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Are our expectations too high at the moment? Maybe, but I think it is fair to say that we have been frustrating this far. There have been a number of games where we have been more than in the match and thrown a couple of soft goals away which has changed the game, missed chances at the other end. Just annoying.

We have also become a side without a starting eleven. I know we need to rotate each game but I do like to know who is playing come a weekend. Even if only for my �rst goal scorer bets. I �nd myself with only one Swans player in my fantasy league team at the moment. Crazy! No prizes for guessing who he is.

We have carefully timed this issue to be at the printers during the dull international break. Hopefully Michu will get on the pitch and earn a cap with arguably the greatest side that has ever been. What does that say about him? He’s been called up to the squad ahead of Soldado at Spurs who cost £26 million, Llorente at Juventus and some bloke at Chelsea who once cost £50 million. Completely deserved but still strange to see.

They are all big months but this is hopefully when we start to climb the table and start to look down on Vincent Tans hobby club again. Just when they start to look like a proper club, you can rely on their idiotic Borat wannabee to remind the world that their just a sold-out joke. We wait with anticipation for their next comedy move.

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Are our expectations too high at the moment? Maybe, but I think it is fair to say that we have been frustrating this far. There have been a number of games where we have been more than in the match and thrown a couple of soft goals away which has changed the game, missed chances at the other end. Just annoying.

We have also become a side without a starting eleven. I know we need to rotate each game but I do like to know who is playing come a weekend. Even if only for my �rst goal scorer bets. I �nd myself with only one Swans player in my fantasy league team at the moment. Crazy! No prizes for guessing who he is.

We have carefully timed this issue to be at the printers during the dull international break. Hopefully Michu will get on the pitch and earn a cap with arguably the greatest side that has ever been. What does that say about him? He’s been called up to the squad ahead of Soldado at Spurs who cost £26 million, Llorente at Juventus and some bloke at Chelsea who once cost £50 million. Completely deserved but still strange to see.

They are all big months but this is hopefully when we start to climb the table and start to look down on Vincent Tans hobby club again. Just when they start to look like a proper club, you can rely on their idiotic Borat wannabee to remind the world that their just a sold-out joke. We wait with anticipation for their next comedy move.

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How long have you been with the Post?6 years, I joined at the start of season 07/08, the campaign Swansea got out of league One. I was previously with the Bath Chronicle but I have followed Swansea for years.

How important was the Evening Post in keeping you up to date with all things Swans as a youngster supporting the club?Very important when I was younger. Obviously as you know yourself, Swansea didn’t have the pro�le they do now. You couldn’t just pick up any old newspaper and �nd out about them. It was just the Western Mail or the Evening Post. Apart from that there was teletext, 390 on ceefax and 470 on ITV. Then it was the Evening Post, which would always have more coverage than the Western Mail. The Western Mail would have the odd piece about four or �ve pages in but the Evening Post would always have Swansea on the back page, it was always their main focus: that was the place to go.

Do you have an idea of how long the EP has been covering the Swans?No, not exactly. Since the club was founded in 1912 I think The Swansea Herald or other papers linked to the Evening Post have been covering the club, but I’m not 100 per cent sure.

I wonder whether there has ever been a time where the EP considered dropping the content, clearly a huge amount of resources goes into covering the club and I wonder whether it was �nancially worthwhile when the interest was at its lowest?I’m told that when Swansea were �irting with relegation from the Football League, the editor talked about it. I’m not sure if it would ever have happened but apparently the editor mentioned reducing coverage in passing. Perhaps the paper would have just covered the home games or looked to scale back a bit because going into the Conference wouldn’t just have been a drop in divisions but a change in the whole nature of the club.

I don’t think there was a de�nite plan to reduce coverage, just whispers about it. Apart from that, I don’t think it’s been on the agenda because regardless of how well, or poorly, Swansea are doing, the club has always been a major part of the city. People say that Swansea is a rugby city but football drives the paper. A good news rugby story will improve sales, but a good news story about the Swans sends �gures through the roof and so that has always been the main focus.

Have the fans changed?Now everyone supports the Swans. They have provided a feel good factor to the city. Everyone wants to be a part of it. People have their own opinions about that, plastic fans and all that. I can understand why someone who has been on the North Bank for thirty years and can’t get a ticket now is upset with the situation, but you couldn’t have this scale of success without larger numbers of supporters.

I can’t recall a local newspaper ever sponsoring a professional side like the EP did in 96/97. Do you know how that came about?I think the Yorkshire Post sponsored Leeds years ago and the South Wales Echo sponsored Cardi�, but it certainly isn’t usual. I asked the commercial director before I came here about this and not even he is sure. At the time the club was in a di�cult position �nancially as they tended to be until recently. He’s not sure whether the paper approached the club or the club approached the paper because they couldn’t �nd anyone else or a deal had fallen through. Basically, at the time I think the paper and Swansea were very close and had a very good relationship and the paper was able to help the club out.I don’t think there were big numbers involved. Maybe the paper o�ered the club some advertising space or something. From what I’m led to believe the top brass at the paper and the top brass at the club were very closely connected, and I think that has carried on since. The club need the paper a lot less today than they used to because of how far they have come and the money involved in the Premier League. But I think the club recognise that when they weren’t doing so well in the past the paper was always there.

The EP was instrumental in dislodging Petty and backed the supporters trust right from the start, was it a brave move at the time to go against the person in charge of the club?Funnily enough, I checked about this before I came out as well. I’m told that the Petty time was the only time that the paper wasn’t really on the same page as the club. It probably was a brave move in one sense but public opinion was so overwhelmingly against Petty that I think it would have been very di�cult from the paper’s point of view to side with him as the paper is supposed to represent it’s readers. His position was untenable and papers have to make a stand sometimes.

We still don’t seem to have any newspaper journalists outside of the EP and Western Mail who know anything about the club and Swans breaking news still comes from the EP before the big nationals, is it becoming increasingly harder to get the big stories �rst or are the nationals still being a bit disinterested and lazy regarding the club?National journalists are always at Swansea games, but I still don’t think Swansea have the pro�le to get on the back pages of national papers. National journalists are fairly well clued up now Swansea are in their third Premier League season, but that wasn’t the case a couple of years ago. There have been times when big name national journalists asked basic questions about Swansea players, their style and been amazed by Leon’s story with the club.In terms of getting stories, there is more competition for them, but the EP is front of the queue as we have the best contacts and people at the club trust the paper more than they trust others.

Some fans feel that at times the paper and club are too close and that reporters gloss up some performances, certainly individual ones. Do you feel like you can openly slate an individual or team performance or is it di�cult because you want to keep a good relationship with the players and the club?It is a fair point. It is di�cult compared to a national situation. A national journalist could pile into a player and not see that player for weeks, they can write what they like without any repercussions. We deal with the club on a daily basis so have to maintain a working relationship. We cannot a�ord to upset the squad or no one would talk to us and they’d be nothing in the paper. Having said that, I don’t think we could get away with pulling the wool over people’s eyes. If a player has had a poor performance we’ll mention it, but perhaps not go straight for the jugular like others would. It’s a balancing act. I don’t think supporters would appreciate us laying into players left, right and centre anyway.And we don’t shy away from reporting some issues that don’t necessarily re�ect the club in a positive light. Look at last summer when Laudrup was rumoured to be going, we could have brushed that under the carpet because people at the club didn’t really want us to report it and bring it out into the public domain, but we did because it was important.

The Post has been under scrutiny from certain fans over the way they covered the Michael Laudrup interest over the summer. Can you understand their discontent?I can understand why they didn’t like the story because at the end of the season everyone was happy with Michael Laudrup and didn’t want him to go. But the fact is, the paper did not create the story, we reported on it - don’t shoot the messenger. If something bad is happening at the club, would fans rather that the paper ignored it or would they prefer to know what is going on? If you want us to report on the club, it is not always going to be good news. We also have to report the bad stu�.We got accused of making things up, which is ludicrous. We can’t just make things up. I know national press can be a bit creative with certain celebrity stories but a paper like ours can’t make things up from a legal point of view. We can’t a�ord to get sued for libel. Also, it is not in our interest to make things like that up. Negative stories don’t sell papers; if we wanted to make something up we would have been much better o� linking Swansea with Lionel Messi or something like that: that would sell papers. So it’s not logical to say that the paper made it up, it didn’t help anyone. People want to know what is going on at the club and I think the Post has a responsibility to inform them.We had people calling up the o�ce, threatening to come down and sort us out and all sorts of things, so we didn’t help ourselves by covering the story. The club didn’t ban us from games for reporting that story and didn’t speak out against the paper. So perhaps it wasn’t all made-up because surely they would have discredited us if it was untrue.The fact that there are no quotes in a story doesn’t mean that it’s untrue. There are times when someone in a delicate position gives you information but doesn’t want to be quoted because they don’t want to be identi�ed. It is possible to talk from a position of authority and not quote anyone.

Are you under pressure to come up with a back-page Swans story daily and have you knowingly published a story which you don’t really think has much legs?Yes there is pressure to come up with a back page Swans

story every day, but we don’t publish untruths to meet that demand. There are some things which you can’t nail 100% but you have to be pretty certain before it goes to print. We are under pressure to get back page stories, but not always news stories. Often our back pages are quote-led articles about a game coming up or something which has happened. We tend to stockpile player interviews after matches and use them through the week, so we’re not under daily pressure to pluck something out of thin air.

The EP and SCFC has clearly been a mutually bene�cial relationship for decades. Do you think the Swans would be in the Premiership without the post? Do you think the club would have even survived?I don’t think the Evening Post can take any credit for the club’s rise to the Premier League, certainly not the recent climb. The last few years have been remarkable and are down to Huw Jenkins and the board and maybe a bit of luck along the way. It is possibly fair to say that the Evening Post played a part in helping lay the foundations. I’m led to believe that the hierarchy at the Post were perhaps more involved than people realise when all the stu� with Petty was going on.It a bit of a chicken and egg situation. The Evening Post is not necessarily generating interest in Swansea City but re�ecting what the Swansea public are interested in. But in giving the club a pro�le it maintains a level of interest, it’s a perpetual thing.

I don’t think that the Evening Post does any more than any other local paper in terms of writing about their local football club but I think it does it better than most. In terms of the coverage we produce a supplement on a Friday, a supplement on a Monday as well as several pages daily throughout the week.

We ask ex-players if they have any funny stories regarding the club and I wonder if you have any Probably the best I can o�er is from the Paulo Sousa era. Every year, normally at Christmas, the Swansea City sta� play a game against a team of journalists and people who work in the media. Everyone was excited about coming up against a Champions League winner, but Paulo claimed to have an injury so stayed in goal for virtually the entire match.That was disappointing, but the game itself wasn’t. Understandably, we normally get walloped in these games but this one was much closer. Let’s just say that certain members Paulo’s backroom team were a few rungs further down the football ladder than him when it came to ability.

It has been really di�cult to limit ourselves to just ten ‘JBs’ for this series. Over a hundred years of a football club has brought many heroes both on and o� the �eld. Our next JB has never been a club hero, their name has never been sung

from the terrace and yet I �nd it incredibly di�cult to imagine where we would be without them.

Not �avour of the month at the moment with certain sections of the fans and a controversial one I know but our next JB is the Evening Post. I met up with the Evening Posts Football Writer Stephen Ware.

The press team were winning 10-9 in the dying minutes when the Swans sta� were awarded a hotly disputed corner. It was criminal. Anyway, they scored from this and we had to grudgingly settle for a 10-10 draw.Afterwards we went for something to eat and Paulo got very worked up, o�ering us a 20-goal start the following year if we agreed that the losers would pay for the meal afterwards. I think we accepted but unfortunately he didn’t last that long. Paulo moved to Leicester in the summer and then Austrian side Videoton. There he was accused of headbutting a local journalist in a similar match. Lucky escape.

Many will tell me that it is their job to report on the Swans, that they sell huge amounts of papers o� the back of their success and I obviously wouldn’t disagree with that and as a business it is clearly their main goal. But as far as I know, Leon Britton takes a wage for kicking the ball about, Alan Curtis has been on the payroll for thirty years, should this exclude them from possibly getting on the list? Would we of ousted Petty without the post? How much lower would our lowest attendances have been without their publicity? I know this choice will be criticised by some but I struggle to overlook the contribution the Post has given the Swans over the years and for this reason they are in our top ten JB’s.

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It has been really di�cult to limit ourselves to just ten ‘JBs’ for this series. Over a hundred years of a football club has brought many heroes both on and o� the �eld. Our next JB has never been a club hero, their name has never been sung

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When we got to the PL many people said the best we can expect is to hang on in there, maybe for a few seasons. Then we had a great �rst season. The second year it was the dreaded 'second season syndrome'. Could we cope ? We did even better, ending up 9th and winning the League Cup. Now in the 3rd season we've already shown real quality in the PL, even though the points total doesn't really re�ect that, and in the Europa League we've beaten (hammered ?) a team traditionally known as the 3rd best team in Spain. O� the �eld our new £6 million Academy Training Centre has also opened which is hugely important for the future of the Club. And the new £10 million (guesstimate) 1st team and U21 training facility should be complete by the start of next season.

These are all facts and is where we are at present. So, going back to my original question, what can the Club achieve ?

The one ‘achievement’ we should aim for every season is to retain our Premier League status. Why just one ? Because, if we manage that ‘one’ then all the other most obvious, tangible steps forward for the Club will happen automati-cally because the �nance will be there. The most obvious visual step forward will be the expansion of the Liberty to 33,000 seats.

In many areas other people see us as a forward thinking progressive Club. We play football just about every supporter of other Clubs, barring Cardi�, admire and enjoy, we have a Trust which played an enormous part in saving the Club and which still owns 20% of the shares and we have a board who are, and always have been, real supporters. But the one area where people outside the

Club probably think of us as ‘small’ is ground capacity. It isn't as important as it used to be with the vast majority of a PL Club's income coming from SKY but it does, undoubtedly, create a perception when you have the smallest ground in the league. Maybe we should hope QPR get promoted again.

Having said that, while any development goes on the most important investment the Club can make is into the

playing sta�. We have a fantastic squad this season and I believe we’ll comfortably (�ngers crossed) stay up and have a good season. But it’s from the team winning games that everything else stems. A large part of the reason for the strength of the squad lies with the manager. I imagine a number of players (Michu ?) came

to the Swans because of Michael Laudrup. That and the fact we were in the PL was enough. But, what if ML wasn’t our manager ?

If a player is approached by a manager they don’t know with a view to them signing for his Club that player will want the Club sold to him. We’ve already started building a Club which can be ‘sold’ by whatever manager we have at the time. We’ve been in the PL for three seasons, we’ve won a Major Trophy, we’re in the Europa league and our training facilities are now second to none. Stadium capacity is the next step. When all these building blocks are in place hopefully players will want to come to play for the Swans instead of, maybe, having to be persuaded.

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I’ve heard it suggested that Wilfried Bony is a waste of money. While he obviously hasn’t had as obvious an impact as Michu did 14 months ago, he’s clearly an asset to the team. He’s as strong as Bayo Akinfenwa, looks to have a good shot on him and is a threat in the air. One of his lesser known talents is music, in his spare time he’s lead singer for Bloc Party and goes by the name Kele Okereke.

So it’s no wonder Laudrup keeps taking him o� after 70 minutes, he’s probably got a gig to get to. The £12m price tag seems to have some people expecting a player 6 times as good as Michu and who can shoot �reballs out of his arse. I don’t know about the latter, but he’s not yet up to Michu’s level. But the two are playing well together and I’d like to see them start allthe big games together, even if we are playing Arsenal. For those that think Bony was over priced, for £5m less we nearly bought Iago Aspas, who’s made very little impact at Liverpool and has plummeted down the pecking order – even an injury to Coutinho hasn’t helped him get in the team. £7m for Aspas seems like a terrible deal, so I’m more than happy with Bony – he’s going to be unstoppable when he gets going. Looking at his goals to games ratio so far – 5 in 10 games; he’s doing

better than most of the strikers signed over the summer.

Early days yet, and some people seem to have short memories. Would they rather have Shechter, Graham, Moore, Lita or Bony? I know who I’d choose.

I just can’t get enough of.., Ben Davies

Sometimes it’s easy to forget how young Ben Davies is (20) – he looks like he’s been in the team for years and has been one of our most consistent performers. He’s even added a few goals to his game, and at the time of writing he’s our joint top league scorer with Michu on 2 goals. If he can wrestle the ball o� De Guzman he should be able to get a few

more from free-kicks. He’s also the joint top scoring defender in the league at present with Leighton Baines and I see no reason why he can’t go on to be as good as the Everton left-back. I’ve got to admit I’d never heard of him before Neil Taylor’s injury last season and didn’t think he’d be in the team for long, but he’s gone from strength to strength and is now so far ahead of Taylor that his place in the team is guaranteed as long as he’s �t. So let’s hope the hamstring injury he’s just picked up doesn’t keep him out for long.

He’s doing well for Wales too, although the Serbia game probably wasn’t the best time to give him his �rst match at centre back. I’d be tempted to push him up to play left wing, he’s got a sweet left foot and a great cross on him. That’s what happened to Gareth Bale; I’m not suggesting Ben’s going to end up as good a player as him – although Huw Jenks would be over the moon with £80m.Maybe I’m biased by the fact that he’s the only homegrown player in the �rst team, but he should be there for the next 10 to 15 years; by which time we’ll be talking about him as a Swans legend.

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I’ve heard it suggested that Wilfried Bony is a waste of money. While he obviously hasn’t had as obvious an impact as Michu did 14 months ago, he’s clearly an asset to the team. He’s as strong as Bayo Akinfenwa, looks to have a good shot on him and is a threat in the air. One of his lesser known talents is music, in his spare time he’s lead singer for Bloc Party and goes by the name Kele Okereke.

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better than most of the strikers signed over the summer.

Early days yet, and some people seem to have short memories. Would they rather have Shechter, Graham, Moore, Lita or Bony? I know who I’d choose.

I just can’t get enough of.., Ben Davies

Sometimes it’s easy to forget how young Ben Davies is (20) – he looks like he’s been in the team for years and has been one of our most consistent performers. He’s even added a few goals to his game, and at the time of writing he’s our joint top league scorer with Michu on 2 goals. If he can wrestle the ball o� De Guzman he should be able to get a few

more from free-kicks. He’s also the joint top scoring defender in the league at present with Leighton Baines and I see no reason why he can’t go on to be as good as the Everton left-back. I’ve got to admit I’d never heard of him before Neil Taylor’s injury last season and didn’t think he’d be in the team for long, but he’s gone from strength to strength and is now so far ahead of Taylor that his place in the team is guaranteed as long as he’s �t. So let’s hope the hamstring injury he’s just picked up doesn’t keep him out for long.

He’s doing well for Wales too, although the Serbia game probably wasn’t the best time to give him his �rst match at centre back. I’d be tempted to push him up to play left wing, he’s got a sweet left foot and a great cross on him. That’s what happened to Gareth Bale; I’m not suggesting Ben’s going to end up as good a player as him – although Huw Jenks would be over the moon with £80m.Maybe I’m biased by the fact that he’s the only homegrown player in the �rst team, but he should be there for the next 10 to 15 years; by which time we’ll be talking about him as a Swans legend.

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Are you still involved in the game if so where?I am based at the north east these days and I am working with Middlesboro’s academy so yes I am still involved in the game.

What is your best moment for the swans?Best moment? It has to be promotion I think, from the season when Kenny jacket took over. It was a long season and to get automatic promotion at the end of it, I think I would have to say that season.

What was your worst moment for the swans?I am trying to think because I had a really good time with the swans. I would say leaving because I settled in the area and really enjoyed down there so I would say having to leave.

Do you have any hard feeling towards the swans?No, I always speak to people down there and I had a great time down there. I follow the swans results so I am more of a supporter now really.

Who was the best player you ever played with in your career?I would probably go for Lee Trundle. For the �ve years I was down there he was unplayable so I would have to say Trunds.

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against?I had to play against Sammy Hyppia when he was at Liverpool, I would say him.

Have you got any funny stories from your time at the Swans?I would say anything to do with Trunds really, we were on a pre season tour in Holland and Trunds got up and done a little stand up show in the hotel we were staying at for about half an hour that was pretty funny.

Who was the longest in the Shower?I would say Izzy Iriekpen

How do you think the Swans will do this season?I think they will be pushing for the European spots, the way they play football they will be up there. I know some of the results early on weren’t great but I see no reason why they shouldn’t be challenging for a European position.

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Do you keep in touch with any of the swans players if so who?I speak with Tatey and Roberto quite a bit still.

If Harry Potter has magical powers why does he need glasses?I haven’t got a clue do you normally get answers for that? We do usually get answers, they are not usually very good answers but they are usually about as good as the questionAsk me another one I will come back to it

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It doesn’t seem too long ago that we paid a monster £35,000 for Paul Connor which always springs to my mind every time we break the bank again. We had a great return from that sum and his goals and performances went a long way in getting our rise through the leagues started. Matty caught up with him to see how he’s doing these days.

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Peter: yeah, I got a form somewhere; think I left it in the house, no worries though. I’m de�nitely allowed to speak with you.

Jack Swan: OK……So, why Cardi�? Were there many other o�ers?Peter: Loads, in fact 16 out of the 20 Premiership clubs came in for me

Jack Swan: Really?Peter: Yes, but Cardi� seemed like the best place to me

Jack: So it wasn’t that they were the only club who wanted you then. OK. Umm… You looked slightly foolish in January driving to a club who you hadn’t had permis-sion to go to.Peter: ha-ha a lot was made of that. It was a joke.

Jack: a joke?Peter: Yeah, I know a few of the QPR boys and I was winding up Lorik (Remy) saying that Harry was signing me and putting me in the �rst team instead of him, he was crapping himself when he saw me, he knew he wouldn’t get a look in. It was all just a joke.

Jack: Right, yes. That makes a lot of sense now, cleared that right up. You said that the Swans wanted to sign you?Peter: Yeah, they showed me round everywhere. O�ered me the captains armband and £200,000 a week but Cardi� wanted me more.

Jack: I’m sure they did. Well I think we are done here. Thank you so much for turning up and taking part in this interview, it has been a real pleasure, now if you don’t mind.Peter: Ask me about the game �rst

Jack: Derby game?Peter: Yeah that’s it.

Jack: Are you excited about the Welsh derby?Peter: Yes. I can’t wait. I’m going to score �fteen goals. I’m very sorry but I’ve got to shoot o� right away, got a very tight schedule, the deadline for 15th century history coursework is due in, in 23 minutes in Swansea university.

Jack: I didn’t know that you were doing a degree?

Peter: I’m not but their giving me an honorable degree. Well they haven’t said so yet but I expect they will and unless I leave now, it will be too much of a rush.

Not totally sure that is how honorable degrees come about but I’m sure he’ll get one. Just to clarify, hard to believe I know, but this never happened.

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I struggle to remember a time when you weren’t the stadium announcer; can you remember how it came about? Were you interviewed for the role? It was in the Evening Post that I was doing pitch entertain-ment for the Worthington Cup at the old Wembley stadium. I was working on national events for the League Cup and the club asked why I didn't do it for the Swans. I said ‘you've never asked’ so they asked.

Have you ever been tempted to say 'cockpissPartridge' or something along those lines when holding the stadium mic? No I have made mistakes though

What is the greatest single feeling you have had watching the Swans? Watching them lift the play o� trophy wearing Besian tee shirts.

How does the atmosphere at a sold out Liberty compare pitch-side to a capacity Vetch crowd?It's great it took a while but now it's fantastic. I think that The Liberty found its voice the night we best Forest in the play o�s.

Are there any players over the years that you have become good friend with, do you socialise with them

before/after games or do you both just do your things?I've got to know some great guys. I see Trunds more than I see my wife

What is the best thing about Swansea being in the Premiership? Seeing us where we belong, playing the world's best is a great experience

What is the worst thing about Swansea being in the Premiership? What can be bad, although I understand how hard it is to get tickets sometimes.

Do you ever get intimidated? Do you feel slightly on edge in a derby match for example? I do, I always get nervous but I love the big match atmosphere.

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It seems that our in�uxes of new players have already dividing themselves into ‘fans favourites’ and the ‘not too convinced’ categories. With Jonjo managing to be in both camps in one match. Here are a few tips on how to please us fans.

Work rate: Fans pay good money to watch their players’ week in week out and the players get insane amounts of money to play for their club. Nothing upsets a fan more than a player not putting in the e�ort they should and Swans fans are no di�erent. Danny Graham worked tirelessly for us in our �rst season for the club which went a long way to him gaining popularity with the Jack Army faithful. Pablo take note.

Where their from: We can’t help but fall in love with our local boys. We all warmed to Ben Davies instantly and a major part of this was him being ‘one of us’. It isn’t always about how close you are to SA1 though, Walter Boyd was an instant hit as we loved a Jamaican in a Swans shirt and the Vetch never really got over Jason Price’s Cardi� accent.

Important Goals: Fans heroes are made from vital goals and nobody has ever scored more vital goals than the three James Thomas mustered against Hull. Scoring vital goals are a sure way to becoming a success with the fans but miss some clear opportunities in vital games and you may end up with the kind of abuse that Steve Watkins became accustomed to.

Flair: Jason Scotland and Lee Trundle boast very similar goal scoring records for the club, both notching up over a goal a game. Trunds though managed to score them in style

with silky skills, a touch of arrogance and plenty of �air. The Liverpudlian is now ambassador at the club and still worshiped with the fans while Jason Scotland has been long forgotten.

Years of Service: There are countless reasons why we fell in love with Roger Freestone, his antics, penalty taking and that Welsh cap v brazil spring to mind but the sheer length of time he stood in between our sticks makes him a Swans hero. Loyalty to a club will always make you a hit with the fans and disloyalty is rarely forgotten – Neil Cutler.

Hate Cardi� City: We all dream of a team of Alan Tate’s and if we put eleven of him against the boys from Malaysia then I wouldn’t bet on eleven of them �nishing the match. A sure way to gain popularity is to hate our enemy and any explicit T-shirts go down very well.

Determination – Fight for the badge: Michus goals would make him a hit on their own but his �ght and determination have him worshiped the city over. Show some passion, scream at those around you and go into every challenge willing to break your leg. Johnanan De Guzman take note.

We’ll never survive, unless we get a little crazy: It is a �ne line and there are good crazy and bad crazy. But we do love a little bit of craziness. Chico Flores is without doubt the most mental of all our players and few are loved more than the crazy Spaniard. Leon Knight on the other hand…….

O� the Pitch: We are quite prone to warming to players who showcase their charity work in an organized and professional manor. Angel Rangel took this to a new level while roaming the streets looking for hungry people to feed and we love him even more for it. While he was doing this Kemmy was clocking up a new landspeed record through built up school areas, not quite so popular with the fans.

Reliable: Keep calm and pass to Leon. It isn’t the quickest was to gain the love from the fans but being Mr. reliable pays o� as our greatest ever player can vouch for. Keep a level head, keep putting in consistent performances and our knowledgeable fans will notice. Not when you play, but we’ll notice that we miss you when you don’t. Ki was close to this, but wasn’t and far from worshiped.

Wonder Goal: A wonder goal will live long in the memory of all Swans fans and gain respect for generations to come. Ask Keiron Durkan. You

remember Keiron Durkan? Oh.

Score against Cardi�: Live forever in folk law and score the winner against our ‘lump it up there’ neighbours. Better still, be �ve foot and a fart and score a header against them as Nathan Dyer mustered. If you’re slightly taller, score a de�ected free-kick winner in our �rst game against them for ten years and you are free to move clubs and still remain in high regard – Jordi Gomez.

Be cheap: We like nothing more than a bargain, with a big price tag comes big expectation and may result in a bad start with the fans. Rory Fallon found this out the hard way when he moved to us for what was then an outrageous amount of money (£300,000). In a di�erent lifetime the £1.5 million bargain of Michelle Vorm helped us fall for him. No pressure Bony my boy.

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Work rate: Fans pay good money to watch their players’ week in week out and the players get insane amounts of money to play for their club. Nothing upsets a fan more than a player not putting in the e�ort they should and Swans fans are no di�erent. Danny Graham worked tirelessly for us in our �rst season for the club which went a long way to him gaining popularity with the Jack Army faithful. Pablo take note.

Where their from: We can’t help but fall in love with our local boys. We all warmed to Ben Davies instantly and a major part of this was him being ‘one of us’. It isn’t always about how close you are to SA1 though, Walter Boyd was an instant hit as we loved a Jamaican in a Swans shirt and the Vetch never really got over Jason Price’s Cardi� accent.

Important Goals: Fans heroes are made from vital goals and nobody has ever scored more vital goals than the three James Thomas mustered against Hull. Scoring vital goals are a sure way to becoming a success with the fans but miss some clear opportunities in vital games and you may end up with the kind of abuse that Steve Watkins became accustomed to.

Flair: Jason Scotland and Lee Trundle boast very similar goal scoring records for the club, both notching up over a goal a game. Trunds though managed to score them in style

with silky skills, a touch of arrogance and plenty of �air. The Liverpudlian is now ambassador at the club and still worshiped with the fans while Jason Scotland has been long forgotten.

Years of Service: There are countless reasons why we fell in love with Roger Freestone, his antics, penalty taking and that Welsh cap v brazil spring to mind but the sheer length of time he stood in between our sticks makes him a Swans hero. Loyalty to a club will always make you a hit with the fans and disloyalty is rarely forgotten – Neil Cutler.

Hate Cardi� City: We all dream of a team of Alan Tate’s and if we put eleven of him against the boys from Malaysia then I wouldn’t bet on eleven of them �nishing the match. A sure way to gain popularity is to hate our enemy and any explicit T-shirts go down very well.

Determination – Fight for the badge: Michus goals would make him a hit on their own but his �ght and determination have him worshiped the city over. Show some passion, scream at those around you and go into every challenge willing to break your leg. Johnanan De Guzman take note.

We’ll never survive, unless we get a little crazy: It is a �ne line and there are good crazy and bad crazy. But we do love a little bit of craziness. Chico Flores is without doubt the most mental of all our players and few are loved more than the crazy Spaniard. Leon Knight on the other hand…….

O� the Pitch: We are quite prone to warming to players who showcase their charity work in an organized and professional manor. Angel Rangel took this to a new level while roaming the streets looking for hungry people to feed and we love him even more for it. While he was doing this Kemmy was clocking up a new landspeed record through built up school areas, not quite so popular with the fans.

Reliable: Keep calm and pass to Leon. It isn’t the quickest was to gain the love from the fans but being Mr. reliable pays o� as our greatest ever player can vouch for. Keep a level head, keep putting in consistent performances and our knowledgeable fans will notice. Not when you play, but we’ll notice that we miss you when you don’t. Ki was close to this, but wasn’t and far from worshiped.

Wonder Goal: A wonder goal will live long in the memory of all Swans fans and gain respect for generations to come. Ask Keiron Durkan. You

remember Keiron Durkan? Oh.

Score against Cardi�: Live forever in folk law and score the winner against our ‘lump it up there’ neighbours. Better still, be �ve foot and a fart and score a header against them as Nathan Dyer mustered. If you’re slightly taller, score a de�ected free-kick winner in our �rst game against them for ten years and you are free to move clubs and still remain in high regard – Jordi Gomez.

Be cheap: We like nothing more than a bargain, with a big price tag comes big expectation and may result in a bad start with the fans. Rory Fallon found this out the hard way when he moved to us for what was then an outrageous amount of money (£300,000). In a di�erent lifetime the £1.5 million bargain of Michelle Vorm helped us fall for him. No pressure Bony my boy.

Follow these simple tips and you will go far. Other crowd pleasers include, crazy celebrations, slating pro-Cardi� tweets and getting arrested during a promotion party. But be careful, don’t kiss the badge and leave the next day! Don’t say you will have to be forced out if you were to leave because you love the club so much and jump ship the

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1: Mi��Bored of him now, can he just have a quiet useless stage and let me write about someone else for a change. I really hope that he gets his Spanish cap, it may be the start of his departure from us but it would be so deserved and it would be fantastic for the club to boast a Spanish international plus two �ngers up to the England set-up who are determined to overlook all our players. His work rate and passion is better than anyone in the Premiership, the type of determination which makes poor British players decent, like Phil Neville or Robbie Savage. But Michu has natural ability as well. Is there a side in the Premiership that he wouldn’t get in?

2: A�� W��i�m�I got criticized at the end of last season for putting Ash in my end of season top three as against Chico, with Matty being the most critical of all. It seems that a few games without him have done more for his reputation than a hundred odd consecutive games with him leading our backline. He makes some mistakes as all centre halfs do and their often punished which highlights them even more but he is without doubt our rock of foundation at the back and our whole defense looks better with him in it. Our frailties without him would not have gone un-noticed by prospective buyers but it would have reinforced how vital

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1: Mi��Bored of him now, can he just have a quiet useless stage and let me write about someone else for a change. I really hope that he gets his Spanish cap, it may be the start of his departure from us but it would be so deserved and it would be fantastic for the club to boast a Spanish international plus two �ngers up to the England set-up who are determined to overlook all our players. His work rate and passion is better than anyone in the Premiership, the type of determination which makes poor British players decent, like Phil Neville or Robbie Savage. But Michu has natural ability as well. Is there a side in the Premiership that he wouldn’t get in?

2: A�� W��i�m�I got criticized at the end of last season for putting Ash in my end of season top three as against Chico, with Matty being the most critical of all. It seems that a few games without him have done more for his reputation than a hundred odd consecutive games with him leading our backline. He makes some mistakes as all centre halfs do and their often punished which highlights them even more but he is without doubt our rock of foundation at the back and our whole defense looks better with him in it. Our frailties without him would not have gone un-noticed by prospective buyers but it would have reinforced how vital

he is to the Laud and Sir Huw. On his day, one of the top four centre backs in the league.

3: Na�h�� D��As I gloat about my decision to put Ash in the top three last season, I must admit that it is more common for me to get it wrong as I did with Dyer over the Summer. He was very poor for me last season and frustrating in most of what he did. I’d of been quite content to o�oad our reformed handbag thief but he’s come back with the kind of form which had �ckle old me calling for him winning an England cap in his debut Premiership season. ‘he’s brilliant, he’s useless, oh no, he is brilliant’, typical Jack. His end product does let him down at times but he makes things happen when he’s on form and things are going his way. A little live wire who works tirelessly at both ends of the �eld, great to see him playing well, it does seem that he and Routledge have purple patches at di�erent times though.

S�e�i�� M�n�i�� – K�A bizarre one but he’s doing well up the North East. His side is woeful and it could just be that he’s a decent one in a poor bunch but he’s looked good when I’ve seen him and he is getting rave reviews from sections of their unenthu-siastic fans. He could return come January and be the signing which we thought we had in the �rst place.

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