

Another fine victory over Manchester United had put us into the top four going into the first international break and the majority of the Jack Army, including myself, were confident that we'd once again finish comfortably in the top half of the Premier League.

So what has gone wrong since then?


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Every team has bad games but I'm starting to think there's more to it than that. In most of the eight games we've played the performance levels have not been acceptable. I'm especially looking at Watford, Southampton, Stoke and Norwich.




Bafetimbi Gomis is a name that immediately springs to mind.

His offside stats for a start are embarrassing, he is wasting so many attacks it's unreal. For his size he often gets muscled off the ball too easily when we really need him to hold the ball up and of course the goals have now dried up.

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Which begs the question why hasn't he been dropped? Eder was signed for £5m in the summer, he must be thinking "why did I come here?"


Complacency is a disease in football, but the Frenchman can now afford to be complacent as it appears he's become undroppable.


The case of Gylfi Sigurdsson and Jonjo Shelvey


Talking of Sigurdsson and can anyone explain to me why when you're a goal down you would take him off and bring on Leon Britton.


We are not seeing him or Jonjo Shelvey shoot from long range anymore and when a lot of teams sit deep against us it's an option that we need to utilise more often.





Substitutions are another thing that baffles me.


Yet for the trip to Norwich he finds himself out of the eighteen. Marvin Emnes is another player who isn't a great starter but is known for making a good cameo as a sub yet he's been bombed out of the picture completely.

Wayne Routledge is undoubtedly a better player than both but as this afternoon showed he isn't as influential from the bench as either of those two.


And what about our defending.


We barely ever even have an effort at goal from one (unless it's a shot direct from a free kick) and defensively we look like conceding in every game.

I have to question how we are organising ourselves at corners. Who's picking up who seems to be an issue, I remember at West Ham last year Angel Rangel marking Andy Carroll at a corner which was absurd and today we saw Ki marking Cameron Jerome and predictably he lost him at a free kick which nearly led to a goal.

Why aren't one of the centre halves picking up the main goal threats?

The same thing happened for the Canaries goal.

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Two players completely unmarked, Fabianski in no man's land and an easy tap in for Jonny Howson to win the game for the hosts.

It's been the story of the last few weeks, Stoke winning a penalty against us was a catalogue of errors on our part, Villa's goal was scored from our own corner and don't get me started on Arsenal's second last week.

The Captain and Manager

Even Mr Reliable himself Ashley Williams isn't performing at the moment which is probably the biggest worry of all. He's been directly at fault for more goals over the last couple of months than in living memory.

Despite all this I'm nowhere near at the point of saying Garry Monk should go.

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Should Garry Monk go?



I do believe though that his inexperience is starting to show.

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Let's hope he comes through it will be tempted back.

Social Media Watch

it's not just Steven who's suffering watching the Swans at the moment.

The reaction on Twitter and Facebook has been strong, to say the least.

The inquest continued on our Swansea City Online Facebook page

Jes Hoyer: The play is far too narrow, far too little movement and too few men in the box.

Graham Anthony: No excuses this time Monk, we are in deep trouble. Time to own up, the team are heading into a relegation fight.

Dan James: Monk has lost the plot!! Blame everyone and everything, bar him .

Adrian Thomas: What has gone wrong. We are much better than this. Where has our energy gone? We are poor.