Swindon’s aimless hoofing got what it deserved as they slumped to a second abject home defeat, writes Ben Beaumont. Oh dear. Truly, this was a game with nothing to write home about. And I mean nothing. A gaping chasm of emptiness, filled only with Archibald-Henville lumping yet another aimless hack towards the oversized cartoon heads of the Colchester centre backs.
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Swindon secured a fourth win in a row with a 1-0 victory in Shrewsbury and Ron Smith finally made it to a first away match of this season, so here’s some thoughts… I travelled to Shrewsbury a year ago and witnessed a painful 2-1 defeat. Although it remains memorable as the one and only time Paolo Di Canio’s side has
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Form Guide… 5th placed Swindon are on a run of 3 League One games without defeat, with 3 wins, 1 draw and 2 defeats in six games. Away from the County Ground in the League, Town won 2-1 at Portsmouth last time out, which was our first victory on our travels in 6 attempts. Shrewsbury are 16th with 9 points
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Have you noticed Swindon Town win so frequently after taking the lead? Ron Smith asks how much of an advantage does scoring first give Paolo Di Canio’s side. Swindon’s 4-0 victory over AFC Bournemouth made it 6 games in which we’ve opened the scoring in 2012/13 and we’ve won all 6. This 100% record is contrasted by results against Preston,
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Form Guide… 8th placed Swindon won midweek at Portsmouth to put to an end a 3 match league run without a victory. Town lost our last match at the County Ground 0-1 to Leyton Orient, a result which has seemingly sparked the potential Olympic Stadium tenants into life. 17th placed AFC Bournemouth are 3 points behind Swindon in League One. The Cherries
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After controlling the game for at least seventy minutes of the ninety, Swindon almost contrived to throw away all three points at Fratton Park Tuesday evening – a crazy last ten minutes almost costing the Town dear, despite a comfortable-looking two goal lead. Writes Richard Banyard of swindon-town-fc.co.uk The first half hour was overwhelmingly Swindon’s – early on, it just
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Form Guide… 12th placed Swindon are on a run of 4 games without a League One victory. Last time out Town secured a 2-2 draw at Carlisle United, twice coming back from behind in Cumbria thanks to goals from Adam Rooney and Paul Benson. Away from the County Ground in the League, Town are without a win in 6 games, their last
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As your going to match at Carlisle on Saturday, could you write a match report for us? That’s what Ron the Washbag editor kindly asked. Of course I said, shouldn’t be a problem, writes Vic Morgan. Well for reasons which I’ll go into greater detail about later in the week, it’s a bigger problem than I thought. Briefly, there was
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Form Guide… 11th placed Swindon are on a run of 3 games without a victory, with only 1 goal scored in that run. Away from the County Ground in the League, Town are without a win in 5 games, their last victory being a 1-0 defeat of Morecambe on 6th April. Carlisle United are sitting just behind Swindon in 12th.
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Brendan Hobbs reflects on a first home defeat in 28 matches, as Leyton Orient beat Swindon 1-0 at the County Ground. I don’t know why but there seems to be an awful lot of teams around these days that I really dislike, some for obvious reasons like Rovers and Oxford and some for reasons I cannot honestly remember – like
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