Judging Swindon’s strikers: One missed every minute

Alex Cooke compares the scoring prowess of Obika, Hylton, Delfouneso and Norris with Chelsea’s Feruz (and rumoured target Dagger’s Oliver Hawkins) In this transfer window, Town have been linked with forwards (Oliver Hawkins) and actually brought one in (Chelsea’s Islam Feruz) which seems a perfect excuse to compare the current crop and the new  one. It is clear that Town

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Vic Morgan: Blunted by the Blades

Former BBC Wiltshire match commentator Vic Morgan writes his weekly blog… Things seemed okay about 3.50pm last Saturday afternoon. Swindon had managed to deal with most things the Sheffield United attack had thrown at them and deserved to be level at half time. Things then went from bad to worse. Michael Doughty was replaced by Jermaine Hylton and suddenly the Town

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The nasty number that shows why Swindon are shipping so many goals

Alex Cooke asks how has the number of shots Swindon face in each game almost doubled since Tim Sherwood took over? At the moment Swindon are conceding a lots of goals: nine goals in the five league games since Tim Sherwood ‘took over’. Clearly that is far too many, but it is indicative of another problem: the amount of shots

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Golden Goals

In the final of his blogs this week, Adam Tanner examines another reason why Swindon Town are faltering in League One… Throughout 28 competitive games this season, no player has scored more than three times for the club. That’s 21 games into the league season and the club’s strikers have four league goals between them. Frankly, when we consider that several of our opponents

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