Southampton v Swansea (FA Cup 3rd Round)

[Estoban]

Last season Southampton won 3-1 at the .com, ex-Swan Flynn Downes scoring one of their goals and
they trounced us 5-0 at St Mary’s. The question is are either of the sides weaker or stronger than last season?
I reckon it’s payback time for that hammering and I hope we pick our strongest team. On paper they have by far the strongest team.

[jackaway]

Another pathetic performance from this Jekyll and Hyde team.
With two ageing full backs playing as centre-backs, two full backs that can’t defend and a goalkeeper who hadn’t played a competitive game this season there was only going to be one outcome.
McCloughlin is even worse than Fisher, the centre-backs were slow and ponderous and we didn’t have a shot on target the whole match against a side that had forgotten how to win and has a defence like a sieve.
We have a clueless head coach and the weakest set of players since relegation, I give up.

[jackaway]

Match report

https://www.swanseacity.com/news/rep...swansea-city-0

[Estoban]

Unbelievably weak performance from the team yesterday. The owners need to give Darling what he wants and sort out the Joe Lowe transfer asap. Why was on loan centre-back Abbey returned to his club when we have injuries in his position? Where is the highly paid centre-back Paterson? Apparently Darling travelled with the team but failed a late fitness test but now Williams is saying Darling will miss next weeks Cardiff match, doesn’t make sense unless they’re keeping him under wraps for a transfer out this window.