Every month we’ll be publishing our Washbag-Index Player of the Month and inviting your vote on the top three. The August result is… L1 Cups TOTAL Matt Ritchie 32 5 37 James Collins 5 29 34 Wes Foderingham 19.7 9.5 29.2 Jay McEveley 18 10 28 Alan Navarro 5 23 28 Aden Flint 13 12.5 25.5 Tommy Miller 17 8
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Ron Smith asks is there a demand from Swindon Town supporters for Safe-Standing areas to make an appearance at the rebuilt County Ground, should this be allowed in years to come? Please give your views by taking part in our Safe-Standing Survey below. If you were watching Swindon Town versus Leeds United from the Shrivenham Road or Stratton Bank in our final
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How difficult are the 2012/13 League One fixtures for Swindon Town? We may have the answer thanks to top Football League statistics blog Experimental 3-6-1. Statistical master and Torquay United supporter Ben Mayhew has created an algorithm to rank each team’s fixture list for the Championship, Leagues One and Two by their difficulty and visualised the results into a helpful heat
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Alex Cooke looks at Swindon fired their way to the 2011/12 championship with patience, fitness and a fantastic home scoring rate. It wasn’t the 75 goals scored that secured Swindon’s title last season; it was those that weren’t conceded. The forward line didn’t earn Paolo Di Canio’s side the championship; it was the back five. They allowed the team to
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Time for a quick look at how the League Two title race developed for the final top seven of Swindon, Shrewsbury, Crawley, Southend, Torquay, Cheltenham and Crewe… We’ve plotted the final points projection for each of the seven teams for all 46 rounds. The projection is a simple calculation of the points won per game at each round multiplied by to
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In our first review of the statistics which made the 2011/12 season, Ron Smith takes aim at Town goalkeepers Wes Foderingham, Phil Smith and Mattia Lanzano. If the 2011/12 season has taught us something we always knew would be true, it’s that quality goalkeepers are actually in short supply. After many years of Talia, Gremink, Lucas and the rest, it seems we’ve found one
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Preston North End have taken Town’s loaned left winger but would he really fit Paolo Di Canio’s new attacking plan or is Luke Rooney the solution? By Alex Cooke. Paolo Di Canio was keen. Whatever is said now, Swindon’s manager clearly once saw Southampton’s winger Lee Holmes as a very useful signing: “In terms of my opinion on the way
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Many Swindon fans loathe them as much as substituting Alan Connell but short corners deserve their place in Town’s armoury, says Alex Cooke. We should blame Shaun Taylor. From the 1992/93 season onwards, when that slab of Devonian muscle piled in 13 goals, mostly off his Neanderthal brow, Swindon fans have expected – no demanded – that Town should score
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He’s wild, he’s exuberant, and he’s fantastic entertainment, but Paolo Di Canio is a more studied manager than his pitch-side persona reveals, says Alex Cooke. “The media portrayal of Paolo Di Canio is very different to the manager I’ve come across. The one I have experienced is very meticulous in his planning, very knowledgeable about every level of football from
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Swindon Town are top of League Two and normally that comes down to a solid frontline banging in the goals, such as our partnerships of Mooney and Parkin, Allison and Finney etc. This season, the frontline has chopped and changed but still to some success, Adam Johnson looks at the situation. Paul Benson. 32, 6ft tall, 11st, looking for a
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