I still admire the positive approach he takes.
For games like this though, you have to ask a) will we be able to dominate the ball and take the game to them b) can our back players handle their attackers 1-on-1 if required. You should know really that the answer to those questions are NO and NO and adapt accordingly, especially in the very early days of your tenure. As I said on the other thread, this game alone will have cost him a chunk of goodwill from a portion of their fanbase.
To be honest I have no sympathy for him at all. The things he got wrong are the things he constantly got wrong with us and he never had the gumption to set up accordingly against a Premiership side that is playing well. He got the game mixed up, should have held them in the first and attacked in the second if he wanted to win it and not take them back to their place. There are games when you just cannot attack all the time.
Just watched the highlight, jeeeeeeeeez it was like watching Notts defend! Loads of players not tracked and left in loads of space. It was so easy for Bournemouth. Swansea fans saying they need 4 at the back not 3, sounds familiar.
Williams is an intelligent guy so he will have learned lessons. However, there is one commodity that he may lack to come back from this: time. If he's still at Swansea by season's end, I'll be amazed. And suppose our 'experiment' with Maynard goes wrong, would we want LW back?
He did come across as intelligent, thoughtful and well spoken…he certainly had charisma as well….which makes it even stranger why he didn’t sort our defensive problems out. Never mind if it was the system or individual players, he didn’t seem to do anything different at all. He played the same players in the same system, maybe changing Brindley for Rawlo every now then.
I hold no Ill feeling towards Luke, quite the opposite actually, but it was starting to come across as stubborn, if not blind, to see that something needed to change. His start at Swansea suggests he’s going to continue in the same vain….and for that reason, if he is sacked by Swansea, I don’t think we should have him back.
Like I've said before, this idea of leaving a club where you are successful to take another job closer to home and family all sounds very good until you fail at the new job and end up getting sacked. I don't wish that on Luke by any means but he's not made a great start and football fans are an unforgiving bunch
By reading some of the comments from Swansea fans it sounds like their anger is aimed more at the owners than anywhere else at present.
Appears they are a bit of a mess off the field. Makes the move by LW an even bigger gamble.