Relegation, demotion and perhaps a promotion …the continuing story of Swindon Town F.C.
Our TheWashbag.com Index has been calculatating each Swindon Town Player of the Month by assessing the key statistics from all league and cup matches. Now the season has finished we can finally publish the Player of the Season result for 2012/13… Congratulations to super Wes Foderingham for winning our Player of the Season Award with a […]
Alex Cooke looks at how the two sides might shape up for the home leg of Saturday’s play-off match. Under manager Uwe Rosler, Brentford have become a compact team who play controlled, calm, progressive football. They like to squeeze play into a narrow band in which their impressively defined shape makes them stifling to play […]
Our TheWashbag.com Index calculates the Swindon Town Player of the Month by assessing the key statistics from all league and cup matches. Following six League One games during the month, the March result is in… PLAYER LEAGUE CUP TOTAL Darren Ward 23.0 0 23.0 Simon Ferry 21.0 0 21.0 Adam Rooney 21.0 0 21.0 Andy […]
Mystic Ron gets out the crystal ball and a spreadsheet with another hopeful prediction of the final standings in League One… With seven games remaining for Swindon Town, it’s better late than never to have a go at predicting the final league positions on the 27th April. After testing various methods over the past few seasons I’ve decided […]
Paolo Di Canio kept to a 442, but Swindon’s new boss likes an extra man in the middle, Alex Cooke looks at the reasons for the shift. Kevin MacDonald has made the move to 4141 for one simple reason: possession. He wants to play passing football, he wants to play winning football, and he needs […]
Alex Cooke looks at the tactics used against Walsall and how far Kevin MacDonald has to go to change how Town play. “I didn’t play well, I don’t know why – I just didn’t.” At first Simon Ferry’s post-Walsall protestations sound odd. After all, it was obvious to most people in the County Ground that […]
Our TheWashbag.com Index calculates the Swindon Town Player of the Month by assessing the key statistics from all league and cup matches. Following six League One games during the month, the February result is in… PLAYER LEAGUE CUP TOTAL Gary Roberts 28.0 0 28.0 Wes Foderingham 20.2 0 20.2 Adam Rooney 20.0 0 20.0 James […]
He’s been gone a little while from the dugout, however it’s taken that time for Ron Smith to put together a selection of the vital statistics from Paolo Di Canio’s reign at the County Ground. Di Canio managed Swindon Town for 95 matches, competing in League One, League Two, the FA Cup, the League Cup […]
After scoring twice at Tranmere and impressing against Preston, the winger is finally stepping out of Matt Ritchie’s shadow. By Alex Cooke Gary Roberts hasn’t so far lived up to Town fans’ expectations, or his big wages. Paolo Di Canio once angrily accused him of playing ‘tippy- tappy football’ and some Swindon fans have said […]
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Four things we learnt from Swindon v Stevenage
Alex Cooke gives us a quick run-down of Kevin MacDonald’s adjustments to Swindon’s set up. Swindon 3 v Stevenage 0 wasn’t a game which swung on a tactical innovation or an adjustment in formation, Town were mostly the superior team, individually and numerically. And although Stevenage manager Graham Westley switched systems time and again, adjusting […]