After being undone by two penalties at promotion chasing Leyton Orient on Saturday. Swindon Town came into the Tuesday night clash with Crawley Town hoping to pick up maximum points, but they didn’t… Writes Calvin Hothi. Mark Cooper opted to leave Massimo Luongo and Troy Archibald Henville out of his matchday squad with Nathan Thompson, Jack Barthram, Jay McEveley and
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Peterborough United booked their place in the Johnstone’s Paint Trophy Final at Wembley after defeating Swindon on penalties at the County Ground following a 1-1 draw after 90 minutes. Writes Benjamin Wills. After a 180 minute stalemate, Tommy Rowe slotted in the winning penalty to send the 383 travelling fans home happy and Peterborough to the JPT Final for the
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Niall Ratcliffe braved the weather hoping to be entertained by a Swindon Town victory. Instead, Town couldn’t break down a stubborn Colchester United and have now failed to score in successive games as hosts… Almost up to kick-off at 7.45 this game looked to be in doubt due to the atrocious weather. With a couple of very late pitch inspections
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2013 was a truly eventful and unforgettable year at Swindon Town. Brendan Hobbs jumped at the chance of writing our review of 2013, which has turned into an epic feature of writing; you’ve now made it to part seven and its now 2014, so a Happy New Year! September The first bit of business for Swindon in the new month
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Adam Tanner travelled up to Bramall Lane in hope of some early festive cheer, only to witness Swindon Town’s attacking instincts going cold turkey… In terms of personnel, Mark Cooper made only one change from the previous league game against Carlisle United, replacing Ryan Harley with Ryan Mason. In terms of formation and style, things weren’t quite so similar and,
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Our TheWashbag.com Index calculates the Swindon Town Player of the Month by assessing the key statistics from all league and cup matches. The November result is in… Massimo Luongo and Dany N’Guessan are tied for the monthly award. Both have secured 29 points in November. Luongo played every minute of the seven league and cup games in November and scored three
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Having not won for the last two games Swindon Town looked to get back to winning ways against Carlisle United in game week 19 of the Sky Bet League One. Swindon, who came in to the game off the back of a hard-earned point against now managerless Crawley, were keen to get the three points in order to maintain a
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It’s Friday, so it must be time for the latest blog by BBC Devon’s Vic Morgan. How do you explain it? This game called football. A couple of Saturdays ago Swindon Town made national news for the wrong reasons. Humbled by a non-league team in the FA Cup (again) and a tad embarrassed. Seven days on it was back to form and
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Nile Ranger is reported to be back in training with Swindon Town but whatever trials the tattooed target-man brings to Town, his on-pitch ability will be difficult to replace, writes Alex Cooke. Calm, discipline, hard working: these aren’t words normally associated with striker Nile Ranger. If fact, Google’s autocomplete tells us that the search term ‘Nile Ranger’ is more often
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Andrew Steele-Davis reflects on Mark Cooper’s tactical masterclass, looks ahead to the visit of Leyton Orient and suggests why England’s recent squad inclusions means good news for the lower leagues… Eventful is the word best used to sum up the last two weeks at SN1 with games now coming thick and fast and the hectic Christmas schedule just around the
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