Tuesday was the day all of the second year Swindon Town youth team scholars dreaded. Will they be offered their first professional contract or cast adrift to start their potentially long search to find a contract or forget their dream of playing professional football? The whole team have performed brilliantly to secure the Youth Alliance South West Championship title for the third
Read moreWell who would’ve imagined Swindon Town winning again before the season was up? I couldn’t have been the only one to doubt we’d see another 3 points… So after 18 games since the previous win and with the opportunity to equal the club record sequence without a victory, Town finally won 1-0 at Brentford on Saturday. As we’ve secured an
Read moreFollowing the six Npower League One matches this evening, nearly all results in our favour, he’s an updated League One predictions table showing how it all effects Swindon Town. As usual this is based on projecting home and away form so far this season to the games remaining. Key points: Brighton still shown promoted with 84 points as Huddersfield will
Read moreLast night’s results were painful for Swindon Town supporters as yet another game without a win now requires 17 points from only 21 available to ensure we have a realistic chance of avoiding the drop to League Two…judging by our season the odds are clearly against us. However, at the other end of the table…the top end…remember where we were
Read moreThe second story in the series following Swindon Town successes of avoiding the drop, this time I take a look back to 1975/1976 in Football League Division Three. After almost bouncing back at the first time of asking the season before, when Town finished just in 4th place, just 2 points shy of automatic promotion, the contrasting fortunes a season later sounds
Read moreI’m still coming to terms to Swindon Town defender Scott Cuthbert’s bizarre comment to the Swindon Advertiser: “We are confident that if we put the performance in every week then we won’t be in the bottom four and that has got to be our aim. “When it comes to the end of the month we have eight games that we feel
Read moreGuff from the Adver earlier earlier today with Gary Rose’s article on his interview with Swindon Town defender Andy Frampton. Titled “The table DOES lie!”, the article widely quotes from Frampton, yet I can’t read anywhere Frampton making that exact statement in the title… A misleading title born from Frampton commenting: “We have to concentrate on what we are doing.
Read moreAs Swindon Town were denied a blatant penalty in the dying moments of Saturday’s game, it ended a perfect opportunity to gain an advantage on our relegation rivals as results elsewhere all went in our favour. Paul Caddis was clearly fouled by two Dagenham & Redbridge defenders, yet bizarely referee Sutton or even his well-sighted assistant didn’t see fit to award the penalty.
Read moreHere’s one for you…so how many points do Swindon Town need to avoid relegation to League Two? After updating my usual predicted League One home / away form table (see below), I now find Yeovil Town predicted to finish 20th with 50.15 points and Swindon, unsurprisingly predicted, to finish bottom with a meagre 41.6 points. So with 11 games remaining for Town,
Read moreSitting bottom of League One is a shock to the system, yet Swindon Town have been firmly embroiled in a relegation battle to secure League One football for 2011/2012 for some time. We can survive the drop, we’ve achieved this before, so it’s now time to look back into the history book at seasons where we’ve survived the drop. First
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