Jake Tabor

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Free Agent
2 Oct 2027
Saturday
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49 Edition

The Swindon Town Sentinel

5 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A fracture rules Ollie Palmer out for 161 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Swindon Town will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market

Joel McGregor hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Swindon Town can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Words exchanged at Swindon Town

Ollie Palmer and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Transfer targets

Swindon Town rebuffed over Thimothée Lo-Tutala

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Hull City have kept their man, and Swindon Town go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad

Harry Winks needs a bigger stage

He is doing things every Saturday that nobody around him can answer. It is flattering for a season and a problem after that, and Swindon Town know which stage they are at.

The dugout

No hiding place for Filozofe Mabete

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Filozofe Mabete, and the manager let it.

Squad

Fletcher Holman stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Fletcher Holman and Swindon Town agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Boardroom

Swindon Town sign 6 boys into the academy

None of them will be seen by anybody outside the training ground for three years, most of them will never play a senior match, and one of them might change the club. That is the whole proposition, and it is why academies exist.

The dugout

Omar Sowunmi is still being punished for one mistake

Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.

In brief

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The Swindon Town Sentinel

26 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Words exchanged at Swindon Town

Joel Latibeaudiere and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

The dugout

No hiding place for Joel Latibeaudiere

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Joel Latibeaudiere, and the manager let it.

Squad

Words at Swindon Town training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Kay van de Vorst is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

The dugout

Gavin Kilkenny knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Gavin Kilkenny trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

The dugout

Half-satisfied: Jack King on the draw

“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 0‑0, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.

The dugout

Márk Kosznovszky left out for tactical reasons at Swindon Town

The shape wanted a different profile against this opponent, which is a real football answer and no comfort at all to the man it is about. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.

Match

Point won or two lost for Swindon Town?

Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Shrewsbury Town? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.

Player ratings

The chances came and went for Yanis Rafii

7 shots, and a count that reads like a good afternoon until you check the other column. Strikers survive weeks like this on the understanding that the chances keep arriving; the day they stop is the day it becomes a problem.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Ryan Battrum

Successful dribbles: 11. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief