TheWashbag contributor Alex Cooke looks ahead to the 2013/14 season… What are your hopes and expectations for Swindon in 2013/14? Hope? Stability. All of the club’s costs become predictable – with no lawsuits, pay offs, tribunals or extra emergency concert underwriting. That way any income the club actually gets can be used by the club for the benefit of the
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TheWashbag contributor Lee Clark gives his thoughts ahead of the 2013/14 season… What are your hopes and expectations for Swindon in 2013/14? I realistically hope we can finish mid-table and have a good cup run. What with all the new faces on and off the field, it really is a period of transition and if we were to finish in
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TheWashbag contributor Benjamin Beaumont looks ahead to the 2013/14 season… What are your hopes and expectations for Swindon in 2013/14? I’ve never been less certain of what might happen. The hope is that all these young fledglings gel into a fast, slick, high-tempo footballing machine that rises to the top and stays there, whoever the manager. The fear is that
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Well here we are at the start of the new season already. So here we go with Mystic Vic’s 2013/14 almanac.. What are your hopes and expectations for Swindon in 2013/14? I have limited expectations for the new season based purely on the fact it’s a new squad which’ll take some time to gell. I have no problems with the
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TheWashbag contributor Daniel Hunt is the first to look ahead to the 2013/14 season… What are your hopes and expectations for Swindon in 2013/14? I hope that Swindon Town can go through the 2013/2014 season comfortably in mid-table but as I pen these notes six days before the first game of the season, I fully expect Swindon Town to have
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New TheWashbag contributor Adam Tanner looks at the importance of a strong start to the season for Swindon Town’s bunch of fledglings. “The league table means nothing until after Christmas.” Any wizened old pundit worth his salt will tell you so. There is generally some logic to this, as our own history shows. The most striking example was 2011/12, in
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He may have scored 18 goals in 2012/13, including a hat trick at Stoke City and four against Portsmouth, but Swindon Town have allowed their top scorer James Collins join Hibernian for £200,000. Ron Smith and Alex Cooke ask whether Town should have let the striker leave? James Collins only joined Swindon last summer in what transpired to be an
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Kevin MacDonald left the club by mutual consent this weekend and the search begins for Swindon’s 33rd manager since 1904 and third in the past five months. Adam Johnson shares his thoughts on the potential replacement. Swindon can’t even do boring pre seasons now it seems. We weren’t expecting it to be quiet with players coming and going but a managerial
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Three weeks before the start of the 2013/14 season Kevin MacDonald has thrown in the towel at Swindon Town, leaving us all wondering why Jed McCrory’s appointment suddenly decided enough was enough, writes Ron Smith. It was only the 28th February when former Aston Villa coach Kevin MacDonald was appointed as manager, the first major decision of chairman Jed McCrory’s tenure at
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It was reported at the Swindon Town Business Plan presentation that the planning application for the improvements to the Beversbrook Sports Facility in Calne had been submitted to Wiltshire Council in June. These improvements are crucial to enable Town to move from the present training facilities at Liddington, which “is now owned by PGL and that has its own restrictions in terms
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