Alex Hays reports on an unexpected victory for Swindon Town… Being a Town fan in exile is a mixed blessing. Attending more away games than home, we tend to avoid the vitriol aired at the County Ground. But given Town’s away record over the past 12 months, we’ve been starved of entertainment. My last match report, around a year ago,
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Alex Cooke compares the scoring prowess of Obika, Hylton, Delfouneso and Norris with Chelsea’s Feruz (and rumoured target Dagger’s Oliver Hawkins) In this transfer window, Town have been linked with forwards (Oliver Hawkins) and actually brought one in (Chelsea’s Islam Feruz) which seems a perfect excuse to compare the current crop and the new one. It is clear that Town
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Former BBC Wiltshire match commentator Vic Morgan writes his weekly blog… It’s over then. Swindon Town’s involvement in the controversial Checkatrade Trophy ended on Tuesday night. It was a game which featured five goals, some of them excellent, including a first for the club from Ellis Iandolo and a great finish from Luke Norris. Now I know this competition has had
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After Swindon’s latest defeat everyone pointed out the problems, Alex Cooke tries to find a few answers… Be better Let’s start with the obvious ones; play better, concentrate for 90 minutes, attack the ball into the area, don’t let someone dribble past you into the box, finish your bloody chances. But, also let us take the positives from what we’ve
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Alex Cooke drops another list, but this time all about the abandoned match against the other lot from Bristol 1. Nathan Delfonso offers something different It was the first time I’ve seen the former Villa man in a Town shirt and I was impressed. While clearly lacking in physical sharpness, his superior speed of thought was clear. Delfonso was happy
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Former BBC Wiltshire match commentator Vic Morgan returns for the 2016/17 season… Two away games with differing fortunes this week. After a promising start to the new campaign, it was a slightly different feeling in the last few days. I, like a few others, was quite confident going to Chesterfield on Saturday. Sadly that confidence was, to say the least, unfounded.
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Former BBC Wiltshire match commentator Vic Morgan returns for the 2016/17 season… This time last week I wrote that if you believed much of the comment that had been said about the new season, then Swindon were certs to have a disaster of a campaign. I also wrote that I didn’t feel pessimistic and the early signs are that it’s optimism
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