The clock is ticking with league game number 8 coming up, 3 points from a possible 21 so far is relegation form and it can’t continue.
Already 16 points behind the leaders Preston, it’s not a good read after hopes were so high of us going for the play-offs this season.
Pressure is mounting on Duff and the team with every passing game without a win.
We have just gone through a sequence of very winnable games and after today’s match against Sheff Wed they get tougher.
Millwall (A)
Norwich (H)
Plymouth (A)
Leicester (H)
Watford (H)
Blackburn (A)
Sunderland (H)
Ipswich (A)
Hull (H)
Leeds (A)
Try and predict how many points we’ll get from those games the way we’re playing at the moment and it’s frightening.
I can see no improvement in our games, in fact we are regressing with each match, struggling in all areas of the field against average teams.
As an aside, I can’t believe Duff is commuting from his home in Cheltenham to Swansea and is not even based here in the city.
It’s been a massive mistake by the owners appointing Duff and now they are hesitant to dismiss him as they’ll have to pay up his contract.
Just up from League One after beating Duff’s Barnsley team in the play-off final last season, the Sheff Wed match has added importance to Duff personally and he’ll be hoping to get revenge over them for that defeat.
The Owls form is as bad as ours, they are also without a win so far
P7 W0 D2 L5 F5 A11, with one less point than us and below us in the relegation three.
We welcome back one ex-Swan in George Byers, who came on after 60 minutes in the Owls last match, a home draw in midweek against Middlesbrough.
Former Watford boss Xisco Munoz is still looking for his first win since taking charge of the Owls this summer. He took over when Darren Moore was surprisingly sacked after winning the L1 play-off final.
The Owls injury list include: Josh Windass, Dominic Iorfa, Mallik Wilks, Mono Diaby.
Swans injury list include: Cullen - ankle injury, Key - fatigue issues, Allen - groin injury, Naughton - calf injury, Walsh - achilles injury.
Also Cooper is suspended after a red card at QPR.