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Mathew Davies

Swansea City have a new 'sponge' who has 'all the attributes' and has improved so much already

Swansea City ticked off another box in their pre-season preparations on Saturday with two 60-minute matches against Bristol Rovers at Fairwood.

It was a blistering day on the fringes of Gower and 120 minutes of increasingly high-tempo football in the blazing sun will have helped head coach Russell Martin and his coaching staff in assessing the squad's fitness levels ahead of the season opener at Rotherham United at the end of the month.

The game at Swansea's training base took place behind closed doors for reasons already discussed by Martin, and you can read what happened against the Gas here.

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