Swindon were denied taking a deserved win to West London on Monday after Brentford converted a late penalty to equal out Luongo’s goal and set up a tense second leg Play-Off decider. Reports STFC007. Town, with the wind on their back in the first half, could have opened the scoring in the first minute had Adam Rooney crossed from the
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Alex Cooke looks at how the two sides might shape up for the home leg of Saturday’s play-off match. Under manager Uwe Rosler, Brentford have become a compact team who play controlled, calm, progressive football. They like to squeeze play into a narrow band in which their impressively defined shape makes them stifling to play against and efficient, if a
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It’s Friday, so it must be time for the latest ‘exclusive’ blog by BBC Devon’s Vic Morgan. It wasn’t great was it the Scunthorpe experience… Despite going in front with just a few minutes to go it all came apart in spectacular fashion. I was transported back to the bad old days of the Seventies and Eighties as apparently grown
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It’s been an emotional rollercoaster on and off the pitch this season and now Swindon’s footballing future could be settled in the next few days. Adam Johnson has a look at Town’s playoff chances against 3rd place Brentford… ‘‘Whatever will be, will be’’ is the usual terrace cry during the playoffs but it doesn’t encompass the true feelings of a
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A selection of the previous performances for Swindon Town and Brentford in the Play-Offs ahead of the League One semi-finals this weekend… Swindon Town Play Off Appearances: 6 Average League Position Securing Play Off Berth: 4.9 Semi-Final Defeats: 2 (vs Crystal Palace 88/89, Brighton 03/04) Final Appearances: 4 (vs Gillingham 86/87, Sunderland 89/90, Leicester 92/93 & Millwall 09/10) Final Winner: 3 (86/87, 89/90, 92/93)
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Swindon Town will meet Brentford in the play-offs after a final regular league fixture ended in a 3-1 defeat at Glanford Park, Scunthorpe. Report by Ciaran Hart, perhaps a relation to Paul Hart – although I didn’t ask… Scunthorpe started the better team, they looked like a team fighting for their lives near the bottom of the league, which they
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It’s Friday, so it must be time for the latest ‘exclusive’ blog by BBC Devon’s Vic Morgan. After a lot of gloom and doom we DID make the play offs. A couple of weeks ago it appeared that our beloved football team was heading for a season of oblivion. It was being said that it would be a disaster if
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The County Ground holds 14,700, yet attendances rarely break into five figures despite two successful seasons. Ron Smith looks at the patterns of fans through the turnstiles… Despite playing at a higher level in League One, Swindon’s average for league matches at the County Ground has increased only marginally from 8,411 in 2011/12 to 8,528 in 2012/13; with the average
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Alex Cooke gives us a quick run-down of Kevin MacDonald’s adjustments to Swindon’s set up. Swindon 3 v Stevenage 0 wasn’t a game which swung on a tactical innovation or an adjustment in formation, Town were mostly the superior team, individually and numerically. And although Stevenage manager Graham Westley switched systems time and again, adjusting his increasingly brutal and isolated
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Swindon Town mathematically secured their position in the League One play-off positions with a comfortable 3-0 victory over Stevenage in the Wiltshire sunshine. Two Aden Flint goals sandwiched between a Gary Roberts strike and a red card for Dani Lopez ensured Swindon saw off a physical Stevenage side with very little to play for, writes Lee Clark. Prior to the
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