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Reply | Hull City v Swansea City : Match day thread
at 19:56 26 Jan 2026
I think he’s had a good season now regardless. If he hits 20, which he looks well capable of, that’s Piroe territory.
If Galbraith gets a decent run in midfield and plays as he was earlier in the season, we’ve probably got £30-40m value in just that pair.
Never want to sell our best players, but the likelihood is bigger clubs will be interested in both of them. They’d fetch huge coin. |
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Reply | Hull City v Swansea City : Match day thread
at 15:46 26 Jan 2026
They were both open goals. There was more pressure from the defender on the second, but once he got there first it was an empty net.
Cullen got slaughtered for missing an easy header a few weeks ago, it was a harder chance than either of them.
But when he’s dug us out so many times already this season and scored plenty of goals he had no right to score, you just have to move on. He’s more than earned the right to forget about a nightmare few minutes.
If there’s a positive, he’s getting into great positions regularly and that will get him his share of tap ins to complement the screamers. |
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Reply | Cabango and his astonishing handball loses the game for Swansea City
at 15:37 26 Jan 2026
I’d go along with that, so a third of the team.
Then the players most likely to come on, assuming everyone fit and based on Matos games so far, would be Fulton, Cullen, Yalcouye, Innousa and Idah IMO.
They haven’t all worked out, Benson was a waste of time, they don’t seem to think Wales is ready and I was expecting Innousa to have nailed down a starting spot. I can’t buy that we aren’t stronger though. Squad is much deeper. |
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Reply | Cabango and his astonishing handball loses the game for Swansea City
at 14:17 26 Jan 2026
More likely because he wasn’t getting in the Wigan team?
I’m not sure I agree with your last sentence, yes Fulton has forced his way in, but that’s all and that’s more of a positive reflection on him than anything else.
If we were in the playoff final tomorrow, what would your starting eleven look like? |
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Reply | Cabango and his astonishing handball loses the game for Swansea City
at 13:51 26 Jan 2026
Not really
Darling - yes, I’d swap him for either of our centre backs
Allen - played 704 minutes - that averages at just over 15 minutes per 90 or one full game every six.
Naughton - 826 minutes - so just a bit higher
Grimes left the same window O’Brien joined, so bar a game or two they weren’t here at the same time. If we’re comparing squads, it’s one or the other, not both.
Galbraith is the replacement there and while all three are great players and I’d love any of them in our squad, I certainly wouldn’t say Galbraith is a downgrade
Peart-Harris did get a few important goals, but it’s hard to see him getting many minutes either in midfield or out wide. Jury is out on that one for me as he would be a decent squad player.
Bianchini is still our player, he’s just out on loan because he’s surplus to requirements. |
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Reply | Cabango and his astonishing handball loses the game for Swansea City
at 12:18 26 Jan 2026
I don’t think Burgess and Cabango would be an issue if we could release Galbraith from right back to play in front of them. He’ll always be there for an easy pass, doesn’t mind receiving it under pressure and is the best distributor in our team.
Fulton, Stamenic and Franco all have their quality, but none of them are really the ‘quarterback’ type.
I do think Cabango has improved at both passing and carrying the ball forward, but completely accept neither are his game. |
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Reply | Cabango and his astonishing handball loses the game for Swansea City
at 11:20 26 Jan 2026
That’s a different point and I half agree with you on it.
While we’re nowhere near we should be, I’d lay a lot of that at Sheehans door. We must be pretty close to playoff form under Matos.
Overall though, I’d have expected to be much higher up the table than we are now after the summer window, agree there, we just disagree where the blame lies. |
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Reply | Cabango and his astonishing handball loses the game for Swansea City
at 09:55 26 Jan 2026
I think you’re confusing squad with starting eleven there.
We had an aging Naughton covering the entire back four. Allen was injured a lot of the time and couldn’t last anywhere near a full game when he wasn’t.
Only two starting is a bit of a red herring when four of the five substitutes weren’t here last season and Stamenic, Widdell, Yalcouye, Innoussa and Idah all get plenty of game time. Last season, we didn’t have the luxury of rotating our midfield or Idah, who would have been a certain starter given he’s a far better striker than either Vipotnik or Cullen were back then.
We’d have killed for players like I’ve mentioned above on the bench.
Edit - to empathise the point - our bench for the same game last season
McLaughlin
Bianchini
Ronald (Peart-Harris on the wing)
Franco (Fulton,Grimes,Cullen in midfield)
Tjoe A-On
Christie
Naughton
Abbey
Abdulai
That alone should answer any questions about comparative squad quality.
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Reply | Cabango and his astonishing handball loses the game for Swansea City
at 08:43 26 Jan 2026
I wouldn’t class Vipotnik as basically the same player he was last season. I dread to think where we’d be without his goals.
If we had last seasons Vipotnik and Cullen as our only striker options, I genuinely think we’d be bottom bar Sheffield Wednesday. |
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Reply | Fulton
at 17:10 25 Jan 2026
Yes, if he was our talisman. He’s not, he’s a squad player.
Coventry started Bidwell against us and had Latibaudiere on the bench. Hull and Milwall are in the top six with Kyle Joseph and Luke Cundle playing regularly.
These are just players I know of at top six clubs who we’d probably put in the ‘not good enough if were serious about promotion’ bracket, there are probably plenty more who I don’t. Every club will have them. |
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Reply | Fulton
at 16:42 25 Jan 2026
He’s a squad player who’s played really well recently and deservedly forced his way into the team. It wouldn’t be a surprise if Stamenic starts ahead of him next week.
He’s not the limit of our ambitions |
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Reply | Hull City v Swansea City : Match day thread
at 19:28 24 Jan 2026
We lost that because our striker, who has been brilliant all season, missed two open goals and our captain gave away a ludicrous penalty. That’s ignoring the header he should have scored from.
Matos can’t do anything about any of that. He can set us up to press, to probe, he can pick the team and make the substitutions, but he has no influence over Cabangos handball or Vipotniks chances.
Had you posted something like that after the West Brom game when we’d gone 2-0 up and surrendered the initiative, I’d have agreed with you. When we actually play well and lose due to freak occurrences, it comes down to people moaning every time we don’t win, regardless of what they’ve just watched |
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Reply | Fulton
at 18:14 24 Jan 2026
See the conversation about Fulton and Grimes not being suited as midfield partners.
Grimes played virtually every minute for seven seasons.
Have to admit, I always thought Fulton was better than we were seeing, but didn’t think he was as good as he is now proving |
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Reply | Hull City v Swansea City : Match day thread
at 18:04 24 Jan 2026
I don’t think we’ll bring another right back in after Ward. Striker to cover Vipotnik should be a much bigger priority.
Matos seems to be easing him back in slowly, which seems sensible to me. If it’s confidence, it only takes one good game to skyrocket that |
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Reply | Hull City v Swansea City : Match day thread
at 18:00 24 Jan 2026
What I will say, is last season we wouldn’t have even been talking about those as chances, as he’d have been a couple of yards and a second behind play.
People would have criticised Tymon or said we don’t get crosses in.
Quite similar to Burgess’ two own goals against Ipswich, it was just really bad luck. He made perfect runs and Tymon picked him out beautifully both times. |
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Reply | Hull City v Swansea City : Match day thread
at 17:55 24 Jan 2026
We did.
While we played well at Coventry and Stoke, I thought both those teams were better than us and deserved the win.
That wasn’t the case at all today. First half was a mental penalty, two missed sitters and wonderstrike. Second was like one of those 5/10 minute spells we have where we keep the opposition pinned in their final third, but we kept it up nearly all half.
They did have chances on the break, but I thought we probably deserved to win, let alone draw. |
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Reply | Hull City v Swansea City : Match day thread
at 09:30 24 Jan 2026
We do drop off dramatically when our starting eleven start to tire.
But we’re sixteenth because we were so poor under Sheehan.
We’re fourth in the form table over the last ten games
We’re eighth over the last six (one point off being fifth)
We’re doing well under Matos, though I accept our away form isn’t where it needs to be |
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Reply | Fulton
at 19:26 23 Jan 2026
🤦🏼♂️ |
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