He may have scored 18 goals in 2012/13, including a hat trick at Stoke City and four against Portsmouth, but Swindon Town have allowed their top scorer James Collins join Hibernian for £200,000. Ron Smith and Alex Cooke ask whether Town should have let the striker leave? James Collins only joined Swindon last summer in what transpired to be an
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Swindon’s managerless team of Spur’s frees and loanees is the youngest since Lou Macari was in charge with an average age of just 23.77, but Alex Cooke finds Town have won with kids, just not back to back. Swindon manager Bert Head arranged a trial match shortly before the 1960-61 season. He had two sides – the Probables and the
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Kevin MacDonald left the club by mutual consent this weekend and the search begins for Swindon’s 33rd manager since 1904 and third in the past five months. Adam Johnson shares his thoughts on the potential replacement. Swindon can’t even do boring pre seasons now it seems. We weren’t expecting it to be quiet with players coming and going but a managerial
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Three weeks before the start of the 2013/14 season Kevin MacDonald has thrown in the towel at Swindon Town, leaving us all wondering why Jed McCrory’s appointment suddenly decided enough was enough, writes Ron Smith. It was only the 28th February when former Aston Villa coach Kevin MacDonald was appointed as manager, the first major decision of chairman Jed McCrory’s tenure at
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It was reported at the Swindon Town Business Plan presentation that the planning application for the improvements to the Beversbrook Sports Facility in Calne had been submitted to Wiltshire Council in June. These improvements are crucial to enable Town to move from the present training facilities at Liddington, which “is now owned by PGL and that has its own restrictions in terms
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John of Wessex continues his recollections of the 2012-13 season that saw Swindon Town roller-coaster their way through embargoes, off-field shenanigans, superb cup victories, shock defeats to lower-league opposition, potential administration and new owners. With Oldham on our minds it came as somewhat of a surprise (or not) to hear about another Paolo Di Canio rant from the rooftops. I
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No sooner had Brazil won the Confederations Cup final than the pre-season started here in Wiltshire. Town travelled the short distance to the Webbs Wood Stadium – formerly Hunts Copse until Webb cut down the trees – to eventually come away with a respectable 3-1 victory. The match witnessed the return of my football alzheimer’s which always rears itself at this
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We’re nearly at the end of June already, the players have returned to training and the season is creeping up on me. It wasn’t until someone asked which pre-season friendlies I would be watching that I realised Town are to travel to Supermarine and Banbury next week, already! I can’t be the only one who gets a little lost at
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John of Wessex continues his recollections of the 2012-13 season that saw Swindon Town roller-coaster their way through embargoes, off-field shenanigans, superb cup victories, shock defeats to lower-league opposition, potential administration and new owners. Four days after the epic Aston Villa match, Town were back in cup action at the County Ground hosting non-league Macclesfield Town in what I’m sure
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John of Wessex continues his recollections of the 2012-13 season that saw Swindon Town roller-coaster their way through embargoes, off-field shenanigans, superb cup victories, shock defeats to lower-league opposition, potential administration and new owners. Our first home defeat in over a year was a shock to the system but at least we had a week to regroup and recharge our
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