SPECIAL REPORT: Of the first 102 matches in the League Two campaign, just 14 have been won by the visiting side. at exactly the same stage of the 2023/24 season, away teams had won 29. A year later, the figure was 28. Last season, travelling teams had won 36.

Holloway explained during his pre-match press conference on Thursday that he believes psychological support can help players overcome some of the difficulties they are experiencing.

Holman is expected to be unavailable until the new year and was not included in Swindon's formally submitted squad list, which was sent to the EFL at the end of the summer transfer window and can be updated again in January. However, he appears to be making good progress towards a full recovery.

Holloway will reach his second anniversary in charge later this month, though the matches that come prior to that date, fixtures against Crewe Alexandra, Walsall and Barnet in League Two, will almost certainly have a significant bearing on his reign.

The Trust have not always been publicly confrontational with Morfuni during his tenure, despite there being strenuous attempts to hold him to account behind the scenes. In this statement, however, there is a noticeable shift in tone.

ANALYSIS: We are reaching the point of no return. Yet look at the series of results causing the uproar, and it is not a sequence that, at most other clubs in most other seasons, would cause supporters to call for their manager's head.