Episode #46 of TheWashbag Swindon Town FC Podcast is now available to download or stream online… For our second outing over Skype (with sound levels still not as perfect as we’d like), Ron Smith is joined by Alex Cooke and Brendan Hobbs to discuss the transfer window, Chinese trains, a return to 3-5-2 and what should’ve been a goalless draw versus Barnsley.
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Episode #45 of TheWashbag Swindon Town FC Podcast is now available to download or stream online… For an impromptu chat to test recording the podcast over Skype, Ron Smith is joined by Alex Cooke to discuss comeback kings, booing and whether Williams will be Town’s next manager? Get involved with the podcast, please submit your questions by emailing thewashbag[at]gmail[dot]com or tweet
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BOO and emboldened Boo-ers dominate Alex Cooke’s list of the lessons to be taken from this weekend’s win, plus Nathan’s notes and Bakayogo’s bad record 1. Mind-altering short corners This might be as fashionable as jeggings for the over 60s but Town are currently using some innovative corner routines. Early in the first half Yaser Kasim and Fabien Robert came
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Alex Cooke looks at how Jordan Turnbull and Fabien Robert shared the flank against Rochdale One of the criticisms throughout this season has been of players being used out of their natural positions: Henrik Ojamaa as a wingback, Nicky Ajose as a lone forward and, most frequently, Jordan Turnbull as a left back. But on Saturday one of the more
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Alex Cooke lost a bet and ended up writing about Town’s hard fought and hard-to-watch win over a very good Walsall side. He doesn’t mind loosing that bet too much now We won. I’m going to write that again as it looks a little strange, even after spellchecking it: we won. It still seems hard to believe because Walsall could,
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Alex Cooke looks back at the Swindon career of a manager who was set up to be the man in-between…
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Alex Cooke takes a quick look at Town’s use of a 4-4-2 for the second-half of Saturday’s match versus Peterborough United…
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Alex Cooke asks if Town’s pre-season and training, or lack of, could be to blame for losing at least nine players to injury? So far this season, Swindon have been forced to use 29 different players, mostly thanks to an injury list which seems to grow after every game. To date that list has included: Jon Obika, Wes Thomas, Nathan
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Alex Cooke looks back at the Town career of a ‘Neanderthal wicker dildo’ who was also a Paul Hart favourite. David Prutton is entry #33 into the Swindon Town Hall of Shame…
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Crap app Fanzai and another media ban are just part of a bigger problem, it’s time for Lee Power and his team to start talking, and listening, to Town fans, says Alex Cooke
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