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4Well I must admit that I was getting a little bit bored. We had become a mid-table Premier League team, we were comfortable and it was nice for a while wasn’t it but it is de�nitely time to have a bit of fun and a relegation scrap seems right up my street!

All of a sudden we have all woken up, we all care again! We are kicking every ball, we are slating everyone and we even have scapegoats!! Conspiracy theories! Some have turned on Huw, the whole board! Need investment? Alan Curtis a manager? Does he want it? Is he any good at it? If he is then why hasn’t he been in charge for the last thirty years?

Its ugly, it’s messy, it is irritating but it is most de�nitely not boring! And boring is worse than anything isn’t it! Isn’t it?

I think it probably is. As football goes anyway. We have had a ridiculous time over the last twelve years or so. Last day survival at Hull, followed by a fairly boring season but then we were either promoted or chasing the play-o�s in every season until we got to the Premier League where we spent a couple of years worrying about relegation and then got hopelessly bored......Until now

And I think we may be in a bit of trouble too. Harry Rednapp has piped us to go down and it is very di�cult to argue with that prediction. We are desperate for a striker and he needs to come before you read this!! This is going to the printers the night of the Oxford game (awful, awful, awful) and we need a striker for Wednesday! It is the most important game that we have had in the Premier league; it is huge and we don’t have a striker!!

Watford on the weekend; we need to get four points minimum from those two games and we need someone who can actually score goals. It is no good bringing in a striker on January 31st if we lose both these games. Let’s face it, you’d pay £2 million to have a striker just for those two games and so if a

player costs £20 million now but would be £18 on January 31st then write the cheque now; just get him in!!

But that is me and that is probably you and me and you are football fans and we are blindly stupid, just like most people actually and most chairpersons (how politically correct of me!!). We make rash decisions, we make decisions on the cu� but Huw doesn’t and that is what has made us di�erent.

He has a game plan, set rules for buying players and I fully expect that he will keep to it and with the exception of the last three months, his record has been incredible so we should be happy about that. It is funny how he has gone from being called smart and clever in the transfer market to being labelled as ‘tight’, it is all about results isn’t it!

When we were winning then picking up Ayew and Gomis for nothing were genius but now it’s a major issue. We are going through a di�cult time but we need to keep to our principles and be clear about what we do and how we do it because if we don’t then we start to become a Newcastle and we really don’t want that!

Although, I don’t think there is much boredom with Newcastle fans. Maybe that is exactly what we need!!

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Well I must admit that I was getting a little bit bored. We had become a mid-table Premier League team, we were comfortable and it was nice for a while wasn’t it but it is de�nitely time to have a bit of fun and a relegation scrap seems right up my street!

All of a sudden we have all woken up, we all care again! We are kicking every ball, we are slating everyone and we even have scapegoats!! Conspiracy theories! Some have turned on Huw, the whole board! Need investment? Alan Curtis a manager? Does he want it? Is he any good at it? If he is then why hasn’t he been in charge for the last thirty years?

Its ugly, it’s messy, it is irritating but it is most de�nitely not boring! And boring is worse than anything isn’t it! Isn’t it?

I think it probably is. As football goes anyway. We have had a ridiculous time over the last twelve years or so. Last day survival at Hull, followed by a fairly boring season but then we were either promoted or chasing the play-o�s in every season until we got to the Premier League where we spent a couple of years worrying about relegation and then got hopelessly bored......Until now

And I think we may be in a bit of trouble too. Harry Rednapp has piped us to go down and it is very di�cult to argue with that prediction. We are desperate for a striker and he needs to come before you read this!! This is going to the printers the night of the Oxford game (awful, awful, awful) and we need a striker for Wednesday! It is the most important game that we have had in the Premier league; it is huge and we don’t have a striker!!

Watford on the weekend; we need to get four points minimum from those two games and we need someone who can actually score goals. It is no good bringing in a striker on January 31st if we lose both these games. Let’s face it, you’d pay £2 million to have a striker just for those two games and so if a

player costs £20 million now but would be £18 on January 31st then write the cheque now; just get him in!!

But that is me and that is probably you and me and you are football fans and we are blindly stupid, just like most people actually and most chairpersons (how politically correct of me!!). We make rash decisions, we make decisions on the cu� but Huw doesn’t and that is what has made us di�erent.

He has a game plan, set rules for buying players and I fully expect that he will keep to it and with the exception of the last three months, his record has been incredible so we should be happy about that. It is funny how he has gone from being called smart and clever in the transfer market to being labelled as ‘tight’, it is all about results isn’t it!

When we were winning then picking up Ayew and Gomis for nothing were genius but now it’s a major issue. We are going through a di�cult time but we need to keep to our principles and be clear about what we do and how we do it because if we don’t then we start to become a Newcastle and we really don’t want that!

Although, I don’t think there is much boredom with Newcastle fans. Maybe that is exactly what we need!!

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6 Race to Player of the YearThese are the top three as it stands for the race to be Jack Swan player of the year!

TaylorCurtis said a couple of weeks back that our left back had been our player of the year so far this season and it raised a few eyebrows but I must agree. Taylor is alright, he’s not special, he’s an average left back in the Premier League. He gives you everything and keeps things simple and will generally always give you a seven out of ten, never a nine but rarely a five. He is far from our best player when the team are playing well as the likes of Jonjo have the ability to get nines out of ten but when we are playing as badly as what we are right now then a 6.5 out of ten becomes our best player. I have slated him in the past and I wish I hadn’t because he is showing exactly what we want as fans. He’s giving his all and he’s working to the very best of his ability and we can’t ask for any more than that, if some of our other more talented players put in the effort that he did then we’d be laughing now.

LeonWhen he has played he has been our best player. He just keeps going doesn’t he and we need to build our side around him once again. It is difficult to see how that midfield will line up, Ki and Cork are probably fighting for one place but I think we are back to the position where Leon is the first name on that team sheet and it is great to see. He recycles the ball so well and his anticipation is out of this world, he knows where the ball is going before it is there. He is up for the fight and I want him in the trenches with us. He survived Hull, I expect emotional team talks on that when things get close and he will help us survive this!! Great to see him back is the fold!!

Ash He had a really wobbly patch before Christmas but he seems to have come through it and is now getting back to playing at his very best. We have been so lucky with this guy for years and we need to rely on him once again. I don’t think that it is a surprise that the top three players that I have chosen are all from our promotion team. These three and Rangel have been the players putting in the hard work and these are the players who will drag us over the line. I’m proud to support a team with these boys in it; others take note!

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8 Tates TalesThe next season wasn’t as successful and Kenny lost his job, did you feel it was the right decision at the time?

Again it is hard because at that time then. Me and Kenny had grew to like each other and trust each other. Results weren’t great, looking back it probably was the right time, it was the right time for Kenny and for the club, Kenny was getting stick even when we were winning games and so you are struggling: where do you go from there? if you win one-nil at home and you are getting booed off.

So yeah I think it probably was the right time and looking back now, Kenny has gone onto bigger and better things and so has the club.

How hard is it for a young player to see a man-ager go? I imagine that when your 30 and you’ve had 5 or 6 managers then it’s not such a big issue but when your career is on the up and then a big change like this happens then I guess it is a worry?

It s hard especially when it is the manager that has brought you in. Someone like Darren Pratley, he’d brought him in at a young age and it was tough for him as he was only a kid at the time.

For me it wasn’t as tough as with Brian because me and Kenny didn’t get off to a great start but as I said, we trusted each other at the end but it is one of those things which happen in football and you just have to get on with it. The rest is history though as Martinez got the post, how well did you know him then? Again, I know you played with him but you’d have been a teenager and I assume you wouldn’t have been that close back then?

Yeah we were, we were all close to Rob. Obviously me and Leon were there (when he was there as a player) and we all lived quite close to each other, none of our girlfriends had moved down and so we sort of lived in each other’s pockets, we’d go out for food, see each other regularly. Leon used to room with Rob and so we

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Was it more like the United way? Going right back to when big Rog told you to ‘f*ck off upfield’ you were now being told to take the ball off the keeper again?

I think in that sense it was yeah, Rob knew how good we could be and he knew the players who could play football and he knew who couldn’t and he still has that philosophy today. The club have a lot to thank Roberto for as he was a massive in-fluence, I think the club owe Roberto a lot.

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goal, he wasn’t afraid to put a tackle in, he had a nasty side; Ferrie could have been a Premier league player for years, it baffled me that no-body had spotted him before and it was a league one club coming in for him.

We just missed out on the play-offs that season after losing the final game 6-3 at home to Blackpool. Many of us fans will remember that game for one thing and one reason only; Joe Allen. Do you remember that? Were you aware of how good he was before that game?

Yeah, I remember because I didn’t play. I’d been kicked in the eye in Carlisle away and they said that I needed four weeks because something had come away from the inside of my eye and they said that it needed to heal and I remember obviously watching the game and Joe coming on and we trained with him and knew he was a good player but he come on, the top looked way too big for him but he done ok yeah.

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“The transfer of Michel Vorm was conducted and con-cluded correctly under Premier League rules,” a Swansea spokesman was quoted as saying to Sky Sports.

“It was approved by the Premier League and also FIFA via their TMS (Transfer Matching System).

“While we have been in contact with Utrecht as a matter of courtesy, we will continue to conduct our business in the best interest of our football club and our supporters, and not based on the views of other clubs.”

As a supporter, let me say that I’m not happy with this!!We are in serious danger of totally losing our roots as a football club and this really bothers me. I remember a similar thing happening years ago with Peterborough, they had sold Mathew Etherington to Tottenham. An a couple of years later, Spurs were turning down bids of 4 or 5 million for the winger.

Barry Fry and the Posh supporters waited excitedly as they were to get some much needed cash as the sell on clause stated that a percentage of any fee over £500,000 was to go to them (figures aren’t correct but you get the idea).

This was back when we were a ‘small club’, smaller than Peterbor-ough in fact and all clubs in the lower leagues were struggling for money, we’d have to sell anyone worth anything to balance the book. We’d compete with each other but there was also a bit of solidarity between clubs, as a lower league supporter I was usually

pleased to see other lower league clubs get a cash injec-tion from a player sale; we all wanted to survive after all.

Anyway, he ended up going to West Ham for £500,000. As a part of a deal which saw Jermain Defoe go the other way. I remember it well, I remember being outraged, I hated Spurs for it. Back then I couldn’t relate to Spurs in anyway and this was simply the big fish doing one over us little ones!

Ten years on and we are the big club and we are now p*ssing on anyone and everyone that we can in order to save a few quid here and there. We had a great deal with Vorm, we signed him cheap, he played well for us and we then sold him for good profit. Why do we feel the need to squeeze this?

Swansea City Football club isn’t t he club I fell in love with and to be honest I am surprised and disappointed with the board with this. If we are now a club with the motto of ‘money at all costs’ and bully the little guys then I’m not going with that!

If the club can treat other clubs like this then where does it stop? Are us fans just cash cows? Is that all we are? If they can screw us over in order to save or get a few extra quid then is that fine? Is money at all cost the new Swansea City philosophy?

This was a club run by the fans for the fans and as a fan I am letting it be known that I think this is totally and utterly wrong. Don’t let us forget where we come from!

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Do you get frustrated when you see players like Josh

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It is a term which we have all become accustomed to and yet I feel like it means different things to different people. On the pitch, it is generally accepted that the Swansea way has been possession football, especially when it was completely alien in the lower leagues. We stood out like a sore thumb; if a sore thumb happened to be really sexy!

To me, the Swansea way meant something different once we reached the top flight. We were still praised about our passing philosophy but that wasn’t what made us different and what made us successful in my opinion. We had one incredibly unique quality; our players weren’t assholes!

The Premier League is full of superstars with super big egos. Players who have been told that they are amazing and wonderful from twelve years old and have been spoilt and groomed from no age. By simply having half decent human beings in our squad who appreciated the life they had; we made up for lack of talent with effort and ethos and maturity.

Our first campaign in the top flight had the following starting eleven (give or take a few changes from game to game)

Vorm,Rangel, Ash, Caluker, Taylor

Leon AllenSinclair Gower Dyer

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Siggy came in for Gower and Routledge would play from time to time but that would be a typical Swans eleven in our debut season. Talented? Compared to our starting eleven now? Nowhere near it? However our current crop could take us down and this group never looked in danger; what is different?

Blame the manager is always the easiest thing to do,

Brendan was experienced (well he wasn’t really) and tactically superior (tell that to Liverpool fans) to Monk. Well we blamed Garry, he’s gone! Now there are not many more hiding places for our players.

From the outside it looks as though Brendans side appreciated what they had, not one of those players had played regular Premier league football before, not one of them were a ‘name’, they all had to work their ass off but more than that; they all ‘knew where they came from’. I remember seeing Michael Owen years ago saying that he had never made a cup of tea in his life. He was babysat since he was ten, he was prime property.

Don’t upset him, keep him sweet, give him anything he wants as he can play football and he was the start of a generation of spoilt footballers who have absolutely no idea how lucky they are and cannot relate to me and you whatsoever.

Does it matter? Michael Owen had a pretty good career even though he was spoilt?

It might not at the top clubs or with the highly respected managers (although Jose Mourinho may say differently)

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but it certainly does with the ‘smaller clubs’. Garry Monk at little Swansea managing an England international who has come from Liverpool? Managing a French interna-tional striker on £80,000 a week? It doesn’t work!

Managing these sulky kids seems borderline impossible and makes recruiting equally as difficult. If the more tal-ented players happen to have the big egos then who do you want to sign? It is the talented players who have got us in this mess!! Should we be signing less talented but hungry players in order to progress? It doesn’t seem to make sense does it but that is why Leicester and Watford are flying. Because they haven’t got these assholes who think they are bigger and better than everyone else.

When we look at our current group of players then we all know who we want in the trenches, who will give everything. It is no surprise that Leon and Rangel are back in that eleven. Taylor and Ash will give you all they have but we need more from the other players. Heroes and villains will be made over the coming months, it is time for some of the overhyped and over-paid players to dig deep, give us everything and learn the Swansea Way.

I asked people on facebook what the Swansea Way means to them:

Gareth Williams It means playing as a team and stick-ing together through thick and thin. That goes for the team and the fans , this booing rubbish down the liberty is absolute nonsense. Remember who we are little old Swansea and appreciate what we’ve achieved

Matthew Ambrose The Swansea way to me is sticking together as a family playing our football remembers who we are and always backing the CLUB through thick and thin.

Mike Jones Remembering where we came from.

Tom Crawford The Swansea way as far as the players are concerned is playing as a TEAM! Not individuals. There are many many clubs out there who have great individ-ual players, but do they work as a team? The answer is usually no. Its having a group of players who gel together on that pitch and play for each other, not themselves. As for us, the fans, it’s about sticking together and getting behind the players through the good times and the bad... We have had our fair share of both and what ever lies ahead we get through it as one! WHO ARE WE?

Martin Davies Neat tidy football as swans are known for

Carl Williams Means the world means I go to sleep a jack and wake up a jack means everything isn’t perfect but I’m alive supporting the team I was born to watch

Toni de Freitas Chips and curry sauce. Disgusting.

Clare Lewis Sticking together as one team and remem-bering where we have come from

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20I haven’t made many friends on internet forums, quite the opposite in fact, I got off to a bad start and it seems to have got worse. It is a strange place and it has some strange rules, it is too late for me now but this is what I have learned, follow these rules, sign up to one and you will be fine: -

1) You are hard! Remember that!!! Nobody knows otherwise and so you can really go for someone in the knowledge that you are never going to have to back up anything you say. You can call people you have never met whatever you like and even state or imply that you want to hit them and you never have to do anything about any of it. Don’t hold back!!

Example: ‘he’s a twat and I know where he lives’

2) Keep with the trend. It is really simple, do not have an opinion, wait to find what other people think and then join in. Ideally, go far beyond what has been previously written, agree with the opinion but go more extreme.

Example: ‘I agree, Jonjo is overrated, he makes Mark Gower look like Xavi!!’

3) Nobody knows your age. This is a great one as people on there have this natural idea that everyone are adults or are at least teenagers; many aren’t! If you happen to be eleven years of age, quickly research Lee Trundle and get on there; remember points one and two and you will be both feared and loved in no time!

Example: ‘Jonjos goal against Villa was up there with Trunds V Yeovil’

4) Know your place and work out who you need to suck up to to rise in the pecking order! Just sit and watch for a while, look at who talks a lot, who are the top dogs and get in with them. Gen-erally this would be by agreeing strongly with one and naming them in a post, if you are feeling brave then do the exact opposite and totally disagree with a bit of at-titude; it may back fire but it could get you noticed! And remember rules one, two and three!!

Example: ‘DoublehardJack couldn’t be any more right, he’s brilliant!! I love him!!’

5) Leaving your house is for losers!! If you have carefully taken on board these previous points then you will now be ‘in the clang’. You now need to realise that this is life, this is everything and all that is impor-tant! You can easily miss out on an important post if you happened to have a job or were still in school (don’t worry nobody knows) and so you need to fully commit to what is really important; your forum of choice!

Tip: Plan ahead, ready meals and crisps are a good source of food. Have a bottle at hand to save the need to leave our computer when nature calls!!

6) You should now be able to hold down at least two characters. Phone, tablet and laptop should be able to give you three pretty easily or two regular ones with numerous ‘casuals’, where you log in and out throughout the day. Start banter between yourself, have flaming arguments and reiterate how hard each one of you are. Keep bumping up your opinions to the top of posts, you are now entering hero status.

Example: ‘I know where you live Spartacus1, I’ve seen you running past my house while you were training for Mr Universe’

7) Now you have imaginary friends to back you up, you are now able to start other conversations about other issues, anything really. If you are bored then start a conversation about the state of the country, food in a pub, a hobby that you have tried, this may be a football forum but you can start a conversation about anything you like now.

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8) Now you are a hero you will need to deal with people in the same way that poor DoubleHardJack had to deal with you in point 4. Whatever you do follow the swans rule; DONOTGOGENTLE!! You have worked hard to get into this position, do not give it up, do not give a leg up, do everything you can possibly do to ensure that anyone who is posting for the first time feels as unwelcoming as possible! Attack, attack, attack and remember that they are new; they don’t know all of these points; scare them and belittle them, they are probably only 10 years old and you are a year older than them in school!!

Example: ‘Who the feck is this kid? He knows less than Jack flipping Swan!!’

9) As a hero, you are slowly learning the bully tactic. The more you bully the more important you get, now remember that you need to hate everything! By now, this probably comes natural. I imagine that you wouldn’t have left the house in months by now, showering, teeth cleaning would have become an annual occurrence. Nobody has heard your voice in weeks and the world has become a lonely and depressing place; all music is awful, everybody is annoying, food tastes

horrendous; you have no happiness from life whatsoever, you live solely to attack the next persons post on the fo-rum. At this point you have become a legend! Well done.

Tip: Get one of your characters to wish another one of your characters happy birthday when your day comes; people may join in and you will be super popular!!

10) You have gone from being a total loser in society to now finally finding your place at the top of an internet forum! You are widely respected by hundreds of imaginary people who all worship you and fear you in the same way that you fear them. This has been a hard task but you have done it well and you deserve everything that you now have. Others chose to have careers, wife’s, kids but they are all hassle, you have mastered life, you have mastered what really matters. You can simply turn your life on and off by the click of a switch; not that you ever would! It is true that power cuts are scary but they are short lived, internet con-nection is another issue but generally life is absolutely perfect. Enjoy it, use your power wisely and put as many people down as possible and remember; YOU ARE HARD!!!!

Tip: You have achieved far more than me, I can’t teach you anything now!!

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We have become Premier League football fans now, it has taken us a few years but we are now there! We are now demanding that our chairman goes off and spends some money; loads of money ideally!! Splash the cash Mr. Jenkins. Principles? Who needs them? We need a striker! It is hard not to join in with the cries right now but let’s not forget how we have got where we are and the way that we have got there! This is Huw Jenkins eleven, the signings which have been our most fruitful and have led us to success.

VormBought for £1,500,000Sold for £3,500,000He was the best keeper in the Premier League for half a season and that was long enough to ensure our survival that term. A real find for just £1.5 million, he seemed to deteriorate somewhat and wasn’t coming up with those magic saves which he once was and we managed to offload him for a good profit. Had the best three seasons of his career and then sold him on; great business.

Replaced with Lucas Fabianski (Free)

Ben DaviesBought for; 0Sold for £8,000,000He came (but was here all a long) and then he left. From the boards point of view, this man must be sent from heaven (schooled in Seven Sisters don’t forget!!). Neil Taylor had a big injury and so this man was thrown in the deep end and did really well, when Neil Taylor was back to full fitness we swapped Ben Davies for Siggy. Perfect!

Replaced with Neil Taylor (already there!)

Sam RickettsBought for 0Sold for £300,000A great bit of business at the time where Kenny Jacket picked up this full back on a free transfer after Telford got into financial trouble. He gave us two quality seasons and made team of the year in our promotion from league two before being moved on to Hull for what was then a load of money!!

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Replaced with Angel Rangel (following season £70,000)

Jazz RichardsBought for 0Sold for £425,000The forgotten man. Jazz became a good squad player in the Premier League, was called upon on a number of times and would always give it all. Another one from our youth set up which is starting to look half decent and another one sold on for a profit. He had a couple of loan spells and then settled in Fulham. Replaced with a youngster we haven’t yet seen!

Owain Tudor jones: Bought for £5,000 Sold for £263,000Tudor really divided opinion. At times he was outstanding but then had moments where he was borderline awful. Injury plagued at times, we were probably quite grateful to get a quarter of a million pound for the player when he set off to Norwich. Career hasn’t really taken off since and is currently playing his trade in Scotland. Good signing, good sale!

Replaced with Jordi Lopez (remember him?)

Joe AllenBought for 0Sold for £15,000,000I still miss this guy terribly. We want him with us on this relegation scrap don’t we, heart on sleeve!! Love the man but fifteen million quid?? Hahaha. Huw laughed all the way to the bank that day and it dried up the tears from all Swans fans too. Great player, greatest product from this area for thirty years but a

fantastic sale!Replaced with KI for £5,500,000

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Emyr HughesBought for 0Sold for £400,000 PLUSI must confess that I have never seen this guy play but in fairness neither have many people but we keep getting money because of him. A youth player poached by Man City when still in school, the club received £150,000 when he made his first team debut and a further £250,000 when Citeh sold him into Wigan for £2,500,000. Not bad for a guy who has never kicked a ball for the Swans.Replaced with some other kid

SinclairBought for £1,000,000Sold for £8,000,000Now you are talking!! Probably the very best bit of business that we have seen at this club. Signed for half a million plus performance bonuses, his goals were the main factor in our promotion to the promised land. The half a million investment may have doubled but he had brought us the never ending riches of the Premier League and THEN we managed to cash in on him a year later and get moneybags FC to pay totally over the odds for a player who looked slightly out of his depth. Playing the market at its absolute finest!!Replaced with: Pablo Hernandez for 5,250,000

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30Jason ScotlandSigned for £25,000Sold for £2,000,000Another bit of beautiful business saw us sign a player for £25,000 who managed to net 45 goals in 90 games for us helping us get to and cement ourselves in the Championship. The beauty of a good transfer is knowing the right time to sell and although we may not have had much of a s ay in the matter; it turned out to be perfect. He couldn’t cut it at a higher level and his career has stalled ever since; the two million quid looks a great sale now!!

Replaced with Craig Besattie (a blemish!!)

BonySigned for £12,000,000Sold for £28,000,000The exact same principle but with ridiculously big numbers! The transfer fee even scared some of us fans. What was Huw thinking? He is one of the best players to ever wear the shirt and could go on to prove himself as one of the best strikers in Europe. Having said that, £28,000,000? It is a no brainers isn’t it. Sign a player, get a brilliant season and a half out of him, single handily keeping us up in that time and then move him on for more than twice what you plaid; brilliant

Replaced with; you tell me!! Eder??? Hopefully there will be a different answer very soon!!

TrundleSigned for 0sold for £1,000,000Like everybody, I loved Lee Trundle. In fact, ‘I love Lee Trundle!’ I still do. But one million quid? I’d have carried him to Bristol myself, even when he was carrying a bit of extra weight!! This is one of the best transfers that the club has ever done. A fantastic signing, there is no secret

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that Flynn was almost single handily behind it but you would do well to find a better transfer in our history. He brought style and skill to the side and shedful of goals, he added to the attendances and brought a new follow-ing of young fans and then we sold him for over twice what he was worth! Perfect transfer!Replaced with Jason Scotland

We can’t really argue with our chairman’s record and we can’t stray from this ethos of buying the right players at the right time. It is easy to make an impulse and rash buy, in this situation then it may be worth spending slightly over the odds for a player who will ensure our survival but we are in good hands, this track record speaks for itself and it is the reason why we are in the Premier league in the first place;

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Aled Jones: £23.9 Million

K - Fabianski - Swansea - £4.7 Million

Thinking with my heart this month for GK. The next 3 games are so important for the Swans, and he showed his true class in December with 3 clean sheets in 5, only conceding to Leicester & Man City. Sunderland and Watford at home before Everton away. C’mon Fabi!!!

DEF - Alderweireld - Tottenham Hotspur - £6.1 Million

Funny surname but great player. Spurs are having a great season so far and this guy has been one of the reasons why. He has scored twice, provided 3 assists and picked up loads of bonus points. Leicester and Sunderland at home before Palace away.

MID - Shaqiri - Stoke - £6.7 Million

The Swiss midget has finally come good in the Premier League after a slow start. 28 points picked up in Decem-ber even though he missed a game. Norwich (H) Arse-nal (H) & Leicester (A) - not the easiest run of games, but I’m sure he’ll do well.

FWD - Ighalo - Watford - £6.4 Million

I know - I’ve picked Fabianski in goal this month and I’m sticking Ighalo up top. But this guy just keeps scoring and scoring (14 goals & 5 assists). So how about this - Ighalo scores 5 against Southampton, is rested against Swansea, and scores 5 against

Aled battered me last issue to level the scores up at two all. Hoping for a bit more luck here.

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A risk I know but I like a gamble. United have been awful of late and have offered incredibly little going forward; why have I picked him again? Oh yeah, for that very reason; it can’t last..... Can it?

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Tom Crawford Depends which Jonjo Shelvey turns up. He's the sort of player who can play the hero and the villain in the same game. Very tempera-mental and immature, but when he's in the mood he is a top player!

Gerald Roger Jenkins A sulky wasted talent. Good enough to build a team around if he had the heart and head for it...

Ian Wishart Without at the moment. He seems to be sulking and not interested at the moment. When he was sharp and playing well I would say maybe.

Chris Clement Doesn't want to play here. No coincidence he f*cks o� at the end of each season. He'd swap clubs in a heartbeat. No heart. He's any England player �s, he should be the star every game. Rubbish. Get rid.

Mike Harry Better without.

Martin Davies hard question that one - could be a match winner or lose us the match if he wants to go let him get some one who will want to play

Darren Rees No wonder liverpool got rid of him. great talent when he wants to play.but he dont want to perform every week

Gerald Roger Jenkins The way he came on for Leon to have his ovation and then the way he scuttled o� down the tunnel at the �nal whistle would not have me expecting his name anywhere near the next team sheet tbh.

Martin Davies to be fair alan curtis has it spot on put leon and rangel on, both are great club men jonjo can learn from them, too many in team who only cares about a fat wage , more e�ort from the real swans players

Tim Rendell The ignorance of these commenting jokers that clearly know precious little of the game, don't half make me laugh aye !! He chose to leave Liverpool because he wanted to "play" football, if all he cared about was the "fat wage" he'd have stayed and would now be wearing the shirt vacated by Gerrard �s !! You're a �ckle lot and like I said earlier I hope he F##ks you o� and joins a team that will always have a future in the premiership �

Gerald Roger Jenkins He was brought into Liverpool to be groomed as Gerrard's successor by all accounts. So how the f%ck did we end up with him?

Mike Dauria There's no doubt shelvey could be a hero as he's got di�erent things in his locker but in his locker is the chip for his shoulder which he's obviously wearing at the moment

Rhiannon Lewis I enjoy when he plays always brings some sort of excitement whether it's breaking o� through the middle or scoring a crazy screamer, I've enjoyed his time at the swans and no player is perfect and parts of this season he's been fantastic hence is call up to England side where he's also done well. Whatever happens I've enjoyed him being part of the side. Entertainment value he's great sometimes not always for the best reasons but and as I said before no player is perfect but still did better than expected and enjoyed having him as part of our team.

Craig Jones With, he's a quality player who has been doing well this year up until getting his head turned on England duty. But if he wants out get rid as we need players who are 100% behind team and club.

Ian Harding Yes. Simple answer. Creativity is lacking somewhat when he isnt in the side imo

Gerald Roger Jenkins We should be building our team around our No.10... Siggy is our creativity problem.

Simon Daniels No. His temperament and attitude are wrong. As mentioned above, it all depends which JonJo turns up. Too inconsistent and his stroppiness is starting to really p$ss me o�. There was no need for "that" attitude when he came on for Leon. Fed up about hearing of his obvious talent and that he's only young. He needs to be profes-sional above all else, or those skills and talents are useless. What's the point of having a player who only occasionally puts on a performance on the pitch and is allegedly disruptive in training?

Robert Wayne Cook Question for mag, Gomis wants to leave the club, who doesn't want to chip in a couple of quid for his taxi ? Also we could make a couple of quid for the January window selling his house always o�side lazy bastard avenue !

Question for the mag:Are Swansea a better team with or without Jonjo?

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As Laudrup took over, the managers seat at the Swans was a prime spot! It was a place where a young manager could go and make a name for themselves in a club which was run incredibly well off the field and were becoming a brand on the pitch.

We were everyone’s second team, a breath of fresh air. The expectation was that our Dane would move onto a ‘top job’ in the same way that his prede-cessor did and we would then recruit the next prodigy. But it has all gone a bit Pete Tong.

Within Swansea, we all gen-erally accept that we had to dismiss Laudrup when we did. His time was up, there was an apparent split in the camp and it was sadly the only real op-tion. Although we know that, it looked harsh from the outside after he brought us our first major trophy less than twelve months earlier.

We then appoint Monk, a club legend. He steadies the ship after the departure of the Laud, gives us our 3-0 win over them up the road and then brings us our best ever Premier League finish in his first full season at the club. He gets plaudits from all over and is eyed up as a potential future England manager, considered one of the best young managers in Europe. He has a bad couple of months and is sacked.

Once again, from within Swansea, it was possibly the right decision but from outside of it? Is that seat now a prime seat? I don’t think that it is, our recent financial figures make bizarre and disappointing reading and Curtis is now our seventh manager in nine years.The search for number eight is still on but I can’t help but feel that the job isn’t the allure that it once was. It is really vital that we make the right call and while I admire the board in a way for taking their time and waiting until the Summer to get it right, it is has all been a bit messy and I can’t work out why they have given Curtis the job.

Everyone loves Super Alan Curtis and I’m no different. We can name the stadium after him, recall the club Alan Curtis FC, I’m perfectly happy. He has also done a fine job in his five matches so far but it all seems a little strange. The board clearly don’t want him and he clearly doesn’t want the job so unless the board felt that he was in some way being undermined by not being labelled the ‘manager’ then I don’t get why we have said that he will be manager until the rest of the season because let’s face it; he might not!

If we lose at home to Sunderland and then again to Watford then Gus Poyet will be manager the week after and so we are then putting ourselves in a position where we will need to sack him or at least make him look a total twat.

I totally get that we are going to appoint a better calibre of manager in the Summer and he may already be lined up but just keep quiet, say nothing, don’t put a timescale on it and leave yourself in a position where you can make a change at any point without hurting Curtis and his role at the club.

Hopefully, we win our next few games, Curt keeps us up with ease and we appoint a manager in the Summer and super Alan Curtis stays on as an assistant and all is wonderful. But that could have happened anyway, this way, we really risk the chance of losing our second club legend in a matter of months; strange move for me.

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“Great effort from the lads today.” Every matchday evening, Twitter will be awash with similar sentiments expressed by heroes, villains and bystanders from that day’s football. But what does it mean? Of course it was a great effort, the sacrifices and physical exertions of running ten kilometres as a professional athlete can’t be considered anything other than a great effort.

It will be followed, usually, by “We go again!” In victory, this is designed to express the desire to maintain win-ning momentum, in defeat, the need to regather and reverse that momentum.

Yet, that is not what those words mean. The reason is one of the mainstays of philosophical methodology (how it’s done, in simpler terms), metaphysics. From Plato, 2400 years ago, to big names like Leibniz, Kant and Hei-degger, metaphysics has been the preferred method of explanation and exploration for Rationalist Continental philosophers in everything from Theology and Ethics, to Political and Linguistic theory.

The metaphysics in “Great effort from the lads today.” are congratulatory, and talking up teamwork. It may seem like a figure of speech, but the difference is the weight certain phrases acquire in football, generally once they achieve the status of cliché. At this point, they are no longer just sentiments, but a form of shorthand, with a life and meaning of their own.

In the 20th Century, however, metaphysics came under attack from a group of opponents with a background in the Sciences. Rudolf Carnap, AJ Ayer and Karl Popper all attacked the idea that a metaphysical statement could actually be capable of meaning anything, let alone be a legitimate form of enquiry. Certainly, “We go again!” when expressed by a well-paid professional sportsman under contract does not mean what the words express. Of course they’ll go again. They’ve got Spurs in the League Cup on Tuesday.

Some examples of metaphysics in football escape this simple form of Linguistic metaphysics (the French post-modernist Jacques Derrida felt that even the act of writing was a metaphysical art) and take on not only a life of their own, but a genuine physical meaning. “A good time to play United” is one example, where the mere act of saying or believing it can have a material benefit for a side’s chances. It is ironic that, for such an obviously physical endeavour, the immaterial effects of “the top two inches” can be so profound.

Following on from that example, here’s a list of the Top Ten Metaphysical Statements in Football. Feel free to turn it in to a bingo card for a Saturday in the pub.

1. “He’s hit that too well. (If anything, Jon)” – Andy Townsend’s go to line for a well struck miss. What

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2. “A good time to score.” – As opposed to all those terrible times to score. See the section of the Laws on “Winning Team” for an explanation of why this makes no sense.

3. “Caught in two minds.” – We’ve all experi-enced it, lay it off or hit it, and end up slicing it towards the corner flag. But even informally, we got caught in no mind. What being caught in two means, even meta-physically, is anyone’s guess.

4. “Home advantage.” – Another one repeated so often it now has a real effect. Yes, the ref can be subconsciously influenced by a large partisan crowd, and yes, that crowd will demand entertainment. But see Palace’s recent record for evidence of just how meaning-less it is, if you’re prepared to set up to exploit the lack of meaning in those words.

5. “Dictating the rhythm.” – True, the best midfielders get the ball moving at a pace to suit their side’s tactics, and strengths. But they only get away with it because the opposition keep making the same errors when pressing; it’s not dictated, it’s accepted.

6. “A valuable point.” – Ever left a ground with a firm wish to give back an utterly unnecessary point?

7. “The ref was biased.” – All humans are. He was biased when he gave you a ropey corner, he was biased when he missed the handball for their goal.

8. “A bad run (they’re/we’re on a…)” – It’s a 38 game season, and a sport. Fitness and form will come and go. At the end of the season, you might have lost 10 and drawn 10. Sometimes, they might all come at once, but the end result is the same.

9. “There’s no intent there.” - If only some ex-pros would write a book explaining this concept of human action without intention. Nearly three millennia of thought have gone into it without success...

10. “The spirit in the dressing room...” - What? Do you leave offerings for it? Get an exorcist when it turns nasty? Are poltergeists just what you get when VJ, Fash, Wisey and Sanchez are in the same place?

Decent result, that. We go again next month.

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Our next chapter in our talk with Swans legend Mel Nurse about football in his day.

How good was the 1958 Wales team?

Jack Helsey in goal, Stuart Williams right back, Graham Williams left back, who was centre half at the time? I was centre half but I didn’t go, Colin was there, there were a lot of players there Cliffy Jones, Roy Vernon? Ken Leek? It was a good team, we got to the quarter finals didn’t we, I know that there were some complications with Israel I think or whatever but we got there!

I didn’t go on that trip! Do you know why? Because in Swansea, smallpox broke out. Honest, an outcry, people were dying. The prune as I was, I used to play miniature golf down Ashleigh road with my girlfriend, she’s my wife now, for the last 56 years but she was my girlfriend at the time, I’d just got out of the army and we were courting. I’ve gone down there and we have met another couple there, we got talking and that was that, the next thing we know he is in hospital.

They were terry and Barbara and Barbara phoned us up and said that terry was in hospital ‘what is wrong with him?’ I can’t remember what it was, it wasn’t smallpox but we went to visit him in the hospital, Bridgend hospital and then a

couple of days later a notice comes out ‘smallpox breaks out in hospital in Bridgend’. Panic station! I told every-one that I was up there last week, I should have kept my trap shut shouldn’t I, headlines in the paper in the evening post ‘Mel Nurse visits hospital with smallpox’ I felt like I couldn’t go outside the door. I couldn’t go anywhere.

I remember that everyone was panicking to get vacci-nated and everything else and I joined a queue in the Kingsway towards the police station and I stood in the queue and they all turned around and went ‘hello Mel’ and then realised what they had seen in the paper the

night before and so they dis-appeared. That’s the quickest I have ever seen a queue go down!! I just walked straight in. I was confined to the house for two months. I couldn’t go anyway.

So that cost you a world cup?Well I am saying it did but I’m not sure because I had just been picked for the Welsh team. My first game was against England at ninium park. We drew one each, Brian Cloughs one and only game. He played twice for England but one was a friendly and the second one was that one against Wales at ninium park. I remember because I had nightmares about it, I was playing against England, my first interna-

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Game kicks off anyway, he’s centre forward and I’m centre half and he gets the ball and pushes it backwards to someone and they send it out wide, Cloughie pushes into me to break off to create space in front but he wasn’t leaving me! I run with him and the ball goes on his chest and woosh I put six studs down his back!! I’d get a life sentence for it now!!

He went flying through the air. The referee had just kicked off hadn’t he,

it was so early in the game that he didn’t know what to do and so I got away with it. He never scored a goal and he never played another game.

I had his son stay here years later when he was manager of Nottingham Forest sitting on that chair by there and

he had a big range rover, his old man was Brian Clough, he had to have one!! So he is sitting there and my daughter is serving and she said to him ‘my father used to play and he played against your father’. ‘who is your father?’ he asked, the next thing and he’s on his mobile phone, I’m going back nearly forty years ago and he had a phone then, that’s how well off he was but he picks up the phone and he’s going ‘Dad, I’m in Swansea, I’m in this guesthouse and there is a young girl here who says that you played against her father; Mel Nurse’. ‘He’s a dirty bastard’ Brian Clough said.

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A random football fact, #2: (9/2/13)The highest amount of goals scored by half time occurred in 1954, when Motherwell and Dumbarton played out a huge 6-6 draw; Motherwell were 6-4 up at the end of the first half - a huge 10 first half goals.

A random football fact, #3: (11/2/13)Quite fittingly, Pelé is the youngest ever World Cup winner, picking up the gold in 1958 at just 17 years and 249 days.Way up the other end of the scale is former Italian goal-keeper Dino Zoff, who in 1982 became the oldest player to lift the trophy at 40 years and 133 days.

A random football fact, #4: (updated 02/03/14)Andy Selva hold the distinction of being the only man to ever score a winning goal for San Marino, having scored in their 1-0 victory against Liechtenstein in 2004 (in 121 games, San Marino’s record is 1 win, 3 draws and 117 losses).Selva is also the nation’s all time top goalscorer, with 8 goals (in 64 appearances). Manuel Marani is the only other man to score on more than one occasion for San Marino, with 2 goals (34 appearances).

A random football fact, #5:Forget about Messi; if you want to find a goalscorer, look no further than Fernando Peyroteo.The Portuguese boasts the world’s greatest goals to game ratio of 1.77, having found the net an incredible 331 times in just 187 games for Sporting Lisbon between 1937 and 1949 (compared to Messi’s 0.82 for Barcelona).Adding to that, he reportedly scored 4 or more goals in a game on more than 30 occasions, including a phenomenal nine in one game. Deadly.

A random football fact, #6: (14/3/13)No country has ever won the World Cup during the papacy (term) of a Pope from the same country.Not that it should worry Argentina; Messi’s bro-ken enough records already, so what’s one more?

A random football fact, #7: (18/3/13)Former Manchester United defender Nemanja Vidic is the only Premier League player whose last name is completely made up of roman numerals: V (5), I (1), D (500), I (1), C (100).A gladiatorial name that perfectly suits his play?

A random football fact, #8: (updated 02/03/14)The power house nations of Algeria, Ghana, South Korea and Saudi Arabia are part of an elite group; being the only countries in the world to boast an undefeated record against England.

A random football fact, #9: (updated 04/07/14)The heaviest recorded footballer in the football league is Adebayo Akinfenwa who weighed in at 21 stone and 7 lbs while playing for AFC Wimbledon against former club Northampton. He has since shed a few stone but is still regularly the heaviest player in the football league.

A random football fact, #10: (29/3/13)Arsenal are the only team to have received a gold version of the Premier League trophy, when it was specially made to commemorate their 2004 ‘Invincibles’ season, instead of the silver trophy that every other title winning team have lifted.

A random football fact, #11: (updated 02/03/14)In the 2009-10 season, Barcelona’s Pedro became the first man to score in 6 different, official club competi-tions in one season, scoring in La Liga, the Supercopa de España, the Copa del Rey, the Champions League, the UEFA Super Cup and the FIFA Club World Cup.However, this has since been trumped by Spanish striker Fernando Torres, who scored in 7 official club competitions during the 2012-13 season. The Chelsea striker netted in the Premier League, Champions League, Europa League, FIFA Club World Cup, FA Community Shield, FA Cup and League Cup.

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Neil Pritchard who would you boo ? shelvey was injured but someone was told by a friend of a friend whos dog told him he was �ghting ? its time to stop bitching and get behind the whole team we are in this together like it or not !

Jamie Thomas So many rumours, it doesn't matter now. What matters is we are in the relegation zone.

Tony Davies Wouldn't do any good Ash has said it was a load of rubbish and that's good for me, most important thing is to crank up the volume this afternoon a la Northbank and act as the 12th man

Craig Wiggins I know exactly what happened...Monk got called into the boardroom roughly 5 weeks ago because players had complained about training a few weeks before saying it was just like having a kick around and they weren't �t... Board o�ered him to change coaching sta� and he said no, they said if there wasn't an improvement you know the consequences and know he's gone... The end!!!

Steven Edwards The coaching sta� were forced out by results and fans

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With the weather being as it has been, instead of going out and getting wet, I caught up with Wannabe Pro, had a pint and looked to find out what makes a good golf course and to get his nominations for Jack Swan golf course of the year.

What makes a good golf course?Tough question. Course management is the main thing, having different holes mixed in together so you haven’t got three or four par fours in a row. Have par 3s, 4s and 5s mixed in and so you have something to keep your attention so that you are not bored for the round.

Want water on a course?Yes. Love water, it really messes up my game but it’s a challenge, I wouldn’t say that the more the better, you can have too much but I’d say 5 to 6 holes is about right. I have played on some courses where it is as much as twelve or thirteen and that is too much and gets boring. A couple of holes in a row, break from it, throw another one in and then maybe a finishing hole with the prospect of a splash is about right.

And sand? I’m a big fan of bunkers, I hate being in them but you don’t need 200 in the course, it is all about placement. Again, you don’t need seven around a green but you need a couple of strategic ones. The fairways are the same; you want strategic ones too. If it is a par five for example, you want one which is about 100 yards short of the green, mid-fairway. Just so that it affects the people who are thinking about laying up. It can’t be as simple then as hit a driver, hit a 5 wood and hit a wedge, you have to think that a 5 wood might get you into that

bunker and so you need to play it short with a five iron and hit the green with an eight iron or something. It just keeps it interesting.

And do you like big greens or tight greens?Size doesn’t really matter.You sure?In this instance no haha. It is more a case of what the greens do. If they are small and flat or big and flat then it makes no odds to me, they can be any size as long as there are tiers and you have to read the put.

Can you think of a hole around this way that has that tier?One of the most difficult greens is the third hole in Pon-tardawe, it is only a short hole, 330 yards, par four uphill but the amount of times that I have been in or around the green in two and taken a seven or something. It is a real challenging green, go long and you are chipping onto the green as it runs away from you but it is a really tough green there. One of the best for an admissible course would be the second at Earlswood, which has a very big step on it and for a cheap course which anyone can play, that is a very good example of a challenging green but again, it is fair because it is a decent size.

While we are talking about Earlswood, what do you make of (I think it is the 14th) which goes across the valley, a holes like that good, ones where you need to be able to carry a certain distance?The fourteenth at Earlswood is great. I really like that hole. If it a still day then it is not much of a challenge if you can hit a club 160 yards then your fine, you can probably hit a seven or a six iron across but if the wind

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is directly into you and you don’t quite catch your driver. I hit the ball left to right and so there are many times where I have lost my ball with that tea shot, it’s an inter-esting hole for being such a short one and yeah, I love holes where you need to be able to hit a ball a certain distance over an obstacle.

And on that course, there is a great example of my next question, what do you make of the massive fair-way which takes up about six holes on the front nine? Is that right? Do you like the free-for-all fairways?The third, the forth, the fifth, sixth and the ninth comes into it too. Personally I would like to see it segmented a little bit, they were looking to plant some trees there to separate them a bit but they do probably need to do a bit of work there to break it up a bit.

The flip side of that is at Morriston where you have the second hole with tall trees to your left separating you from the hole coming the other way and they are two totally different holes because of those trees. Is that what you prefer?Those holes are fantastic and I think that the second was my favourite hole on the course and it would be a totally different hole if it wasn’t for those trees and it would take something away from the course and so yeah I think it is important to have these trees and obstacles between each hole and I suppose I would like to see Earlwood go down that way. Not the 60 foot high conifers but just something to break it up a bit and to have something to aim for because teeing off there you can just aim for the middle of the huge fairway and go off and find your ball but it would be good if you thought that you have to keep to the right of these trees or whatever, gives more to the golf course.

Right, onto the important stuff. I want to get five courses off you which are to be put to the public to vote for Jack Swan Golf Course of the YearPontardawe would be one. I never get bored of playing it, it grabs my attention every time. They are contin-

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uing to do work to the course as well, it continues to improve, the weather recently has been atrocious but it is holding up. It has a good balance of holes, water, sand, everything which we have just spoken about.

I liked Morriston, I will put that in there. The layout was good, It wasn’t perfect, but it was good. The front nine is outstanding, the back nine got a little bit boring and as though they tried to squeeze a couple of holes in there but there are some interesting ones there too. The long par three downhill springs to mind. The first hole is inviting, it wasn’t a difficult course but wasn’t easy and the greens were really good. I had a nice vibe from it.

Neath has to go in there too. I haven’t played that since the summer but it is a really good course when the weather allows you to enjoy it. It is one of those courses where you can go on a roll with four or five good holes in a row but you can also do the opposite. I think we have that pencilled in to be our next one to review in here and I look forward to that.

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I will put Earlswood in there as it is such a good course for being admissible. I think it was about twelve pound last time I was there and you always have to play well to get a score there; it isn’t easy. For the longer hitter then it is an easier course as you can take it apart but that is the course I started playing on and it has a place in my heart.

And finally I would have to go for Langland Bay, that is a very, very well kept course and pretty difficult. When the wind is up then it has some teeth, some real teeth and the greens are small and there are a lot of movement in them and fantastic views and scenery and so yeah that would be it!

There you have our 5 nominations for course of the year:Pontardawe Golf CourseMorriston Golf CourseNeath Golf CourseEarlswoodLangland Bay

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I’m not great with cars. If they start and get me where I want then I am perfectly happy, on this occasion, it didn’t. I was heading to Southamp-ton and my battery light comes on about half way up, knowing very little I thought its best to ignore that and so I did! It was raining (obvious-ly) and after half an hour or so the windscreen wipers stopped, lights went out and I had to quickly find the next place to stop where I called out the AA.

There in no time (fair play) and the guy looks and says ‘your alternator has gone’. I’d heard of one before, sounded expensive but he simply hit it with a hammer and it started working again; easy!! I could do that!! He said that it should get us to Southampton and it did although the light was back on by then.

For those of you as mechanically stupid as me, the alternator is what recharges the battery and so when the light is on, my cars battery is draining; I needed a new one. Problem is that I’m in Southampton, they have a different economy in the South of England to the rest of us. Fixing this is going to cost more than my car is worth; I need to get it home!

The weather forecast for the following day is actually dry! Unbelievable but true. Realistically, once my car is started, what do I need my electrics for? Now for legal reasons, this never happened as it may be breaking a law or two! I repeat, I’m making all of this up!! Honestly!! The morning was beautiful in Southampton as pre-

dicted. Glorious sunshine. My car was left in the pub a quarter of a mile from the hotel and so my first job is to walk to that and to prey that the first part of this journey happens and it does; the car starts!!

I currently have electrics but the battery light is on and I am fully aware that they will go at some point. My next issue is my misted window, I manage to clear it as well as I can by hand both inside and out! I turn out of pub, onto a roundabout and the sun shines fiercely, I hadn’t seen that for months and it blinds the hell out of me; I can barely see but manage to get on route; indicating as little as possible and using no other electric.

The weather is perfect, I’m heading away from the sun. I use a little bit of electric to open the passenger window so that the windscreen can clear. So far so good, I get about twenty miles shy of Newbury and we get a big beep; there goes all electric. We are now game on!!I’m ok I keep telling myself, adrenalin is ruining, it is

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76quite exciting, a story to put right here! I keep to one lane whenever possible as I cannot indicate, I try to keep a greater distance than usual from both the car in front and the car behind fully aware that I have no break lights. The plan is going reasonably well although I see an issue occurring; do I have enough diesel to get home?Am I allowed to put diesel in a car with its ignition on? As I won’t be able to start this car once I stop. Just under a quarter of a tank at Swindon; that is a close call. Get as far as possible is my thinking and I carry on. Boredom is now my main issue, I’m the only one in the car and no radio, nothing. I have taken to singing songs out loud for my own entertainment. I’m now hogging the middle lane and singing Oasis to myself but in general all is good!

Wales beautiful Wales! The weather was like the Carib-bean in Southampton, it was dry at Bristol, was dry on the bridge but at some point between the Welsh side of the bridge and the tolls; it starts raining. I take the opportunity to wipe the windscreen while stopped at the tolls and go through.

Magor services in one mile. To stop or not to stop? I have no windscreen wipers and it is raining, not excessively but I have blobs on my windscreen which I cannot get rid of. How bad will it get? When will I next have a chance to stop? If I stop now will I be able to get off again? Is the weather going to get worse? Can I drive through it?

I go for it. It doesn’t improve that quickly, weather stays bad through Newport although it is surprising how well you can see through rain on the windscreen. Wipers are slightly overrated in fact. This was alright, perfectly fine. I get through the rain and things are looking good. Diesel is now on the red but it looks all doable.

The rain stays away until I get to Neath where the rain comes from the ground. This was worse, visibility is poor for all but I manage to get the car to my trusted garage. I keep the car running while waiting to speak to the mechanic and it actually runs out of diesel while I wait. I manage to get hold of an alternator in Pic-Up

Spares for less than £50 including VAT and lee fits it in Goulds for about the same price.

But for legal reasons, remember that none of this actually happened!!! Left: an alternator, if you were wondering

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Football fans love developing young talent. We love seeing a player come through the ranks: we get attached to them and we naturally get drawn to these players more than those who we purchase, especially when they are ‘local boys’.

But can it be a curse? Can it leave you with headaches?

Arsenal and Arsene Wenger are renowned for favouring youngsters, developing young talent and giving them the chance on the big stage, nurturing them and sticking with them. I must admit that I have admiration for him and them for this but it is blatantly obvious that it has seriously held them back over recent years.

Can you be both nurturing and cut throat? Can you support young players while also putting your best eleven out there because managers cannot a�ord to look at next season or the season after, they need results now.

Man City have opened their multi-million pound youth training academy which looks incredible, Chelsea have ploughed millions into their youngsters but neither side have a home grown player in their side (Joe Hart was bought before you start!).

Tom Carroll looks an outstanding talent, he does look a future England international and he’s doing a great job here. But I’m glad he’s only on loan though! That might sound a really stupid thing to say for a player who must already be worth £8

million in today’s money but it should be easy to leave him out as we won’t see the fruits of any real labour we put into him. There shouldn’t be any real pressure to develop him, we play him if he is good enough and that is it!

But then there is Jonjo. A player who can realistically be the �rst name in an England side in a few years time, a player who has incredible talent but is not yet the �nished article. Should he currently be in our �rst eleven?

I like the boy. I think he has tremendous talent but I am really happy to see him out of our starting eleven at present. It is easy to forget that Jonjo wont even be 23 until the end of February. It is always strange when a

player ‘fails’ at a big club as a youngster as they seem to stay young for ages, believe it or not: Tom Cleverly is only 16.

He isn’t consistent, we all know that. To keep using the phrase, he is a rough diamond. He does show moments of genius and then moments far less so and this is ideal for a club who are struggling. If he can score a screamer to win three points in a relegation scrap on a Tuesday night but then gift a goal away to Chelsea then that’s great but we are better than that.

In years gone by you would just play him. If the talent is there then play him and let him develop as it will always be worth it in the long run

but that isn’t the football of today. Today it is all about today! Worry about tomorrow when tomorrow comes! And in my opinion Jonjo isn’t in my �rst team plans - today.

A big part of this isn’t just that we have better central mid�elders. We have good options going forward. Montero looks ridiculously dangerous, Siggy is outstanding, Bony is (and I genuinely mean this word) World class and Dyer/Routledge/Barrow are all very capable on their days. So what we need is for them to have the ball, we need a mid�eld which is controlling, a mid�eld who can win the ball back and give it to our danger men and that is what Leon and Ki can o�er.

This is short sighted but I do feel far less inclined to ‘nurture’ talent than I have previously. We don’t really need money and players aren’t loyal in anyway and so I don’t see the point in playing him in order to smooth the diamond. I think that those days have possibly gone in terms of the Premier league. Each game is too

important for that and at this moment in time, he isn’t in our �rst eleven in my opinion.

It is sad in a lot of ways that football has come to this but that is where we are. It may simply be that the British footballing world has become more professional and that this will bring the very best out of young players. It may well force players like Jonjo to be even better but you can also see why the English FA are concerned about players lacking minutes. But I couldn’t care less about the FA and I doubt the Swans do either.

If I could get Jonjo to sign a ten year contract and he had no possible way of leaving it then I’d play him now but there is no loyalty in football and so in many ways it is the footballers that are brining it on themselves. Why should a club invest time and playing minutes into a player who will jump at the �rst chance they get?

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Football fans love developing young talent. We love seeing a player come through the ranks: we get attached to them and we naturally get drawn to these players more than those who we purchase, especially when they are ‘local boys’.

But can it be a curse? Can it leave you with headaches?

Arsenal and Arsene Wenger are renowned for favouring youngsters, developing young talent and giving them the chance on the big stage, nurturing them and sticking with them. I must admit that I have admiration for him and them for this but it is blatantly obvious that it has seriously held them back over recent years.

Can you be both nurturing and cut throat? Can you support young players while also putting your best eleven out there because managers cannot a�ord to look at next season or the season after, they need results now.

Man City have opened their multi-million pound youth training academy which looks incredible, Chelsea have ploughed millions into their youngsters but neither side have a home grown player in their side (Joe Hart was bought before you start!).

Tom Carroll looks an outstanding talent, he does look a future England international and he’s doing a great job here. But I’m glad he’s only on loan though! That might sound a really stupid thing to say for a player who must already be worth £8

million in today’s money but it should be easy to leave him out as we won’t see the fruits of any real labour we put into him. There shouldn’t be any real pressure to develop him, we play him if he is good enough and that is it!

But then there is Jonjo. A player who can realistically be the �rst name in an England side in a few years time, a player who has incredible talent but is not yet the �nished article. Should he currently be in our �rst eleven?

I like the boy. I think he has tremendous talent but I am really happy to see him out of our starting eleven at present. It is easy to forget that Jonjo wont even be 23 until the end of February. It is always strange when a

player ‘fails’ at a big club as a youngster as they seem to stay young for ages, believe it or not: Tom Cleverly is only 16.

He isn’t consistent, we all know that. To keep using the phrase, he is a rough diamond. He does show moments of genius and then moments far less so and this is ideal for a club who are struggling. If he can score a screamer to win three points in a relegation scrap on a Tuesday night but then gift a goal away to Chelsea then that’s great but we are better than that.

In years gone by you would just play him. If the talent is there then play him and let him develop as it will always be worth it in the long run

but that isn’t the football of today. Today it is all about today! Worry about tomorrow when tomorrow comes! And in my opinion Jonjo isn’t in my �rst team plans - today.

A big part of this isn’t just that we have better central mid�elders. We have good options going forward. Montero looks ridiculously dangerous, Siggy is outstanding, Bony is (and I genuinely mean this word) World class and Dyer/Routledge/Barrow are all very capable on their days. So what we need is for them to have the ball, we need a mid�eld which is controlling, a mid�eld who can win the ball back and give it to our danger men and that is what Leon and Ki can o�er.

This is short sighted but I do feel far less inclined to ‘nurture’ talent than I have previously. We don’t really need money and players aren’t loyal in anyway and so I don’t see the point in playing him in order to smooth the diamond. I think that those days have possibly gone in terms of the Premier league. Each game is too

important for that and at this moment in time, he isn’t in our �rst eleven in my opinion.

It is sad in a lot of ways that football has come to this but that is where we are. It may simply be that the British footballing world has become more professional and that this will bring the very best out of young players. It may well force players like Jonjo to be even better but you can also see why the English FA are concerned about players lacking minutes. But I couldn’t care less about the FA and I doubt the Swans do either.

If I could get Jonjo to sign a ten year contract and he had no possible way of leaving it then I’d play him now but there is no loyalty in football and so in many ways it is the footballers that are brining it on themselves. Why should a club invest time and playing minutes into a player who will jump at the �rst chance they get?

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Taylor is our best left back:If there was any doubt about this there isn’t now. Tabanou was comfortably the worse player on the pitch, taking a throw in looked an effort. He made a lot of us feel better about eating all the cheese over the festive period!

Jonjo is cup tiedCurtis said he would play and he did. He has also said that his future lies with the club......... We wait and see....

Barrow is our danger manHow has this happened? He was the only player that I could think of who could make an impact and in fairness he did a little. He may have a bog role to play in our quest for survival; maybe a scary thought that!!

Amat and Bartley are not the answerNot sure what the question is exactly but they aren’t currently up to the mark. Fernandez has seemed to be getting back on form but it looks clear that him and Ash are needed right now.

Grimes needs gamesThis guy was in player of the year in League two last season and looks off the pace when playing the same level. He should be going forward with our coaches etc...

Montero can be magicBut he can also be very ineffective. What a goal, he may as well have left the pitch then though. Does he have ninety minutes in him? Does he like the rain?

Cork can playOne of the few positives was watching Jack Cork further up the field. His pass for Gomis was top class and he got on the end of a corner and nearly scored. Can we squeeze him into team and get some goals from him?

Emnes is easily lostAnd he falls over easily. He doesn’t really have a posi-tion either. Not really blessed as a footballer in reality.

Gomis is probably offsideThis Frenchman is easily found; He’s a yard the other side of the defenders. Lazy doesn’t get close to describ-ing him, he’s offside from goal kicks for god sake!!

No TeamIt is difficult to throw a second string together who don’t play with each other but they didn’t look like they had even met each other at times. Awful

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82 Jack Swan Eats Food

We are all easily intrigued at times. You may have seen that we are running a Jack Swan awards night and one of the categories is the best pub curry and we’d had a good few people message in nominating ‘Murrays Curry’ in the New Inn in Craig Cefn Park. I knew nothing about this except that people nominated it for the award and it isn’t the usual name. I headed up there with wannabe pro golfer.

I hadn’t been to the New Inn for a good five years or so, maybe longer. The last time I went there the landlord was a Cardiff City fan, it has thankfully changed hands since then!

We live in an era where pubs are struggling and a lot close down on us every year and yet some areas seem to man-age to keep them and this is one of those areas, there are

three pubs on this stretch and there can’t be more than 500 houses on the way to them all; clearly all housing alcoholics!! Keep your local alive!!!! Drink beer! Ignore the government!!!

The pub hadn’t changed much. Large car park out the back and a pool table as you walk in. It is early January and lunch time, some are still clinging onto their New Years diets and saving money and so it is quiet, we are the only ones there. We get chatting to the barman about Murrays curry and he smiles as though it has become a famous draw, the chef walks past and the barman intro-duces us as wanting his curry.

‘it is between the heat of a madras and a vindaloo’ he tells us. That was too much for me, ‘but I can mix it with the normal curry and its more medium heart then’

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It was nice to get Wannabe Pro on a pool table, he has been thrashing me at golf without any effort and it was quite nice to return the favour!! The curry comes and it is full of meat, chunky onion and it has a real nice colour to it; sexy looking curry.

It was good but wasn’t as hot as I expected, I think I may need to be braver next time and properly try Murrays Curry. The chips were real home cooked chips, there was plenty to eat and it was all good without being spectac-ular. Two curries for a tenna on the lunchtime meal is great though and can’t knock the value.

Is it the best pub curry in the area? I wouldn’t like to say, we will see how the voting goes in a few weeks but I think it has a good chance. Misses out on the ‘extras’, no naan bread, popadoms, mango chutney, onion bhagi etc.. but then it I just a fiver so can’t really complain about that!

A good, decent curry at a great price in a pub that does real ale and with a pool table has a place in my life. I will return.

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I have a slight confession to make. Last issue when I ate vegetarian food in an Indian and made a slight deal about ‘trying being a Vegi’ ; I was actually in a bizarre time of my life where I wasn’t eating meat at all! It lasted the best part of a month and I actually freaked myself out; I woke up one morning and decided that I fancied getting slightly healthier; cut out beer and meat; and I did it!!

That was the slightly bizarre thing. The really, really bizarre thing was that I really enjoyed it. I loved eating di�erent foods; the challenge of going through a day and eating three meals that consisted of no meat. At no point did I care in the slightest about the animals involved; they are put on this planet to be eaten! But I was eating healthier, cheaper and actually nicer food!

Anyway, I got that out of my system! What a weird month!!! I’m a meat eating MAN again!! Ring the chicken’s neck, cook it in some garlic and stick it on my plate!!!!! This issue I headed to Uplands; with Vegi!

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Time passes. SCFC.

The beginning of August from the end of Maydrags unless there are international games which “fills” the place of missed Saturdays

Football match minutes though...?Do officials clocks confuse timezones?remember Fergie time? always largo

Minutes slow ...when Swans fly above meI urge time to stand still ..as we

bask in take me to the Vetch Field glory

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It amazes me how many people ask the question ‘how do I get an advert in there?’ when we drop off the magazines. In fairness, we do have quite a bizarre system but for those of you who haven’t worked it out yet, here it is:-

Firstly, get a large pot. Large enough for you to get into yourself; eBay is a good place to search but be careful and always pay attention to the delivery charges as pots of this size can be very expensive to deliver.

Once you have the pot, you will need to start a fire. Outside is usually best but if it’s raining then I suggest you break into a large hall, maybe a community centre where you may be able to use some wood-en chairs as firewood. Make sure the ceilings are high enough and open windows to let the smoke out.

So once you get the fire going, you can put the pot on top of the fire. Be careful, make sure it is stable and se-cure but you’re clearly not stupid as you have already got this far and followed these instructions very well.

Next you will need a little oil. Engine oil is ideal but sunflower oil would suffice. Next is the tricky bit, you will need a small ginger and white cat. Please be aware that you can only start looking for the cat once the fire has started and the oil warm. Don’t cheat with this; don’t think that you can catch the cat then start the fire because it simply won’t work!

Once you have managed to catch the ginger and white cat then release it; it holds no purpose. What do you

think we were going to do? Ask you to skin it alive and put it in the pot? Come on!!

Next is slightly wacky I must admit. You dial the follow-ing into your phone; zero, seven, eight, eight, zero, three, six, nine, five, four, five and then press the call button. Somebody should answer the phone and you can book or discuss the options with that person.

That person will tell you what to do with the pot when you speak to them.

Incidentally, if you actually did buy a pot, start a fire in a community centre, traumatised and then released a ginger and white cat then I suggest trying this number before contacting us: ‘nine, nine, nine’ and just explain what you have done and make it very clear that you had no instructions from anybody to do anything....

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92Swanning Round the UniverseAs the Pinnacle of everything as we know it, why should we

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Before that there was nothing.14 billion years ago they say there was simply nothing. Then there was

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And they're o�... racing.Matter versus antimatter expanding and compressing exploding and

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helium blazing in the ever expanding nothing lighting up and heating as they go. Fusion and forming of elements that are being spat from a

spewing nothing into nothingness and becoming us.

As far as we know we are the most amazing of all that nothing. We look back at it all and make something of it, we speed forwards towards

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This week’s breakfast venue took us to Cresci’s Café Skewen. There was ample parking behind the café which also housed a small corner shop. My all day breakfast consisted of: 2 sausages, 2 bacon, 1 egg, beans, fresh thickly cut fried mushrooms, a side plate of toast and I also ordered an extra hash brown.The café dining area has never been updated which created a fantastic retro feeling and as if you had gone back in time. The owners were however in the process of updating part of the shop.

The food didn’t take long to arrive. The mushrooms were de�nitely my favourite so far, they were fresh and cooked to perfection and beat over-cooked or tinned mushrooms easily. The rest of the breakfast was

cooked well apart from the let-down of those not-so-meaty sausages.

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It’s Chhhhhrrrrissstmas…………….This is such a busy time of year for most families, every one rushing here there and everywhere trying to �t 36 hours into a 24 hour day. It’s easy to forget it’s a time to relax and spend quality time with your family. This month’s activity is about spending time together and creating a gift for someone that costs nothing, but will mean a lot.

Spend time togetherTake a family walk through the woods and enjoy collecting pine cones, leaves, holly, in fact anything you �nd that you think would look nice displayed in a jar. Unusual shaped twigs, pieces of bark and even pebbles are great. Wash them in a colander and pat dry with kitchen roll. During the matchSet up the items you have foundin the corner of the room with the glass jar (you can use plastic if the children are too young to use the glass ones) and encourage them to try out di�erent displays until they �nd one that they like. This activity lasted 1.5 hours with our children; plenty of time to watch the match. When the display is complete they can add the lid and decorate it. We also added a battery operated tealight that added warmth to the display.

AlternativesSpray the pinecones with glitter hair spray or glue them and add normal glitter. You could even spay them with air freshner or add a splash of paint.Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, from all of us at Munchkinos.

We have all been there, (well those of us with kids) the football is on TV and we don’t get to watch hardly any of it as we are too busy entertaining the little monsters. I asked Claire from Munchkinos

Childminding to try and come up with a solution.

P���n�-�es� P���n��n�!

The celebration of International Fairy Day during June gave me inspiration for a new activity . This is one that can start outside and end up indoors in time for the match. Bonus points should be awarded for fresh air and creativity and guilt free football watching should ensue.

Indoor Gardens

The children at Munchkinos really enjoyed making fairy gardens outside and asked if they could take them home to show their parents. So we came up with the idea of recreating the gardens in empty shoe boxes. It's a very

activity can keep your little munchkins going for ages. It doesn't have to be a fairy garden. We have made monster homes, alien planets, prehistoric lands , farms, parks and a jungle the possibili-ties are endless. (See photos; scale obviously not important Smiling face (black and white))

What you need

An empty container (shoe box or similar)

Any small toys/props your child decidesAn imagination

How to create your garden

Spend some time with your child exploring the garden, park or any green space. Take some time to collect bits they think would help to create a

We have all been there, (well those of us with kids) the football is on TV and we don’t get to watch hardly any of it as we are too busy entertaining the little monsters. I asked Claire from Munchkinos

Childminding to try and come up with a solution.

P���n�-�es� P���n��n�!

even painted the stones to make them look prehistoric (for the dinosaur garden). Take all of your materials inside along with an empty box and allow your child to be creative whilst you watch the football. They can

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