How much do you know from about Swindon Town’s rarely seen midfield maestro, Harry Agombar? Take our test, and find out says Alex Cooke… Question 1. Who is Harry Agombar? A. Harry Agombar is the long-lost cousin of former Celtic defender and Swindon Town’s mystery man, Milan Misun. On weekends, he is also known as Fredi. Or Alan Navarro. B.
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After defeats against Walsall and Oldham, Swindon manager Mark Cooper needs to tighten up his new defensive system. By Alex Cooke. It was a simple, but brave, solution. Swindon were conceding too often and so manager Mark Cooper added an extra defender to the back four. However, the switch of systems to 352 from 433 seems to have created as
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Swindon’s manager Mark Cooper switched to a 3412/352 for Town’s first away-win of the season but will he stick with the system? By Alex Cooke.. Why is it only at Rotherham? Before Saturday, Swindon hadn’t started a league game with a back three since 2005. That game was also in South Yorkshire but in very different circumstances… Eight years ago
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The Swindon Town’s defender has claimed that chairman Jed McCory is blocking a loan move to Millwall or Birmingham, but what would you do with the ex-Celtic man? Alex Cooke asks. He was once a Swindon’s captain, a crucial part of a championship-winning team and, crucially, TheWashbag’s nomination for player of the season, but now Paul Caddis is unwanted, unplayed
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Pliable, pragmatic and powerless, Cooper is an ideal head coach for Town’s current structure, says Alex Cooke. Mark Cooper is the perfect manager for Swindon Town precisely because he has no reputation, no great history and no obvious footballing philosophy. He is a journey-man manager with coaching experience thrust into one of his biggest ever jobs but no cache to
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How Swindon’s progressive football was spoiled by Stevenage and what Mark Cooper needs to do to prevent it happening every week, by Alex Cooke. Swindon dominated Stevenage: For 45 minutes, Town’s football spoke a new freedom for the men in red, of collective effort, of complexity hidden in the simplicity of angles. And yet, in the second half the plodding,
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Leon Clarke, Dany N’Guessan, Wes Thomas, Nile Ranger or someone very different? Alex Cooke looks at what type of striker suits Town’s 433. Swindon Town seem to have a problem scoring goals at the moment. Some choose to blame the 433 system, many blame the lone, central striker: Andy Williams. But what can be done? Chairman Jed McCory has stated
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TheWashbag contributor Alex Cooke looks ahead to the 2013/14 season… What are your hopes and expectations for Swindon in 2013/14? Hope? Stability. All of the club’s costs become predictable – with no lawsuits, pay offs, tribunals or extra emergency concert underwriting. That way any income the club actually gets can be used by the club for the benefit of the
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Swindon’s managerless team of Spur’s frees and loanees is the youngest since Lou Macari was in charge with an average age of just 23.77, but Alex Cooke finds Town have won with kids, just not back to back. Swindon manager Bert Head arranged a trial match shortly before the 1960-61 season. He had two sides – the Probables and the
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Alex Cooke takes a look back at the pattern of play in one of the most fascinating games played at the old Wembley – Swindon Town v Leicester City. One theme written throughout this bout nostalgia has been the comment that ‘it doesn’t feel like 20 years’ since Swindon won at Wembley. Not to me it doesn’t. Watching Swindon 4,
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