Well. That is that then. 2010/11 All over.

Yesterday signalled the end of club football for the 2010/2011 season and also signalled the end of an era, Dave Jones has left the building. Glad? I am. Looking back to August it is quite surreal what has happened in the space of about ten months. We had Bothroyd, Whittingham, Chopra and Olofinjana. We also had 'The King and The Messiah' in On Loan Wigan Athletic player Jason Koumas. We were all set for promotion!.

On the 7th August, me and my father were building a house from another family member. I remember being in the garden carrying bags of sand in. The news came through on the radio that Cardiff had signed Jason for the season. GREAT!. Jason on his first term in the capital was a huge success and for him to repeat that seemed inevitable. After all he was a City Legend. On the same day it was the first game of the season. Swansea were away to Hull. A John Bostack wondergoal helped The Tigers to a 2-0 victory over The Jacks. Stupidly I already started believing, Started believing that 2010/11 would be our year!. Imagine if I was excited then how much I was more so when SSN reported that Bellamy had signed and was in The Vale Hotel training with our boys!.

How wrong could I and so many others be?. Ten Months later, I am sitting here watching Alan Tate holding the Play Off Trophy and 40,000 Jacks singing Hymns and Arias and Wembley. However life is too short to be bitter and a very well done to Brendan Rogers and his men and to all at Swansea City for what is a superb achievement. They did what we have failed at so many times. Perform at crunch times.

So will you look upon 10/11 as a good year for yourself? Will it be remembered for Swansea going up? Will it be the year you remember for Dave Jones sacking? Will it be remembered for the buzz of Bellamy?

I personally want to forget this season. Yes we had many good times. For example, The transfer windows. JK, CB and in January we were being linked with a move for Shay Given. Although that was more Messageboard gossip than actual talks. Games that stick out for the positives are, Leeds, Doncaster, Pompey and Swansea away. Pompey, Doncaster, Millwall and Leeds at home. But do the lows outweigh the highs? of course they do. This season has been a failure. A failure to get a club with the players mentioned promoted has to be looked at in a catastrophic sense. And for what, many people would never have forgiven Jones. He and the players have thrown our best chance of promotion yet out the window and by doing that handed promotion to our arch rivals down west.

So who will replace the Scouser? Favourites are Martin O'Neill and Craig Bellamy. These are two people who I do not want in charge!. Martin O'Neill did well at Villa. So why no?. Well Martin O'Neill threw millions at Villa and got them to a certain point. Are Cardiff in the position to again throw money at promotion? How many more times can we do that?. Craig Bellamy is a top class player and is still one of the best players in Britain. I would much rather have him running down the wing scaring the hell out of right backs, than screaming at someone on the touchline. He has no managerial experience. So we pay him a huge wage (which we would have to) and risk him being a flop in his first job which is likely?. We need to learn our lesson and recognise we are not going up if we throw money at star players. Swansea man for man are a poor team compared with us. But they are a team. We, last season were simply individuals.

I honestly do not know who I would like to have the job. Chris Hughton and and Di Matteo have been mentioned. What have these two done? They took their respective clubs, Newcastle and West Brom back up to the championship. Was it much of a challenge?. Was it hard to get a team with the likes of, Harper, Liverpool Striker Andy Carroll, Alan Smith and Kevin Nolan out of The Championship? Same goes for West Brom.

So yesterday started off great for the majority of City fans with the news that Dave had gone but got worse as the day went on with Swansea getting the title of 'The First Welsh Side In The Premier League'. However today has seen some more good news for City fans. Dato Chan Tien Ghee and Vincent Tan have pledged their future to the club and shown their aims for the 2011/2012 season.

"Tan Sri Vincent Tan and Chairman Dato Chan have also confirmed that they will continue to support the Club with the stated aim of once again challenging for promotion."

Finally, the argument that Sam Hammam is going to come back can now be put to bed and everyone can get behind the Malaysians as the club start from scratch and to hopefully join Swansea City in the PL in around a year from now. The statement also says that Cardiff City have made huge progress in talks with major creditor PMG. This is excellent news in a time that Cardiff fans desperately need it.

So that is the end of another season. Buts its over now. No football for two months so no more frustrations and no more anger towards Dave Jones. Roll on the announcement of the new manager so the buzz starts all over again! regardless of what league the Jacks are in. Be assured however that next season is going to be just as dramatic as the season just gone. But would we have it any other way?. Well Done Swansea City and Thank you to Dave Jones for taking us to the best standings in our recent history and for what you have set us up with.

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