It’s Friday, so it must be time for the latest blog by BBC Devon’s Vic Morgan. It has been yet another frustrating week in the life of a Swindon Town fan. One minute a victory over one of the promotion favourites Peterborough United, the next a defeat by the side bottom of the table Stevenage. There are no easy answers
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Every now and then this season, this team has the ability to throw in a real stinker of a performance, especially away from home. Swindon Town’s Tuesday night’s defeat by Stevenage put that into sharp relief. Writes Scott Keith. Mark Cooper decided the team that had shown plenty of resilience in the win over Peterborough United could do a similar
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It’s Friday, so it must be time for the latest blog by BBC Devon’s Vic Morgan. So then here we go just a couple of games from another trip to that Wem-ber-lee. I know we have the little matter of two matches against Peterborough to go through first, but don’t tell me you haven’t thought of getting back to the big arch and
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Despite an unconvincing second half display from Swindon Town in front of a crowd of 3,804 where opponents Stevenage created sufficient chances to win in 90 minutes, Town went through on penalties to secure a place in the Area Final of the Johnstone’s Paint Trophy reports STFC007. It began so well. In fact, the first 30 minutes or so were
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How Swindon’s progressive football was spoiled by Stevenage and what Mark Cooper needs to do to prevent it happening every week, by Alex Cooke. Swindon dominated Stevenage: For 45 minutes, Town’s football spoke a new freedom for the men in red, of collective effort, of complexity hidden in the simplicity of angles. And yet, in the second half the plodding,
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Swindon secured their first 3 points of the 2013/14 season in a match in which the phrase “a game of two halves” was very appropriate. Just like the Capital One cup tie against Torquay in the week, Swindon played well for just one half and it was enough to dispatch a Stevenage side who now haven’t won a league fixture since
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It’s Friday, so it must be time for the latest ‘exclusive’ blog by BBC Devon’s Vic Morgan. After a lot of gloom and doom we DID make the play offs. A couple of weeks ago it appeared that our beloved football team was heading for a season of oblivion. It was being said that it would be a disaster if
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Alex Cooke gives us a quick run-down of Kevin MacDonald’s adjustments to Swindon’s set up. Swindon 3 v Stevenage 0 wasn’t a game which swung on a tactical innovation or an adjustment in formation, Town were mostly the superior team, individually and numerically. And although Stevenage manager Graham Westley switched systems time and again, adjusting his increasingly brutal and isolated
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Swindon Town mathematically secured their position in the League One play-off positions with a comfortable 3-0 victory over Stevenage in the Wiltshire sunshine. Two Aden Flint goals sandwiched between a Gary Roberts strike and a red card for Dani Lopez ensured Swindon saw off a physical Stevenage side with very little to play for, writes Lee Clark. Prior to the
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Form Guide… 6th placed Swindon thrashed Crewe Alexandra 4-1 at the County Ground in midweek to end a winless win of five games. Town are 19th in the League One form table with one win, two draws and three defeats. At the County Ground, Town are unbeaten in four games, of which three were draws, putting Swindon 15th in the
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