Adam Tanner headed to Rochdale, hoping to see the hosts’ playoff hopes beheaded by Swindon Town Despite a tame FA Cup defeat in November, Town had never lost in eight previous league visits to Spotland. Upholding that record would be difficult against a Rochdale side that had managed 39 goals in its previous 22 home games; the division’s second highest
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Alex Cooke finds Swindon have performed surprisingly well in turning out young talent, at least in this season, and compared to the rest of League One Good articles create debate and I enjoyed reading Adam Tanner’s recent piece on the need for youth development at Swindon Town. I recommend you read it later, if you haven’t already. But it made
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In the fourth of Steven Fyfe’s Q&As, former Town youth team defender Aaron Oakley was kind enough to discuss at length his rise through the youth ranks at Swindon and how his injuries impacted on his professional career. There have been plenty of young players come through the ranks during my time supporting Swindon and few have had the hype of centre back
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Former BBC Wiltshire commentator Vic Morgan writes his latest blog for TheWashbag.com… Two defeats in a week and it means that Swindon Town find themselves back in the scrap towards the bottom of the table. The first loss came against in form Barnsley, who came with a game plan and left with the three points. To be fair, a goalless draw
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In light of Will Randall’s move to Wolves, Adam Tanner assesses Swindon Town’s record of developing players from within its own youth system… In recent years at Swindon, we have always been quick to remind ourselves that Nathan Thompson is “one of our own”. And rightly so. Football is very tribal, and fans will understandably warm to players with a
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Swindon Town beat Chesterfield 4-0, so Joe Young watched Saturday’s “Football League Tonight” and he even hit the rewind, and again, and again… There were reports last night of mass panic spreading across Wiltshire as thousands of Swindon fans scurried home to check they still had the “Football League Tonight” on series link following a stunning 4-0 win away at Chesterfield.
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Alex Cooke lost a bet and ended up writing about Town’s hard fought and hard-to-watch win over a very good Walsall side. He doesn’t mind loosing that bet too much now We won. I’m going to write that again as it looks a little strange, even after spellchecking it: we won. It still seems hard to believe because Walsall could,
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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…
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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…
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Lucy Gray reports on a miserable afternoon in South Yorkshire as Town suffered a first away League One defeat of the season…
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