THERE were blokes around me calling for the return of Jason Scotland.

And I'm sure at least a couple of them were the same blokes calling for Scotland to be axed last season.

Fickle? Football fans?

Some of our lot change like traffic lights.

The Scotland bashers decided they wanted him back on loan as Swansea City played some good stuff but failed to break down Bristol City this week.

It's all very well playing pretty football, but we're not talking about synchronised swimming.

There are no points for style in the Championship.

Roberto Martinez knew that, but he managed to make Swansea look good and be effective.

Five and a bit weeks into the new season, you can't say the same about Paulo Sousa.

Scotland would have helped, for he was a player who could sniff out a goal or conjure one on his own.

He might not have done much at Wigan, but he looks a better Championship player with every week that passes just now.

Swansea, meantime, look an increasingly vulnerable Championship side.

Seven games, three goals and six points. It's the form of a team heading for relegation, and I don't want to go back to League One.

Sousa keeps talking about getting players into the penalty box, but when they get there they have to get the ball in the net.

Right now, we don't look like doing it.

I like what I've seen of Stephen Dobbie but he's injured, while Gorka Pintado has appeared short of his best all season.

Craig Beattie hasn't set the world alight since arriving for big money — although it is very early days — and then there is Lee Trundle.

For my money, Trunds has to play at Barnsley this weekend.

He is the best finisher we've got and we need someone who's going to gobble up chances.

I'd stick him up alongside either Beattie or Pintado and start with Joe Allen and Leon Britton in central midfield, with Ferrie Bodde to come on as he builds up his fitness.

It might not be the most physical midfield — Leon and Joe could go to Alton Towers and not be allowed on the rides — but desperate times call for desperate measures.

Swansea need a win and to get that they need goals.

Sousa should roll the dice.

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I SPAT coffee all over my Evening Post when I read Sousa's claim that Swansea had produced their best attacking performance of the season at Preston.

If that was the best yet, it's no wonder we haven't scored any goals.

We were about as threatening as those two lads who raced over to the home fans at Deepdale and then did nothing.

The only good thing about Preston was the performance of Dorus de Vries.

He is another who has had his detractors in the stands, but I'm with Alan Tate on this one.

I can't see a better keeper in the Championship.