End of season player ratings – Part 2

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Neil Evans is to give his perspective on everyone who put on a Red shirt in our amazing record-breaking season, part two..  18. Mark Scott. The young goalkeeper didn’t really feature and has been released by PDC..we wish him well 5 out of 10 19. Luke Rooney: Is it just me, or were we all expecting a […]

Vic Morgan Blog: And So A Happy New Year…

Vic Morgan

BBC Radio Wiltshire commentator Vic Morgan continues his weekly blog only here on The Washbag. How was it for you…? A Saturday without football, but a Saturday with a lot of food and drink…. The absence of watching the Town, was partly made up by watching the Scottish Premier League on the telly. Not the same obviously, […]

Torquay Utd 1 Swindon 0: Town lacked any Boxing Day punch

Torquay United

An unchanged Swindon Town paid the ultimate price for playing only one half of football at Plainmoor and kissed goodbye to their 15 match unbeaten run in the process writes Daniel Hunt. The nine-day rest between this and the Morecambe win made a mockery of the phrase ‘hectic Christmas period’ and Torquay were worth their […]

So far, so good under Di Canio…

Di Canio celebration v Oxford

Andrew Steele-Davis takes a look back on what has been a memorable season so far for Town fans. It’s perhaps fair to say that there has been no better time to be a Swindon Town fan than now. Riding on the crest of a wave that a fifteen game unbeaten run brings, a lucrative home […]

Player Impact: The importance of Di Canio’s loan signings

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Back a few weeks ago I was asked if I collected statistics on the number of points won by each player in League Two. Not only are these available, statistics are held covering when a player takes to the field or not selected. As a result a comparison can be made on points won when […]

Leaving it late for the loans

With the promised link with West Ham finally coming to fruition in recent weeks, has Paolo Di Canio left his loan signings too late? Andrew Steele-Davis investigates. Upon his eagerly anticipated arrival on the managerial scene, Paolo Di Canio promised that Swindon Town would benefit significantly from links with Tottenham Hotspur and Paolo’s old stomping […]

A Huddersfield View on Liam Ridehalgh

Late last week Liam Ridehalgh joined Swindon on an initial one month loan from League One Huddersfield Town. I’ve asked Charlie Johnson, writer of the Huddersfield blog Football Charlie, for his view on one of our newest recruits. What type of player is Liam and what does he add to a team? Can he play a […]

Macclesfield 2 Swindon 0: Silkmen Sink Substandard Swindon

2011.09.30 Macclesfield

Swindon slumped to yet another away-day defeat at lowly Macclesfield, extending their wretched and unpredictable run of form away from the County Ground in the process reports Tom Otbrebski. The performance at Moss Rose bore a striking resemblance to the showings at Cheltenham and Burton earlier on in the campaign: a tale of missed chances, a […]