It’s been an emotional rollercoaster on and off the pitch this season and now Swindon’s footballing future could be settled in the next few days. Adam Johnson has a look at Town’s playoff chances against 3rd place Brentford… ‘‘Whatever will be, will be’’ is the usual terrace cry during the playoffs but it doesn’t encompass the true feelings of a
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It’s Friday, so it must be time for the latest ‘exclusive’ blog by BBC Devon’s Vic Morgan. After a lot of gloom and doom we DID make the play offs. A couple of weeks ago it appeared that our beloved football team was heading for a season of oblivion. It was being said that it would be a disaster if
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The County Ground holds 14,700, yet attendances rarely break into five figures despite two successful seasons. Ron Smith looks at the patterns of fans through the turnstiles… Despite playing at a higher level in League One, Swindon’s average for league matches at the County Ground has increased only marginally from 8,411 in 2011/12 to 8,528 in 2012/13; with the average
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Alex Cooke gives us a quick run-down of Kevin MacDonald’s adjustments to Swindon’s set up. Swindon 3 v Stevenage 0 wasn’t a game which swung on a tactical innovation or an adjustment in formation, Town were mostly the superior team, individually and numerically. And although Stevenage manager Graham Westley switched systems time and again, adjusting his increasingly brutal and isolated
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It’s Friday, so it must be time for the latest blog by BBC Devon’s Vic Morgan. Its amazing how different things can feel in the space of three days isn’t it? Last Saturday after the game at Sheffield United things looked rather bleak. There were a lot of bemused faces on the supporters’ coaches after another disappointing afternoon. It felt
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It’s Friday, so it must be time for the latest blog by BBC Devon’s Vic Morgan. Another quiet week at the place we like to call SN1 then. No game at the weekend allowed me to sample life in our old division. Remember League Two? Well toddled along to St. James Park in the sunshine to “enjoy” Exeter City against
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 never thought it would come to this, I’ve had to take some drastic action over the past few weeks in
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It’s Friday, so it must be time for the latest blog by BBC Devon’s Vic Morgan. That’s my new name for Doncaster. Not very original but there you are. If you were there you would know what I mean. If you weren’t there all you had to do was venture outside and you would get a flavour of what it
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With news that Paolo Di Canio has been appointed as manager at Premier League Sunderland, here’s some light reading for Mackems on his eventful time at Swindon Town… Paolo Di Canio’s Red & White Army – An initial view on the Italian’s appointment in May 2011… READ THE FULL ARTICLE Paolo Di Canio: Method Man Not Madman – He’s wild, he’s exuberant,
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It’s Friday, so it must be time for the latest blog by BBC Devon’s Vic Morgan. And so it did come to pass. The lifting of the mighty M’Bargo. One of the most dogged and annoying midfield terriers ever to plague the County Ground. There can be fewer subjects that have so dominated Swindon fans than this restriction on the
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