What a season it has been for Swindon Town midfielder Massimo Luongo. From being an ‘unknown talent’ within the Spurs reserves, to signing for the Robins, then remarkably making the Australian World Cup 23 man squad is remarkable progress. Brendan Hobbs looks back at Massimo’s story…
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Has the County Ground been too quiet recently? Well… ‘GL5 Arkells Stand’ believes it is and he asks what are we about to do about it..?
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Seeing that it’s over a week after the end of the season Ron Smith decides it’s time to summarise some thoughts on the 2013/14 campaign for Swindon Town. I’m not going into detail about the season as it’s been covered numerous times already, instead I’ll concentrate on one aspect, how this year has only served to demonstrate our collective disparity between
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Throughout this season Mike Minihane has been taking a look back at Swindon Town’s first season in the ‘big time’, following the promotion to Division Two for the 1963/64 season. Mike completes his review with April 1964… Top of the Charts – Can’t Buy Me Love – The Beatles As the season petered out our relegation form continued. Gone were the heady
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When Paolo Di Canio finally left the County Ground Brendan Hobbs penned a personal eulogy to the departing managerial enigma, and he to be fair was bit of a berk. So we think it’s only fair that Brendan should do one about another passionate individual, one who like Di Canio was equally driven to win at all costs, but this one
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Episode #28 of TheWashbag.com Swindon Town FC Podcast is now available to download. Host Ron Smith is joined by Swindon Advertiser’s Chief Sports Reporter Sam Morshead, FLICWiltshire Sports Editor Andrew Steele-Davis and Town fan Brendan Hobbs.
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The Board of Swindon Town Supporters’ Trust has today issued a statement calling for a rapid resolution to the current case being heard in the High Court relating to the ownership of the club.
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It’s Friday, so it must be time for the latest blog by BBC Devon’s Vic Morgan. It all ended rather tamely didn’t it? Our chances of the play offs finally disappeared in a blur of red and yellow cards on the Meadow Lane swamp… Pre-match the main topic of conversation was the constant watering of the pitch. It seemed amazing
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Your votes have been counted and we can announce that Wes Foderingham has won TheWashbag.com Swindon Town Player of the Season Award. Foderingham wins the ‘Fraser Digby Tortoiseshell Comb Award’ for the second successive year. Wes secured 33% of the vote, comfortably beating Louis Thompson into second with 16% and Jay McEveley in third with 11%. Popular favourite Alex Pritchard only
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Which player will win the coveted Fraser Digby’s Washbag Tortoiseshell Comb Award? It’s time to vote for your Swindon Town Player of the Season. You’ve got just one choice so pick a good one and don’t go for the obvious as that’s boring.
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