BBC Devon’s Vic Morgan is back for 2012/13, continuing his weekly blog – telling you what he really thinks – only here on The Washbag. Wow. Season’s started. Plenty of reason to moan about being a Swindon Town fan. After all, the club has just won a championship, brought in shed loads of new players, made it through to round two
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The final ramblings of the season from BBC Devon’s Vic Morgan. So that’s it for another season then. There we were back in August welcoming a new campaign with a 3-0 home win over Crewe and now in May it’s passed in a blur. Its had more than the fair share of ups and downs. After that initial up against
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Here are the latest ramblings of BBC Devon’s Vic Morgan.. Dreamland wasn’t it ? The way to win a title is how? Well to blast five goals past your opposition and to play some of your best football of the season. This time last week we had no idea how the game against Port Vale would go. It was probable that Vale
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Here are the latest ramblings of BBC Devon’s Vic Morgan.. It was a long day, but of course it was worth it. Travelling to Kent last Saturday meant an early start from Devon and a little trepidation about what was to come. Before boarding the bus there was all sorts of speculation about the team selection, all because of the fall-out from
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Here are the latest ramblings of BBC Devon’s Vic Morgan.. The highs and lows of being a football fan eh? All emotion has been encapsulated in the last seven days in the life of a Swindon Town supporter. Last week at this time, we were ready to celebrate. Another win against Plymouth Argyle would surely see us on the verge of promotion,
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Here are the latest ramblings of BBC Devon’s Vic Morgan.. Quite a week. To wins out of two over Easter, two long and exhausting journeys. The first was to Morecambe on Good Friday. An early start necessary for a journey so far north. A decision was made not to travel from Devon on the morning, but to stay in Wiltshire on the
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Here are the latest ramblings of BBC Devon’s Vic Morgan.. It was what I used to call when I was a football commentator, “a hard fought local derby”. Swindon’s game against Bristol Rovers provided a few thrills and spills, some meaty tackles, at times decent football, but sadly no goals. It was the Town’s first goalless game in eons, well since Bradford
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A few days earlier than usual, here are the latest ramblings of BBC Devon’s Vic Morgan.. What a weekend… On Thursday evening, not long after writing my last blog in fact, I found out I was off to Newcastle to cover the Plymouth Raiders British Basketball League Trophy final second leg against the Eagles. Normally that wouldn’t cause too much of a
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The ramblings of BBC Devon’s Vic Morgan.. Don’t know about you, but I thought Tuesday’s game with Torquay was terrific. Before the game we had OO Shaun Taylor and Glenn Hoddle inducted into the Town’s Hall of Fame. There was also a return for Martin Ling with his, and Shaun’s Gulls team. I made a brief return to the County
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The ramblings of BBC Devon’s Vic Morgan.. A friend of mine recently said, “it would be nice to go to Wembley without worrying about slipping down the league”. The point he was making was that a big enough gap would be good, to not damage our position because of missing out on a league weekend. Well, that should be okay
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