Swindon Town headed to London ahead of their JPT Area Final First Leg game against Barnet full of confidence after the excellent FA Cup win over Wigan at the weekend. But, with the league’s top scorer amongst their ranks, Barnet were not just going to roll over. Andrew Steele-Davis was at Underhill to report. Paolo Di Canio made three changes to
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Paolo Di Canio has changed him from a midfielder to a defender, but playing at the back has allowed McCormack to change the way Swindon play, writes Alex Cooke. It took an injury to get Alan McCormack’s Swindon Town career going: not an injury to him, but to Oliver Risser. For the Namibian had been deployed as an emergency centre
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Swindon Town are into the FA Cup fourth round thanks to a magnificent 2-1 victory over Wigan Athletic….we’ve not had the opportunity to celebrate that achievement in a while writes Ron Smith. It’s been fifteen long years since our previous run beyond round three. Town are rewarded with a trip the East Midlands; thanks to goals from Alan Connell and Paul Benson, this after Callum McManaman
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Andrew Steele-Davis takes a look back on what has been a memorable season so far for Town fans. It’s perhaps fair to say that there has been no better time to be a Swindon Town fan than now. Riding on the crest of a wave that a fifteen game unbeaten run brings, a lucrative home tie against Wigan Athletic of
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Something had to give as Southend’s 17 game unbeaten run went up against Swindon’s very own 12 match unbeaten record in the Johnstone’s Paint Trophy Southern Area Semi-Final at Roots Hall writes Daniel Hunt. Paolo Di Canio’s squad of battlers were the last side to defeat Southend on September 10th and they repeated the feat on Tuesday night, this time on
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Swindon brushed aside League One opposition for the second successive round in the FA Cup writes Richard Banyard from Swindon-Town-FC.co.uk – comfortably beating Colchester on their own patch today with a performance that had the home fans chanting for their money back. Di Canio made three personnel changes to the side that beat Aldershot last weekend – to be honest, I
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Swindon produced their best performance of the season full of fight, creativity and killer instinct to book a place in the second round of the FA Cup following a 4-1 victory, reports Adam Johnson. Town went into this game as the underdogs, and deservedly so, being up against the in-form side in the Football League. However, Caddis and Co put
Read moreThe central partnership in the Swindon Town defence has been up for grabs since Paolo Di Canio took charge earlier this summer. With the departure of Scott Cuthbert, Lescinel Jean-Francios and Andy Frampton, Town’s new look backline has seen five players compete for the right to play at centre back in League Two; Aden Flint, Alan McCormack, Alberto Comazzi, Joe Devera and Oliver Risser. We
Read moreWith Paolo Di Canio celebrating his first ten league matches with a clean sheet, Alex Cooke kicks off day two of our analysis with a look at how the goals have gone in… Attention all rival managers: Swindon Town’s weakness is in the air. After ten league games and ten league goals conceded, it is pretty easy to spot the
Read moreEvery month The Washbag will be awarding our ‘prestigious’ Swindon Player of the Month. Each monthly winner will then be eligible for your vote in May to decide the Player of the Season, who will win the coveted Fraser Digby Tortoiseshell Comb Award. The panel will consist of The Washbag regulars plus some familiar names. Onto the August votes…
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