It’s Thursday, so it must be time for the latest blog by BBC Devon’s Vic Morgan. Can it be so? Can the new season already be here ? For once we’ve had a summer and what a summer! Heat and a British winner of the men’s title at Wimbledon. Crazy. So it was early last Saturday morning that the journey
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It was an opening day defeat for Swindon as they lost 1-0 to Peterborough at London Road. Britt Assombalonga’s goal was the difference between the sides and Adam Johnson was there to see how the newly assembled side faired… Well, that wasn’t as bad as we all thought it might be. Swindon’s record this season will read played one lost
Read moreFirst off… A Happy New Year to all Washbag Blog readers. Here’s hoping today’s game with AFC Bournemouth is a success and firmly sets a positive start for STFC in 2011. December was dominated by the weather so only 3 games were played. Town bounced back from a patchy November league form with a crucial three points with a 2-1 win over Sheffield Wednesday.
Read moreAfter vastly improved performances in September, Town were brought back down to earth with defeat at League One new boys Dagenham & Redbridge. An early Dossevi goal couldn’t inspire Town to build on their advantage, falling to a 2-1 loss in the first ever League match between the two sides. The result was the biggest win the the history of
Read moreAs readers would know by now, like most, I’ve hardly been enthralled by the performances of Vincent Pericard since joining Town back in January. However the widespread lack of support, moaning and booing throughout recent matches is getting a bit tired and is unlikely to be doing anything positive for his confidence. Even after Wilson made public his views of the vocal
Read moreYou would normally expect to win when scoring 3 goals, let alone 4. But somehow only Swindon can come back from the brink of complete disaster only to throw it all away with yet another error. Town were 3 nil down after 22 minutes, then we managed to go in level at half time. After both sides scored again it appeared the
Read moreWith the start of the 2010/2011 League One campaign almost upon us, there is no better time to look ahead to May and make an attempt at trying to predict the final league positions. Many national news outlets have hardly considered Town as possible promotion candidate so far. BBC 5Live decided to completely overlook Town in favour of the usual suspects in
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