Salford City did not enjoy 2023/24, finishing a place below Swindon. Karl Robinson will be expected to deliver better this time around, but the departures of key players will not make it easy.
09.08.24Features
Eighty-nine goals scored. Eighty-six goals conceded. If you wanted entertainment as a neutral, Notts County were the team to watch last season. But it only brought the club midtable mediocrity. Much more will be expected this time around.
CHESTERFIELD vs SWINDON TOWN: What taking advantage actually looks like is the biggest unknown. Town appear to have been designed to win games by the odd goal in one: this is a group of players who have been engineered not to concede.
09.08.24Matchday
Newport have taken a strategic decision to focus on hiring young and unproven players and turning them into assets, all the while playing a possession-focused game in the bottom half of League Two. Sound familiar, Town fans? Mmm.
08.08.24Features
Morecambe remain in peril, with ownership issues plaguing their very existence. With a mass churn of players, it will take something special just to enjoy midtable mediocrity.
If you love football, the first day of the new season offers so much: hope, fear, belief, doubt, confidence, anxiety and, perhaps most of all, relief. For Swindon fans, the notions of hope, belief and confidence are becoming increasingly alien.
08.08.24Opinion
MK Dons have been busy… very busy. Their response to playoff semi-final defeat has been to assemble a large and talented squad more than capable of banking an coveted automatic promotion spot.
Harrogate enter their fifth EFL season as an established league side. Do they have enough about them this time around to maintain that status once again?
Grimsby Town never got going last season and, despite swapping in David Artell as manager, struggled for rhythm and form throughout. Can they improve this time around?
If you wanted to see goals, it was best to avoid Gillingham matches last season. But a series of attack-minded summer signings will give the Gills extra impetus going into the new term.
The Moonraker understands the scale and cost of the overall redevelopment of the rest of the stadium would be too vast to commit to without the venue’s revenues being given a chance to increase first, in a push towards sustainability.
08.08.24News
Fleetwood were one of four team to slip down a division last spring, and the route back to League One looks arduous after a summer during which they’ve lost much of their nucleus.
07.08.24Features
Clarke was confirmed as the club's new captain on Wednesday (August 7), as had been anticipated following his arrival from Mansfield.
07.08.24News
Donny spent the first half of last season flirting with a relegation battle, and then became world-beaters overnight. A playoff disappointment ought to be dealt with, such is the strength of the squad at the Keepmoat Stadium.
After the heartache of Wembley final defeat in the playoffs, Crewe will need to rally if they are to overperform to the same extent. With an all-new frontline, and having lost a star player, that might not be that easy.
INTERVIEW: Now happily married and a father of two, Caton's priorities shifted dramatically in 2006 when he suffered a fractured skull and significant psychological trauma following a car accident. The tale of Caton’s personal rediscovery, his commitment to a new life, and pursuit of happiness in general is inspiring.
Colchester brought in Danny and Nicky Cowley last January to salvage what threatened to be a wreckage of a season. The pair did just that, and have now turned their attention to climbing the ladder.
Chesterfield made it back to the EFL last year, after romping through the National League. They are being tipped in places for back-to-back promotions. But is that confidence justified?
06.08.24Features
Cheltenham, having dropped out of League One, have spent the summer wheeling and dealing to create a totally new squad. So how will they do?
INTERVIEW: At 16, Rideout was thrown into first-team training, and just weeks later he became Town’s youngest player, when he was named in the starting XI for the Division Three meeting with Hull City in late November.
Swindon Town’s latest signing is both a marauding wing-back with a mean delivery from the set-piece, and the bearer of an unusual footballing name. You see, you don’t get many Jeffs playing football for the Town.
After a wholly disappointing season under new ownership in League One, which brought just 30 points and relegation to the fourth tier, Carlisle appear to have regrouped well. Backed in the transfer market, manager Paul Simpson will be expected to steer his team to a very different outcome this time around.
Find out when Swindon Town's senior men's side are in action in 2024/25. Full schedule with kick-off times for League Two, FA Cup, EFL Cup, EFL Trophy.
06.08.24News
Bromley embark on their debut EFL season after their National League playoff triumph in May. They bring with them a settled group, and there is good reason for optimism at Hayes Lane.
05.08.24Features
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