Marked for Redman Evans
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Uneasy
Squad20 Sep 2027
A fracture rules Ollie Palmer out for 76 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.
Match15 Sep 2027
Millwall ended it 0‑4. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
The terraces20 Sep 2027
0-4. Going out of a cup is one afternoon; going out like that is a week of phone-ins, and the manager will hear every one of them.
Market20 Sep 2027
Redman Evans has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Swindon Town they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
The dugout20 Sep 2027
This is not rotation. Junior Hoilett has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Swindon Town is pretending otherwise.
Squad20 Sep 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Aaron Drinan and Swindon Town agree another 4 years.
Transfer targets20 Sep 2027
Swindon Town asked and Wrexham said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Player ratings20 Sep 2027
Ninety minutes of Harry Winks at his very best
Marked 8.22. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Swindon Town.
Boardroom20 Sep 2027
The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.
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Uneasy
Squad23 Aug 2027
A fracture rules Ollie Palmer out for 108 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.
The dugout23 Aug 2027
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Match21 Aug 2027
6 matches without a win for Swindon Town
The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around Swindon Town are no longer polite ones.
Market23 Aug 2027
Only the photograph left for Redman Evans
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Redman Evans will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Swindon Town the goodbyes have quietly begun.
The dugout23 Aug 2027
This is not rotation. Junior Hoilett has not been in the manager's plans for some time, and nobody at Swindon Town is pretending otherwise.
Match21 Aug 2027
4 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Swindon Town can tell you which week it ends in.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Ollie Palmer was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Boardroom23 Aug 2027
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Transfer targets23 Aug 2027
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
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Uneasy
Squad9 Aug 2027
Ollie Palmer breaks a bone — 124 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 124 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market9 Aug 2027
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Swindon Town people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Market9 Aug 2027
Paul Glatzel 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.
Transfer targets9 Aug 2027
Swindon Town asked and Burnley said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Jaylan Pearman and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad9 Aug 2027
38 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad9 Aug 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Kaelan Majekodunmi and Swindon Town agree another 4 years.
Transfer targets9 Aug 2027
A loan move for Andrea Favilli is in the works
Swindon Town have made the call to Avellino. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Transfer targets9 Aug 2027
A loan enquiry to Ajax: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
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Uneasy
Squad2 Aug 2027
A fracture rules Ollie Palmer out for 132 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.
Transfer targets2 Aug 2027
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Luton Town keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad2 Aug 2027
Benoný Breki Andrésson was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Transfer targets2 Aug 2027
Swindon Town asked and Middlesbrough said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad2 Aug 2027
42 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad2 Aug 2027
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Paul Glatzel was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets2 Aug 2027
A loan enquiry to Luton Town: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Transfer targets2 Aug 2027
A loan enquiry to RC Strasbourg: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
Market2 Aug 2027
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Swindon Town will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
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Steady
Player ratings12 Apr 2027
Marked 7.76 at 20, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
The dugout12 Apr 2027
Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Paul Glatzel falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
The dugout12 Apr 2027
The team sheet said everything about Aaron Lewis
Warm-up bib, ninety minutes of watching, and a handshake at the end that fooled nobody. Big matches tell you who a manager trusts; this one told Aaron Lewis.
The dugout12 Apr 2027
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Match10 Apr 2027
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
The dugout12 Apr 2027
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
Market12 Apr 2027
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Market12 Apr 2027
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Redman Evans has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Swindon Town.
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Steady
Squad12 Oct 2026
99 days out for Ryan Delaney after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Swindon Town will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Kaelan Majekodunmi is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Aaron Lewis 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Gavin Kilkenny commits to Swindon Town for another 4 years.
Market12 Oct 2026
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Market12 Oct 2026
Redman Evans is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Swindon Town has been clear about where Redman Evans stands, which is more than many ever get.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Darren Oldaker, and the manager let it.
Looking ahead12 Oct 2026
Oldham Athletic next, and one man in the Swindon Town dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Omar Sowunmi asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
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Uneasy
Squad7 Sep 2026
The knee: Tom Mercer out for 14 days
14 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Swindon Town lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A fracture rules Harrison Gray out for 95 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.
Market7 Sep 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Swindon Town, and it is not being withdrawn.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Window shuts: 9 in, 5 out at Swindon Town
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 9 arrived, 5 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Oxford United is saying, and nobody at Swindon Town is enjoying the guessing.
Squad7 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Swindon Town this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Swindon Town asked and Portsmouth said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad7 Sep 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Jake Waters commits to Swindon Town for another 3 years.
Market7 Sep 2026
He is 20, and nobody at Swindon Town signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
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Steady
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Junior Hoilett and Swindon Town agree another 2 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Ryan Tafazolli and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Portsmouth have kept their man, and Swindon Town go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Junior Hoilett retires from international football
“65 caps. I have loved every one, and it is somebody else’s turn.” At 36 he has stepped away from his country and is going nowhere at Swindon Town.
Squad3 Aug 2026
7 new faces, and Swindon Town are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
A loan move for Ibane Bowat is in the works
Swindon Town have made the call to Portsmouth. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
Market3 Aug 2026
The clock runs on Connor Ripley's contract
24 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.
Market3 Aug 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Swindon Town, another week without a signature from Redman Evans.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
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.