ISNT it good to be on the road again? After one lonely point from two homes games, it seems that this season is a complete opposite of the last.

Then, Town got little on our travels, now we are irresistible. But it isn't something just affecting Swindon, it's happening all over English football.

The received wisdom is that home games are easier. Or it was. Some recent number-crunching shows that the amount of home wins in English football has declined rapidly. Away teams are simply winning more often.

By going back through more than a century of league results, researchers found that in the early days the home side won about 60 per cent of games. The rest were split equally: 20 per cent draws and 20 per cent away wins.

These days the home team wins only about 40 per cent of games, the visitor wins 30 per cent, and the rest are draws. And the trend seems to be continuing.

Swindon's record at home certainly fits the same pattern. Of all their games played at the County Ground, Town have won 55 per cent. However, during the last decade that dropped dramatically. Suddenly a defeat or draw was more likely than a win (an average of 39 per cent).

Okay, those 10 years were a mixed time. Sometimes Town went downhill so fast Swiss people banged cowbells at us but there are also a couple of promotions in there. It even includes when Paolo Di Canio won 62 per cent of his home league games, albeit in a division where whole teams cost less than his lucky green coat.

So why is home less comforting now for Swindon?

Clearly this season the opposition are coming to counter-attack, but what changed in the last decade?

Could it be better scouting and video clips? What about more comfortable coach journeys?

Are satnavs meaning that visiting teams now don't spend half of their morning circling the Magic Roundabout in blind panic?

Or is it just that the County Ground atmosphere is like a minute silence in a monastery?

Whatever it is, at least we are good on the road again.