ANALYSIS: While several half-time substitutions breathed urgency into the performance, in truth this was a lesson in how good League One teams can dominate games at will.
13.08.25Matchday
ANALYSIS: The Robins were ponderous and direct, clumsy and clinical, lethargic and intense. It was a curious brew, the sort of performance which would have gone a long way to reinforcing whatever bias you might have held before kick-off.
11.08.25Matchday
ANALYSIS: The performance was a considerable downer for the 2,000-plus Town fans who made the trip. Not enough of a downer to justify chucking a plastic seat at a bloke just trying to his job, mind, but still considerable.
04.08.25Matchday
There is not a player in the Town squad that better symbolises the change in environment in that dressing room in 2025 than the 21-year-old defender. And his performance against MK Dons illustrated why.
03.05.25Matchday
Look up and down the EFL and you will be hard pressed to find a manager who has had quite as seismic an impact on their club as Holloway at Swindon these past five months.
19.04.25Matchday
Shorn of eight first-team players, a long way from home, against in-form opposition who needed to win to keep their playoff hopes alive, Swindon had no right to produce this sort of performance.
07.04.25Matchday
It has been a difficult year for players and coaches at Swindon, with multiple instances of familial tragedy and trying personal circumstances. All football clubs experience these events, but Town seem to have received a particularly unfair share these past nine months.
17.03.25Matchday
Since December 3, Swindon have taken 33 points from 18 matches, after returning just 13 from their first 18. In that time, they’ve scored 32 goals and conceded 20 – a mirror image of the preceding 18 games.
10.03.25Matchday
Ian Holloway has managed to extract fresh flexibility from a group of players which had previously looked as elastic as a cream cracker. And this was the perfect example.
23.02.25Matchday
Be it through motivation, a sheer sense of will, or in consultation with the witchdoctors of west Wiltshire, Holloway has taken a group of down-on-their-luck and almost out-on-their-arse players and summoned a sleeping spirit inside them.
29.01.25Matchday
Against a Barrow side which promised little, and somehow ended up offering less, Swindon produced 90 minutes of hard, old-fashioned graft. A ‘football pre-Pep’ display. A get-things-done sort of display.
20.01.25Matchday
For the second successive round in this year’s competition, Town face the top-ranked club left in the draw. For the second successive round, the bookmakers have the Robins at odds of 8/1 and longer to win a two-horse race.
13.01.25Matchday
Based on the evidence at hand on Saturday, the gulf in points and places between Swindon and Crewe does not give a fair indication of the level Holloway’s side have now reached.
12.01.25Matchday
Their 10th game in 36 days came at the home of the most creative team in the division, with a squad creaking and wheezing under the strain of a series of injuries and niggles.
06.01.25Matchday
For tired legs and a depleted squad, this is perhaps the worst away day to get at this time of the year. That’s nothing against Nottingham, to be clear. I’m sure the Trent is beautiful on a frosty morning. No, this is about the nature of the team Swindon face on Saturday.
03.01.25Matchday
The County Ground has not sounded like that for months. It has not felt that way for months. That, my friends, is the feeling of togetherness, maybe even hope.
02.01.25Matchday
It was far from attractive. At times it was downright dirty – midfield scrap after long aerial clearance – but it was what was necessary to get something out of the game.
27.12.24Matchday
‘Judge me at the end of the season,’ Ian Holloway continues to say. That seems like a fair request. In turn, maybe Holloway can tone down some of his public ill-feeling. Call it a Christmas truce. Call it a compromise of convenience, if you need to. Call it whatever you want.
23.12.24Matchday
As Holloway approaches his 1,000th game in management this weekend, a considerable milestone that deserves commendation and respect, it would be sensible for him to concede the mistakes he made at the weekend.
16.12.24Matchday
The pathway from the academy to the main stage has rarely been so tangible for Swindon’s kids. And another run in the Youth Cup could just propel them to that rare prize: a professional contract.
11.12.24Matchday
All of a sudden, a sullen, careless, erratic group has energy, formation, and purpose. They look disciplined. They look calm. Blimey, they even look like they’re in it together.
Tuesday’s trip to Wycombe Wanderers is about as desirable as a particularly acute attack of IBS right now, as Town balance a fixture overload with the not insignificant task of keeping their EFL status.
10.12.24Matchday
Harry Smith’s perfectly imperfect hat-trick saw Swindon Town deliver a winning weekend for their fans as Holloway put faith in the kids and moved his team away from sideways football in their own half.
09.12.24Matchday
Swindon are now 24th out of 24, 92nd out of 92. Last. Worst. This is no longer a patch of bad form, nor is it a redeemable slide. It is a funeral march. A long, pathetic funeral march to a shallow EFL grave.
03.12.24Matchday
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