Swansea City Transfer Policy

Complacent About Results

This will seem odd coming from a Swansea City fan but over the last four seasons I haven't really cared about results. I recall following Swansea when we actually felt quite lucky to more than 2000 fans at the Vetch Field on a cold Wednesday night, so simply being in the Premier League felt like we had won every year for the last six seasons! That Premier League status felt safe until we recently drew with Bournemouth, it was then that I understood that we might be going back to the dark days of League Two football or even worse. How I ache to be complacent about results again!

So as a big fan over more than 20 years what do I think now.... Many small clubs have had extended runs in the top division Wimbledon, Stoke, Fulham are not exactly Man Utd, Chelsea so as a fan I feel extremely lucky to have witnessed the Swans in the Premier League.

I've heard rumours of trouble at the club and it does sound as if Monk wasn't able to control the situation so I think its the right time to look for a change.

The Swans Tactics

Tactically we've always had quite a simple yet elegant system, keep the ball, try and pull opposition players out of position and once that has happened then go for the jugular. Naturally teams will attempt to counter this by pressing high but by doing this leave themselves exposed to the long ball. I've seen Ashley Williams find Dyer with a long diagonal ball quite few times to know this can be counter productive for the opposition.

The Wrong Transfers

For many years now it was ball into the feet of a target-man with two fast wingers running off him, I think Ayew and Gomis don't quite fit into the system. Both were free transfers so were the Swans board being blinded by too good a deal when signing these players?

I think Ayew is good enough to adapt to play in another position but that is what he needs to do. I think Gomis is at the wrong club and we need to find another Bony!

Football Manager 2016

Its been some time since I thought about playing Football Manager, I've not really got time to invest in a game where a season takes 10 hours of my time.

It seems to me SI have been adding stuff to do which just makes season length, in terms of my time, longer.

Recently of course classic mode has tweaked my interest and mobile versions are much more in line with what I'm looking for.

However even mobile hasn't got me hooked, it just takes so long.

There is another aspect of FM that still does appeal and that is on-line. Some of the best moments I've had in gaming is the drama of end of month wage auctions in FML. Staring at the screen have I bid enough or too much.

SI invested a lot in FML and they got such a bloody nose with the failure of Football Manager Live I thought it would be ages before they dipped their toes in the water again.

However I'm reading about draft mode and its looks like a lot of fun! This was from Beta and not a typical a game by the looks of it.

Battlefield 4 Download

Well I tried the beta and it did run on my laptop which to be fair is borderline specification. Turning everything off resulted in a playable frame rate so I thought I would buy the game. It is crashtastic, I know my laptop is a low spec for the game but it should either refuse to run or should run slowly, it should not crash! This is software design 101, apparently though software 101 is not EA's strong point. I even got it on XBOX and that crashes as well, not as often but still it locks up the entire XBOX it is pathetic, so I asked for a refund, answer no. Why are Microsoft letting unstable games on the XBOX platform? Money I guess.

Forza Horizon

Got into this in a big way, just enjoyed the way the cars handled even played it online quite a lot. The new mods were very good fun especially cat and mouse. If you haven't heard then the concept then cat and mouse racing is two teams of 4 one on each is the mouse (very slow car) the others cats (fast car) only a mouse can win, what follows is a lot of crashing blocking etc.

Still working on a number of sites biggest currently is Pre Loved Ads which is a free ads or gumtree clone.

US School Shootings

Sympathies with the families and the children in this horrible incident. Adam Lanza being questioned by Police. Sad times especially at this time of year.

FIFA13 Finds it Rightful Place

In the bin nuff said :)

FM2013 Pre Release Media

Recently have been really enjoying TF2 and MVM but like every year I try to stay tuned to Football Related games and in particular Football Manager.

For me the Classic mode in 2013 is a big pull, I like the idea of FM but over the last few years it feels like I'm playing spreadsheets since the pace of the game is so slow. From what I have read about classic mode the pace is changed so that you should be able to get through a season in five hours so tempting...

Downloading the FM2013 demo as I write. I still think the last big thing left is multi-player but after SI got their fingers burnt with FML I think the wounds need to heal before they revisit this.

I still can't understand why they can't do perpetual games that run at a predetermined speeds, 1 season a week / month / bi-monthly. You join a game with no reputation, you can join any club (not managed by another) but if you have no rep you'll get sacked should you not perform.

So lets say you join a game in season 6 and decide you fancy being manager of Liverpool you draw with Everton and the fans would be screaming for your head. However if you have a reputation the same thing happens and they would cut you some slack.

I concede there are lots of issues to overcome but it could be made to work and by charging micro-payments to play (like Valve do with TF2) and the future of the game is very rosy indeed!