It’s Friday, so it must be time for the latest blog by BBC Devon’s Vic Morgan. It was a great game wasn’t it? Maybe not one for the purists but last Saturday’s match against Brentford was a full blooded affair. Full of incident, I think it was one of my favourite games of the season. It also saw the return
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Swindon Town entertained Brentford in game 42 of Sky Bet League One, with the visitors on the road to automatic promotion. Town manager Mark Cooper made four changes from their previous game against Carlisle, a 1-0 loss thanks to former transfer target Gary Madine. Matthew Peach was at the game to report on the action at the County Ground.
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On a day with which the phrase “cold turkey” is synonymous, Swindon Town made themselves look like a team of the festive birds as they were unable to capitalise on a bright start and ended up being Brentford’s boxing day lunch. Writes Jonny Leighfield. Mark Cooper made two changes to his starting line up by reintroducing Nathan Thompson to his
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If last night’s football game had lasted for only 70 minutes, Swindon would have returned to Wiltshire with 3 well deserved points; but instead they were made to rue the missed chances in the first half as Brentford came from behind to claim all 3 points to leapfrog Swindon in the table writes STFC007. Since their one and only table
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The Swindon starting XI saw three changes from the team which beat Yeovil on Saturday with Martin replacing the injured Williams, Hollands replacing Bostock and McCormack making way for Nathan Thompson reports STFC007. Tonight’s floodlit game also saw the return of the former Swindon Town captain Jonathan Douglas, who, other than a harsh challenge on his former team-mate Ferry –
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This Sunday sees Swindon return to Wembley for the second time in under two years. The build up to this match provides an obvious opportunity to induct into the Hall of Shame the decision back in May 2010 to forego wearing the famous red and white… A week before the Play-Off Final with Millwall, Swindon Town announced the surprise decision
Read moreAs we’ve moved into 2012 it’s a good opportunity to look back on twelve of the best Swindon Town goals of 2011. The list, compiled by Daniel Hunt, comprises eleven different players who have contributed to this selection of towering headers, team goals and individual efforts. Hopefully we haven’t missed out a good’un in this selection as we’ve tried to give even coverage of the whole
Read moreSince our relegation was confirmed back in April we all hoped one player would stay a Robin and guide Swindon back up to League One at the first attempt. However finally today after so many positive noises from Douglas’ agent, we all got the answer, the answer we deep down knew was always coming, Jonathan Douglas will not be renewing his Swindon contract and
Read moreGiven the delay in the new Swindon manager announcement you can feast your eyes on some more statistics I’ve gathered over the course of the season. This time I’ll be having a look at the defensive phase of play and the contribution of all players with a defensive role, in particular, these stats reveal how many goals have been conceded
Read moreFollowing on from the release of Alan O’Brien and Thomas Dossevi, there are nine other Swindon Town players out of contract at the end of the season. We all know about Alan Sheehan’s lack of commitment to the club after going without permission to play for Preston North End in a trial match, but what about the rest, do they
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