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The striker was training at Beversbrook on Thursday (October 3), but head coach Mark Kennedy remained non-committal over the role he would be able to play this weekend.
03.10.24News
McGregor started three games in the final throes of last season, and was equally as dynamic. His full debut, in defeat at Walsall in April, proved to be utterly undaunting to a player who has made the step up from the academy with assuredness.
03.10.24Features
Andy and I spent the journey rehashing fan tweets and speculating wildly about who the next head coach would be, all the while trying to keep a blog running via an old-school dongle which would have been lucky to receive 2G, on a Cold War relic of a laptop.
01.10.24Features
Unlike some senior figures at Swindon in the recent past, Kennedy does appear to be willing to debate points of view. But what he is trying to say simply isn’t landing with the people he most needs to hear it right now: the fans.
30.09.24Opinion
Head coach Mark Kennedy said on Monday (September 30) that all three remain "on course" with their recoveries. However, there was no commitment to the trio being available at Prenton Park.
30.09.24News
On World Heart Day, The Moonraker asks Ofoborh about his first full pre-season in four years, and gets a very personal account of how his world was turned upside down. And how he found a way back.
28.09.24Features
PORT VALE vs SWINDON TOWN: Going into the game, however, there is considerable concern around Swindon’s creativity. While they may lead the league for crosses (175) and cross accuracy, Swindon’s forwards make the keeper work with just one in four attempts on goal.
27.09.24Matchday
Swindon head coach Mark Kennedy confirmed their ongoing absences at his pre-match press conference on Thursday (September 26), but insisted that the players' problems are not major.
26.09.24News
Most supporters do not spend the week with their noses in opposition research, and as such care little for box entries, deep completions, or negative passes. Really, all that matters is how they feel on a Saturday evening. And, recently, Swindon fans have not been feeling all that great.
26.09.24Features
Cooper is 18. Last weekend, his main assignment was meant to be a North Wilts Youth League Under-14 Division Three clash between Swindon Supermarine and Lydiard Millicent. Instead, he ended up filling the role of fourth official in the EFL.
24.09.24Features
Jack Bycroft has faced 17 shots on target for the 10 goals Town have let in thus far in League Two. Only three defences – Barrow, Walsall and Fleetwood Town – have allowed their keeper to be exposed less often.
23.09.24Matchday
SWINDON TOWN vs CARLISLE UNITED: Does the churn of coaching staff really bring about change? And can that change be immediate, given Mike Williamson was only confirmed as the new Carlisle manager 52 hours before Saturday’s kick-off.
20.09.24Matchday
On Saturday, Kennedy selected an XI with 519 league appearances at League Two or above (including George Cox’s 131 in the Eredivisie). Ollie Clarke, Grant Hall and Ryan Delaney have a combined 754. So, here’s the thing. Are we now saying experience isn’t quite as important?
19.09.24Features
Regardless of whether or not senior figures at the club feel it is a fair situation, Swindon fans are voting with their feet in a way that’s not been seen since the darkest days of Lee Power’s abominable administration.
17.09.24Features
The hilarious opening scene of Four Weddings And A Funeral is the classic story of how life can quickly run away from you if you’re even slightly under prepared. And it is bizarrely applicable to the experiences of being a Swindon fan over the early weeks of the new campaign.
16.09.24Matchday
SPECIAL Q&A: To mark the occasion, The Moonraker met up with Bodin to chat about his life in football, the lessons he has learned, and how the game has changed over the course of his professional career.
13.09.24Features
INTERVIEW: Di Michele spent 11 months at the County Ground on staff. Here, he reflects on the challenges of the role, the difficulties of managing a modest playing budget in League Two, and where things went wrong.
12.09.24Features
The assistant academy manager will take on more responsibilities relating to coaching and coach management, while the academy manager takes charge of the more administrative side of the role.
10.09.24News
Clem Morfuni and Fitton had another, private meeting on Tuesday (September 10), prior to the majority shareholder’s return to Australia. While nothing has been ruled out as yet by either party, there will be little progress for two months.
Since the 1993/94 Premier League term, the longest period of time – in days – that Swindon fans have had to wait for a competitive victory in any given season had never crept above 25. Until now.
09.09.24Opinion
Kirkman has been involved in matchday squads but is yet to make his first-team debut with the Robins. The full-back is the second Swindon player to go out on loan this season.
06.09.24News
He regularly, nay routinely fields a blunderbuss barrel’s worth of criticism, much of it well placed, some of it a little more conspiratorial. He does not come from a football background, nor does he appear to have long ties to the sport beyond fandom. He lives on the other side of the world. Why persist, then?
06.09.24Opinion
Clem Morfuni has confirmed to The Moonraker that, as a result of a late injection of extra capital into the coffers in the final two weeks of the transfer window, the 2024/25 pot is now larger than any of the previous three.
05.09.24News
SPECIAL REPORT: The Moonraker looks at the work that is set to be commissioned, still needs doing, and has recently been done at the County Ground as the future of the "matchday experience" comes into sharp focus.
05.09.24Features
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