The Swansea dog called Jack

NJ73 is fine and has some decent contibutions on here.

He hasn't been a tool and in fact made a thread congratulating us.

And NJ, I agree about Shelvey. It amuses me how bad his one touch football is.

Odd signing, that one.

I know it's only one game, but do you think swansea are still light years ahead of us on the pitch?

Light years? Nope, and I wouldn't expect to be given your financial outlay this summer (albeit you haven't seen your striker yet).

Will we finish higher in the league as things stand? I'd be amazed if we didn't.

In terms of the players that featured for us today, only 4 were additions to last season, albeit at around £22m.

Not sure about your lot but Bony and Shelvey cost £18m didn't they? Plus Alvaro and pozuelo so overall not too dissimilar. So if the gap is no longer light years, seems it didn't take too much to close it after all.

I still think there is a decent gap there which will show at the end of the season, obviously today's result does nothing in the way of proving that however

We are not helped by Laudrups annoying insistence on playing Michu up top when Bony could really do with a run of games. I thought we actually possessed more of a threat once that change had been made. Our second half performance today was as poor as anything I have witnessed since we reached the PL. I give you as much credit for that though as I give criticism for to our lot.

As for Shelvey. Liability.

I must admit I was surprised how little you offered especially the 2nd half. Even the possession stat was a lot closer than I expected. Michu barely featured apart from the sniff he had 1st half. Your fullbacks hard,y overlapped but I think that's because we pushed ours so far forward.KTC was outstanding for us.

For what it's worth I don't think we will finish above you, but if we stay up with a derby win under our belts, ill be more than happy