u/Yankee_Jack

First game of the season - not a typical cup tie line-up. Vig in goal.

New players galore on the field. Last season's typical starts now on the bench. Zip still not consider as fit / worthy as Idah. Interesting. Walta on the bench also.

Swansea City: Lawrence Vigouroux; Filip Lissah, Ben Cabango (captain), Cameron Burgess, Josh Tymon; Marko Stamenic, Melker Widell, Elijah Just; Moussa Yeo, Joseph Opoku; Adam Idah.

Substitutes: Andy Fisher, Josh Key, Jay Fulton, Zan Vipotnik, Jisung Eom, Tiago Parente, Leo Walta, Stephen Welsh, Ronald.

Matos: "For us, we don't separate competitions. We work for the next game, and that's what we're going to do this game.

“It's our next game, the first game of the season, so for us it's a game we want to compete in, and that's what we need. It's a competition that we want to stay involved in as much as we can. We prepare as normal, ultimately preparing to try and win the game."

I downloaded the IOS version this past weekend onto my iPhone and iPad. Hoping in vane that I would be able to pick up the Legannes match if it was streamed.

The app doesn't login properly, fails to pick up your profile, and crashes whenever you look at it ... literally.

I have sent emails into the media account at the Club. Not hopeful for a fix by the weekend ... the Brum match is on Paramount+ in the USA.

One other rant while I am at it: the Club didn't post the offer of a season streaming pass until Monday morning. On Saturday last ... not seeing the season pass available ... I purchased a monthly for August. Not well pleased.

Bottom line ... we seem to have our shit together when it comes to player trading this season ... is it tooooo much to ask that the simpler tasks of streaming and apps and media passes (not like any of this is brand new!!!) can be done with some semblance of professionalism.

Are we doing the EPL and Championship prediction leagues this season?

I have a winning streak going.

Downes ... "We are winning this league".

Downes .... never really took to him. He was a bit of c@#t when he played at the Liberty for Soton last season. For that matter, Soton were a bunch of c@#ts when it came to Martin - left a bad taste did that - worse than what Liverpool did wrt Allen when they got Rogers, or what Martinez did with Scotland when Martinez jumped to Wigan.

Downes ... "We had the chance last year but didn't get to [achieve it] for whatever reason but we're looking strong so far."

The "whatever reason" is that Soton were a bunch of cheating bar stewards and are starting this season on -4 points.

Looking forward to seeing the starting line-up and the final dress rehearsal for the competition opener against Brum.

I have a monthly steaming pass in hand. I have emailed the club asking if today's game is being streamed: no response yet. I'm hopeful, otherwise I'll be checking out the match highlights video.

Parker has been sent to a L1 side. Surely he is worth better than that. Wales was sent back to Scotland last season, and Parker has demonstrated value at the Championship level. Would have preferred to have him stay in the squad or at least go to a club in the SPL. It's not like we don't credit up there after the performances of Lissah, Cotterill and Congreve.

For once ... we appear to be playing quality opposition in our preparation for the first match - the league cup tie against Brum.

Austria tour fixtures

• Saturday, July 18 – Swansea City v Holstein Kiel – Kufstein Arena – 4.30pm local time.
• Tuesday, July 21 – Swansea City v VFL Bochum – Fussballplatz Mittersill – 6pm local time.
• Friday, July 24 – Swansea City v Udinese – Fussballplatz Mittersill - 1pm local time.

Home friendly

• Saturday, August 1 - Swansea City v CD Leganes - Swansea.com Stadium - 3pm.

Thank fuck we're not playing L1 and L2 opposition ... again.

Swansea City retained list: 

Players over 24 as of June 30 2026

Florian Bianchini, Cameron Burgess, Ben Cabango, Ollie Cooper, Liam Cullen, Jisung Eom, Paul Farman, Andy Fisher, Goncalo Franco, Jay Fulton, Ethan Galbraith, Adam Idah, Zeidane Inoussa, Josh Key, Ronald, Ricardo Santos, Marko Stamenic, Josh Tymon, Lawrence Vigouroux, Zan Vipotnik, Melker Widell.

 

Players under 24 as of June 30 2026

Morgan Bates, Joe Collins, Cameron Congreve, Jacob Cook, Joel Cotterill, Sebastian Dabrowski, Caleb Demery, Jack Fanning, Yori Griffith, Iestyn Jones, Filip Lissah, Ben Lloyd, Blair McKenzie, Arthur Parker, Sam Parker, Harlan Perry, Josh Pescatore, Ramon Rees-Siso, Thomas Searle, Bobby Wales, Dan Watts, Evan Watts, Kyrell Wilson, Thomas Woodward.

 

Scholars at conclusion of first year

Kaven Bloniarczyk,  Bobo Evans, Harvey Gray, Carter Heywood, Alfie Jones, Josiah Kallicharan, Jack May, Lukas Murphy, Jakub Nowak, Archie Quick, Kai Rhodes, Elis Thomas, Thomas Wright.

 

Offered Professional Contracts

Billy Clarke, Caio Ifans, Callum Jones, Milo Robinson.

https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/00123414/filing-history/MzUxNjgyOTQxMGFkaXF6a2N4/document?format=pdf&download=0

Good or bad?

Quality coach, tons of experience. Who would we replace him with?