Well here we are at the start of the new season already. So here we go with Mystic Vic’s 2013/14 almanac.. What are your hopes and expectations for Swindon in 2013/14? I have limited expectations for the new season based purely on the fact it’s a new squad which’ll take some time to gell. I have no problems with the
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TheWashbag contributor Daniel Hunt is the first to look ahead to the 2013/14 season… What are your hopes and expectations for Swindon in 2013/14? I hope that Swindon Town can go through the 2013/2014 season comfortably in mid-table but as I pen these notes six days before the first game of the season, I fully expect Swindon Town to have
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New TheWashbag contributor Adam Tanner looks at the importance of a strong start to the season for Swindon Town’s bunch of fledglings. “The league table means nothing until after Christmas.” Any wizened old pundit worth his salt will tell you so. There is generally some logic to this, as our own history shows. The most striking example was 2011/12, in
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With the 2013/14 season fast approaching do you want to join our squad of bloggers and match reporters? I’m always searching for more Town supporters to contribute to TheWashbag and add to the voice of the website. On the basis that you can spell and string a coherent paragraph or two together, there’s no better site than TheWashbag to have
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He may have scored 18 goals in 2012/13, including a hat trick at Stoke City and four against Portsmouth, but Swindon Town have allowed their top scorer James Collins join Hibernian for £200,000. Ron Smith and Alex Cooke ask whether Town should have let the striker leave? James Collins only joined Swindon last summer in what transpired to be an
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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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Kevin MacDonald left the club by mutual consent this weekend and the search begins for Swindon’s 33rd manager since 1904 and third in the past five months. Adam Johnson shares his thoughts on the potential replacement. Swindon can’t even do boring pre seasons now it seems. We weren’t expecting it to be quiet with players coming and going but a managerial
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Three weeks before the start of the 2013/14 season Kevin MacDonald has thrown in the towel at Swindon Town, leaving us all wondering why Jed McCrory’s appointment suddenly decided enough was enough, writes Ron Smith. It was only the 28th February when former Aston Villa coach Kevin MacDonald was appointed as manager, the first major decision of chairman Jed McCrory’s tenure at
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It was reported at the Swindon Town Business Plan presentation that the planning application for the improvements to the Beversbrook Sports Facility in Calne had been submitted to Wiltshire Council in June. These improvements are crucial to enable Town to move from the present training facilities at Liddington, which “is now owned by PGL and that has its own restrictions in terms
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John of Wessex continues his recollections of the 2012-13 season that saw Swindon Town roller-coaster their way through embargoes, off-field shenanigans, superb cup victories, shock defeats to lower-league opposition, potential administration and new owners. With Oldham on our minds it came as somewhat of a surprise (or not) to hear about another Paolo Di Canio rant from the rooftops. I
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