It’s Friday, so it must be time for the latest blog by BBC Devon’s Vic Morgan. In a week when you can’t move for the awards being handed out, there weren’t many prizes on offer at the County Ground. A goalless draw against Colchester United was followed by that annoying penalty shoot out in the JPT. The moving of the
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It’s Friday, so it must be time for the latest blog by BBC Devon’s Vic Morgan. What a wonderful day last Saturday was. The weather, of course, was rubbish. The football was excellent. Swindon Town played in a fast positive way and got the result they deserved. It wasn’t like that at half time though. Despite dominating the play the
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Town’s owner is also the chief scout and director of football operations, but boardroom interference at Swindon isn’t unusual, or even a problem, says Alex Cooke. Does Lee Power signing players undermine Town manager Mark Cooper? Is the former Peterborough boss just a puppet? Or, can a chairman who says he has “the mind of a player, a manager and
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It’s Friday, so it must be time for the latest blog by BBC Devon’s Vic Morgan. I write this as once again the rain lashes down in Devon. Just a few short miles from where I live the main railway line balances like a slender thread over the sea. People’s lives are being disrupted by the sheer power of Mother
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Swindon Town not only lost against Oldham Athletic but they also failed to score in a home league game for the first time since last March. Considering Town managed a grand total of one attempt on target and two corners, that result is hardly surprising, so Adam Tanner assesses what went wrong.? 1. Managerial Input Cooper made a couple of
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It’s Friday, so it must be time for the latest blog by BBC Devon’s Vic Morgan. It has been quite a week I think you’ll agree. Last Saturday the journey from Devon to the County Ground began in almost spring like sunshine. I think that particular season disappeared at around twenty past three when the heavens opened and the hurricane
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It’s Friday, so it must be time for the latest blog by BBC Devon’s Vic Morgan. So it goes on. Swindon Town’s wretched away form continues and so does the gentle meander down the league table. To be honest I didn’t leave Devon with high hopes last Saturday, more a feeling of the inevitable. That’s how it turned out. A cold
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Over a year ago we surveyed Swindon Town supporters for their views on safe standing at the County Ground and we then presented the results to the Club. Move forward 12 months and the Football League is consulting its 72 member clubs on how they would like it to take the safe standing debate forward. Will the club continue to offer their
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The Swindon Advertiser’s week-long press ban is over. Hurrah, says Alex Cooke, but is everything back to normal now? Swindon’s local paper is once again welcome back at the County Ground and Adver reporter Sam Morshead no longer has to fumble around for stories like a blindfolded octopus in a library. This is good news for fans, and for Sam.
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It’s Friday, so it must be time for the latest blog by BBC Devon’s Vic Morgan. It has been yet another frustrating week in the life of a Swindon Town fan. One minute a victory over one of the promotion favourites Peterborough United, the next a defeat by the side bottom of the table Stevenage. There are no easy answers
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