“I to am an albion fan born in brum moved to wales 30 odd years ago.
watch swansea as my local team with friends...
I watched with the albion fans behind the goal where the penalty was given. barnes played the ball forward and rangel put his leg across for barnes to fall over..
penalty given!
I to had problems with fans on the way back to the car park with my ten year old son..
Lets not turn into cardiff style idiots folks....
hurl insults during the game but respect afterwards please”

“Why doesn,t Sousa give Trundle more playing time you can,t expect a man to be on top of his game when he only plays now and again. When he plays he works hard which is more than i can say for some of the others”

“I'm an Albion fan. I was born there and first went to the Hawthorns at 7 with my dad who was an exiled-red from Liverpool.
However I've now lived and worked here in Swansea for 25 years and I love living here, wonderful place - fantastic people..
My wife and daughter are Swans, as will my son be when he's old enough. We've had season tickets in the past, we've stood on the North Bank with about 5,000 in the entire ground, marched against Petty, and have followed the Swans around the country. I love Swansea City, although they remain my second team.
So you can imagine my ambiguity last night. I could not celebrate the penalty (it never was!), nor the Baggies winning.
I can understand the frustration of the fans (amongst whom I am proud to regularly count myself) last night. What I can't understand is the clown who smacked my brother as we were walking around to pick up two Swans fans who live near me to take them home, shouting "Cheat".
Last night's result was a robbery, but my main feeling is of anger at one idiot's reaction to a disputed penalty.”

“West Brom cheating! thats a little extreme! why do we have this culture at Swansea where everything is someone elses fault! West Brom took th emick in terms of time wasting, but thats no different to our playing wasting time going aimlessly across the pitch, which in spome cases at 2-nil down with 5 mins to go is more offensive! No wonder the ground was 2/3 empty with ten mins left on teh clock! A sad indictment on our ability to score, and little to do with West Broms alledged 'cheating'. Well Done west brom I say, and good luck for the rest of the season! Try being dignified in defeat as well as victory!”

“Colin Hughes, Blackpill

Can't you be gracious in defeat and not call WBA a cheating team?

I though that they were a hard working side and out of the two teams deserved the points more than us

Have a look at that penalty again and there was absolutely no need for Rangel to stick out his leg, but to make matters worst (and this is what the referee most probably saw) he tried to pull it back quickly when he realised what he had done.

I'm pretty sure if that penalty decision was on the other foot and it was one of our players brought down in the box like Barnes was last night. You would be shouting like most of the others last night, for a penalty to be given to the Swans

Unfortunately, this is the way football is going, in that players go to looking for such penalties in the box and wasn¿t it what we saw so many times with Gomez last season doing exactly the same

As the saying goes ¿What goes around, comes around¿”

“Jiffy Reynoldston

Absolutely spot in your comments in that the players that started the game last night other than Kuqi and van der Gunn where all brought in by previous managers

Even if the two mentioned had not played last night, I felt they would not have been missed

I think Sousa¿s (or whoever is bringing these players to Swansea) has lost the plot as we are paying a lot of money for ¿journeymen¿

The easiest way to defend against slow front players is to defend further up the field and that's what we saw on Saturday when Beattie played against Sheffield Wednesday and again last night when Kuqi played against WBA

The way I see the Swans playing these days (and I have watched them nearly 55 years) is that if any player gives the ball away during a game, they will be put up against the wall and shot the following day.

If I remember correctly we had 57% possession last night against WBA¿s 43% but didn¿t achieve much

It can be summed up in that Scott Carson didn¿t have to make a decent save throughout the 96 minutes of the game”

“Enough of all this moaning and groaning: just appreciate what Paulo and Co have achieved this season following a near disastrous start plagued by injuries and suspensions. Just remember we've been in the play off zone for many months which is a feat in itself. Clearly, we weren't helped by a cheating West Brom team - have you ever seen so many blatant fouls committed in the first half of any game? - coupled with ab obviously biased ref. Paulo is dead right when he says we play against 14 in many games - and it is about time the Football League woke up to that fact.”

“the pen was a bit dubious,but if we could have pushed harder in the box we would get results. kuqi cant do it on his own .same as usual,fresh legs coming on too late in game. also,we gotta lose a midfielder & start with 2 upfront , from now on in .”

“Our style of play can be no surprise to anyone, it's exactly like QPR played under Sousa.
The fact we can still put some pretty passes together is more down to Martinez s' legacy than Sousa's influence.
No coincidence all the skilled entertainers in our team are RM's signings.”

“It was clear at half time last night that the system, yet again, wasn't working with absolutley nothing being created and Kuqi totally devoid of any support. Gower is not a central midfield player and looked like a fish out of water. Play him where he fits in or let him go!

Nothing was done to change things until WBA scored, by which time they had used all their 3 subs. We then bring on 2 subs and also introduce Bauza with 5 minutes to go (what chance has he got to do anything?), following which all patterns go out of the window and everyone runs round like headless chickens.

Even a top quality striker would struggle with no support but with WBA looking happy to settle for a point we still persist with one up front.

Surely football is about entertainment not playing a pretty passing game with no cutting edge. We are way short of premiership class, boring and predictable. Teams are working us out and whilst Sousa has done an excellent job with the defence and the midfield is more than adequate there is no end product at all. We should have started with 2 strikers last night and really gone for it.

Unfortunately, we didn't and paid the price. Easy to blame the ref but we got what we deserved - nothing.”