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Hull v Swansea
Hull v Swansea Sat 21 Dec 12:30
Next up we travel to Kingston upon Hull, situated on the East Coast, north side of the River Hull and the Humber estuary, in the East Riding of Yorkshire.
It?s a 584 mile round trip to this historic maritime city and the Jack Army will have to depart at an unearthly time to get to this early kick-off.
The Tigers are having a season of struggle so far, sitting at the bottom of the league table with just 3 wins from 21 games. German head-coach Tim Walter was recently sacked after six months in charge and the ex-Southampton and Reading boss, Spaniard Ruben Selles, has taken over the reins.
He is two games into his tenure, a 1-1 draw at home to Watford and a 2-1 defeat at Coventry last Saturday.
Ironically they finished in 7th place last season under Liam Rosenior but the Turkish owners foolishly decided to fire him.
Hull player links, ex-Swan loanee Kasey Palmer is currently plying his trade there and recently signed Swan Cyrus Christie played for them last season.
No easy game in the Championship and Hull, fighting for Championship survival and with a new manager, will be no pushovers.
The Swans will have to recover quickly to get over the Sunderland debacle and get back on track.
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Not forgetting goalkeeper Carl Rushworth, now at Hull on loan from Brighton. He’s out for 3 months until the New Year with an ankle injury picked up in training. He is yet to make a first team appearance for Hull, after being on the bench four times before the injury.
We wanted him on loan for a second season but Brighton delayed a loan decision until it was too late for us and we went for Vigouroux instead.
Rushworth was Supporters and Players Player of the Season for the Swans last season and made 48 appearances for us, keeping 11 clean sheets.
I’ll bet he rues missing out on another loan spell with the Swans.
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Todays teams
Swans:
Lawrence Vigouroux, Josh Key, Ben Cabango, Harry Darling, Josh Tymon, Matt Grimes (c), Jay Fulton, Liam Cullen, Myles Peart-Harris, Jisung Eom, Zan Vipotnik
Subs:
Jon McLaughlin, Goncalo Franco, Florian Bianchini, Nathan Tjoe-A-On, Cyrus Christie, Kyle Naughton, Nelson Abbey, Ronald, Azeem Abdulai
Hull:
Ivan Pandur, Lewie Coyle (c), Ryan Giles, Alfie Jones, Charlie Hughes, Joao Pedro, Ryan Longman, Steven Alzate, Gustavo Puerta, Regan Slater, Abu Kamara
Subs:
Anthony Racioppi, Sean McLoughlin, Marvin Mehlem, Chris Bedia, Abdus Omur, Xavier Simons, Cody Drameh, Matthew Jacob, Mason Burstow
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Hull 2 (Pedro 33’, Barstow 80’) - Swansea 1 (Darling 42’)
Well guys I had the misfortune to watch this match and it was one of the most inept performances from a Swans team for a long time.
We couldn’t even give the bottom side a decent game, they outplayed us, outfought us and deserved to win by more. This from a team that had forgotten how to win. They beat us in midfield, on the wings, all over.
If you didn’t know better you’d think that the team had thrown the match, yes they were that bad.
I feel so sorry for our supporters travelling all that way and having to watch that garbage. No effort or commitment from this team.
I would send that squad to catch the train home, a ten hour journey, and let the bus go back empty
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What a gutless performance. Grimes/Fulton midfield partnership has never worked, so you just knew what was about to happen when the team was announced. Where was Franco, the only player that gets stuck in? Why was he warming the bench? Not one player came out of this with any credit. Our first headed goal of the season, by a defender, what does that tell you about our forwards.
The defence was awful, full backs couldn’t stop the crosses, our midfield kept losing possession, our forwards were virtually useless, plus our goalkeeper has been very shaky recently. Sounds terrible and it was. Our head coach has no tactical awareness and does nothing when his game plan is not working, and after that outburst against the players last week they are rebelling by downing tools or that’s how it looks from the sidelines. They didn’t suddenly become useless overnight.
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Luke Williams post match reaction, he looks visibly upset and lost for words
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eG-XRy9GZvI&t=99s
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Alright boys. First reaction huge disappointment at that performance. Second was anger, it looked as if the players had been on the pop the night before, sluggish and second to every ball, misplaced passes and getting dispossessed, passing back and fore in our half and creating nothing. I can forgive a defeat but I can’t forgive the players not giving their all for the badge and for the few hundred away fans that made that long trip to watch that team no show.. not good enough boys and the head-coach doesn’t get away without criticism either.
