of ball retention, again what most fans would have suspected is reflected in the raw data. Leon & Jose Canas are both dispossessed 0.7 times per game, but De Guzman is over double that at 1.5. Jonjo comes in with a nice round figure of once per game, and that's impressive given how often he tries to beat his man. As for losing the ball through poor control it's fairly even between Jose (0.8 - and better than Leon!), Leon (0.9) and Jonjo (1.0) but again De Guzman comes across a little loose, gifting possession on average 1.5 times per game. Still an impressively low figure, mind. Defensively, Jose & Leon boss the tackle stats and given for the majority of the season only one of them has been

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selected, that means the other central midfielder hasn't really been gaining possession back that much. Leon averages 1.9 tackles, Canas 1.8 while De Guzman comes in at 1.3, Shelvey 1.1. I guess they are up the field a lot more, but we're already seeing the benefits of playing with two defensive midfielders so I expect the midfield stats to tighten up a lot in the near future. Interceptions too is another area with a disparity - Leon averages 1.9, Canas 2.1, but Jonjo and De Guzman only make 0.8 & 0.9 respectively. If I'm being honest there isn't as much to read into these statistics as I thought there would be. I've been critical of Jonathan De Guzman in the past for sloppy play but the statistics simply don't relay that - more often that not he retains possession when passing, even if he is mugged more occasionally than any of our other midfielders. I do feel though, that if he is willing to run until it hurts, he could be some player. I struggle to recall too many times where I've seen him busting a gut to get forward in particular, whereas all the other players we've looked at here can never be accused of not putting in a shift. What is interesting to me is we're obviously playing more passes on average. Given the increase in calibre of the squad if Monk can get the team playing the same football we were at the end of Rodgers' tenure/the beginning of Laudrup's then it's automatically going to be football of a higher standard given the players on the field are capable of that much more. It's good to see Monk appreciates how important it is to control the centre of the midfield, and if the next

year goes as his first few games in charge have I'd expect the passing stats to be even more impressive if we were to look at them again next February. Whether De Guzman is still here then remains to be seen as his second loan deal expires in the summer, but despite how often I get frustrated with him there's clearly a quality footballer in there somewhere and I'd love for him to kick on at the Swans. Canas is someone else I'd like to give a mention as he's bedded into the side so well. Since signing from Betis he's looked every bit a Swansea City midfielder, but it's infuriating we've had to wait this long to see him paired with Leon Britton regularly when the possibility of such a great partnership was just so obvious. The Spaniard has taken to life in SA1 like a duck to water and I'm expecting a great second season from him, as he continues to settle in and his English improves. Overall, this just shows that if you put statistics in context you can in fact infer a fair amount from them. There are useless statistics, sure, and there are statistics taken completely out of context, but if you compare these statistics with your average Swansea fan's opinion of the four midfielders we've looked at it's likely they'd come to the same conclusions. For me, the foreseeable future should include Leon & Canas at defensive midfield with one of De Guzman, Shelvey, Michu, Pablo or Pozuelo ahead of them. Get Ki back in the summer and we're covered at defensive midfield, and then it's simply a case of figuring out who's better ahead of them. It should be fun finding out! Article from: www.theswanseaway.co.uk

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Nathan Dyer: I wanted to offload him at the end of what I thought was a really poor season last term, no end product, sloppy and I even think I used the words, ‘form is temporary and class is permanent but I’m not convinced he ever had any class’. Just shows once again that I’m a total idiot. He’s been our most dangerous and constant performer this year and fickle old me is now demanding he gets his recognition with an England call up. He battered Napoli in the first tie, they had no answer to him whatsoever. He’s lighting fast, and when confident, he knows how to out the ball in the back of the net and just causes havoc to the opposition. Defensively he is brilliant, wins back more balls than probably anyone else. I stand by my opinion that he was really poor last season but he definitely does have class.

Bony: I can’t really recall a player looking quite as strong as our £12 million pound man. He looks at challenging defenders as though ‘don’t be stupid, don’t waste your time or mine, this is my ball and I’m going to do with it what I like’. There is a bizarre mixture of modest arrogance about the man which is just great to see. His goalscoring record is outstanding, even if he could have scored a good few more. Nobody wants to play against him, you can be certain of that and he will probably only get better. Very nearly at his 20 goal target, he may well get a good few more than that. Dare we expect 30 next season? He wont be playing for us the season after if he does. Quality player.

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Jonjo Shelvey Will he get in our starting line up when everyone is fit? Scary thought that. He’s been bizarrely our most consistent performer. He throws hot and cold during games, hero to villain in a matter of moments but he has done that all season. You always feel like we are more likely to score when he is on the pitch. Still young and with more to learn, he is a very good player but he has the potential to be a great player. Talking to Anthony James about Robbie James earlier in the magazine about how Robbie could change a game with a moment of magic, Jonjo has that in his locker, has a very long way to go before we can start comparing him with our greats but could get there

Special Mention: Chico Flores: I’m going to slate all our players from now on because they suddenly turn into world class players as if just to make me look stupid. What a difference a new manager has made to our completely tactically useless and our liability of a centre half. He has looked really top quality in ever game he has played under Monk and looks a totally different player to the buffoon who played against West Ham. Keep it up, I’m happy to be proved wrong this way round every time. Pablo: Again, he just looks a different player under the new coach. I think its more than that he is now playing through the middle, he’s wanting to win the ball back, he’s almost getting involved all over the park. He was (and we have all used this word to describe him) a ‘luxury’ player under Laudrup and although he does still give the ball away more than most, he contributes by more than just those wonder passes which he has always been able to thread. Keep it up boyo!!!

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