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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Legendary hedonist, and erstwhile King of Cario’s nightclub, Wild Al, is doing his bit for Town’s tumbling fortunes by eschewing ‘Dry January’ for the 27th year running. While others are dabbling in a New Year detox to pile off the pounds, Al has hit the pub to draw up a five point plan of action to help Tim Sherwood pile
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Legendary hedonist, and erstwhile King of Cario’s nightclub, Wild Al, is doing his bit for Town’s tumbling fortunes by eschewing ‘Dry January’ for the 27th year running. While others are dabbling in a New Year detox to pile off the pounds, Al has hit the pub to draw up a five point plan of action to help Tim Sherwood pile
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Alex Cooke asks how has the number of shots Swindon face in each game almost doubled since Tim Sherwood took over? At the moment Swindon are conceding a lots of goals: nine goals in the five league games since Tim Sherwood ‘took over’. Clearly that is far too many, but it is indicative of another problem: the amount of shots
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For a feeder club, to build a new ground or to get into Champions League; why does Swindon’s chairman want to own a fading Irish football team? By Alex Cooke Amid all the noise around Tim Sherwood‘s appointment as Director of Football (albeit one who picks the team, formation and gives team talks), the news that Lee Power has also
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Steven Fyfe gives his view of how Swindon’s opening ten games have gone, and what needs to change The age-old saying in football is ‘give us ten games’. It is the unwritten moment when you can start to realistically picture how your season is going to go. Now, as Town are ten league games in, I decided to review the
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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 looks at Saturday’s positional shift as Anton Rodgers was dropped, before Conor Thomas dropped back to make space for Brad Barry It wasn’t much of a surprise on Saturday when Conor Thomas took the place of Anton Rodgers in the team against Bury. However, it was a bit of a surprise where Thomas played. After all, he has
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New contributor Conor Garratt goes through what went wrong for Luke Williams’ men on their latest defeat at Oxford’s Kassam stadium And so the awful run against that yellow-and-blue rabble goes on. As the home fans at the Kassam were keen to let us know on Saturday, Swindon have now suffered six losses on the spin against their A420 rivals,
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In the second part of his look at transfers at Town, Alex Cooke looks at the value of planning, avoiding the bad deals and measuring success. To find more on Town’s own scouting structure, read yesterday’s part 1 Scouting and signing players is more than just finding the best out there. What if a deal falls through? What a big
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