Tag Archives: Andrew Fitton

Bhoys Are Coming to Town

With the imminent arrival of Simon Ferry and Paul Caddis from Celtic, who are expected to be unveiled before the Nottingham Forest match tomorrow, it seems strange and exciting at the same time, that Town now find themselves in a position to state their intent and commit to splash the cash by paying a significant transfer fee for the first time in a while. Chairman

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Signing No.3: David Ball

After Billy Paynter jumped ship to Leeds United, competition for Vincent Pericard and Charlie Austin arrived today, in the form of loan signing David Ball from Manchester City. Ball joins on a 6 month loan until 12th January 2011 and joins Town just in time for the pre-season tour to Austria after tomorrow night’s game at Swindon Supermarine. With Alex Henshall recently

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Town CVA Lifted and Plight of Wiltshire Clubs

The excellent Football Management blog by Dr John Beech has commented on The Very Strange Case of Swindon Town. This post may be of interest to The Washbag readers following Andrew Fitton’s announcement this week that our CVA had been formally lifted. This commentary reveals a great deal on the history of our periods in administration and various attempts to bring the club out of the CVA. As

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Fitton & Co.

The Swindon Advertiser revealed on Monday that STFC Chairman Andrew Fitton is feeling a bit “disillusioned by a couple of things”. Latching onto this short comment, which incidentally was made straight after defeat to Millwall, the Adver ran an article in which it tried hard to find a reason for Fitton to question his future. Ultimately the article didn’t tell us anything. This was

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Henshall for Man City?

The People has reported that the 16 year old Town promising left winger Alex Henshall is all set to join mega rich Manchester City. With no confirmation from either club, perhaps the Man City rumour can be taken with a pinch of salt, however it is evident Henshall has decided his future is away from the club, with, as it seems,

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Blue-Moonrakers?

Play-Off bound Swindon chairman Andrew Fitton and Manager Danny Wilson must be praised for their loan strategy this season. All loan signings with the exception of Ben Hutchinson have shone in the first team. The quality of the loans are an integral reason why with 3 games to go we are firmly in the race for promotion, having secured at

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Swindon to Sign Ferry

During the commentary on the 3-0 victory over a happless Leeds United this afternoon, Town Chairman Andrew Fitton revealed he is planning a trip to Scotland next weekend to watch Celtic and meet with their Board to ‘cememt our relationship’. Following Tony Mowbray leaving Parkhead two weeks ago, Town need to work to retain the positive partnership between the two clubs,

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