Nathan Dyer prepares to embrace Danny Graham after setting up the striker for Swansea's opener in their 3-2 Premier League defeat to Norwich. Picture by Paul Chesterton/Focus Images Ltd.
Swansea’s Nathan Dyer critical of Norwich City’s physical approach
Monday, February 13, 2012
3:51 PM
Swansea wide player Nathan Dyer felt he was on the end of some rough treatment from the Canaries in Norwich City’s Premier League win at the Liberty Stadium.
Dyer has called for more protection for the Swans’ attacking threats after what he labelled were ‘a few too many kicks’ following City’s 3-2 weekend victory. The 24-year-old was replaced by ex-Norwich loanee Leroy Lita for the final quarter of an hour, having played a key role in Swansea’s opening goal of a pulsating contest.
“I don’t want to comment on the refs, but I felt on Saturday we maybe didn’t get as much protection as we would have liked. There were a few too many kicks,” he said. “We’re not the type of team to be crowding the referee so maybe we’re a bit naïve in not protesting to the referee as much as we should. That’s our nature, we just want to get on with the game, we don’t want to be howling at the referee and getting in his face. Maybe we do need to say a few more things to the ref. You have referees, assistants and fourth officials and you hope they’ll do their jobs.”
Dyer had few complaints with Norwich’s storming fightback after the interval which inflicted only a second home league defeat of the season on Brendan Rodgers’ side following Manchester United’s November victory.
“It’s disappointing, we knew it was going to be a hard game, but we were just second to every ball really,” he said. “That’s the way football goes sometimes. We just weren’t at the races. Everybody knows the way we play, it’s not new. I think we just didn’t play as well as we could have. It was a second-rate performance from us. I’m sure we’ll come back from our break and be firing on all cylinders again.
“The fans will say we should have got the points, but Norwich are doing better than we are in this league. It was a battle between two newly-promoted teams who were showing everyone they can handle the big league. The way we’ve been playing, everyone is expecting us to win. The fans think we should be winning, but it doesn’t work like that in football.”
Dyer and the rest of Swansea’s first team squad have now flown out to Tenerife for a mid-season break ahead of the final Premier League run-in and a trip to Stoke on February 25.
“We weren’t that tired, we just didn’t play as well as we could have on Saturday,” he told the South Wales Evening Post. “Hopefully we’ll come back from our break and be good to go again. We’re playing above all expectations at the moment. We’re pleased with what we’re doing so we can’t be too downhearted. Every team loses. It’s only the second match we’ve lost at home, we’ve made the Liberty a fortress so I’m not going to take anything away from the players. We’ve just got to make sure we do better next time.”
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47 comments
The worst case is when one disappears forever, only for an article, bearing a striking resemblance, to appear later in the EDP. The ones that do reappear, sooner or later, are often out of "synch" with other comments and therefore don`t make immediate sense. Occasionally, items are rejected for "Reason:- other". Keep posting, Crab! Essential to maintaining a high standard. OTBC.
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Mad Brewer
Saturday, February 18, 2012
I actually very rarely get an email rejection, MB. Most of my ethered ones, like this one, just disappear. Some come back eventually, like this one. Some come back even later, by which time the article has disappeared off the bottom of the "current" list, and the people they were directed at probably never see them, so it's a waste of time anyway. And some never see the light of day again. If it's a "technical glitch", it's about time Archant got a technician who knows what he's doing to sort it! I sometimes write some stuff that I'm really proud of, but nobody ever sees - and that's the most frustrating aspect, together with the total waste of time spent in typing it in. I wonder how their reporters would feel if they spent hours writing a report, only to see nothing there when they opened the paper next day!
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The Crab
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Thing is Crab, did you get a Moderators` notification by e-mail, in which case they rejected it. Or did it just disappear? Must be the latter, I suppose? Anyway, your comment was well worth the wait! It must be a technical glitch rather than malice. In this case, anyway. OTBC.
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Mad Brewer
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Hey fellers - my posting from Tuesday finally made it through the ether!!! As you can clearly see, it wasn't rude or nasty - so why did it get ethered in the first place?
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The Crab
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Not only he did not fall, he kicked his heels up to his backside and dived onto the ball as if he was scoring a try. And I thought it was only Holt who dived in the area. It is not surprising that Swansea held the record for penalities awarded to them last season.
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Swiss Canary
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Protection - what about Williams climbing all over Holty just before Williams fell over from a little shirt tug - haven't seen anyone at NCFC complain about that!!
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VinEgg
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Crab & Timbo on top form! Crab, your contribution will be worked, by a Ghost-writer, into an Archanticle. Timbo, I bet even Stacey`s family would be ashamed of Kinnock. If it ever occurred to them. I wonder where your fan-club is (canarydownunder)?
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Mad Brewer
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
They need to get Neil Kinnock in as Swansea PR man. The original Welsh wind-bag !
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Timbo
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Well said MB, and a very good point - I just had a lovely eloquent reply to matspillets ethered. I hope it comes back - there was as usual nothing nasty or rude in it, just pointing out, among other things, that football is a contact sport, and therefore fouls happen. Also that Grant Holt has equal, or more, cause to complain about being fouled, but never does.
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The Crab
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Nevertheless, matspillets, you could never call Norwich a "physical" side. That description is valid for teams like Stoke, Millwall, Leeds, QPR, Gillingham and Burnley, but Norwich rely far more on the passing game - as do Swansea. However, fouls do happen in football - and not just because a side is "physical", but because football is a contact sport. If you want no fouls, go and watch netball! The same thing happens to Grant Holt, who is the most fouled player in the Premier League, but you don't hear him whinge about it after every game. Dyer, like his team-mate Taylor, needs to wake up and smell the coffee - and then listen to his manager, who clearly has a better idea of which team was the better last Saturday!
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The Crab
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
I appreciate you aspire to impartiality, matspilletts but your hyperbollox does you a disservice. If you want to see violent play just rewind to the assault on Norwich`s Vaughan by WBA`s Tamas. Dyer was mainly watched by Drury. Hardly a thug.
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Mad Brewer
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
As sort of nuetral (I come from the Midlands, now live in South Wales) who was at the game, I have to agree with Brendan Rogers, Norwich were good value for their win. However I also agree with Dyer. He was fouled continuosly for the whole of the second half, with zero protection from the ref. I have seen the Swans five times this season, and every game is similar. The tactic appears to be to hack lumps out of Dyer and you stop Swansea.
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matspillets
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Wales produces the finest male choirs in the world.Pity about their poor wine production due to the abundance of SOUR GRAPES.According to a few Swansea players we were lucky with the deflected goals and the ref didn't protect them enough from our tackles! Take it on the chin Swansea and move on,you were beaten by a better team on the day,just like us at Sunderland and we accepted that result and moved on. Thank you Paul Lambert and all your team for making MY DAY on many many occasions long may it continue!
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Boblaing
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Well that's men for you, but mark my words, I'll be looking for that rat and if he ever shows his face round here again, I'll be havin' him. As for Liz Knott, (sh)he's well known among us girls for not being what he seems, other than the obvious.
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Sian
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Sorry Sian, Ged always returns to Liz. His brother Fred is a better bet.
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cutty
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
That`s Briston for you Swiss. Even the Parish Councillors get carried away (literally, from the Council Meeting in a chair). And squabble about who owns or has "borrowed" the pizza maker etc, plus a bit of geriatric pushing & shoving and general character assassination. You wouldn`t read about it except we did, ad nauseum, in the EDP. Obviously this aggressive behaviour runs in the gene. Or maybe it is the same people 40 years on? Now Norwich Nasties knock about nice Nathan. Shame on thugs like Fox, Surman and Drury. Just long-ball hackers, the lot of them! Let`s hope this is Stoking up Mr. Pulis`s gameplan. PS MBA Marine, your Rangers relegation call makes a LOT of sense. They even have the cheek to fog over their predicament by making a derisory "bid" for Superholt. Smoked glass etc. On a similar theme, how unjust was it that Norwich (and others) missed their opportunity to play Euro football because of the ban on English Clubs? The Culprit Team should have been banned until the Innocents got their turn! Or forever.
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Mad Brewer
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
What a pity Dyer the pansy wasn't being marked by Duncan Forbes!!!!!!!!!!!
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blackdog2
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Looks as though the thought police have deleted my comment!
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blackdog2
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Dyer the pansy roughed up by Adam Drury, shame Duncan Forbes wasn't playing! Taylor thought they lost due to bad luck, lucky deflections, have Swansea never had the rub of the green. What is known as sour grapes. Anyone seen "The Steroo"? Please come back as it is not so humourous without your comments.
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blackdog2
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Physical!? Wasn't he being marked by Drury?
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DT
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Adam "The Terminator" Drury - he keeps coming back.
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Swiss Canary
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Physical!? Wasn't he being marked by Drury?
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DT
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
LOL David W. I also remember playing for Dereham Corinthians in the 1970s against Briston, where the opposing Centre Backs fought each other at half time and against Foulsham where the goal keeper, a well known local biker hard-man, took so much exception to the ref giving a penalty after he pulled our center forward down in the box (by pulled I mean more of a body-slam) that he chased the ref around the field and the ref eventually locked himself in the toilet in order to be safe, leaving the keeper beating on the door like Fred Flintsone. That's physical football Mr Dyer.
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Swiss Canary
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Can't help but notice how we have dominated teams since the Sunderland game and wondering if PL learnt something that day from O'Neil about how they stopped us playing and has used the same tactics since. Bolton and Swansea are coming out with comments saying they 'didn't play well'.
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jharding
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Can't help but notice how we have dominated teams since the Sunderland game and wondering if PL learnt something that day from O'Neil about how they stopped us playing and has used the same tactics since. Bolton and Swansea are coming out with comments saying they 'didn't play well'.
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jharding
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
If Dyer want something whcihis non Physical then he could always take up chess or that could be too mentaly draining for him
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leslie cater
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Oh didums, did the bigger boys come and spoil your game? Have a tissue to wipe away that tear
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paulcharles
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Physical? Good job he never played in a Halvergate v Freethorpe game in the 1970's.
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DAVID WILLGRESS
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Swiss Canary spot on. Thought Brendan Rogers was very sporting in his recognition of our great win and the way we played. Personally I think that was one of the best displays of football I've ever seen from a City side. We could have had 6 second half.
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Bogaz John
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
What's occuring? It's Valentine's Day and I've had nothing from that rat Ged. I wish someone would make me a pass. I hear that you have a horse who the boyyos here says goes down easy in the box. That sounds tidy.
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Sian
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Given how tediously boring swansea are to watch and probably play against, what with all their passing around in front of their own box and minimal risk forward passing to get their pass completion rate higher, I'm surprised that teams haven't got really fed up with them and given them a proper going over. Cue Stoke...
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I ronnie
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Maybe you boyos could try for the scottish prem as the english prem is bit to tough for you, mind you don't snag your tights.
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Cockney.canary
Monday, February 13, 2012
poor little dyer,has he been to stoke yet? if a worm would have popped up on the pitch it would have knocked light weight dyer over, wake up little man,its premier league football,
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jmm
Monday, February 13, 2012
Perhaps the idiot should stay on his feet rather than falling over. Theres only so many refs he can con and on Saturday he ran out of luck diving!!!
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dave123
Monday, February 13, 2012
Ranger's heading for administration, what were they planing on buying holt with? i think its a bit of a joke as the will go bankrupt, have all their debt written off and take a 10point deduction in a league that they could loose 30pionts and still not be relegated, they should be sent down and made to fight back up, relegate the bottom club and Rangers then promote two teams.
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MBA Marine
Monday, February 13, 2012
He'll be able to lick his wounds on his winter break !! Hopefully he will be ready for a gentler afternoon at Stoke away next time out. LOL
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Dubai Canary
Monday, February 13, 2012
Th(w)at Dyer is bleating more than Ged's Sain. Must be related. (Heard Ged was spotted down Ipswich high street looking for a new pair of wellies.) Seriously, now finally starting to look up at the table and not down ......glass now definitely half full!
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john doe
Monday, February 13, 2012
that's dire dyer...you seem to imply we foul too much...well nc notched twelve in that match and the fact that we went in hard and broke up the swan's passing game is too our credit not detriment...how else are we meant to get the better of such roving opposition...i hope we engage more teams this way instead of laying back and letting them come at us as we so often seem to do...jellybean
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jellybean
Monday, February 13, 2012
there is so much talk about the way rodgers has got swansea playing,i believe it was martinez who started them playing the passing game.rodgers just carried it on.
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bluelight
Monday, February 13, 2012
I don,t feel we play a physical game at all .but an open passing game ! or am I missing something ?
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Albert Cooper
Monday, February 13, 2012
Honestly! Brendon Rodgers has the decency to accept defeat in good spirits but Dyer and Taylor have to start whinging. A pity the players don't take a leaf out of their manager's book. It was very rude of Norwich to not stand still and let Swansea make their passes.
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Swiss Canary
Monday, February 13, 2012
Just brillant tactics again from Lambert, get in their faces and disrupt their passing game. Remind me how many NCFC bookings there were? Oh, just the 2, one of which was for Grant Holt revealing his torso to the Swansea fans who gave him stick all game. Oh, and their next game is Stoke away - I expect they'll give them a nice easy relaxed game...
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richard1
Monday, February 13, 2012
What a shame, might be easier if he didn't fall over whenever there is a slight breeze lol - OTBC
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SYH947
Monday, February 13, 2012
Aaaah, if only he was a bit taller he could swap to playing netball!
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kevin
Monday, February 13, 2012
Well now, just a bad loser and out of the FA Cup, hehe - OTBC!! x
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CANARY-CRUISE-GIRL
Monday, February 13, 2012
Nathan who?
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Skip
Monday, February 13, 2012
Aaaah, if only he was a bit taller he could swap to playing netball!
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kevin
Monday, February 13, 2012