Former BBC Wiltshire match commentator Vic Morgan returns for the 2016/17 season… Most of the time as a football fan you can find some cause for optimism. Over the past few days though, I’ve not spoken to many Swindon Town supporters who’re feeling too happy with life right now. Last Saturday’s defeat by Bury was disappointing enough but failed into insignificance
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Alex Cooke looks at Saturday’s positional shift as Anton Rodgers was dropped, before Conor Thomas dropped back to make space for Brad Barry It wasn’t much of a surprise on Saturday when Conor Thomas took the place of Anton Rodgers in the team against Bury. However, it was a bit of a surprise where Thomas played. After all, he has
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Former BBC Wiltshire match commentator Vic Morgan reflects on another A420 derby defeat… Quite a week this… Let’s start at the beginning shall we? In the words of the song a very good place to start. Last Saturday’s trip along the A420 was everything I hate about football. As someone who’s watched the game from the mid sixties onward, I’ve seen
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New contributor Conor Garratt goes through what went wrong for Luke Williams’ men on their latest defeat at Oxford’s Kassam stadium And so the awful run against that yellow-and-blue rabble goes on. As the home fans at the Kassam were keen to let us know on Saturday, Swindon have now suffered six losses on the spin against their A420 rivals,
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Former BBC Wiltshire match commentator Vic Morgan returns for the 2016/17 season… Here it is then… The fixture that most Town fans have been looking forward too since the end of last season. While we’ve played the team from along the A420 relatively recently, it’s a game that’s been anticipated all summer. More on the derby game with the side from
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Former BBC Wiltshire match commentator Vic Morgan returns for the 2016/17 season… First of all let’s turn to the events of last Saturday… Having worked an early morning shift in Plymouth, it was a case of catching a train from Tiverton Parkway to makes sure of seeing the local derby with Bristol Rovers. The taxi from Swindon station arrived at the
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Alex Cooke drops another list, but this time all about the abandoned match against the other lot from Bristol 1. Nathan Delfonso offers something different It was the first time I’ve seen the former Villa man in a Town shirt and I was impressed. While clearly lacking in physical sharpness, his superior speed of thought was clear. Delfonso was happy
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Wild Al managed to get to the County Ground for the 13.30 kick-off and visit of Bristol Rovers. Fortunately a second-half abandonment meant he didn’t need to remember any of the detail for this report… Bristol has given the world lots – Massive Attack, for instance. Of course the earnest trip-poppers never transcended cult status, nor appealed to anyone but beardies and girls who
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Former BBC Wiltshire match commentator Vic Morgan returns for the 2016/17 season… Swindon Town’s early season home form looks pretty good right now. A couple of games, a couple of wins and a couple of clean sheets. I know I’m testing providence by writing this just ahead of the local derby on Saturday, but positivity isn’t always a bad thing. A
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Former BBC Wiltshire match commentator Vic Morgan returns for the 2016/17 season… Two away games with differing fortunes this week. After a promising start to the new campaign, it was a slightly different feeling in the last few days. I, like a few others, was quite confident going to Chesterfield on Saturday. Sadly that confidence was, to say the least, unfounded.
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