All Change Down West

Out with the old and in with the new!

Paul Clement putting his stamp on Swansea from the outset.

Alan "Mr Swansea" Curtis consigned to the scrapheap, a move which is probably more about Clement drawing a line in the sand, than any refection of Curtis's coaching ability.

Clement's a good coach, harshly treated by Derby and it will be interesting to see how successful he can be with the Swans. I think their supporters now realise how much of a hole was left by the departures of Gary (love him or hate him) Monk and Ashley Williams.

And being an eternal optimist, will keep them up.

South Wales needs both clubs to be successful, so I hope that they do hang on this year.

I think they are a bit like Bournemouth, i.e. a small town club which has found a formula to succeed. Nonetheless, such over-achievement is the basis of a perilous existence and it doesn't need much to go wrong for it all to come tumbling down.

City, on the other hand, is an under-achieving sleeping giant. One day, hopefully in my lifetime, it will wake up......

Would love nothing more than to see them go down. Their position was nowhere near as bad as made out before that match with Palace (defeat and it would have been) - I can see them remaining in with a chance of survival right until the closing weeks.

They still have a chance of survival but has it finally burnt their long standing recruitment policy?