Brendan Hobbs has now finally reported on a Swindon Town victory. Preston North End were the unfortunate ones on the end of a one goal defeat… A fresh spring day welcomed football history heavyweights Preston North End to the County Ground; they breezed into Wiltshire stinking of a team with an enviable history littered with League titles, FA Cups and
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It’s Friday, so it must be time for the latest blog by BBC Devon’s Vic Morgan. Good point wasn’t it? Despite being down to ten men Swindon produced a rear guard action to deny Bristol City bragging rights. It was great to see a Town side looking so solid in defence. The new partnership of Troy Archibald-Henville and Jack Stephens
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Steve Fleming asks whether Swindon Town’s direction to ‘play the Mark Cooper way’ was the right strategy as the season unfolded..? Mark Cooper is determined to play one way and in one style, at all costs. He says it’s a learning process but are we expecting too much from an inexperienced young team to have them play a way which
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Episode #26 of TheWashbag.com Swindon Town FC Podcast is now available to download… Host Ron Smith is joined by FLIC Wiltshire’s Sports Editor Andrew Steele-Davis and Washbag graphics supremo Brendan Hobbs. Doom and gloom has surrounded the County Ground for some weeks as Swindon Town had only one win in 11 games, meaning no trip to Wembley in either the
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Adam Tanner made the short trip to Ashton Gate for a derby day fixture that has become quite a rare event in recent seasons. Swindon Town went into the game hoping to avoid a third consecutive league defeat for the first time all season, and aiming to extend an eight-game unbeaten run against Bristol City, stretching back to 2002. Mark
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Today is the 45th Anniversary of Swindon Town’s famous League Cup Final victory over Arsenal in 1969. Relive the action with a selection of videos from swindon-town-fc.co.uk
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It’s Friday, so it must be time for the latest blog by BBC Devon’s Vic Morgan. Not much of a week was it? Two home games and two defeats. It means for the first time this season Swindon fans are looking down the table rather than up. Wretched form since the new year has seen us slip off the play
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After Swindon Town’s latest loss, this time a 1-4 home trouncing by Wolves, Town fans are not in high spirits. Being eight points behind sixth place Peterborough with Posh having a game in hand doesn’t look encouraging as Swindon’s play off ambitions are fading fast. Ben Wills sent over these five reasons why Swindon supporters should still be smiling though…
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Michael Smith’s second-half goal provided scant consolation for Town fans in a stinging 4-1 home defeat by a Wolves side bustling with strength, collective effort and, Leon Clarke, writes Alex Cooke. Swindon manager Mark Cooper labelled 45 minutes of this display “outstanding” but seemed to choose the wrong half and the wrong team, for despite Swindon’s improvement after the break,
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A home defeat for Mark Cooper’s Swindon Town on Saturday after leading MK Dons at half time was enough for an increasing number of supporters to demand chairman Lee Power removes the manager. With Cooper still in the Town dugout, Ron Smith asks whether now is the right time to change manager? One victory in ten games in all competitions
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