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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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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Swindon continued their encouraging start to the season with a deserved 1-0 win over Karl Robinson’s MK Dons. The winning goal came on the stroke of half time when Matt Ritchie’s inswinging cross eluded David Martin in the Dons’ goal, possibly via the foot of James Collins. As a result, Town remain undefeated and find themselves in 3rd place after three
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Three is the magic number for Swindon Town as three goals, three different scorers, a third clean sheet of the season and importantly three points came courtesy of a ‘close to perfect’ performance, writes Ron Smith. Di Canio made three changes from the stalemate at Hartlepool. An injury prevented Troy Archibald-Henville from making the XI giving Flint a return. Alan
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Throughout this week our writers reveal their hopes and expectations for Swindon Town in League One during 2012/13. Before Daniel Hunt provides his match report for yesterday’s encounter with Brighton & Hove Albion, read his view on the season ahead… Hopes and expectations for the season: If Swindon can harness the momentum gained from winning League 2 and hit the ground
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Throughout this week our writers reveal their hopes and expectations for Swindon Town in League One during 2012/13. First up, Adam Johnson… Hopes and expectations for the season: To expect a promotion is certainly setting high goals of achievement. The side that has been assembled by Paolo Di Canio could achieve that through the playoffs but I’d be happy with us
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You may have noticed we’ve been a bit quiet responding to the latest Swindon Town news recently, Ron Smith has been on holiday… A week without the mod-cons in rural Dorset, in an isolated place where the only signal known to locals is morse, has undoubtedly been the relaxing break that me and the young family sorely needed. The only
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Neil Evans is to give his perspective on everyone who put on a Red shirt in our amazing record-breaking season. First up is part one including Mattia Lanzano through to Alan Connell, squad nos.1 to 17. Ratings are made out of 10. Anyone who was in the squad but didn’t play automatically gets a default 5 out of 10…e.g Nathan Thompson Part
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Town thrashed Port Vale 5-0 at the County Ground to secure the League Two title with a match to spare. Paolo Di Canio’s red & white army secured a nineteenth clean sheet at home this season and scored 5 without reply courtesy of Matt Ritchie late in the first half and strikes from Paul Benson, Aden Flint and Alan Connell
Read moreSwindon’s promotion champagne is still very much ‘on ice’ after a 2-1 defeat at Aldershot. On a frustrating and emotional night, the occasion never lived up to the promotion party hype and left many supporters wondering what might have been, writes Tom Otrebski. The manager made four changes to the starting line-up. Post-match revelations and rumours about player conduct off
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