{"id":9873,"date":"2025-01-16T10:07:09","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T10:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faw.cymru\/adran-leagues\/?p=9873"},"modified":"2025-01-19T17:26:11","modified_gmt":"2025-01-19T17:26:11","slug":"swansea-city-more-together-than-ever-in-pursuit-of-genero-adran-trophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faw.cymru\/adran-leagues\/news\/swansea-city-more-together-than-ever-in-pursuit-of-genero-adran-trophy\/","title":{"rendered":"Swansea City &#8216;more together than ever&#8217; in pursuit of Genero Adran Trophy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/dogirq7bi39sv.cloudfront.net\/2024-11-24-Barry-Town-v-Sweansea-City-Women-40-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9875\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dogirq7bi39sv.cloudfront.net\/2024-11-24-Barry-Town-v-Sweansea-City-Women-40-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dogirq7bi39sv.cloudfront.net\/2024-11-24-Barry-Town-v-Sweansea-City-Women-40-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dogirq7bi39sv.cloudfront.net\/2024-11-24-Barry-Town-v-Sweansea-City-Women-40-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dogirq7bi39sv.cloudfront.net\/2024-11-24-Barry-Town-v-Sweansea-City-Women-40.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Sunday represents yet another opportunity for Swansea City to reach a major final.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;Swans&nbsp;travel to Wrexham in the Genero Adran Trophy semi-final this weekend, and for Emily Richards, it\u2019s an opportunity the entire squad are excited to have in front of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re really looking forward to the game this weekend. It\u2019s an exciting opportunity for us as a squad to reach a semi-final, but we\u2019re taking everything one game at a time, but we know Sunday will be a big opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s not been the smoothest of journeys to get to this point for Swansea. Having been plagued by numerous injuries, Jamie Sherwood\u2019s team are coming into the contest off the back of consecutive defeats to both The New Saints and Briton Ferry Llansawel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, Richards isn\u2019t too concerned about the recent form, stating the squad is more together than ever before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/dogirq7bi39sv.cloudfront.net\/2024-12-08-Cascade-TC-Women-v-Swansea-City-Women-77-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9876\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dogirq7bi39sv.cloudfront.net\/2024-12-08-Cascade-TC-Women-v-Swansea-City-Women-77-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dogirq7bi39sv.cloudfront.net\/2024-12-08-Cascade-TC-Women-v-Swansea-City-Women-77-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dogirq7bi39sv.cloudfront.net\/2024-12-08-Cascade-TC-Women-v-Swansea-City-Women-77-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dogirq7bi39sv.cloudfront.net\/2024-12-08-Cascade-TC-Women-v-Swansea-City-Women-77.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe have had a lot of injuries so far this season, and a few of them have been really unlucky. However, we\u2019ve got quite a big squad, and we have good depth here, and everyone plays their part in this team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe all feel very much together and as one. We\u2019ve got a lot of strength in this team, and I think we\u2019re more together than ever before now to keep going and try and stride to reach our goals.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To reach their targets, Swansea will have to get past Wrexham on Sunday, who have proved time and time again to be a tricky customer for the six-time Genero Adran Trophy winners to compete with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While never losing to Wrexham, the last four games between the two have been won by one goal, and the last three games have all ended 3-2 in Swansea\u2019s favour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Richards is under no illusions of how difficult Sunday\u2019s task will be but is hopeful that her side will be on the right end of the scoreline once again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/dogirq7bi39sv.cloudfront.net\/2024-11-17_Carmarthen-Town-v-Swansea-City_19-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9887\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dogirq7bi39sv.cloudfront.net\/2024-11-17_Carmarthen-Town-v-Swansea-City_19-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dogirq7bi39sv.cloudfront.net\/2024-11-17_Carmarthen-Town-v-Swansea-City_19-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dogirq7bi39sv.cloudfront.net\/2024-11-17_Carmarthen-Town-v-Swansea-City_19-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dogirq7bi39sv.cloudfront.net\/2024-11-17_Carmarthen-Town-v-Swansea-City_19.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI think we\u2019re expecting something similar to the last time we went up and played Wrexham. We know it\u2019s going to be a competitive game, but we\u2019ve been working hard over the last few weeks and we\u2019re ready for a good game this weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s always been a competitive fixture whenever us and Wrexham play. Naturally, both teams want to win, but hopefully this weekend, we will be the ones celebrating and come out on top.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If Swansea do come out on top, they will be one step closer to lifting silverware. For a side so accustomed to winning, the Swans haven\u2019t been able to put anything in their trophy cabinet since 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With holders Cardiff City, who beat Swansea in the final last season, out of the competition, Richards believes if her team continue to work hard, they can end their long wait for a trophy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re all working hard to win this competition. Regardless of whichever teams are still left in the tournament, success is and always will be our number one goal. Whoever we play against, we always want to win, and Sunday is no different. To lift the cup would mean so much to us. It would be something that would show all of the work we\u2019ve put in has meant something.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday represents yet another opportunity for Swansea City to reach a major final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":9875,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"ftr_img_focal":{"x":0.69,"y":0.18},"footnotes":""},"categories":[178],"class_list":["post-9873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genero-adran-trophy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faw.cymru\/adran-leagues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faw.cymru\/adran-leagues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faw.cymru\/adran-leagues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faw.cymru\/adran-leagues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/263"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faw.cymru\/adran-leagues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9873"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/faw.cymru\/adran-leagues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9892,"href":"https:\/\/faw.cymru\/adran-leagues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9873\/revisions\/9892"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faw.cymru\/adran-leagues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faw.cymru\/adran-leagues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faw.cymru\/adran-leagues\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}