Swindon Town must confront reality of the situation to bring fans back onside

There are worrying parallels already between the rhetoric emanating from the County Ground dressing room today, and the soundbites I was given as a cub reporter during the doomed 2010/11 campaign.

Back then, despite all the evidence on and off the field pointing in the other direction, players and staff emphasised Swindon Town squad’s capacity to chase a playoff place well when it was reasonable to do so.

And, as history shows, that team – made up of several who had played at Wembley the previous May – slipped into League Two with barely a flicker of resistance.