Episode #15 of TheWashbag.com Swindon Town FC Podcast is now available to download… Host Ron Smith is joined by Vic Morgan (@swindonred) and podcast debutant Iain Watkins (@mightygwah). The three discuss Town’s 1-1 draw at MK Dons; whether Nathan Byrne deserved his red card; are backpasses to Wes Foderingham a necessary part of Town’s tactics; we discuss your responses to
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It’s Friday, so it must be time for the latest blog by BBC Devon’s Vic Morgan. When was the last time you saw a Swindon Town side so dominate a game? When Town got the third against Crewe just after the break, it was all one way traffic. At what football it was. Really attractive on the eye. Anybody watching
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A warm welcome to new writer Jonny Leighfield, who reflects on a very busy and successful summer transfer window for Swindon Town… I must admit that at the time of writing, shortly after the summer transfer window has slammed shut, I’m feeling pretty pleased with the type of players Swindon Town have brought in and the ones we have, shall
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There have been plenty of comings and goings at Swindon Town over the course of the 2013 summer transfer window, but do you think that Town are actually in a stronger position to compete for promotion? Ron Smith asks. To be honest my expectations for 2013/14 dramatically reduced many months ago, about the time Andrew Black withdrew his funds and
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It’s Friday, so it must be time for the latest blog by BBC Devon’s Vic Morgan. So when you heard the draw how did you feel? Was it mild indifference or did you, like me, make strange whooping noises that would have scared anything within hearing distance. I was about to present my Late Show to the BBC’s South West cluster when
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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 starts with a review of August 1963 which included games against Scunthorpe United, Grimsby Town and Portsmouth… Prime Minister – Alec Douglas-Home (as a 15 year old schoolboy I
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Swindon Town travelled to QPR in the hope that a Capital One Cup Second Round victory would provide Mark Cooper’s fledgling managerial career at the County Ground with a much needed boost. Calvin Hothi was at Loftus Road to witness a superb Town victory over the Championship title favourites… Being one of the first to take my seat at Loftus Road,
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Episode #14 of TheWashbag.com Swindon Town FC Podcast is now available to download… For this first podcast of the 2013/14 season, Ron Smith is joined by TheWashbag writers Daniel Hunt and Lee Clark. The three discuss Mark Cooper’s appointment as the 33rd permanent managerial appointment of Swindon Town, ask what support team should Cooper build around him at the County
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It’s Friday, so it must be time for the latest blog by BBC Devon’s Vic Morgan. When it finally happened, it turned out we’d known all along. The appointment of Mark Cooper as Swindon Town’s new manager surprised no one. After all he’d been here since last season, been caretaker since July and was here when all the players that
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Pliable, pragmatic and powerless, Cooper is an ideal head coach for Town’s current structure, says Alex Cooke. Mark Cooper is the perfect manager for Swindon Town precisely because he has no reputation, no great history and no obvious footballing philosophy. He is a journey-man manager with coaching experience thrust into one of his biggest ever jobs but no cache to
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