Swansea - Do you want them to go down?

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Interesting point on young players. So from a Welsh national team perspective, is it better that the likes of Connor Roberts, Shephard, Roden, Hedges and Cullen have a better chance of making the Swansea first team? Does it matter much what club they play for though? Is it not better that Swansea have PL money they can pump into their academy to keep them in category one?

And does the interest in Welsh football dip without a PL team? Forgetting our allegiances to Cardiff, does Welsh football really benefit with them going down?

The majority of Welsh football fans support Manchester United and Liverpool.

If you look at the current Welsh set-up all the players supplied by Swansea and Cardiff are pre-premiership players, when there was a path through for players to get into the first team and develop. (Davies, Ledley, Collins, Ramsey, Earnshaw, Allen, Gunter).
Welsh players are usually Welsh so are more than likely to come through at their local clubs of Swansea and Cardiff. You will still get the odd players making it at clubs like Norwich or Southampton, or the legacy players at English clubs. However the Welsh team is at its strongest, when the league clubs are developing. Neither are currently developing players.

As a Cardiff fan i dont hate Swansea. However i dont wish them well either. Id like a relegation to bring them closer to us. I want us to have bragging rights over them.

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The majority of Welsh football fans support Manchester United and Liverpool.

Isn't this a result of generations of the Welsh clubs being in the doldrums?

The real answer to all this is Swansea stay where they are and Cardiff establish themselves in our natural position as a Champions League team

...Welsh players are usually Welsh...

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Isn't this a result of generations of the Welsh clubs being in the doldrums?

The real answer to all this is Swansea stay where they are and Cardiff establish themselves in our natural position as a Champions League team

For the clubs sake its better to be playing in the top leagues together.

However does that benefit Wales, with the money floating around in the Premier League you suddenly become a sign and sell team, signing talent because you do not have the time to develop it. I would say that the success that Wales is having now is because a crop of players came through the two different youth structures at the same time, and provided a base of players that we have never really had before.

Anyway, we are not getting promoted this year, so f**k em.