‘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
McGregor has a similar issue to Harrison Minturn. The full-back has complained of pain in his groin when attempting to accelerate, and is being seen to by Swindon's medical team.
23.12.24News
Ian Holloway had worried that his defender had suffered a ‘Gilmore’s groin’, a type of hernia that would have required surgery.
16.12.24News
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
Freckleton is currently injured, having picked up an ankle problem during a training-ground friendly against Bristol Rovers several weeks ago.
13.12.24News
Holloway was not begging, but there was a sense of urgency in his voice as he made a plea to Swindon Town supporters to rally behind their team in its darkest hour.
05.12.24News
Clarke was due to return to action on the grass at Beversbrook with the senior squad on Thursday (December 5). The club captain has had an interrupted start to life in Wiltshire after moving from Mansfield in the summer.
Holloway has been at the club for less than a month, but he has already made up his mind on two key areas where he feels his group of players are letting themselves down: communication and culpability.
29.11.24Features
It is now 34 days until the January window opens. Town will need to be busy when it does. Holloway has specified his desire for the club to recruit “leaders”, but experienced players at full match fitness will not be easy to come by.
28.11.24News
Holloway will be without club captain Ollie Clarke for the game, with the midfielder set for several weeks on the sidelines after rupturing a tendon in his ankle in training last week.
21.11.24News
The Moonraker understands the comment about the club being “over budget” relates to the original budget at the start of the summer. Swindon’s recruitment team received access to additional funds late in the transfer window.
15.11.24News
Holloway believes Swindon – and modern footballers in general – do not talk enough, on and off the field. And he thinks several of the goals Town have conceded, under his stewardship and prior to his arrival, were results of communications failures.
08.11.24News
In total this season, Town have had their noses in front for 308 minutes. Just 16 per cent of all the gametime played. Chasing a game takes its toll, both physically and mentally.
06.11.24Matchday
Specific restrictions limit the scope of rotation available to Holloway, but a number of youth-team players took part in training at Beversbrook on Monday afternoon, and several are set to get a chance on Tuesday night.
04.11.24News
However, on Friday (November 1), The Sun said that the FA would look into the circumstances that led to Ian Holloway ending up at Town.
01.11.24News
SWINDON TOWN vs COLCHESTER UNITED: Holloway will get the chance to do the job he says he’s been craving, returning to an EFL dugout for the first time in nearly four years. It is an absence which he has felt hard, and – he says – his wife Kim has felt even harder.
01.11.24Matchday
The average for seventh place over the past 10 full seasons is 73. To get there, Swindon would need 61 from a possible 96, or 1.91 per game. Extrapolate that over the course of a full campaign, and you get 88. Over the past 10 full seasons, 88 points would have won the title on five occasions.
31.10.24Opinion
Holloway’s movements became a sideshow of their own during a first half in which Gillingham took the lead, as he tried to find a vantage point that both gave him a good view of the action and allowed him to be in close enough proximity to the Swindon bench.
31.10.24News
It was, particularly in the half-hour or so before the break, a pantomime of the absurd. Town’s manager-in-waiting straddled low-level walls, jumped between a dozen vantage points, and eagerly chatted with whomever in the crowd was lucky enough to have been – for a few moments at least – alongside him on his makeshift bench.
26.10.24Matchday
In the 4,020 days since he left Crystal Palace, in October 2013, Holloway has been in full-time management for 1,330. That is not in itself an inherent problem, but speaks to a manager who will need to quickly adapt to the rigours of his work.
25.10.24Features
Discussions with Holloway advanced quickly over the past 24 hours, after the decision was made to part company with Mark Kennedy with Town sitting 22nd in League Two.
25.10.24News
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