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ANALYSIS: This is cumulative. Every week is cumulative. Every misplaced pass. Every fluffed chance. Every time the team goes behind. It's all adding up, and it must now be an incredibly difficult environment in which to operate.
28.09.26Matchday
ANALYSIS: Unfortunately, put consecutively, the results and elements of the performances have compounded the sense of despondency around the County Ground. A sense of despondency which never truly dissipated after the limp tail end of last season.
23.09.26Matchday
ANALYSIS: Go away from home, have one shot on target and win 1-0, and you’re considered obdurate and well-disciplined. Miss your chance and lose 1-0 and, well... we can see where the comments have gone instead.
20.09.26Matchday
The Moonraker runs the rule over the individuals performance of the Swindon Town players during their 1-0 defeat in League Two on Saturday.
The Moonraker runs the rule over the individuals performances of the Swindon Town players during their 2-1 home defeat in the EFL Trophy.
16.09.26Matchday
ANALYSIS: Ultimately, results in the EFL Trophy don’t matter all too much. Yet, just as was the case last season, this competition could end up having a significant bearing on the rest of Swindon’s campaign.
The Moonraker runs the rule over the individuals performances of the Swindon Town players during their 4-0 defeat in League Two.
13.09.26Matchday
ANALYSIS: Since Easter, Town have played five League Two matches on the road. They’ve won none, drawn one, lost four, have not scored and have conceded 14. It is nightmarish and disconcertingly consistent.
12.09.26Matchday
The Moonraker runs the rule over the individuals performances of the Swindon Town players during their 3-1 victory over the Us in League Two.
05.09.26Matchday
ANALYSIS: This is not a team built to control the ball and strangle midfield. This is a team built to withstand pressure, and deliver the ultimate sucker-punch. On Saturday, that sucker-punch came courtesy of the clinical Drinan.
The Moonraker runs the rule over the individuals performances of the Swindon Town players during their 3-1 victory over the Valiants in League Two.
01.09.26Matchday
ANALYSIS: Swindon have not won a competitive game away from home for six months, have had one shot on target in 180 away League Two minutes this term, and are quickly convincing their own supporters that they have no chance across a 46-game term.
31.08.26Matchday
The Moonraker runs the rule over the individuals performances of the Swindon Town players during their 3-0 thumping by Oldham Athletic in League Two.
30.08.26Matchday
ANALYSIS: Against Cheltenham alone, Billy Kirkman was involved in 12 tackles, which is only five shy of the number Bristol Rovers have managed as a team across so far this season. And he clocked six interceptions, 50 per cent more than the Barnet squad this term.
24.08.26Matchday
The Moonraker runs the rule over the individuals performances of the Swindon Town players during their win over Cheltenham Town in League Two.
23.08.26Matchday
ANALYSIS: Northampton Town versus Swindon Town was uncomfortable viewing. Not for any particularly nefarious reason; it was just very hard to shake the feeling that doing almost anything else would have been a better use of a sunny Saturday afternoon.
17.08.26Matchday
The Moonraker runs the rule over the individuals performances of the Swindon Town players during their goalless draw at the Cobblers in League Two.
15.08.26Matchday
The Moonraker runs the rule over the individuals performances of the Swindon Town players during their 3-2 defeat by Cardiff City in the League Cup.
09.08.26Matchday
ANALYSIS: It is very easy to point to a 12th straight League Cup first-round exit and make the usual jokes. But there have been many worse first-hurdle falls in this competition since 2015. This was not a fall, in fact Swindon were barely unseated.
ANALYSIS: At full-time, Ripley walked from the far end of the ground to speak to those supporters who remained in the away end. “We apologise for that fucking shit,” he said. “That was fucking shit."
27.04.26Matchday
Regardless of whether this was an example of collective writer’s block, or the wrong game theory from the coaching staff, these were more than fluffed lines. Luke Butterfield’s 92nd-minute equaliser provided the atmospheric equivalent of a spotlight falling on centre stage.
20.04.26Matchday
Swindon Town went to Colchester United on Friday night with little expectation but a whole lot of hope behind them, and ended up moping away bloodied and bruised, their tail half bitten off and the remaining stump lodged between their legs.
11.04.26Matchday
ANALYSIS: The hope is still there. It may be a somewhat disbelieving hope, a hope that exists in parallel with constant concerns about the general fragility of the squad and league position. But it is still there.
07.04.26Matchday
ANALYSIS: Set up in a system which must have been designed to counter Cambridge’s overlapping wide players but somehow ended up only encouraging them, Swindon spent most of the game chasing a combination of the opposition’s shadows and their own tails.
03.04.26Matchday
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