System switches, emotional baggage and goodbyes: Swindon Town's squad deserve praise for finding a way past Shrewsbury
24.08.25, 10:30 Updated 25.10.25, 00:35 6 Minute Read
Sam Morshead
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).
In a few hours, this group had to refocus and repurpose. They had a few hours to bench the systems of the past two months, and produce a coherent, cohesive, and effective performance.
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Sam Morshead is the founder and editor of The Moonraker. He was previously the chief sports writer at the Swindon Advertiser, head of sport at Total Swindon, and has been a Swindon Town fan since 1994.