| Monk Not Happy With Swans Performance 20:41 - Aug 9 with 4556 views | Phil_S |
I suppose that it would be exceptionally worrying if Garry Monk did not think there was work to be done following today's 3-0 defeat to Villarreal at the Liberty Stadium so it was probably no surprise that he was critical of the performance when he addressed the press after the game.
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| Monk Not Happy With Swans Performance on 20:43 - Aug 9 with 3002 views | Liam |
I reckon it's because he's wearing a suit.
Bring back the tracky b's or it's Monk out! |  | | |
| Monk Not Happy With Swans Performance on 20:45 - Aug 9 with 2978 views | Kennedy |
He said he'd told the players that the stylish performance of Villarreal was an indication of what he was striving to achieve at the Liberty Stadium.
"The way they play and the way they are set up is probably two or three years ahead of us," he added.
"They're a very settled and a very fluid side and I said to the players afterwards that's what we have to aspire to.
"That's what we're trying to do with the work that we're doing and putting in place and we're trying to reach something close to what we saw [from Villareal] today."
How can the way they play be 2-3 years ahead of us, when we have played that way for years. |  |
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| Monk Not Happy With Swans Performance on 20:48 - Aug 9 with 2937 views | Phil_S |
Genuine tweet I received this afternoon
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| Monk Not Happy With Swans Performance on 20:50 - Aug 9 with 2900 views | waynekerr55 |
| Monk Not Happy With Swans Performance on 20:48 - Aug 9 by Phil_S |
Genuine tweet I received this afternoon
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Some people shouldn't be allowed on the internet IMO |  |
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| Monk Not Happy With Swans Performance on 20:53 - Aug 9 with 2880 views | perchrockjack |
Wtf have I done now mun? |  |
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| Monk Not Happy With Swans Performance on 20:54 - Aug 9 with 2867 views | Liberty |
Can't lay fault totally at players door.
If he put his hands up and said he cocked up with starting 11, team shape, tactics and poor bench, he would earn more plaudits than simply knocking the players.
Only a friendly , move on thankfully. Hope he realises the above and changes things. |  |
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| Monk Not Happy With Swans Performance on 20:58 - Aug 9 with 2845 views | icecoldjack |
| Monk Not Happy With Swans Performance on 20:45 - Aug 9 by Kennedy |
He said he'd told the players that the stylish performance of Villarreal was an indication of what he was striving to achieve at the Liberty Stadium.
"The way they play and the way they are set up is probably two or three years ahead of us," he added.
"They're a very settled and a very fluid side and I said to the players afterwards that's what we have to aspire to.
"That's what we're trying to do with the work that we're doing and putting in place and we're trying to reach something close to what we saw [from Villareal] today."
How can the way they play be 2-3 years ahead of us, when we have played that way for years. |
I thought the exact same thing when i read it, we have been playing like today's Villarreal team for years, so im a bit confused as to what Monk is getting at there.
This time last year we were smashing the like of Valencia off the park on their own patch and getting applauded by their own fans for the football we played, now we are 2/3 yrs behind ??
wtf !! |  | | |
| Monk Not Happy With Swans Performance on 21:02 - Aug 9 with 2795 views | Darran |
| Monk Not Happy With Swans Performance on 20:58 - Aug 9 by icecoldjack |
I thought the exact same thing when i read it, we have been playing like today's Villarreal team for years, so im a bit confused as to what Monk is getting at there.
This time last year we were smashing the like of Valencia off the park on their own patch and getting applauded by their own fans for the football we played, now we are 2/3 yrs behind ??
wtf !! |
Well yeah apart from the fact we played Valencia 6 weeks into the season after we'd played 8 games of course. |  |
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| Monk Not Happy With Swans Performance on 21:09 - Aug 9 with 2743 views | Joe_bradshaw |
Garry is like a little boy on Christmas morning with lots of new toys and he wants to play with them all at the same time.
He's going to have to disappoint one or two at Old Trafford and put them on the bench in order to get a decent shape to the team. |  |
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| Monk Not Happy With Swans Performance on 21:09 - Aug 9 with 2739 views | waynekerr55 |
| Monk Not Happy With Swans Performance on 20:53 - Aug 9 by perchrockjack |
Wtf have I done now mun? |
Nothing at all 
Seriously though reading the reviews of the hotel we stayed at someone complained about the seaweed being cleaned away by a tractor all day. FFS mun! | |
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| Monk Not Happy With Swans Performance on 21:11 - Aug 9 with 2720 views | perchrockjack |
Lol .ive seem complaints about the wrong kind of sand and foreigners not speaking english | |
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| Monk Not Happy With Swans Performance on 21:12 - Aug 9 with 2718 views | icecoldjack |
| Monk Not Happy With Swans Performance on 21:02 - Aug 9 by Darran |
Well yeah apart from the fact we played Valencia 6 weeks into the season after we'd played 8 games of course. |
So you agree we aint 2 to 3 yrs behind like Garry monk suggests , glad we got that one straight Darran, thanks . | | | |
| Monk Not Happy With Swans Performance on 21:17 - Aug 9 with 2668 views | Rancid |
I'm quite surprised he's said we're 2 or 3 years behind Villareal to be honest.I'd rather he said we had an off day and got it wrong than we're 3 years behind someone we should be at least on a par or ahead of.Haven't they just been promoted back into La Liga? Hardly Real Madrid are they!! Strange. |  | | |
| Monk Not Happy With Swans Performance on 21:26 - Aug 9 with 2627 views | waynekerr55 |
| Monk Not Happy With Swans Performance on 21:11 - Aug 9 by perchrockjack |
Lol .ive seem complaints about the wrong kind of sand and foreigners not speaking english |
Another one was that there was seaweed on the beach. Yeah, lets wreck an eco system so you don't see seaweed | |
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| Monk Not Happy With Swans Performance on 21:30 - Aug 9 with 2609 views | FearOfAJackPlanet |
| Monk Not Happy With Swans Performance on 21:17 - Aug 9 by Rancid |
I'm quite surprised he's said we're 2 or 3 years behind Villareal to be honest.I'd rather he said we had an off day and got it wrong than we're 3 years behind someone we should be at least on a par or ahead of.Haven't they just been promoted back into La Liga? Hardly Real Madrid are they!! Strange. |
I was surprised by that as well. Although, it does appear to be true.
They've been through the wringer in recent years, relegated, stripped of their top players, manager passing away. Yet, with a fraction of our budget, and only a slightly bigger stadium, seem to be light years ahead of us in terms of style and continuity throughout the squad. JDG can't get in their team, yet he's the answer to all our prayers according to some.
Depressingly, it gives a lie to the board's ideal of a 'Swansea Way' that would remain regardless of personel. We're back at square 1, no doubts about it.
Not going overboard. It was one pre-season friendly, that's it, and I;m sure we're going to bring in 2-3 players to strengthen. I just find it depressing how we seem to have just lost the plot as a club overall in terms of continuity of style and tactical maturity. That was supposed to be one of the attributes that was supposed to make us different. Looks like we're just another nouveau riche Premier League club...
Ha, nothing like a good pre-season feeling of impending doom...) lump on us to get a point at Old Trafford next weekend:) |  |
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| Monk Not Happy With Swans Performance on 21:32 - Aug 9 with 2579 views | Liberty |
| Monk Not Happy With Swans Performance on 21:17 - Aug 9 by Rancid |
I'm quite surprised he's said we're 2 or 3 years behind Villareal to be honest.I'd rather he said we had an off day and got it wrong than we're 3 years behind someone we should be at least on a par or ahead of.Haven't they just been promoted back into La Liga? Hardly Real Madrid are they!! Strange. |
They were relegated 2 years ago, mass exodus of players, then one year in their second division and back in La Liga last season.
They were one of the best passing teams I have seen at the Liberty.
I found myself applauding their first 2 goals. Can't remember last time did that for another team. I realise it was a friendly. | |
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| Monk Not Happy With Swans Performance on 21:33 - Aug 9 with 2580 views | LeonisGod |
| Monk Not Happy With Swans Performance on 20:58 - Aug 9 by icecoldjack |
I thought the exact same thing when i read it, we have been playing like today's Villarreal team for years, so im a bit confused as to what Monk is getting at there.
This time last year we were smashing the like of Valencia off the park on their own patch and getting applauded by their own fans for the football we played, now we are 2/3 yrs behind ??
wtf !! |
We weren't playing that way for much of the last 15 months. Today reminded me of some of the abject performances under Laudrup last year. But on the good side, the footie's back for another season!!!! |  | | |
| Monk Not Happy With Swans Performance on 21:39 - Aug 9 with 2544 views | Private_Partz |
| Monk Not Happy With Swans Performance on 20:50 - Aug 9 by waynekerr55 |
Some people shouldn't be allowed on the internet IMO |
ML was slated for not standing up and shouting at the team Wayne. Monk sat there the whole time giving the impression he was either mightily pissed off or did not have any idea what to do. His substitutions, or lack of them, suggests the latter. |  |
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| Monk Not Happy With Swans Performance on 21:40 - Aug 9 with 2536 views | Rancid |
| Monk Not Happy With Swans Performance on 21:32 - Aug 9 by Liberty |
They were relegated 2 years ago, mass exodus of players, then one year in their second division and back in La Liga last season.
They were one of the best passing teams I have seen at the Liberty.
I found myself applauding their first 2 goals. Can't remember last time did that for another team. I realise it was a friendly. |
Yep.I just read on another thread they finished 6th so better placed than I thought.They were very good and it should have been 5 or 6 but I still find it strange Monk saying we're 2 or 3 years behind when not 12 months ago we were beating Valencia and nearly bowling over Napoli.He's virtually saying we've gone backwards under his management and by quite some too. | | | |
| Monk Not Happy With Swans Performance on 21:44 - Aug 9 with 2503 views | Darran |
| Monk Not Happy With Swans Performance on 21:12 - Aug 9 by icecoldjack |
So you agree we aint 2 to 3 yrs behind like Garry monk suggests , glad we got that one straight Darran, thanks . |
Yes I agree but we shouldn't take what comes out of the managers mouth as gospel. | |
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| Monk Not Happy With Swans Performance on 21:49 - Aug 9 with 2454 views | Private_Partz |
| Monk Not Happy With Swans Performance on 21:02 - Aug 9 by Darran |
Well yeah apart from the fact we played Valencia 6 weeks into the season after we'd played 8 games of course. |
So we have 8 games to catch up on the 2 / 3 years progress we have lost then Darr? In fairness I can't see where GM has said that and I hope he did not say it. For that last couple of years MOTD had to speed up the cameras to get all our passes into the programme we had held possession for so long. We are know as the 'pass masters' of the Prem with our midfielders having the most successful passing rate. [Post edited 9 Aug 2014 21:55]
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| You have mission in life to hold out your hand,
To help the other guy out,
Help your fellow man.
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| Monk Not Happy With Swans Performance on 21:50 - Aug 9 with 2444 views | tomdickharry |
| Monk Not Happy With Swans Performance on 21:02 - Aug 9 by Darran |
Well yeah apart from the fact we played Valencia 6 weeks into the season after we'd played 8 games of course. |
In addition its been airbrushed to history that they also played with 10 men for most of the game. | | | |
| Monk Not Happy With Swans Performance on 21:51 - Aug 9 with 2442 views | Starsky |
| Monk Not Happy With Swans Performance on 21:26 - Aug 9 by waynekerr55 |
Another one was that there was seaweed on the beach. Yeah, lets wreck an eco system so you don't see seaweed |
Gerra a feckin room you two ffs |  |
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| Monk Not Happy With Swans Performance on 22:04 - Aug 9 with 2357 views | somersetsimon |
| Monk Not Happy With Swans Performance on 21:39 - Aug 9 by Private_Partz |
ML was slated for not standing up and shouting at the team Wayne. Monk sat there the whole time giving the impression he was either mightily pissed off or did not have any idea what to do. His substitutions, or lack of them, suggests the latter. |
I think the lack of substitutions was to try out that formation as long as possible regardless of the result. I can't believe that he would have let that system carry on that long in a league game. |  | | |
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