Tuesday was the day all of the second year Swindon Town youth team scholars dreaded. Will they be offered their first professional contract or cast adrift to start their potentially long search to find a contract or forget their dream of playing professional football? The whole team have performed brilliantly to secure the Youth Alliance South West Championship title for the third
Read moreFollowing the six Npower League One matches this evening, nearly all results in our favour, he’s an updated League One predictions table showing how it all effects Swindon Town. As usual this is based on projecting home and away form so far this season to the games remaining. Key points: Brighton still shown promoted with 84 points as Huddersfield will
Read moreLast night’s results were painful for Swindon Town supporters as yet another game without a win now requires 17 points from only 21 available to ensure we have a realistic chance of avoiding the drop to League Two…judging by our season the odds are clearly against us. However, at the other end of the table…the top end…remember where we were
Read moreI’m still coming to terms to Swindon Town defender Scott Cuthbert’s bizarre comment to the Swindon Advertiser: “We are confident that if we put the performance in every week then we won’t be in the bottom four and that has got to be our aim. “When it comes to the end of the month we have eight games that we feel
Read moreGuff from the Adver earlier earlier today with Gary Rose’s article on his interview with Swindon Town defender Andy Frampton. Titled “The table DOES lie!”, the article widely quotes from Frampton, yet I can’t read anywhere Frampton making that exact statement in the title… A misleading title born from Frampton commenting: “We have to concentrate on what we are doing.
Read moreNew Swindon Town manager Paul Hart has certainly caused a stir with media attempts to perfect the headline grabbing pun based on his name. Of course The Washbag won’t be participating in any of this nonsense… So the various Journalists and blog writers can keep tabs on the Hart puns here is a list of the best…er…I mean worst so far… We Hart
Read moreFollowing the full League One fixture programme this afternoon, for what it’s worth, here’s an updated league form table sorted by predicted finish position. The predicted total is calculated by points per game secured home and away, and projecting this forward for the remainder of the season. So Swindon have won 1.22 points per game at home with 5 games
Read moreBrought to Swindon Town by Andrew Fitton with the task to ensure Town avoided relegation in 2008/2009. Two years on, after reaching the highs of 2nd place and a Wembley play-off final, it’s a complete turnaround in fortunes that saw Danny Wilson quit the relegation threatened club. To follow Maurice Malpas, Fitton made the right choice in appointing Wilson. An honest,
Read moreSpeaking to STFCPlayer today, new Swindon Town manager Paul Hart was asked what sort of team can Town fans expect to see under his management. As far as I’m concerned, Hart has immediately hit the nail on the head with a key reason why we’ve underperformed this season with his response: “Hopefully what I’ve tried to produce elsewhere… a side that
Read moreThe Swindon Advertiser reports former Nottingham Forest, Barnsley, Rushden & Diamonds, Portsmouth, QPR and Crystal Palace manager is all set to take over at The County Ground. So I’m jumping on the bandwagon with a quick poll. If Paul Hart is to be appointed as Danny Wilson’s successor until the end of the season, is he the short term replacement to lead us
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