The Sacking of Mark Cooper: Lee Power’s Perfect Fall Guy
Alex Cooke looks back at the Swindon career of a manager who was set up to be the man in-between…
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Let’s Promote: Swindon Town vs Oldham Athletic
Share our poster and let’s promote Oldham Athletic’s visit to the County Ground on Tuesday night… Buy tickets online at – https://www.eticketing.co.uk/swindontown/
Read moreMillwall 2-0 Swindon Town: Dreadful
Renowned hedonist and Swindon’s 54th most eligible bachelor 2002, Wild Al, went to London hoping to see Town pick up three points against the odds. They didn’t but he found inspiration in defeat. It’s not been a great time to be a Town fan, not since I was turned down by five members of the same family, in quick succession, have I
Read moreWashbag Podcast 44 – Hello Again
Episode #44 of TheWashbag Swindon Town FC Podcast is now available to download or stream online…
Read moreEmergency Ward 10
BBC Devon’s Vic Morgan writes his latest blog for TheWashbag.com I know it’s only people of a certain age that’ll remember the first real hospital soap. It’s also a way of describing many things including the latest Town injury situation. It seems a new fitness problem is reported every day. So that means it’s backs against the wall at Millwall.
Read moreDoes squad instability at Swindon Town result in relegation?
A total of 29 players have already been used by Mark Cooper in League One this season. Ron Smith asks does instability in the squad equate to a poor final league position? As a mixture of injuries and late loan signings have taken their toll as Swindon Town’s 12 games played in League One has seen 29 different players taking to the
Read moreSwindon 1 – 2 Peterborough: Town’s tactical shift
Alex Cooke takes a quick look at Town’s use of a 4-4-2 for the second-half of Saturday’s match versus Peterborough United…
Read moreAjose hat-trick takes Town up to top spot…
When Richard Selbourne put his name down to write this match report just over a month ago, this was the kind of headline he’d imagined writing for yesterday’s match against Peterborough United…
Read moreNothing to see here…
Is there any need to read Anthony Gingell’s match report for Town’s JPT defeat up the A420..? A rearranged line-up has a lively start at the three sided Kassam Stadium in the A420 derby. In a 4-3-3 formation, Mark Cooper has tried to ensure that Town will attack their opponents to try and turn around the recent poor form and
Read moreWhy are Swindon getting so many injuries?
Alex Cooke asks if Town’s pre-season and training, or lack of, could be to blame for losing at least nine players to injury? So far this season, Swindon have been forced to use 29 different players, mostly thanks to an injury list which seems to grow after every game. To date that list has included: Jon Obika, Wes Thomas, Nathan
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