Welcome to The Championship Catch-up, a new Sky Sports column in which Andy Hinchcliffe rounds up some of the key stories from the second tier. This week: Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player Swansea have been stronger than we thought they'd be this season. It seems that less is more with them because last season Zan Vipotnik scored 23 goals and really carried the team.
This season, he's only scored a couple of goals and hasn't played that many games. They've shown now, again, that without a star striker they over-rely on for goals, they're more of a team, both defensively and importantly going forward as well. You look at them from back to front, they've got one of the best goalkeepers in the division and one of the most stubborn, strongest defences in the division.
If you're going to be successful, certainly in the Championship, that really does help. They're not a defensive team, they're a team that defend well. They dominate the ball, they control games and they've got a variety of goalscorers now as well.
They're not reliant on just that one centre-forward. Adam Idah's got four goals, so he's kind of the main threat, but it's still not just him and nobody else. The way they play enables four, five or six players to get into goalscoring positions and score goals over the course of the season.
You're better being that type of team than having that reliance on one central striker. If he gets injured or he's out of form, things can get really tricky. They deserve to be where they are right now, and we're going to learn a lot more this week about whether they can stay the course.
They head to Millwall on Tuesday night, then host West Ham on Saturday. Coaches and clubs are looking at squad depth now. You can't just be reliant on a few players, even on six or seven players, and keep hoping game in and game out that those six or seven players produce and get the job done for you.
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