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Are our expectations too high at the moment? Maybe, but I think it is fair to say that we have been frustrating this far. There have been a number of games where we have been more than in the match and thrown a couple of soft goals away which has changed the game, missed chances at the other end. Just annoying.

We have also become a side without a starting eleven. I know we need to rotate each game but I do like to know who is playing come a weekend. Even if only for my first goal scorer bets. I find myself with only one Swans player in my fantasy league team at the moment. Crazy! No prizes for guessing who he is. We have carefully timed this issue to be at the printers during the dull international break. Hopefully Michu will get on the pitch and earn a cap with arguably the greatest side that has ever been. What does that say about him? He’s been called up to the squad ahead of Soldado at Spurs who cost £26 million, Llorente at Juventus and some bloke at Chelsea who once cost £50 million. Completely deserved but still strange to see. They are all big months but this is hopefully when we start to climb the table and start to look down on Vincent Tans hobby club again. Just when they start to look like a proper club, you can rely on their idiotic Borat wannabee to remind the world that their just a sold-out joke. We wait with anticipation for their next comedy move. We had more interest in Issue #19 than ever before and so we have upped our print run which will mean more copies in our current areas plus we are taking in some extra areas including Mumbles to the West and Glyn Neath to the East. Everyone wants a piece of the Swans and its largest and only free fanzine.

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16: Pictures of the month 18: What the Fans think 20: Where are they now? Matty interviews Paul Connor

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It has been really difficult to limit ourselves to just ten ‘JBs’ for this series. Over a hundred years of a football club has brought many heroes both on and off the field. Our next JB has never been a club hero, their name has never been sung from the terrace and yet I find it incredibly difficult to imagine where we would be without them. Not flavour of the month at the moment with certain sections of the fans and a controversial one I know but our next JB is the Evening Post. I met up with the Evening Posts Football Writer Stephen Ware. How long have you been with the Post? 6 years, I joined at the start of season 07/08, the campaign Swansea got out of league One. I was previously with the Bath Chronicle but I have followed Swansea for years. How important was the Evening Post in keeping you up to date with all things Swans as a youngster supporting the club? Very important when I was younger. Obviously as you know yourself, Swansea didn’t have the profile they do now. You couldn’t just pick up any old newspaper and find out about them. It was just the Western Mail or the Evening Post. Apart from that there was teletext, 390 on ceefax and 470 on ITV. Then it was the Evening Post, which would always have more coverage than the Western Mail. The Western Mail would have the odd piece about four or five pages in but the Evening Post would always have Swansea on the back page, it was always their main focus: that was the place to go. Do you have an idea of how long the EP has been covering the Swans? No, not exactly. Since the club was founded in 1912 I think The Swansea Herald or other papers linked to the Evening Post have been covering the club, but I’m not 100 per cent sure.

I wonder whether there has ever been a time where the EP considered dropping the content, clearly a huge amount of resources goes into covering the club and I wonder whether it was financially worthwhile when the interest was at its lowest? I’m told that when Swansea were flirting with relegation from the Football League, the editor talked about it. I’m not sure if it would ever have happened but apparently the editor mentioned reducing coverage in passing. Perhaps the paper would have just covered the home games or looked to scale back a bit because going into the Conference wouldn’t just have been a drop in divisions but a change in the whole nature of the club. I don’t think there was a definite plan to reduce coverage, just whispers about it. Apart from that, I don’t think it’s been on the agenda because regardless of how well, or poorly, Swansea are doing, the club has always been a major part of the city. People say that Swansea is a rugby city but football drives the paper. A good news rugby story will improve sales, but a good news story about the Swans sends figures through the roof and so that has always been the main focus. Have the fans changed? Now everyone supports the Swans. They have provided a feel good factor to the city. Everyone wants to be a part of it. People have their own opinions about that, plastic fans and all that. I can understand why someone who has been on the North Bank for thirty years and can’t get a ticket now is upset with the situation, but you couldn’t have this scale of success without larger numbers of supporters .

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We still don’t seem to have any newspaper journali I can’t recall a local newspaper ever sponsoring a outside of the EP and Western Mail who know professional side like the EP did in 96/97. Do you know anything about the club and Swans breaking news how that came about? comes from EP before the big is that it I thinkHethe Yorkshire sponsored Leeds ago and was actuallyPost complimentary aboutyears Souza too; I thought I’d lure youthe in with the ‘mental’ jibenationals, but he said becoming increasingly harder to get the big storie the South Wales Echo sponsored Cardiff, but it certainly first or are the nationals still being a bit disinterest isn’t usual. commercial came as us fans exceptI asked maybethe that he and thedirector players before felt theI same here about thisleft. and‘Wigan? not even he is they’re sure. 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I can’t recall a local newspaper ever sponsoring a professional side like the EP did in 96/97. Do you know how that came about? I think the Yorkshire Post sponsored Leeds years ago and the South Wales Echo sponsored Cardiff, but it certainly isn’t usual. I asked the commercial director before I came here about this and not even he is sure. At the time the club was in a difficult position financially as they tended to be until recently. He’s not sure whether the paper approached the club or the club approached the paper because they couldn’t find anyone else or a deal had fallen through. Basically, at the time I think the paper and Swansea were very close and had a very good relationship and the paper was able to help the club out. I don’t think there were big numbers involved. Maybe the paper offered the club some advertising space or something. From what I’m led to believe the top brass at the paper and the top brass at the club were very closely connected, and I think that has carried on since. The club need the paper a lot less today than they used to because of how far they have come and the money involved in the Premier League. But I think the club recognise that when they weren’t doing so well in the past the paper was always there. The EP was instrumental in dislodging Petty and backed the supporters trust right from the start, was it a brave move at the time to go against the person in charge of the club? Funnily enough, I checked about this before I came out as well. I’m told that the Petty time was the only time that the paper wasn’t really on the same page as the club. It probably was a brave move in one sense but public opinion was so overwhelmingly against Petty that I think it would have been very difficult from the paper’s point of view to side with him as the paper is supposed to represent it’s readers. His position was untenable and papers have to make a stand sometimes.

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Some fans feel that at times the paper and club are too close and that reporters gloss up some performances, certainly individual ones. Do you feel like you can openly slate an individual or team performance or is it difficult because you want to keep a good relationship with the players and the club? It is a fair point. It is difficult compared to a national situation. A national journalist could pile into a player and not see that player for weeks, they can write what they like without any repercussions. We deal with the club on a daily basis so have to maintain a working relationship. We cannot afford to upset the squad or no one would talk to us and they’d be nothing in the paper. Having said that, I don’t think we could get away with pulling the wool over people’s eyes. If a player has had a poor performance we’ll mention it, but perhaps not go straight for the jugular like others would. It’s a balancing act. I don’t think supporters would appreciate us laying into players left, right and centre anyway. And we don’t shy away from reporting some issues that don’t necessarily reflect the club in a positive light. Look at last summer when Laudrup was rumoured to be going, we could have brushed that under the carpet because people at the club didn’t really want us to report it and bring it out into the public domain, but we did because it was important.

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We still don’t seem to have any newspaper journalists outside of the EP and Western Mail who know anything about the club and Swans breaking news still comes from the EP before the big nationals, is it becoming increasingly harder to get the big stories first or are the nationals still being a bit disinterested and lazy regarding the club? National journalists are always at Swansea games, but I still don’t think Swansea have the profile to get on the back pages of national papers. National journalists are fairly well clued up now Swansea are in their third Premier League season, but that wasn’t the case a couple of years ago. There have been times when big name national journalists asked basic questions about Swansea players, their style and been amazed by Leon’s story with the club. In terms of getting stories, there is more competition for them, but the EP is front of the queue as we have the best contacts and people at the club trust the paper more than they trust others.

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The Post has been under scrutiny from certain fans over the way they covered the Michael Laudrup interest over the summer. Can you understand their discontent? I can understand why they didn’t like the story because at the end of the season everyone was happy with Michael Laudrup and didn’t want him to go. But the fact is, the paper did not create the story, we reported on it - don’t shoot the messenger. If something bad is happening at the club, would fans rather that the paper ignored it or would they prefer to know what is going on? If you want us to report on the club, it is not always going to be good news. We also have to report the bad stuff. We got accused of making things up, which is ludicrous. We can’t just make things up. I know national press can be a bit creative with certain celebrity stories but a paper like ours can’t make things up from a legal point of view. We can’t afford to get sued for libel. Also, it is not in our interest to make things like that up. Negative stories don’t sell papers; if we wanted to make something up we would have been much better off linking Swansea with Lionel Messi or something like that: that would sell papers. So it’s not logical to say that the paper made it up, it didn’t help anyone. People want to know what is going on at the club and I think the Post has a responsibility to inform them. We had people calling up the office, threatening to come down and sort us out and all sorts of things, so we didn’t help ourselves by covering the story. The club didn’t ban us from games for reporting that story and didn’t speak out against the paper. So perhaps it wasn’t all made-up because surely they would have discredited us if it was untrue. The fact that there are no quotes in a story doesn’t mean that it’s untrue. There are times when someone in a delicate position gives you information but doesn’t want to be quoted because they don’t want to be identified. It is possible to talk from a position of authority and not quote anyone.

Are you under pressure to come up with a back-page Swans story daily and have you knowingly published a story which you don’t really think has much legs? Yes there is pressure to come up with a back page Swans story every day, but we don’t publish untruths to meet that demand. There are some things which you can’t nail 100% but you have to be pretty certain before it goes to print. We are under pressure to get back page stories, but not always news stories. Often our back pages are quote-led articles about a game coming up or something which has happened. We tend to stockpile player interviews after matches and use them through the week, so we’re not under daily pressure to pluck something out of thin air. The EP and SCFC has clearly been a mutually beneficial relationship for decades. Do you think the Swans would be in the Premiership without the post? Do you think the club would have even survived? I don’t think the Evening Post can take any credit for the club’s rise to the Premier League, certainly not the recent climb. The last few years have been remarkable and are down to Huw Jenkins and the board and maybe a bit of luck along the way. It is possibly fair to say that the Evening Post played a part in helping lay the foundations. I’m led to believe that the hierarchy at the Post were perhaps more involved than people realise when all the stuff with Petty was going on. It a bit of a chicken and egg situation. The Evening Post is not necessarily generating interest in Swansea City but reflecting what the Swansea public are interested in. But in giving the club a profile it maintains a level of interest, it’s a perpetual thing.

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I don’t think that the Evening Post does any more than any other local paper in terms of writing about their local football club but I think it does it better than most. In terms of the coverage we produce a supplement on a Friday, a supplement on a Monday as well as several pages daily throughout the week. We ask ex-players if they have any funny stories regarding the club and I wonder if you have any Probably the best I can offer is from the Paulo Sousa era. Every year, normally at Christmas, the Swansea City staff play a game against a team of journalists and people who work in the media. Everyone was excited about coming up against a Champions League winner, but Paulo claimed to have an injury so stayed in goal for virtually the entire match. That was disappointing, but the game itself wasn’t. Understandably, we normally get walloped in these games but this one was much closer. Let’s just say that certain members Paulo’s backroom team were a few rungs further down the football ladder than him when it came to ability.

The press team were winning 10-9 in the dying minutes when the Swans staff were awarded a hotly disputed corner. It was criminal. Anyway, they scored from this and we had to grudgingly settle for a 10-10 draw. Afterwards we went for something to eat and Paulo got very worked up, offering us a 20-goal start the following year if we agreed that the losers would pay for the meal afterwards. I think we accepted but unfortunately he didn’t last that long. Paulo moved to Leicester in the summer and then Austrian side Videoton. There he was accused of headbutting a local journalist in a similar match. Lucky escape. Many will tell me that it is their job to report on the Swans, that they sell huge amounts of papers off the back of their success and I obviously wouldn’t disagree with that and as a business it is clearly their main goal. But as far as I know, Leon Britton takes a wage for kicking the ball about, Alan Curtis has been on the payroll for thirty years, should this exclude them from possibly getting on the list? Would we of ousted Petty without the post? How much lower would our lowest attendances have been without their publicity? I know this choice will be criticised by some but I struggle to overlook the contribution the Post has given the Swans over the years and for this reason they are in our top ten JB’s. Agree/Disagree? Get in touch jack-swan@live.co.uk 07974 055529

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When we got to the PL many people said the best we can expect is to hang on in there, maybe for a few seasons. Then we had a great first season. The second year it was the dreaded 'second season syndrome'. Could we cope ? We did even better, ending up 9th and winning the League Cup. Now in the 3rd season we've already shown real quality in the PL, even though the points total doesn't really reflect that, and in the Europa League we've beaten (hammered ?) a team traditionally known as the 3rd best team in Spain. Off the field our new £6 million Academy Training Centre has also opened which is hugely important for the future of the Club. And the new £10 million (guesstimate) 1st team and U21 training facility should be complete by the start of next season. These are all facts and is where we are at present. So, going back to my original question, what can the Club achieve ?

The one ‘achievement’ we should aim for every season is to retain our Premier League status. Why just one ? Because, if we manage that ‘one’ then all the other most obvious, tangible steps forward for the Club will happen automatically because the finance will be there. The most obvious visual step forward will be the expansion of the Liberty to 33,000 seats. In many areas other people see us as a forward thinking progressive Club. We play football just about every supporter of other Clubs, barring Cardiff, admire and enjoy, we have a Trust which played an enormous part in saving the Club and which still owns 20% of the shares and we have a board who are, and always have been, real supporters. But the one area where people outside the

Club probably think of us as ‘small’ is ground capacity. It isn't as important as it used to be with the vast majority of a PL Club's income coming from SKY but it does, undoubtedly, create a perception when you have the smallest ground in the league. Maybe we should hope QPR get promoted again. Having said that, while any development goes on the most important investment the Club can make is into the playing staff. We have a fantastic squad this season and I believe we’ll comfortably (fingers crossed) stay up and have a good season. But it’s from the team winning games that everything else stems. A large part of the reason for the strength of the squad lies with the manager. I imagine a number of players (Michu ?) came to the Swans because of Michael Laudrup. That and the fact we were in the PL was enough. But, what if ML wasn’t our manager ? If a player is approached by a manager they don’t know with a view to them signing for his Club that player will want the Club sold to him. We’ve already started building a Club which can be ‘sold’ by whatever manager we have at the time. We’ve been in the PL for three seasons, we’ve won a Major Trophy, we’re in the Europa league and our training facilities are now second to none. Stadium capacity is the next step. When all these building blocks are in place hopefully players will want to come to play for the Swans instead of, maybe, having to be persuaded. Getting to that position will be fantastic. Then what will the next steps be ? John

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Early days yet, and some people seem to have short memories. Would they rather have Shechter, Graham, Moore, Lita or Bony? I know who I’d choose.

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