Matchday
System switches, emotional baggage and goodbyes: Swindon Town's squad deserve praise for finding a way past Shrewsbury
ANALYSIS: In a few hours, this group had to refocus. They had a few hours to bench the systems of the past two months, and produce a coherent and effective performance. Somehow, against Shrewsbury Town, they managed just that.
24.08.25, 14:59 8 Min Read
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by Sam MorsheadEditor
Ian Holloway and his players only had two training sessions to revamp the strategy that dominated pre-season and the first three weeks of the season.
After Harry Smith suffered a major knee ligament injury on Tuesday, the group were left with Thursday and Friday to enact a full-on tactical U-turn.
Without Smith, the long channel balls and lengthy diagonals were simply never going to work (admittedly, there are very legitimate suggestions they weren’t working anyway).
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