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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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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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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Neil Evans is to give his perspective on everyone who put on a Red shirt in our amazing record-breaking season, part two.. 18. Mark Scott. The young goalkeeper didn’t really feature and has been released by PDC..we wish him well 5 out of 10 19. Luke Rooney: Is it just me, or were we all expecting a lot more from Luke? if
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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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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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Neil Evans is to give his perspective on everyone who put on a Red shirt in our amazing record-breaking season. First up is part one including Mattia Lanzano through to Alan Connell, squad nos.1 to 17. Ratings are made out of 10. Anyone who was in the squad but didn’t play automatically gets a default 5 out of 10…e.g Nathan Thompson Part
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The final ramblings of the season from BBC Devon’s Vic Morgan. So that’s it for another season then. There we were back in August welcoming a new campaign with a 3-0 home win over Crewe and now in May it’s passed in a blur. Its had more than the fair share of ups and downs. After that initial up against
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Carl McQueen of the We Are Going Up! Football League Podcast casts his eye over the man behind our success this season…Paolo Di Canio. On May 23rd 2011, the new Swindon Town manager Paolo Di Canio said he “was close to signing Lionel Messi”. In hindsight, he’s had the kind of season you can’t help but be impressed by –
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The votes have been counted and TheWashbag.com readers have voted Alan McCormack as our 2011/12 Swindon Town Player of the Season. Who would’ve imagined back in July that the former Southend and Charlton Athletic midfielder would become arguably the most adept central defender in the division and secure a massive 46% of your vote to win the coveted Fraser Digby
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