The season ticket and matchday prices for the 2012/13 campaign at the County Ground were unveiled on Saturday. In what is seemingly becoming earlier and earlier every year, the pricing strategy was released with sixteen matches in League Two remaining and at least a strong possibility we’ll be paying to watch League One football come August. [...]
Following the news yesterday of a substantial increase in the walk-up matchday ticket prices, new writer Adam Johnson asks if these are a price worth paying? It’s the news that no football fan wants to hear, an increase in ticket prices at their club. When you look at the new prices, which are £19 in [...]
I’m writing this post whilst watching the Real Madrid versus Barcelona 1st leg of the Champions League semi-final. This is, of course, a level of football which whilst Swindon Town supporters might dream of and achieve only in Football Manager, we accept that to actually reach this level is a nigh-on certainty that it’ll never happen in [...]
The club AGM on Wednesday evening revealed major changes to plans for the redevelopment of the County Ground. The new four phase proposal now sees the stadium capacity increased to 19,000 with room for the future capacity expansion to 25,000 to meet an as yet unidentified demand. First the Town End would be rebuilt to [...]
With the imminent arrival of Simon Ferry and Paul Caddis from Celtic, who are expected to be unveiled before the Nottingham Forest match tomorrow, it seems strange and exciting at the same time, that Town now find themselves in a position to state their intent and commit to splash the cash by paying a significant transfer fee for the first [...]
The excellent Football Management blog by Dr John Beech has commented on The Very Strange Case of Swindon Town. This post may be of interest to The Washbag readers following Andrew Fitton’s announcement this week that our CVA had been formally lifted. This commentary reveals a great deal on the history of our periods in administration and various attempts to bring the club [...]
The Swindon Advertiser revealed on Monday that STFC Chairman Andrew Fitton is feeling a bit “disillusioned by a couple of things”. Latching onto this short comment, which incidentally was made straight after defeat to Millwall, the Adver ran an article in which it tried hard to find a reason for Fitton to question his future. Ultimately the article didn’t [...]
With all the talk of the troubles at Crystal Palace, who are facing the threat of liquidation, what impact could their demise have on the Football League, specifically the shape of League One next season and beyond? Like Town, Palace have twice been in administration. Firstly in 1998 which ended in 2000 and their current [...]
After reading this article today I can’t help feeling this will distort many fan’s view of the true financial picture of the club. Specifically this response from Wilson: We have to be self-sufficient to a certain degree if we can, and that’s what we are trying to do now. The board have helped get the [...]
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In his response to our question via the Swindon Advertiser a few weeks ago, interim Chairman Jeremy Wray indicated the Club will hold their AGM towards the end of this month or at the start of May. “We have an AGM coming up soon and that [appointing Wray as Chairman] will be sorted out then. Hopefully, if all goes [...]