Having not won for the last two games Swindon Town looked to get back to winning ways against Carlisle United in game week 19 of the Sky Bet League One. Swindon, who came in to the game off the back of a hard-earned point against now managerless Crawley, were keen to get the three points in order to maintain a
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A resilient and dogged Swindon Town side fought out a hard earned 0-0 draw against Crawley despite being reduced to ten men late on after Nathan Byrne’s dismissal, reports Andrew Steele-Davis. Both teams headed into the Tuesday night encounter with a patchy formbook. The hosts were on a six game streak without a win with four of those games ending
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Leyton Orient visited the County Ground and, like recent meetings, they beat Swindon Town convincingly. Brendan Hobbs gives his own unique take on proceedings… I don’t do many match reports for The Washbag and I’m beginning to realise why, to date I’ve written two, one covered an uninspiring home draw with Oldham, the other was to report on a home
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Swindon Town Under 18’s FA Youth Cup adventure was ended for another year as a rampant Leyton Orient side stormed to victory, reports Andrew Steele-Davis… On a bitterly cold winters evening at the County Ground, Swindon and Orient went head-to-head knowing that the winner would face an enticing trip to Stoke City in the next round. There were also a
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Swindon Town secured a 2-1 victory over Colchester United to move back into the League One play-off places courtesy of some tactical tinkerings by a brave Mark Cooper, showing Craig Levein how to get the strikerless 4-6-0 formation to work. Writes Scott Keith. If you’re going to go to Colchester’s new ground, the Weston Homes Community Stadium, it’s important you
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Swindon Town never like to do it easy do they? Calvin Hothi was at the County Ground on a cold night as the Robins managed to scrape through to the Southern Area Semi-Final at the expense of an impressive Wycombe Wanderers side, courtesy of a Nicky Ajose brace. A Swindon team that featured two changes from the side that found
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Macclesfield Town’s four goal margin of victory in the FA Cup 1st Round was Swindon Town’s heaviest post-war defeat to a ‘non-league’ side. Daniel Hunt has the uneviable position of writing the match report… Let’s get one thing clear straight away, this wasn’t a cup upset at Moss Rose. Mark Cooper’s Swindon Town were the victims of a good old
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Swindon Town ensured they got back to winning ways in emphatic fashion by thrashing Port Vale 5-2 in a game that had more action than a James Bond flick, reports Andrew Steele-Davis. Both teams were going into the game experiencing different veins of form. Swindon Town had lost the last two and were desperate to put an end to the
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Adam Tanner made it up the M6 (eventually) to Oldham to witness Swindon Town’s response to their midweek setback… The suspension of Jay McEveley left Town without either a recognised left-back or a third centre back with any league experience. This meant that regardless of the formation chosen, some improvisation would be needed. Mark Cooper’s solution was to persist with
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Sometimes teams need to be brought back down to earth following a winning run – a realisation that they aren’t world beaters – and Tuesday night was one of those matches for Swindon Town against Walsall, writes Calvin Hothi. Manager Mark Cooper made just one change from the side which beat Notts County on Friday with Nicky Ajose coming in
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