Six ways to get the County Ground crowds back
Lee Power says that the attendances at the County Ground better improve or he will start flogging players, Alex Cooke has five better ideas, and one crap one.
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Playing Ratings: Swindon Town v Cheltenham
Alex Cooke joins all the other Swindon media and gives his ratings out of ten for Town’s team at Whaddon Road
Read moreCheltenham 5 Swindon 0: Like last time, but worse
Alex Cooke reports from yet another farcical sending off and another farcical Town match at Whaddon Road. The best thing that can be said about this game is that it ended. And that it ends will probably be the best thing about this report, so let’s get there soon. Then I can drink and you can think about something else.
Read moreAre Swindon missing Liverpool’s Brad Smith already?
As Smith returns to Anfield apparently to solve a contract dispute, Alex Cooke looks at the contribution of the Australian wideman. Brad Smith showed some promise in his 10 games for Swindon, but he also showed a lot of inexperience. His best qualities seem to reside in his natural attributes – exceptional pace, dogged persistence and a willingness to work
Read moreFive star
It’s mid-morning on a Friday, so it must be time for the latest blog by BBC Devon’s Vic Morgan. Been a decent week I think. Can’t complain at the last few days in the life of our favourite football team. Certainly last Saturday against Sheffield United was almost as good as it gets. Swindon’s play was majestic at times. The
Read moreHarry Agombar: making up the numbers
Alex Cooke looks for a way to help Swindon’s perennially missing midfielder move on
Read moreFilling the hole
It’s mid-morning on a Friday, so it must be time for the latest blog by BBC Devon’s Vic Morgan. Just when you think the football season is up and running, it goes and leaves you with a blank weekend again. No Town game because of an international break. So an opportunity to go elsewhere for my football fix. That meant
Read moreThe best I’ve ever seen #1: Rory Fallon’s overhead strike vs Bristol City. 10 April 2004
In the first of a new feature celebrating the best matches, goals, players, kits, moments etc at Swindon Town, Alex Cooke still gets excited by the stunning chest-trap and overhead volley scored against Bristol City by Swindon’s Kiwi striker Rory Fallon.
Read moreClosing the window
It’s Friday, so it must be time for the latest blog by BBC Devon’s Vic Morgan. What a mad week in the wacky world of professional football. Did your eyes water at the amount of money being thrown around in the ‘greed is good’ league? I think the one statistic that remains with me from this crazy few days is
Read moreSeven things we’ve learnt this transfer window
With Louis Thompson gone, but back, and Jack Stephens and Jonathan Obika back, again, Alex Cooke looks at how Swindon did out of the summer’s moves. 1. Town had a good transfer window Swindon fans can’t usually agree on anything. From formations to the merits of playing 50-year-old bit of sub-moptop-pop guff after goals, they bicker constantly. But (if you’ve
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