You have voted Matt Ritchie as your Swindon Town Player of the Month for September. The winger polled a massive 69% of the vote and miles ahead of runner up Medhi Kerrouche with 14%. Seven players – Simon Ferry, Aden Flint, Phil Smith, Callum Kennedy, Raffaelle De Vita, Mattia Lanzano and Alan McCormack – tied for third. Thanks to all those who voted. As for the lucky ticket
Read moreOur resident Norwegian Town fan Hans J. Tandsether of Heiaswindon.com casts his eye on events in September. Another month has gone by and for us Swindon fans it’s been a rocky ride with both ups and downs. I ended my last review by suggesting that we left August on a low due to some surprisingly bad results and the ‘Clarkegate’ incident
Read moreSwindon 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 penalty that perhaps should have
Read moreIt has been another weekend of unpredictable action from the Npower Football League Two as Bristol Rovers freefall continues, Southend continue to rise and the early season pacesetters continue to stutter. All of the action is assessed here in the latest instalment of Andrew Steele Davis’ League Two Review. Southend United continued their recent fine form with an outstanding 3-0 victory over
Read moreDon’t just read The Washbag, there’s a whole football blogosphere out there. Here are some of my picks of the week for a bit of light reading over a lazy weekend in the sun. How Seven Days Ruined the Reputation of Doncaster Rovers – Donny fanzine Viva Rovers refelcts on a turbelent seven days which has seen the sacking of the popular and
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It’s time for our Player of the Month and for the September award it’s your vote to decide the winner. Also, we’ve teamed up with npower, title sponsors of the Football League, to give away two pairs of tickets to watch Swindon at the County Ground if you want to enter the free prize draw. You and a friend could be going
Read moreBBC Radio Swindon commentator Vic Morgan continues his weekly blog only here on The Washbag. And so we’ve passed the 10 game mark of the League Two campaign. Just how did that happen..? It only seems a minute or so ago, that we were at Prenton Park looking forward to the summer. Well that summer returned this week in terms of the weather, but
Read moreAn unusual Friday night kick-off sees Swindon travel to Cheshire to face Macclesfield Town in League Two. Form… Swindon’s four wins in their previous five games has pushed Paolo Di Canio’s side right back into contention for the Play-Offs. And rightly so… 18th placed Macclesfield also sit 18th in the current form table, having won 2, drawn 1 and lost
Read moreHaving reviewed the effectiveness of Di Canio’s substitutions and defence, Adam Johnson now takes a detailed look at how the goal have flown in at the other end of the pitch causing mad bursts of passion from a certain Italian in the dugout. When your manager is Paolo Di Canio, you expect the goals to flow and finally against Barnet
Read moreWith Paolo Di Canio celebrating his first ten league matches with a clean sheet, Alex Cooke kicks off day two of our analysis with a look at how the goals have gone in… Attention all rival managers: Swindon Town’s weakness is in the air. After ten league games and ten league goals conceded, it is pretty easy to spot the
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