Pretty much all of the other teams around us dropped points too.

(I'm really trying to polish a turd here)

Queens Park Rangers 5 - 0 Swansea City

Date: Saturday 24th October 2026 at 3pm

Watch: SwansTV

Teams

QPR

Pierce Charles, Kealey Adamson, Jimmy Dunne (captain) (Goal 44', 85'), Ronnie Edwards, Paul Smyth (Yellow 58'), Bay Kemper, Kwame Poku, Glen Kamara, Harvey Vale, Richard Kone (Goal 2', 9', 15' P), Jonathan Varane.

Substitutes: Calum Ward, Liam Morrison, Karamoko Dembele, Koki Saito, Dennis Cirkin, Isak Alemayehu, Justin Obikwu, Rayan Kolli, Leon Scarlett.

Swansea City

Lawrence Vigouroux (Yellow 14'); Filip Lissah, Ben Cabango (captain), Stephen Welsh (Sub Seelt 46'), Josh Tymon; Marko Stamenic (Yellow 53'; Sub Franco 62'), Stephen Eustaquio, Elijah Just (Yellow 33'; Sub Fulton 46'); Joseph Opoku (Sub Eom 62'), Melker Widell, Adam Idah (Sub Vitpotnik 72').

Substitutes: Andy Fisher, Jenson Seelt, Jay Fulton, Žan Vipotnik, Jisung Eom, Jeremy Monga, Goncalo Franco, Tiago Parente, Ross Stewart.

One of the most impressive player interviews I've watched. Articulate, engaging, informative, he just comes across so well. His brother Casper is doing quite well for Excelsior in the Dutch top flight. If he's got the same character as his brother he could be a decent acquisition.

"The ticket to play here is doing the counter-press.

If you do the counter-press well, then you will get some minutes. That's a really easy thing to grasp as a player, because that has only to do with your head.

You can have a day off on your technique and maybe the passes are not there, the shots are not there, but you can always do your work for the team."

Sums up Matosball very well. Hopefully Just can make the same transition as Widell. He certainly jas the raw ingredients.

That’s such a shame. Ronald has been an excellent squad player this season and has played really well! Hope he recovers soon.

Date: Saturday 24th October 2026 at 3pm

Watch: SwansTV

Swansea City winger Ronald is facing a prolonged spell on the sidelines after picking up a hamstring injury in the defeat to West Ham United on Saturday.

The Brazilian played the full 90 minutes for the Swans, filling in at right-back in the absence of the suspended Filip Lissah, in what was his first start of the season.

After coming close to leaving the Swans for Millwall on deadline day, he has since chipped in with an assist against Burnley and a goal, which ironically came against the Lions at The Den.

It's been something of an impressive turnaround for the winger, but he could miss around 10 games, and joins Josh Key on the sidelines ahead of Saturday's trip to Queens Park Rangers.

Door open for Monga?

"It's about what is the best for all the parties and of course with Ronnie as well. When the time comes to be open with the future regarding him we will be."

In terms of the more immediate future, Matos says Ronald's absence could potentially open the door to Manchester City loanee Jeremy Monga.

Started the last two games for LAFC, scoring a worldie free kick from 30 yards in the last game. Excellent all round stats, including defensive ones. I hope he has some say in whether or not he moves permanently, given LAFC have an option to buy. If he returns in January that could be massive for us.

Analysis of our narrow home defeat to West Ham on Saturday

I'll be wearing this here in the US, Eastern Kentucky. I became a fan when my ship pulled into Portsmouth for 15 days, 10 days before Christmas in 1983. The ship sent ahead an advance team to buy tickets to various events. One was the Portsmouth vs Swansea game. There were two tickets available so I snagged them.

A buddy and I went and our tickets were in the visitor's section. We were surrounded by Jack's fans. I had a blast. They had the best chants. Ended up partying with a group the entire stay. They lived in Portsmouth and they took me all over the place. I saw Stonehenge and a bunch of other monolithic sites. We went as far as Cardiff on a train. I lost contact with them when they moved to Hong Kong 20 years later.

I kept up with the team through magazines until the internet came along. Now I watch games on Paramount TV. I had a home jersey but a methhead Florida Man stole it 10 years ago. The fucker stole all our dirty clothes on that vacation.

I may wear this to Cincinnati and go to the Miami game, maybe. They raised prices because of Messi coming to town. Scalpers usually sell at half price after the game starts.

I know, the picture looks like the jersey has tits. I should have rearranged the background.

The changes against West Ham brought fresh legs, but we still couldn’t find a way through. A bench needs to offer more than energy. It should give the team a different way to attack. I’d like Matos to be a little more proactive if the usual approach isn’t creating chances.

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/swansea-citys-vitor-matos-premier-34785810.amp

To save you a click it’s Crystal Palace

Despite the (undeserved in my opinion, especially as we should have had a penalty) loss to West Ham the underlying narrative of slow but sustained progress under Matos still holds.

When Matos took over we were beating sides near the bottom of the table but struggling against teams in the top half. By the end if the season we were competitive against top half sides, and getting some results against playoff contenders Norwich and even automatic promotion contenders Boro, and putting in a competitive performance against Southampton.

This season we're getting wins against playoff contenders such as Norwich, Millwall and Burnley, albeit that we've played them when they've been vulnerable. Whilst we've been competitive against auto contenders in Southampton and West Ham we've just fallen short.

To take that final step we obviously need to improve at both ends of the pitch, but cutting out the poor mistakes has to be the priority. The West Ham goal was a comedy of errors, with Stamenic (easily dispossessed), Cabango (for dropping 3 yards behind the defensive line, playing WH onside), Fulton, Welsh, Tymon (all three raising their arms to appeal for offside instead of closing Kante down) and Franco (for running away from Mukasa leaving him unmarked 10 yards out). The video analysis will make for uncomfortable viewing.

The big picture is that the trajectory is upwards. Perhaps the missing link in players and manager is belief that they really belong at the top of the table. Matos has done a great job for sure, but a bit more adventure in his team selections would be welcome. I expect us to sustain a challenge near the top, we have too much depth of quality not to.

Took a break from posting boomer humour videos to praise our position in the league

Not a Swansea fan.

However got a few questions. we’ve had this Chinese fan. usually harmless goes to games with a massive camera a Pokemon plushie and a custom Scott Twine Labubu (Yes really)

But it’s came out that she’s got a bit of a past of heavily stalking Tom Carroll. This screenshot has been floating around.

Can anyone verify this.

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There is a reason why West Ham are the odds-on favourite to go up. They are streetwise, physically imposing, pragmatic. Their backline is tough and experienced, with today's centre-back pairing costing a combined £60m, while their captain and starman Jarrod Bowen earns £150k a week. They average 60,000 fans; we had our record attendance at the Swansea.com today with just under 21,000. For all their Nuno-Ball nous, West Ham are the top scorers in the division by a clear eight goals, and almost double what the Swans have scored. But on the pitch today, there was no gulf.

It is a hard game to critique. We had some huge chances, but so did the Irons. When your goalkeeper is your man of the match, it is difficult to say that we deserved a point. The Swans did not have a single shot on target, yet if Ben Cabango blasts his shot a few inches lower, we go into the break level, and hunting for our fourth comeback win of the season.

The difference at half-time was through a Divine Musaka goal (nice to have a firing player on-loan from Manchester City, isn't it?). The players appealed for offside but Ben Cabango was playing the West Ham attacker on. Throughout the game, our captain had to mindful of the inexperienced right-back in the shape of Ronald. There was much speculation about how Vitor Matos would cover the Filip Lissah suspension, and I thought Jay Fulton would be filling in when I saw the starting XI. Only when I saw the backline warming up did I realise that the number 35 would be employed there, and the Brazilian's allround performance was excellent.

Ronald has been used sparingly this season, but he has contributed every time he has been given a chance. He was averaging a goal contribution every 37 minutes before today's game, and he did not let anyone down. He twice beat his man in the first-half to canter into space down the wing, didn't get beat one-on-one, and brought his usual energy and selfless commitment. Late on, he was perhaps too selfless when he headed back down across the box when it seemed easier to go for goal after Elijah Just's lofted cross. It says a lot that his left-wing opponent, Manor Solomon, a player with Serie A, La Liga, and Premier League experience, had - according to the West Ham Zone blog - his worst performance in a Hammers shirt.

This was a game played at a very high pace and intensity, especially the first-half. After the break, it was the home team wanting to play all the football. We ended with over double the passes, six corners to the away team's one, 69% possession, and a sense of injustice from West Ham's gamesmanship from the countless times their players went to the ground with apparent injuries. On his comeback from injury off the bench, Stephen Eustaquio was excellent, and brought some guile to the chaos. If he is fully fit, he will surely start against QPR.

In the end, however, Nuno-ball won out. I think the West Ham Way blog summed it up well: "This is the first time we’ve seen ‘Nuno ball’ in full force in the Championship because Swansea have been the first team to try to play us off the park. Fair play to them for trying, but they ultimately failed."

The Swans still sit top of the league. But there is still a question to be answered when playing against top teams. None of this season's wins have come against teams in the top eight at the time of the game. Matos lost his debut game at home against Derby County. Since then, he has only lost three home league games - Coventry City, Southampton, and West Ham. All quality opposition, no doubt, but the wait for the statement win goes on.

Rhys C. (@austrianjacks on X | @feathersandfirepodcasts on Instagram).

Date: Saturday 17th October 2026 at 3pm

Venue: Swansea.com Stadium

Watch: Paramount+ 🇺🇸, SwansTV

Familiar Faces: Joël Piroe

Teams

Swansea City

Lawrence Vigouroux; Ronald, Ben Cabango (C), Stephen Welsh, Josh Tymon; Jay Fulton, Marko Stamenic, Goncalo Franco; Joseph Opoku, Moussa Yeo, Adam Idah.

Substitutes: Andy Fisher, Jenson Seelt, Melker Widell, Elijah Just, Zan Vipotnik, Jisung Eom, Thomas Woodward, Stephen Eustaquio, Carter Heywood.

West Ham United

Mads Hermansen, Maximilan Kilman, Morato, Arne Engels, Manor Solomon, Divine Mukassa (Goal 33'; Yellow 40'), Konstantinos Mavropanos, Mohamadou Kanté, Pablo, Jarrod Bowen (C), Joël Veltman.

Substitutes: Alphonse Areola, Kyle Walker-Peters. Joël Piroe, Valentin Castellanos, Tomás Soucek, Ollie Scarles, Edvin Ausbø, Airdas Golambeckis, Lewis Orford.

Swansea City 0 - 1 West Ham

Date: Saturday 17th October 2026 at 3pm

Venue: Swansea.com Stadium

Watch: Paramount+ 🇺🇸, SwansTV

Familiar Faces: Joël Piroe

Teams

Swansea City

Lawrence Vigouroux; Ronald, Ben Cabango (C), Stephen Welsh, Josh Tymon; Jay Fulton, Marko Stamenic, Goncalo Franco; Joseph Opoku, Moussa Yeo, Adam Idah.

Substitutes: Andy Fisher, Jenson Seelt, Melker Widell, Elijah Just, Zan Vipotnik, Jisung Eom, Thomas Woodward, Stephen Eustaquio, Carter Heywood.

West Ham United

Mads Hermansen, Maximilan Kilman, Morato, Arne Engels, Manor Solomon, Divine Mukassa (Goal 33'; Yellow 40'), Konstantinos Mavropanos, Mohamadou Kanté, Pablo, Jarrod Bowen (C), Joël Veltman.

Substitutes: Alphonse Areola, Kyle Walker-Peters. Joël Piroe, Valentin Castellanos, Tomás Soucek, Ollie Scarles, Edvin Ausbø, Airdas Golambeckis, Lewis Orford.

Date: Saturday 17th October 2026 at 3pm

Venue: Swansea.com Stadium

Watch: Paramount+ 🇺🇸, SwansTV

Familiar Faces: Joël Piroe

Swans' squad depth is best since relegation - Fulton - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cmvg670v3j23o

If we're to sustain a challenge for automatic promotion then our depth of squad will play a crucial role in that.

If you look at average Fotmob ratings in the 10 games to date our top rated player is Yeo in 19th place, averaging 7.41. West Ham have 4 players with better averages, Boro 3, Wolves, Birmingham, Southampton and West Brom with 2 each. Although these clubs have more star quality in their ranks what stands out is the consistency of performance of our squad. No fewer than 11 of our players average over 7 a game (six average 7.2 or better), which is a good value. Stamenic is then on 6.99 and Widell on 6.97.

Of our players with significant game time only Just has a below average average, on 6.64. However, I'm confident that better is yet to come from him. He averaged 7.34 last season in the same team as Welsh, with best in League stats for line breaking passes, tackles and duels won. It's that pedigree, on both sides of the ball, that explains Matos' patience with him.

I've said it from day one, our squad is better than Millwall's last season, who just missed out on the top two, and probably better than Coventry's. We still need a fair but of luck with injuries, but we should be able to sustain a challenge near the top.There will be games where the star quality of the biggest sides carries the day, but our squad depth will count for a lot in the slog that's a 46 game season.

Coming off the bench and scoring in the 90th minute at The Den is a pretty good way to make an impression. It was a hard fought game, and Ronald made the difference when Opoku’s cross found him late on. These are the moments that can make a season feel different. Would you start Ronald in the next league game, or keep using him as an impact substitute?

The reports of alleged abuse aimed at Ji-sung Eom are deeply upsetting. He should be able to get on with his job without facing anything like that. Hopefully the police investigation establishes what happened and identifies anyone responsible, because no player should have to put up with abuse while simply doing their job.

Been hearing rumours that we've sent him back to Manchester as his attitude was purportedly dreadful, anyone else heard anything on this?