The Swindon Town Sentinel
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Swindon Town make their move for Joel Cotterill
$240.0K on the table at Swansea City. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Swindon Town
Ryan Tafazolli 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Swindon Town promote Benjamin Harris from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Benjamin Harris has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market10 Aug 2026
Alexander Thompson steps up from the Swindon Town academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Alexander Thompson has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Henry Wright joins the Swindon Town first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Henry Wright is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
Swindon Town promote Joshua Lawrence from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Joshua Lawrence has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Gavin Kilkenny signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Gavin Kilkenny commits to Swindon Town for another 3 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
No place for Rodrigo Trejo in the new shape
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Swindon Town are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Swindon Town
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Gavin Kilkenny was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
In brief
- Looking ahead A reunion for Ollie Palmer
- The dugout Gavin Kilkenny knocks on the manager’s door
- Looking ahead Swindon Town travel to Crawley Town