Brendan Hobbs puts pen to paper on signing contracts and why it’s not that simple for those who wish to break the agreement… Imagine, you’ve just started work for a new company – it offers a new, fresh challenge within a field you have worked in before and have good experience. The company took you on after a successful interview
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In our first review of the statistics which made the 2011/12 season, Ron Smith takes aim at Town goalkeepers Wes Foderingham, Phil Smith and Mattia Lanzano. If the 2011/12 season has taught us something we always knew would be true, it’s that quality goalkeepers are actually in short supply. After many years of Talia, Gremink, Lucas and the rest, it seems we’ve found one
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Our Swindon Town Hall of Shame continues with entry no.15 – Shaun Close, who is arguably the worst player ever to wear the famous red & white. Writes Matthew Fry. In a time that seems only yesterday for me, Swindon Town trained pre match on a scrubby patch of land where the giant Tesco superstore on Ocatal Way now stands in the Town.
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After the Football League announced they would revert to seven substitutions for the 2012/13 campaign, Christopher Panks asks how this could affect Di Canio’s approach… Much is spoken of how substitutions have won or lost games for managers. Many have pointed to Harry Redknapp’s tactical decisions which saw his team surrender a 2-0 lead away to bitter rivals Arsenal, eventually conceding five without scoring another,
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For our 14th entry into the Swindon Town Hall of Shame, Dan Johnson looks back at when former manager and disgraced pundit Ron Atkinson turned up at the County Ground as a ‘football troubleshooter’ with Sky TV cameras for a short period in the 2005/06 season. As all Town fans know this season was a disaster, fellow Washbag contributor Tom Otrebski has
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After weeks of speculation, Paolo Di Canio has confirmed he’s in a position to agree terms with Jeremy Wray to sign a two year contract extension until June 2015. The Club can now concentrate on the plan for consolidation in League One, but the message is clear, one eye will always be kept on promotion, with a three year aim for
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Preston North End have taken Town’s loaned left winger but would he really fit Paolo Di Canio’s new attacking plan or is Luke Rooney the solution? By Alex Cooke. Paolo Di Canio was keen. Whatever is said now, Swindon’s manager clearly once saw Southampton’s winger Lee Holmes as a very useful signing: “In terms of my opinion on the way
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You may have noticed we’ve been a bit quiet responding to the latest Swindon Town news recently, Ron Smith has been on holiday… A week without the mod-cons in rural Dorset, in an isolated place where the only signal known to locals is morse, has undoubtedly been the relaxing break that me and the young family sorely needed. The only
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You’ve read many great factual reviews of the season, Alex Cooke takes a more personal view of 2011-12 and how it has changed how he watches Swindon. 2011-12 was a season played in the full glare of a nation’s attention. The media with their magpie-attention span were periodically fascinated because of who stalked the touchline, rival football fans saw Swindon
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1986/87 saw Lou Macari’s young side secure back-to-back promotions, as Town returned to the second tier after a 13-year absence. From Digby’s debut to Chalkie’s elbows, this was a season of firsts, writes Ben Beaumont. This was my first full season as a Town fan, having opened my account half-way through the 1986 Division Four title-winning year, at the tender
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