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  • Cooper defends his master plan

    SWINDON Town manager Mark Cooper has defended his team selection, in which he made seven changes, as a young and inexperienced side fell to a 3-0 defeat away to Preston North End. Despite nearly 800 fans making the trip to Lancashire for today’

  • PLAYER RATINGS: Preston v Swindon Town

    ADVER Sport's Tom Bassam hands out his ratings from Town's 3-0 defeat to Preston. Tyrell Belford Left in no-man's land for the first goal and played his teammates into trouble on a couple of occasions. 5 Sam Ricketts Was Town's most

  • FULL TIME REPORT: Preston North End 3 Swindon Town 0

    A JOE Garner hat-trick was enough to sink a much changed Swindon side in what proved to be a game of men against boys. The 27-year-old moved onto 25 goals for the season as he opened the scoring with less than two minutes on the clock. A second

  • McCoy awarded jockey title at Sandown finale

    TONY McCoy was presented with the trophy for his 20th and final National Hunt jockeys' championship before riding in the bet365 AP McCoy Celebration Chase at Sandown. The trophy was commissioned by the then British Horseracing Board back in 2007

  • PREDICTIONS LEAGUE: Preston North End v Swindon Town

    PREDICTIONS LEAGUE:  Preston v Swindon Swindon Travel to Deepdale in a position of King Maker. Well actually, Prince Maker. The King has already been crowned. Although we could technically still get to second place, in reality it isn't going

  • Three cats put down after being found poisoned in a garden

    THREE cats have had to be put down after they were found poisoned in a garden in Cricklade. Police were alerted at around 4pm on Friday that the three pets, which belonged to separate families in the area, had to be put down. The incident is

  • Howell hails good day in Shanghai

    DAVID Howell felt he got to grips with the testing Tomson Shanghai Pudong Golf Club layout after putting himself in position for a first European Tour victory in nearly two years today. Swindon's Howell followed six straight pars with five birdies

  • Robins trio in second British semi

    SWINDON riders Kyle Howarth, Charles Wright and Lewis Rose have been drawn in the second of two British semi finals next month. Howarth and Wright are in the main 16-rider field for the King's Lynn semi final on Wednesday, May 20, with Rose named

  • Howell hitting the heights in Shanghai

    DAVID Howell produced another fine round at the Volvo China Open in Shanghai to share the lead going into the final day. After yesterday's round of level par saw him fall off the pace, the Swindon ace moved to eight-under with his second round

  • Cats get in the swing of it

    SWINDON Wildcats’ players swapped their sticks and blades for drivers and spikes as they held their first Golf Classic yesterday. The event, which was raising proceeds for the club’s Wildcats In The Community programme, which has been building

  • RETRO ROBINS: Noble and Moss shoot down Hornets

    In May 1969, Watford were promoted to the second tier along with Town - who had lost out on their first title since joining the Football League on goal average. Three years later, while Swindon were sat comfortably in mid-table, the Hornets had

  • THE IRON LADY: Everything's bigger in Texas

    HOWDY y’all! (That’s me getting the hang of the local vernacular here in Texas). I flew to Houston on Wednesday ahead of this weekend’s Ironman 70.3 Texas in Galveston. It’s a race I truly love – fast, flat, hot and humid. I won it in 2013 and

  • Kyle's all smiles after Stars morale-booster

    KYLE Howarth hopes the Swindon Robins have turned a corner in their season following a dominant 55-37 victory at home to King’s Lynn Stars on Thursday night. Injuries have heavily hampered the Robins’ 2015 Elite League campaign and skipper Troy

  • Cooper says pressure is on Preston

    THIS afternoon’s visit to promotion-hunters Preston North End will afford his Town side the perfect opportunity to sample the same white-hot atmosphere they’ll experience in the play-offs, according to Mark Cooper. Whilst Swindon look destined

  • Double delight for county youngsters

    THE Wiltshire county under 14 team has played two matches over the last few weeks - home and away - and tasted victory in both. Wiltshire hosted Cornwall at Ogbourne Downs Golf Club on a cold, blustery day and the county side were victorious after