Swindon Town must confront reality of the situation to bring fans back onside
07.10.24, 13:02 Updated 05.06.25, 20:09 7 Minute Read
Sam Morshead
It’s time to get real.
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.
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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.