With Rafa Branco injured and Swindon’s defence looking thin, Lee Power needs to find a new centre back but it can’t just be any old stopper, writes Alex Cooke Swindon rely on their central defenders, not just to stop goals, but also to create them. They have to, so often do they face a packed defence. Within Luke Williams’ 3-5-2,
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Alex Cooke lost a bet and ended up writing about Town’s hard fought and hard-to-watch win over a very good Walsall side. He doesn’t mind loosing that bet too much now We won. I’m going to write that again as it looks a little strange, even after spellchecking it: we won. It still seems hard to believe because Walsall could,
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Alex Hays reports on an abject 5-1 defeat at Fleetwood Town that sends Swindon back into the League One relegation zone.
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Former BBC Wiltshire commentator Vic Morgan writes his latest blog for TheWashbag.com… It’s been a while. A home win and a positive feeling on a Saturday night. Recent results have seen us plunge into the bottom two and face the prospect of a season long battle against relegation. The first home appearance by new boss Martin Ling brought the hoped for lift
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Adam Tanner travelled to the County Ground, hoping to watch Swindon Town send their visitors back to Coventry… Tuesday’s feeble collapse against an Oldham Athletic side, which had won just one of its previous 23 competitive matches, represented a new low for Swindon – who had lost five consecutive home League games for only the third time ever. Whereas Coventry
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Swindon have now failed to win in their last nine matches, after another another abysmal performance, this time against Oldham Athletic, where yet again Town’s tactical failures showed reports Davy Richards
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When Richard Selbourne put his name down to write this match report just over a month ago, this was the kind of headline he’d imagined writing for yesterday’s match against Peterborough United…
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