Legendary hedonist and erstwhile King of Cario’s nightclub, Wild Al, is doing his bit for Town’s tumbling fortunes by eschewing ‘Dry January’ for the 27th year running. While others are dabbling in a New Year detox to shed the pounds, Al has hit the pub to draw up a five point plan of action to help Tim Sherwood pile on
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Former BBC Wiltshire match commentator Vic Morgan writes his weekly blog… At least we got a draw… On the coldest day of the season so far, a goalless game didn’t warm us up too much. It was though, a point and a deserved one. The first half against Southend was, to put it mildly, pretty awful. After the break much better.
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Former BBC Wiltshire match commentator Vic Morgan writes his weekly blog… Happy new year! Well we can but hope. I think, and most will agree, that 2016 has been a year to forget for Swindon Town fans. There aren’t many good memories to take from the past twelve months to store in the “glad I was there” bank. In fact, if
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Former BBC Wiltshire match commentator Vic Morgan writes his weekly blog… A very happy Christmas. Obviously a red and white one, what else would it be? I guess it’s that time when we all have a little wish about this and that and hope that the big man in the red and white suit delivers. As Swindon fans we’ve been waiting
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Former BBC Wiltshire match commentator Vic Morgan writes his weekly blog… Things seemed okay about 3.50pm last Saturday afternoon. Swindon had managed to deal with most things the Sheffield United attack had thrown at them and deserved to be level at half time. Things then went from bad to worse. Michael Doughty was replaced by Jermaine Hylton and suddenly the Town
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Alex Cooke asks how has the number of shots Swindon face in each game almost doubled since Tim Sherwood took over? At the moment Swindon are conceding a lots of goals: nine goals in the five league games since Tim Sherwood ‘took over’. Clearly that is far too many, but it is indicative of another problem: the amount of shots
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In the final of his blogs this week, Adam Tanner examines another reason why Swindon Town are faltering in League One… Throughout 28 competitive games this season, no player has scored more than three times for the club. That’s 21 games into the league season and the club’s strikers have four league goals between them. Frankly, when we consider that several of our opponents
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The season of goodwill may be in full flow, especially in the Swindon Town defence, but in the fourth of a series of five posts this week, Adam Tanner examines why the spirit around The County Ground is more befitting of the January blues… Luke Williams does not give the impression of being an inspiring leader, and the stats support
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The season of goodwill may be in full flow, especially in the Swindon Town defence, but in the third of a series of five posts this week, Adam Tanner examines why the spirit around The County Ground is more befitting of the January blues… A cup run, even a decent cup fixture, can do so much for a club. To give
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The season of goodwill may be in full flow, especially in the Swindon Town defence, but in the second of a series of five posts this week, Adam Tanner examines why the spirit around The County Ground is more befitting of the January blues… With the January transfer window a few week ahead, I fully agree with the assumption that the
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