Episode #49 of TheWashbag Swindon Town FC Podcast is now available to download or stream online… Ron Smith is joined by Alex Cooke and Brendan Hobbs in this depressing new episode. We talk about if Swindon are signing too many players from Lee Power’s mates, the relegation fight and why the defeat against Oxford is all Brendan’s fault. As was the rise
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Fancy a right old cockney knees up? Here’s Ed from the fans’ phone-in talking to Lee Power, with a bit of Blur thrown in. By Alex Cooke You’ll have to click to make it play. Thanks to whomever it was on Twitter who spotted Ed’s stylistic similarity to Phil Daniels delivery first, and Nemo from the TEF for the upload
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For a feeder club, to build a new ground or to get into Champions League; why does Swindon’s chairman want to own a fading Irish football team? By Alex Cooke Amid all the noise around Tim Sherwood‘s appointment as Director of Football (albeit one who picks the team, formation and gives team talks), the news that Lee Power has also
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An once-local man mistakes the passing of time for too much passing, reports Alex Cooke A married forty-two-year-old businessman with two kids, a big mortgage and recently diagnosed high-blood pressure has discovered that he doesn’t care as much about football as he once did. David, 43, of Guildford revealed that his teenage passion for Swindon Town has dimished, and he
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Richard Selbourne considers the calls from some sections of the County Ground for Lee Power to sell up his interest in STFC… I’d like to think I’m a reasonably intelligent bloke (although my wife would suggest my longstanding Swindon Town season ticket proves otherwise), but I have little experience of business and none of running a football club. With our
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Brendan Hobbs on how Lee Power couldn’t care less about the health of our club, Swindon Town Football Club… Can you resign as a fan of a football club? You can from a job of course, if you’re frustrated, stymied or bored of your boss and his clueless antics – surely you’d look for something better? Something that appeals, something that
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Steven Fyfe gives his view of how Swindon’s opening ten games have gone, and what needs to change The age-old saying in football is ‘give us ten games’. It is the unwritten moment when you can start to realistically picture how your season is going to go. Now, as Town are ten league games in, I decided to review the
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Former BBC Wiltshire match commentator Vic Morgan returns for the 2016/17 season… And so it begins again. With Test Matches and the Summer Olympics underway, here we are talking about the start of a new domestic football season. After the failure of England’s megastars in the European Championship, albeit tempered by the success of the Welsh (especially if you can claim
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Alex Cooke looks at how Swindon’s scouting system might work, and who does what behind the scenes to find the next John Goddard… At the heart of Lee Power’s model for Swindon Town is good scouting and great recruitment. In recent times the club’s biggest successes have been finding, signing (and eventually selling) the likes of Ben Gladwin, Massimo Luongo
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As Swindon’s stand-in manager transforms into the new head coach, Lee Power and Alex Cooke get bit over-excited about Town’s hipster in a hat So Swindon Town’s new manager is Luke Williams; the temporary boss becomes the permanent boss, except on a five-year deal. Aside from the length of his contract, that is news as predictable as it is welcome,
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