Swansea have a poor squad devoid of any quality, we have either the best or second best squad in the league and our performances prior to the Leeds game were absolutely horrendous. Three really poor games? Not sure what you were watching, but we were awful in nigh on every game this season prior to the switch and it was abundantly clear that against a team with any quality, we would get picked apart, we just happened to be fortunate that we have some supremely talented forward players at this level.
Guess its all about perspective as to what
awful actually is, but for the majority of this season I have been absolutely loving my days back down at the Hawthorns and seeing us try and implement the attaching 3-5-2. It's been exhilarating at times and really got the blood pumping!! My twelve year old has also been having a ball. Yes we were incredibly shaky at the back (don't think I will every forget the sight of Hegazi doing a Cruyf turn on the edge of his own box) and lacking in midfield (which has been helped by the return of Mozza), and yes we rarely played consistently for 90 minutes but when it worked......
Awful to me immediately conjures up images of Gould, Buckley, Little and the Pardew and Pullis show last year when I just stopped caring until Darren Moore came along. We may have been
awful at times, but on the whole its been good fun to watch *
*at home.
Also saying that
we just happened to be fortunate that we have some supremely talented forward players at this level seems a bit harsh. We had obviously been tracking Barnes for a while and made the most of the opportunity that came along with Rafa wanting Rondon. Take away those two and our attack it made up of HRK and JRod which is hardly a wealth of goal scoring talent - so credit where credit etc. If as a manger you find yourself with the aforesaid talented forwards then you will look for a formation to utilise their ability, which 3-5-2 undoubtedly did for those two (even if not for many others 😀)