At the final whistle ‘Keep The Faith’ by Bon Jovi blasted out of the County Ground PA following Town’s 2-1 defeat by Bournemouth in the opening League One encounter of 2011. Whether or not this music choice was a deliberate attempt by the club hierarchy to stand behind Danny Wilson and ask the same of the support, or simply a rousing tune following a defeat is beside
Read moreDanny Wilson has only served as manager of Swindon Town for two years, having been appointed on Boxing Day 2008 after his out of the blue dismissal from Hartlepool earlier that month. In this period Town have progressed from relegation certainties to a Wembley Play-off final, however now questions are being asked of Wilson as Town fail to realise raised expectations. Given
Read moreTime to delve into my statistics again. I’ve been wondering how effective each player who has represented Town in the League so far has been, based on the end result. Stats have been recorded so far of all appearances and whether a player involved in a game has contributed to a win, draw or loss. The figures are sorted by the difference
Read moreIt’s time to get the spreadsheet out again and dig into the numbers to see during which periods of play Swindon and our opposition have been lethal in front of goal. First Half 1-15 16-30 31-45 45+ Swindon 2 (10%) 2 (10%) 4 (20%) 1 (5%) 45% Opposition 7 (33.3%) 2 (9.5%) 0 0 42.86% 33% of our opponent’s goals have
Read moreWell after the start we didn’t quite achieve promotion, but what we did achieve was exceeding many expectations and a season to remember…at least until Wembley! Now 2010/2011 is still early with so much more to play for. After 13 games we are sitting a lowly 15th in the table with 16 points and closer to the relegation places (by
Read moreAfter spending the past two days reviewing the finer details of the attacking and defensive statistics for all League One clubs, it’s time to establish whether or not the figures reveal anything about tactics and what the overall ranking is for the league based on this figures alone, not results. G = Goals | ATTr = Attacking Ranking C =
Read moreAfter posting the attacking rankings for all of League One yesterday, it’s now time to look at how successful each defence is using 4 comparable rankings looking at shots against per game, percentage of shots against on target, percentage of shots on target saved and number of corners conceded per game… SAPG = Shots against per game | SAPGr = Shots against per
Read moreSo far this season I have been keeping a log of various statistic for STFC, our players and for all other League One clubs for use on this blog when there isn’t much to talk about! Earlier this week I thought about our performances in the first 10 games, wondering how we compare, statistically at least, to the rest of League
Read moreOn paper we appeared to have strength in depth. I also thought…perhaps we might even be blessed with the ‘strongest’ Town squad for some years. So why hasn’t this manifested itself into an onfield advantage, leaving us winless after 5 league games? So far on the bench this season we’ve seen Amankwaah, Ball, Caddis, Dossevi, Ferry, Jean-Francois, Jesionkowski, Morrison, Prutton, Sheehan,
Read moreFive games into the 2010/2011 League One season Swindon Town find themselves without a win and astonishingly sitting bottom of the table with only 3 points. This is hardly what I had expected, let alone the rest of you, as well as what the club predicted back at the start of August. I was so confident I put £30 on
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