Throughout this week our writers reveal their hopes and expectations for Swindon Town in League One during 2012/13. Before Daniel Hunt provides his match report for yesterday’s encounter with Brighton & Hove Albion, read his view on the season ahead… Hopes and expectations for the season: If Swindon can harness the momentum gained from winning League 2 and hit the ground
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Throughout this week our writers reveal their hopes and expectations for Swindon Town in League One during 2012/13. Next up, Nick Judd… Hopes and expectations for the season: Like last summer, I have no idea what to expect from the team or the manager but I hope we’ll challenge in the top six. It’s crucial we seize the momentum from last season.
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Throughout this week our writers reveal their hopes and expectations for Swindon Town in League One during 2012/13. Second up, our Podcast host Christopher Panks… Hopes and expectations for the season: I’ll be fairly satisfied with a finish in the top half of the league, a top 10 finish would be seen as a good consolidation. Signing of the summer: Troy
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Throughout this week our writers reveal their hopes and expectations for Swindon Town in League One during 2012/13. First up, Adam Johnson… Hopes and expectations for the season: To expect a promotion is certainly setting high goals of achievement. The side that has been assembled by Paolo Di Canio could achieve that through the playoffs but I’d be happy with us
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If you haven’t already, please take part in our Safe-Standing Questionnaire below which seeks your views on: whether you would support the provision for Safe-Standing area(s) at the rebuilt County Ground if this was permitted; how it could be implemented; and in what ways could Safe-Standing affect your attendance and matchday experience. For more information on Safe-Standing, read our article here.
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Christopher Panks reveals why recent history suggests another promotion for Swindon Town in 2012/13 would be an unlikely turn of events… There is plenty of cause for optimism around the County Ground before the start of the 2012/13 League One campaign. Any trepidation caused by the appointment of an unknown quantity twelve months ago was quickly eradicated as Paolo Di
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After a couple of years of deciding the fate of Swindon Town and Swindon Supermarine players for Football Manager 2010, 2011, 2012 and part of 2013 I will sadly be leaving the position. Finally I have realised that my time is too short and there are plenty of more things to do than shouting at the computer and pretending to be a football
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Originally posted on ONLYSPORTALL:
Il a 26 ans et a déjà pas mal bourlingué. Lui? C’est Mehdi Kerrouche, serial buteur. S’il a perdu quelques opportunités de s’illustrer au plus haut niveau, il n’a pas perdu sa spontanéité ni sa franchise. Portrait d’un footballeur qui ne connait pas la langue de bois. Un vrai Bol d’Air pour la profession. “Ronaldo mon…
Why the recent £2 million cash injection won’t mean Town will buy Harry Kewell, by Alex Cooke. It seems churlish, grumpy and almost disloyal to question anything about a £2 million injection by the board of STFC into the club, after all this is that rarest of things – good news. But few things are quite that simple and you don’t
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Pre-season with Paolo is always said to be hard work but does all the running work? Alex Cooke looks at the evidence. Fitness has been something of a theme for Swindon Town; the club’s foundations were being laid by the Victorian ideal of ‘muscular christianity’, its badge carries the exhortation to effort; ‘Salubritas et Industria’ and one of its greatest
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