Episode #14 of TheWashbag.com Swindon Town FC Podcast is now available to download… For this first podcast of the 2013/14 season, Ron Smith is joined by TheWashbag writers Daniel Hunt and Lee Clark. The three discuss Mark Cooper’s appointment as the 33rd permanent managerial appointment of Swindon Town, ask what support team should Cooper build around him at the County
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It’s Friday, so it must be time for the latest blog by BBC Devon’s Vic Morgan. When it finally happened, it turned out we’d known all along. The appointment of Mark Cooper as Swindon Town’s new manager surprised no one. After all he’d been here since last season, been caretaker since July and was here when all the players that
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Pliable, pragmatic and powerless, Cooper is an ideal head coach for Town’s current structure, says Alex Cooke. Mark Cooper is the perfect manager for Swindon Town precisely because he has no reputation, no great history and no obvious footballing philosophy. He is a journey-man manager with coaching experience thrust into one of his biggest ever jobs but no cache to
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Didn’t Paolo Di Canio always want to sign the elusive ‘nasty striker’? The Italian may have departed, but now a striker with an equally notorious reputation has joined Town as the No.9. The County Ground ‘welcomes’ former Newcastle United forward Nile Ranger. Writes Ron Smith. Nile Ranger has some history. He started his career with the Crystal Palace youth academy
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Swindon Town fell to a second successive away defeat at the hands of Shrewsbury Town. It was a frustrating day for all concerned with Town in a game that was dominated by two new arrivals reports Andrew Steele-Davis. Both Swindon and Shrewsbury made forays into the transfer market on the Friday before the game, the home side snapping up winger Adam Reach
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It’s Friday, so it must be time for the latest blog by BBC Devon’s Vic Morgan. Much of the Swindon Town speculation this week has centred around a new striker, or Centre Forward for those of us old enough to remember such a phrase. Well one story has emerged to gladden the hearts of even the most cynical, OK I
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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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After Saturday’s defeat to Peterborough on the opening day of the League 1 season, all eyes turned back to the County Ground for what was the first competitive home game of the new season. New TheWashbag writer Dan Brown picks through the game, where Andy Williams’ goal was the difference in a hard fought encounter… There is something different about
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Sir Alex Ferguson said he had ‘great potential’. Andy King described him as ‘an inspiration’ while Sam Parkin suggests he could have been ‘better than James Milner’. Sadly, though, after Jimmy Davis’s untimely death in 2003, we’ll never get to find out if they were right. Writes Nick Judd. Davis was killed in a car accident in the early hours of
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It’s Thursday, so it must be time for the latest blog by BBC Devon’s Vic Morgan. Can it be so? Can the new season already be here ? For once we’ve had a summer and what a summer! Heat and a British winner of the men’s title at Wimbledon. Crazy. So it was early last Saturday morning that the journey
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