MATCHWATCH : Swansea City (h)

[Royal_jimmy]

Yay we finally beat those Welsh pricks at home

[scumbag]

An excellent 3 points, we can make it difficult but we get the job done. Ince has instilled so much fight into this team and I LOVE it. Shame Dean Smith has been sacked at Carrow road as it was all quite toxic there, but we can turn up with our tails up.

[Elm Park Kid]

Another performance that leaves you in no doubt of the limitations of the teams but heartened by our ability to win the games we need to.

[retro royal]

So many weaknesses but the fight is unbelievable, 6 wins from the last 22 should surely keep us safe, proud of everything the team is managing to do, you royals

[Franchise FC]

We really are not very good at defending a lead!!

Did I miss their equaliser ?

[Snowflake Royal]

Good result... should really have made the game safe, plenty of chances if a few provided by Swansea. Not sure Meite would ever be my penalty taker of choice, especially with Carroll and, tbh, Hendrick, on the pitch.

Bit more hairy than necessary, but job done. Lumley a bit flappy but some good work too.

Loum dropped some real clangers, at times.

Well taken goals.

What does NGW have to do to start?

[YorkshireRoyal99]

I don't think it can be understated how important that win is with our next two league fixtures. Especially considering how crammed it is from 5th to 16th, we really needed that just as a buffer for the next couple of games and it really takes the pressure off. Still, 3 wins from 4 and we should have got something at Birmingham as well.

Think this game really summed us up this year, not pretty, but gritty and we finally have some sort of backbone and resilience to get us over the line whereas in previous years we've been lightweight and had about as much resistance as sugar glass.

Couple of good saves from Lumley, which was interesting seen as the Sky Sports commentators say that he is the worst performing goalkeeper in terms of expected shots saved this season, which would align with some comments made on here about him never making any good saves, but thought he made two good ones from Cooper and Piroe before the eventual goal.

Loum was a funny one, a couple of really good moments coupled together with some really wtf moments. Really well-timed challenge for the goal and a great Cruyff turn under pressure but he couldn't pass a ball in the first 10 minutes, sloppily gave it away leading to their goal and a poor challenge that earnt him a yellow. But there's something about him I like, thought he did pretty well. As did the team, onwards and upwards.

[YorkshireRoyal99]

Good result... should really have made the game safe, plenty of chances if a few provided by Swansea. Not sure Meite would ever be my penalty taker of choice, especially with Carroll and, tbh, Hendrick, on the pitch.

Bit more hairy than necessary, but job done. Lumley a bit flappy but some good work too.

Loum dropped some real clangers, at times.

Well taken goals.

What does NGW have to do to start?

Yeah I was surprised when it was Meite and not Carroll, never really felt confident when he was standing over it.

Yeah Lumley was the opposite of what you'd expect, a couple of good saves but suspect from crosses.

Just mentioned Loum above, can laugh about it when you win!

[karbota]

Good result... should really have made the game safe, plenty of chances if a few provided by Swansea. Not sure Meite would ever be my penalty taker of choice, especially with Carroll and, tbh, Hendrick, on the pitch.

Bit more hairy than necessary, but job done. Lumley a bit flappy but some good work too.

Loum dropped some real clangers, at times.

Well taken goals.

What does NGW have to do to start?

Yet you still keep bigging him up.

[Snowflake Royal]

Good result... should really have made the game safe, plenty of chances if a few provided by Swansea. Not sure Meite would ever be my penalty taker of choice, especially with Carroll and, tbh, Hendrick, on the pitch.

Bit more hairy than necessary, but job done. Lumley a bit flappy but some good work too.

Loum dropped some real clangers, at times.

Well taken goals.

What does NGW have to do to start?

Yet you still keep bigging him up.

You're thick and racist, please don't speak to me.

[Hound]

Enjoyable second half, once Swansea stopped trying to send everyone into a coma with their dismal Stamball efforts. Thought we did well. I don’t for one minute think we’re a great side but we don’t have bloody battle hard

Main criticism was lack of ability to keep the ball, esp at the end. But we could and should have been 3 or 4 up by the time they scored and they didn’t really threaten that much at the end.

Can’t stand Swansea, bunch of whining diving cry babies. And their fans much the same. Think playing keep ball with their back 3 constitutes good football and dominating a game.

Anyway, Meite had an absolute horror show, and not just the pen. I thought Loum was outstanding bar the usual cock ups. such a shame he makes so many. Jeff did well, Carroll a real handful. McIntyre and Holmes v good.

Just delighted to squeeze out another typical 3 Paul Ince points. Well done all

[karbota]

Good result... should really have made the game safe, plenty of chances if a few provided by Swansea. Not sure Meite would ever be my penalty taker of choice, especially with Carroll and, tbh, Hendrick, on the pitch.

Bit more hairy than necessary, but job done. Lumley a bit flappy but some good work too.

Loum dropped some real clangers, at times.

Well taken goals.

What does NGW have to do to start?

Yet you still keep bigging him up.

You're thick and racist, please don't speak to me.

Speak to yourself =

Re: 2022/23 Best XI?
A fully fit, on form and focussed Ejaria would be in my 11 without a doubt. Prob in CM with Loum or potentially at 10 with Ince moving to CF But he seems a long long way from that atm I think he was best during his initial loan spell in CM. I think we've tried to do ...

[karbota]

Yet you still keep bigging him up.

You're thick and racist, please don't speak to me.

Speak to yourself =

Re: 2022/23 Best XI?
A fully fit, on form and focussed Ejaria would be in my 11 without a doubt. Prob in CM with Loum or potentially at 10 with Ince moving to CF But he seems a long long way from that atm I think he was best during his initial loan spell in CM. I think we've tried to do ...

Loum and Ejaria FFS. Remind me again about your love boy Rakles?

[Royal_jimmy]

For an hour I thought we were executing the game plan perfectly. The last 30 minutes were poor and I'm relieved we held on. If another keeper time wasted like Lumley does I'd go mental

[windermereROYAL]

Rarely make it easy for ourselves do we? the subs were poor, what is the point of defending with no outlet? surely NGW instead of baba

[Hound]

For an hour I thought we were executing the game plan perfectly. The last 30 minutes were poor and I'm relieved we held on. If another keeper time wasted like Lumley does I'd go mental

Lumley is an absolute shithouse. Goading their fans, winding up their idiot manager etc

You’d hate him if he was on the opposition.

[Crowbar6753]

We really are not very good at defending a lead!!

Did I miss their equaliser ?

I thought it was coming

[PieEater]

It was a relief to get that over the line, the last 30 mins was stressful with us sitting back, I just wish we'd play rather than resort to hoofball. Having said that I was amused at Swansea's sheep flock formation, the whole team seemed to follow the ball everywhere.

Great to beat them at home after so long even after missing a penalty.

[Zip]

These 5.15pm kick offs are weird. It felt so much later than just gone 7pm when the game finished.

It was an excellent win against decent opposition and a very good atmosphere generated by both sets of fans.

Lumley's best game for us imo. A great save from Piroe's header and unlucky it dropped to the Swansea player. Holmes excellent too. His positioning has improved so much

A word on Yaks. It wasn't his best game but he made a huge contribution for our first goal. He won the corner out of nothing from which he did superbly to win the free- kick from which we scored. Let's not forger that.

Ten points clear from the relegation zone and outside the play offs on goal difference. That's brilliant. We are not pretty to watch and we sit too deep but there is a resilience to this side we have lacked for a long time. We are much more streetwise these days too.

[Needle]

So many weaknesses but the fight is unbelievable, 6 wins from the last 22 should surely keep us safe, proud of everything the team is managing to do, you royals

Someone's going down with 50+ points this season. So yeah, that, and a draw for good measure please.