Swindon Town 0 Bury 1: Stinking bin juice

Swindon Bin

This wasn’t just rubbish. This was stinking Swindon Town rubbish, writes Ben Beaumont. If you believe in these things, the omens were bad. 1. Bury hadn’t won at the County Ground since 1977. The year of my birth. 2. The last match report I wrote for thewashbag was a drab 0-0 draw with Sheffield United. […]

Raffa De Vita’s contribution and other miscellaneous stats…

Statto

Ron Smith provides a festive feast of Swindon Town player related statistics for League One matches for you… Raffaele De Vita has made the greatest contribution of any Town player to scoring goals when on the pitch in League One, scoring 6 out of the 14 goals (42.9%). 2nd is Matt Ritchie with 29.6% and […]

Swindon 0 Sheffield United 0: A slow death, but a precious point

Sheffield United

A youthful, injury-ravaged Town side biffed and bashed their way to a valuable point at home to Sheffield United, but that doesn’t mean it was ever easy on the eye, writes Ben Beaumont. I’m beginning to think The Washbag should stop asking me to write match reports. Last month it was that unholy drab-a-thon against […]

Swindon 2 Coventry City 2: Sky Blues’ thunder stolen by Reds’ recovery

Ricoh Arena Coventry City

Swindon recover from going two behind at home to Coventry City to record a unlikely 2-2 draw, writes STFC007. Paolo Di Canio made three changes to the starting line-up that won away at Bury. The injured Williams was replaced by Benson whilst fit again Roberts replaced Bessone. There was also a rare start for John […]

Swindon 3 Burnley 1: Town add Clarets to cup victims, who’s next?

Capital One Cup

Daniel Hunt reflects on further progress for Swindon Town in the League Cup after a convincing 3-1 victory over Burnley. Soak it all in, appreciate it, take pictures! Because this is a fantastic time to be a Town fan. A healthy crowd of over seven thousand witnessed an action packed cup tie at the County Ground as […]

Swindon 4 AFC Bournemouth 0: Thompson steals Ritchie’s thunder

Nathan Thompson

After a few turbulent weeks Town really needed a solid performance at home to consolidate their 2-1 victory away at Portsmouth mid-week and that is exactly what they did with a 4-0 over AFC Bournemouth, writes Matt Davies. Paolo Di Canio decided to stick with his mid-week team, something that has been a rarity since […]

Portsmouth 1 Swindon 2: How to nearly throw away a two goal lead…

Matt Ritchie

After controlling the game for at least seventy minutes of the ninety, Swindon almost contrived to throw away all three points at Fratton Park Tuesday evening – a crazy last ten minutes almost costing the Town dear, despite a comfortable-looking two goal lead. Writes Richard Banyard of swindon-town-fc.co.uk The first half hour was overwhelmingly Swindon’s […]

A Mature English Blend

English Blend

Seven new players have already joined the Paolo Di Canio regime for the 2012/2013 season and the transfer window hasn’t officially opened yet. Our writer Adam Johnson looks into the signings and the possible impact they could have in the year ahead… If Paolo Di Canio has a favourite Whiskey, based on our signings, we all […]

End of season player ratings – Part 1

Score

Neil Evans is to give his perspective on everyone who put on a Red shirt in our amazing record-breaking season. First up is part one including Mattia Lanzano through to Alan Connell, squad nos.1 to 17.  Ratings are made out of 10. Anyone who was in the squad but didn’t play automatically gets a default 5 out […]

Swindon 1 Northampton 0: Town move closer to promotion

Northampton Town Aidy Boothroyd

Swindon completed the bank holiday weekend with another 1-0 victory, courtesy of a cross-cum-shot from Lee Holmes. It wasn’t pretty, as the power of Northampton looked to out-do the precise passing of Swindon reports Rosie MacGillivray. Given Paolo Di Canio’s dissatisfaction at our performance versus Morecambe, it wasn’t a surprise to see two changes. Ronan Murray returned in place […]