Our 28th entry into the Swindon Town Hall of Shame is Brunel FM – the radio station where the listener couldn’t hear the commentary, writes Ron Smith. One decision in the summer of 2007 summed up the consistent failures life under the Wills’ family advisor Mike Diamandis. The club severed the club’s 18 year old ties with BBC Wiltshire in
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Episode #25 of TheWashbag.com Swindon Town FC Podcast is now available to download… Host Ron Smith is joined by Town fans Daniel Hunt and Iain Watkins. What is it about Swindon Town? Previously dominant as hosts and we could expect at least two goals per game, but now games against Oldham and Colchester have seen Town goalless and only one
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It’s Friday, so it must be time for the latest blog by BBC Devon’s Vic Morgan. What a wonderful day last Saturday was. The weather, of course, was rubbish. The football was excellent. Swindon Town played in a fast positive way and got the result they deserved. It wasn’t like that at half time though. Despite dominating the play the
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Town’s owner is also the chief scout and director of football operations, but boardroom interference at Swindon isn’t unusual, or even a problem, says Alex Cooke. Does Lee Power signing players undermine Town manager Mark Cooper? Is the former Peterborough boss just a puppet? Or, can a chairman who says he has “the mind of a player, a manager and
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It’s Friday, so it must be time for the latest blog by BBC Devon’s Vic Morgan. I write this as once again the rain lashes down in Devon. Just a few short miles from where I live the main railway line balances like a slender thread over the sea. People’s lives are being disrupted by the sheer power of Mother
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Some managers hate it, supporters worry they’re going to lose their star player, while Sky Sports’ Jim White can’t wait until deadline day. We’re talking about the January transfer window. Ron Smith asks whether a successful January window has equated to a stronger second half of the season at Swindon Town? The modern transfer windows have caused panic and excitement every
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Swindon Town not only lost against Oldham Athletic but they also failed to score in a home league game for the first time since last March. Considering Town managed a grand total of one attempt on target and two corners, that result is hardly surprising, so Adam Tanner assesses what went wrong.? 1. Managerial Input Cooper made a couple of
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It’s Friday, so it must be time for the latest blog by BBC Devon’s Vic Morgan. It has been quite a week I think you’ll agree. Last Saturday the journey from Devon to the County Ground began in almost spring like sunshine. I think that particular season disappeared at around twenty past three when the heavens opened and the hurricane
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Alex Cooke looks back at a massive punt and a manager who didn’t changed his kick-off plan, despite years of repeated failure. You must remember it. It happened at every Swindon kick-off under Andy King, game after game after game: Sammy Igoe (or similar) tapped the ball slightly forward. Then, (often) Matt Hewlett swung the ball over the heads of
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Throughout this season Mike Minihane will be taking a look back at Swindon Town’s first season in the ‘big time’, following the promotion to Division Two for the 1963/64 season. Mike continues with a review of January 1964… Top of the Charts – Glad All Over – The Dave Clark Five Morale was hardly high as we entered the New
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