It’s Friday, so it must be time for the latest blog by BBC Devon’s Vic Morgan. Much of the Swindon Town speculation this week has centred around a new striker, or Centre Forward for those of us old enough to remember such a phrase. Well one story has emerged to gladden the hearts of even the most cynical, OK I
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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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Sir Alex Ferguson said he had ‘great potential’. Andy King described him as ‘an inspiration’ while Sam Parkin suggests he could have been ‘better than James Milner’. Sadly, though, after Jimmy Davis’s untimely death in 2003, we’ll never get to find out if they were right. Writes Nick Judd. Davis was killed in a car accident in the early hours of
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It’s Thursday, so it must be time for the latest blog by BBC Devon’s Vic Morgan. Can it be so? Can the new season already be here ? For once we’ve had a summer and what a summer! Heat and a British winner of the men’s title at Wimbledon. Crazy. So it was early last Saturday morning that the journey
Read moreWelcome to Press Watch by Brendan Hobbs, TheWashbag’s sideways glance at all things Town related in the media. If you see anything remotely concerning Swindon Town in the worlds media get in contact with me via Twitter @mrbraindown Well, I didn’t think I’d ever write this again, but Press Watch is back, again. No sooner had I finished burying it
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Adam Johnson is the final TheWashbag contributor to give his thoughts on Swindon Town in the 2013/14 season… What are your hopes and expectations for Swindon in 2013/14? That we still have a club at the end of the season! Now, that’s me joking but there are fans who seem to be this negative about the coming season. The way
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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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TheWashbag contributor Lee Clark gives his thoughts ahead of the 2013/14 season… What are your hopes and expectations for Swindon in 2013/14? I realistically hope we can finish mid-table and have a good cup run. What with all the new faces on and off the field, it really is a period of transition and if we were to finish in
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TheWashbag contributor Benjamin Beaumont looks ahead to the 2013/14 season… What are your hopes and expectations for Swindon in 2013/14? I’ve never been less certain of what might happen. The hope is that all these young fledglings gel into a fast, slick, high-tempo footballing machine that rises to the top and stays there, whoever the manager. The fear is that
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