It’s Friday, so it must be time for the latest blog by BBC Devon’s Vic Morgan. Lightning doesn’t strike twice apparently. Well that’s fine unless its the FA Cup when it obviously does. The defeat at Moss Rose was embarrassing and for any Town fan rather humiliating. To loose 4-0 to a non league team is bad enough, but to be
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Form Guide… 7th placed Swindon Town previously bounced back from successive defeats with a 5-2 victory over Port Vale in their last League One game. Town are now equal on points with 6th placed Bradford City – trailing by a single goal difference – and remain 15 adrift of leaders Leyton Orient. In the League One form guide, Swindon are
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Swindon Town never like to do it easy do they? Calvin Hothi was at the County Ground on a cold night as the Robins managed to scrape through to the Southern Area Semi-Final at the expense of an impressive Wycombe Wanderers side, courtesy of a Nicky Ajose brace. A Swindon team that featured two changes from the side that found
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Today the ‘Abbreviated Accounts’ for Swindon Town Football Company Limited in the period to 31st May 2013 were released via Companies House… The following note by the club’s independent auditor certainly raised an eyebrow… With the auditor stating there may be doubt about Town’s ability to continue as a going concern should we be worried? Perhaps not… It is important
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After being thumped by Macclesfield Town at the weekend I thought I’d cheer you all up with our long awaited 25th entry into the Swindon Town Hall of Shame… a total demolition job by Nottingham Forest and a hammering that fortunately hasn’t been equalled since. Writes Ron Smith. This trip to the City Ground in February 2006 will haunt me forever. The
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You can still get 20% off in TheWashbag Store to celebrate our new range of STFC inspired T-Shirts, Hoodies, Jackets & more… Between the 5th to 12th November, all of our customers save a whopping 20%, which is great if you’re doing your early Christmas gift shopping for any Swindon Town fan… 20% off all products Period: 5-12 November 2013 Enter Code: EARLY20 Can’t be
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Swindon Town’s strategy under Mark Cooper is meant to be one of dominance in possession and passing football, and yet our opponents seem to be scoring frequently of late. Ron Smith asks how can the opposition score if they seemingly don’t have the ball? Looking at the key statistics after the pathetic weekend FA Cup defeat, I couldn’t have been
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Macclesfield Town’s four goal margin of victory in the FA Cup 1st Round was Swindon Town’s heaviest post-war defeat to a ‘non-league’ side. Daniel Hunt has the uneviable position of writing the match report… Let’s get one thing clear straight away, this wasn’t a cup upset at Moss Rose. Mark Cooper’s Swindon Town were the victims of a good old
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It’s Friday, so it must be time for the latest blog by BBC Devon’s Vic Morgan. Yes, it’s that time of the year again. Twelve months on from when they dumped us ceremoniously out of the FA Cup, Macclesfield return to haunt us again. It was a depressing afternoon wasn’t it? Swindon deservedly beaten by a team which we should
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Andrew Steele-Davis reflects on a game that had everything, looks forward to a week of cup fever and suggests why the January transfer window will be an important one for Town… Now that was much better wasn’t it? Swindon put an end to their losing streak and banished any talk of an apparent ‘crisis’ in style with an impressive 5-2
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