With Louis Thompson gone, but back, and Jack Stephens and Jonathan Obika back, again, Alex Cooke looks at how Swindon did out of the summer’s moves. 1. Town had a good transfer window Swindon fans can’t usually agree on anything. From formations to the merits of playing 50-year-old bit of sub-moptop-pop guff after goals, they bicker constantly. But (if you’ve
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Alex Cooke looks at how Swindon’s 3-5-2 is shaping up. Suddenly 3-5-2 is fashionable. With Manchester United struggling, everyone is suddenly keen to talk about three at the back, and closer to home, to compare Mark Cooper’s use of it with Louis Van Gaal’s. But Cooper’s 3-5-2 is slightly different to the one used at Old Trafford, and for Holland – despite
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Episode #34 of TheWashbag.com Swindon Town FC Podcast is now available to download. Host Ron Smith is joined by two guests to discuss the opening fortnight to the 2014/15 season – Town fans Iain Watkins and Adam Tanner.
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A late goalkeeping howler from Stephen Bywater gifted Swindon Town a point at Gillingham – which was the bare minimum their performance deserved. A totally dominant Town twice came back from a goal down to provide the kind of determined away performance that had been missing for most of last season, writes Joe Young.
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Australian based Swindon Town fan David Squires gives a first-hand account of watching new trialist Joel Chianese, a striker who is looking for a new club after being released from Sydney FC.
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Episode #33 of TheWashbag.com Swindon Town FC Podcast is now available to download. Host Ron Smith is joined by three guests to discuss our preview to the 2014/15 season – Swindon Advertiser Chief Sports Writer Sam Morshead, FLICWiltshire’s Sport Editor Andrew Steele-Davis and Town fan Iain Watkins.
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Seeing that it’s over a week after the end of the season Ron Smith decides it’s time to summarise some thoughts on the 2013/14 campaign for Swindon Town. I’m not going into detail about the season as it’s been covered numerous times already, instead I’ll concentrate on one aspect, how this year has only served to demonstrate our collective disparity between
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Episode #28 of TheWashbag.com Swindon Town FC Podcast is now available to download. Host Ron Smith is joined by Swindon Advertiser’s Chief Sports Reporter Sam Morshead, FLICWiltshire Sports Editor Andrew Steele-Davis and Town fan Brendan Hobbs.
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Adam Tanner went to Meadow Lane hoping for some joy against the Magpies. Swindon Town went into the game looking for their seventh win in eight games; and aiming to keep faint hopes of a playoff place alive into the final day.
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Adam Tanner headed north to Brunton Park, Carlisle to watch Swindon Town’s remaining promotion ambitions head south… Approaching the game, the omens for Swindon were good. We were unbeaten at Carlisle United in our previous four visits, stretching back to 2007, and aiming for a fourth consecutive league win for the first time this season. By contrast, our opponents had
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