Club Football Is Back! | Only Swans #14

So, I suppose we should start by talking about the new season.

How are you feeling?

Um, I'm very confident.

I mean, yeah, I think, I think I've seen a, maybe a little bit of overconfidence online, but you always do, don't you? We've made some fantastic sign-ins, um, some, some pretty decent sales.

You know, I think we probably start off with Stephen Welsh.

I mean, what do you think of that sign-in? I think that a fairly decent sign-in.

I mean, I liked what I saw from, from Welsh at Motherwell last season.

I mean, obviously that's a club we f- we will talk about again in a few minutes, I'm sure.

But he, he's got a bit of the Harry Darling about him-

Yeah

... is probably the best thing I can say.

Defensively, I don't think he's probably as strong as, as Kabango.

I mean, I was gonna say as strong as Burgess as well, but defensively, even there, he's looked, you know, a bit suspect so far, and obviously I'm sure we'll come on to talk about him.

But Welsh is a really good passer.

He's pro- I don't think he's the tallest, he's not the strongest in the air, but as a sort of complement for Kabango, I think he might be quite good.

And I think he's in for, you know, an instant opportunity with the unfortunate injury of Burgess at the weekend against Birmingham City.

Yeah, it looks like a bad one, that, doesn't it? It sounds like he may well have, have ruptured his Achilles, which obviously that's the same injury as Josh Janelly had a couple of years ago.

He never really came back from that, and obviously it is a bit worrying to see someone over 30 sustain that injury.

I mean, you know, I've seen some quite bizarre discourse online of people celebrating his injury, which I think is mental, like on a human level.

Yeah.

You know, guy is, is, is not gonna be able to, you know-

It's-

... walk for however long now.

I think it's the summary of sort of online football fandom, isn't it? Is like-

Yeah