With Town on a roll, teams are increasingly coming to the County Ground aiming for a draw. But how can you beat an ultra-defensive side? Alex Cooke looks at Di Canio’s options. Part of the fascination, and some of the frustration, of football lies in that one team can always beat the other regardless of the gap, or gulf, in
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Nick Judd talks exclusively to former Swindon Town striker Vincent Pericard about the stresses of life as a professional footballer away from home, his time at the County Ground and how he’s rebuilding his career at Havant & Waterlooville. Could more be done to help foreign players settle in England, and beyond? One former STFC player believes so… With so many
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Form… 7th placed Swindon have been unbeaten in their past 7 League Two games and 3 cup games. Town have won 4 and drawn 2 of their previous 6 League games. At the County Ground, Swindon are unbeaten in 6 games, including a run of 4 victories and 2 draws, since the home defeat by Oxford United. 15th placed Aldershot Town travel to Swindon
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Sunday 20th November was the six month anniversary of Paolo Di Canio’s appointment as manager of Swindon Town. Sam Walton looks back on the Italian’s time at the County Ground. Paolo Di Canio. Surely not… What to us? You mean THE Paolo Di Canio… to Swindon Town. Nahhh, it’s never going to happen! Those were the words of my season ticket holding Dad in May
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After Swindon Town knocked AFC Wimbledon out of the Johnstone’s Paint Trophy on penalties at the County Ground 11 days earlier, both teams met again, this time in the League and for the very first time at Kingsmeadow writes STFC007. Having missed the start of an away game in London once due to traffic jams, a trip to London from Wiltshire
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Welcome to another edition of the ‘Npower Football League Two Review’ which took a break last week due to the first round of the FA Cup, writes Andrew Steele-Davis. As usual, it was goals galore as Shrewsbury hit the net an amazing seven times and Crawley put four past a hapless Oxford United. First let’s start with the highest scoring
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After a week of detailed statistics as part of our League Two Rankings, Adam Johnson puts them to use with his view on Swindon Town’s away form, a story of two halves. Many promotion hopefuls get to their lofty position based on home form, ‘win your home games and you’ll do well’ is the usual logic to follow. However, picking
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BBC Radio Wiltshire commentator Vic Morgan continues his weekly blog only here on The Washbag. It was terrific wasn’t it…? A performance that made you PROUD to be a Swindon supporter. Huddersfield came to the County Ground with a great and deserved reputation. Unbeaten in forty odd league games, and demanding the utmost respect. It looked to go with form early on,
Read moreSo then… after two days of bamboozling you all with a wealth of statistics – defensive ranks & attacking ranks – I’ll attempt to give you a brief summary on the efficiency strengths and weaknesses of each League Two team as part of our overall rankings. Graphs showing the rankings split into home and away form are at the bottom of this post, but
Read moreAfter the defensive rankings, today we look beyond the ‘goals for’ column on the League Two table as our Attacking Rankings return. Taking into account a broader range of statistics to analyse Accrington to Torquay United, the five attacking assessments provide an indication of the relative strengths and weaknesses – home and away – of League Two after 17 games. Shots On Target
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