Adam Tanner headed north to Brunton Park, Carlisle to watch Swindon Town’s remaining promotion ambitions head south… Approaching the game, the omens for Swindon were good. We were unbeaten at Carlisle United in our previous four visits, stretching back to 2007, and aiming for a fourth consecutive league win for the first time this season. By contrast, our opponents had
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Form Guide… 7th placed Swindon Town are on a mini run of three successive League One wins following a 1-0 victory over Preston, 2-1 over Tranmere and 2-1 vs Sheffield Utd. Town are now four points behind Peterborough United in the race for 6th place, however the Posh still have that game in-hand. In the League One form guide, Swindon are 8th with
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While Mark Cooper is still leaning away from talk about the ‘P’ word, we just can’t help ourselves to evaluate Swindon Town’s play-off credentials, writes Ron Smith.
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A dramatic last minute world class reaction save from Swindon Town goalkeeper Wes Foderingham led to the break in which Louis Thompson scored his first goal in front of the Town End, which turned out to be the winner against Sheffield United, reports STFC007. Swindon Town’s starting line-up had two changes from the win over Tranmere four days prior. Raphael
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Episode #27 of TheWashbag.com Swindon Town FC Podcast is now available to download… Host Ron Smith is joined by FLICWiltshire Sports Editor Andrew Steele-Davis and Town fans Adam Tanner and Iain Watkins. On our previous podcast we revelled in a goalless draw after a miserable two months. Today and three successive wins later, could the play-offs now again be in-sight for
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Swindon Town are now in touching distance of the play offs following a victory over Tranmere Rovers. Scott Keith provides out report… It was going to take a lot for this game to match last year’s visit to Prenton Park, with managerial exits, wildly celebrating players pointing out they could do things without an Italian in charge and the night
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Brendan Hobbs has now finally reported on a Swindon Town victory. Preston North End were the unfortunate ones on the end of a one goal defeat… A fresh spring day welcomed football history heavyweights Preston North End to the County Ground; they breezed into Wiltshire stinking of a team with an enviable history littered with League titles, FA Cups and
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Steve Fleming asks whether Swindon Town’s direction to ‘play the Mark Cooper way’ was the right strategy as the season unfolded..? Mark Cooper is determined to play one way and in one style, at all costs. He says it’s a learning process but are we expecting too much from an inexperienced young team to have them play a way which
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Episode #26 of TheWashbag.com Swindon Town FC Podcast is now available to download… Host Ron Smith is joined by FLIC Wiltshire’s Sports Editor Andrew Steele-Davis and Washbag graphics supremo Brendan Hobbs. Doom and gloom has surrounded the County Ground for some weeks as Swindon Town had only one win in 11 games, meaning no trip to Wembley in either the
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Adam Tanner made the short trip to Ashton Gate for a derby day fixture that has become quite a rare event in recent seasons. Swindon Town went into the game hoping to avoid a third consecutive league defeat for the first time all season, and aiming to extend an eight-game unbeaten run against Bristol City, stretching back to 2002. Mark
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