Form Guide… 7th placed Swindon dispatched Oldham Athletic 2-0 at Boundary Park last weekend. In the League One form guide, Swindon are ranked 8th, with 3 wins, 1 draw and 2 defeats in 6 matches. At the County Ground, Town are ranked 15th with an uninspiring record of 1 win, 4 draws and 1 defeat in 6 games. Swindon face top
Read morePhew…this season has finally finished and on a high note with the 2-0 victory at Tranmere Rovers. Before we start to look forward to hopefully a single season in League Two (before a promotion, not in the other direction…) I just want to run the final rule over 2010/2011, with the 10 reasons why I believe we failed, been relegated and finished
Read moreReaders of my blog post on Monday may be surprised that I’m not calling for Wilson’s immediate dismissal following the goalless draw with Tranmere at the County Ground last night. After all, I did clearly state from the next two home games “Six points are needed. Any less and we can kiss goodbye to League One”. Yes, of course a win would’ve
Read moreApril ended up defining our season and highlighted the inexperience of the young Town squad in steeping up to secure promotion. After trailing 2nd place by 14 points back on 12th December, Town moved into automatic contention with two successive 3-0 victories over a fruitful Easter weekend. First up came 2nd placed Leeds United at Elland Road. Few had expected the 3-0
Read moreWith the start of the 2010/2011 League One campaign almost upon us, there is no better time to look ahead to May and make an attempt at trying to predict the final league positions. Many national news outlets have hardly considered Town as possible promotion candidate so far. BBC 5Live decided to completely overlook Town in favour of the usual suspects in
Read moreIt appears that relegation threatened Tranmere Rovers’ plan was to take 3 points from their games against Norwich and Swindon. We have Norwich and their 3-1 defeat on Friday evening to thank for Tranmere leaving themselves in Merseyside, as they didn’t compete in a largely disappointing encounter at the County Ground this afternoon. Town were grateful they weren’t pushed, having had a day less
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