2022-23 Season Review
Overview 2022-23 was a highly successful season for Swindon Supermarine with the team securing their highest league finish, their equal best F.A. Trophy run, and having the division’s joint highest scorer in their ranks. To be realistically competing for a play-off place until the penultimate weekend of a long season is something of which the…
Swindon Supermarine – an Easter review
Overview “It ain’t all over till the fat lady sings” The buxom diva of football is stage left; her vocal exercises are done; she has had her aspirin gargle; her posh gown shimmers; and soon she will belt out her final aria to bring the 2022/23 season to a close. In all honesty the odds…
Marine win but score line flatters
Swindon Supermarine 3 Plymouth Parkway 0 (Southern League Premier South – 05/04/23) As those connected with Plymouth Parkway travelled back to West Devon they will have felt somewhat bemused to be on the end of a result that will look, to those not at the match, a routine Swindon Supermarine victory. The visitor’s contributed significantly…
Heroic Hanwell victory
Hanwell Town 1 Swindon Supermarine 3 (Southern Premier South – 25/03/23) Napoleon Bonaparte once said that “victory belongs to the most persevering.” Swindon Supermarine proved that comment to be true with a tremendous “against the odds” victory. Faced with a goal keeping emergency, that saw midfielder Brad Hooper have to don the goalkeeping gloves, the…
Remember to look back down the mountain
Swindon Supermarine 3 Tiverton Town 3 (Southern League Premier Division South – 18/03/23) Marine supporters left the Webbswood perhaps a tad frustrated that their team had not taken three points against Tiverton Town. However, in that disappointment we risk underplaying the resilience the Marine team showed. The players rallied from both 2-0 down and a…
Marine rout Winchester for a second time
Winchester City 1 Swindon Supermarine 6 (Southern League Premier South – 05/03/23) On Tuesday at Hendon Marine were slightly off colour but gallantly battled for a draw with two late goals. In this match the fluency was there from the start and they mercilessly had the host’s defenders uncomfortably twisting, turning, and floundering from the…
Supermarine extend their unbeaten league run to nine
Swindon Supermarine 3 Truro City 2 (Southern League Premier South – 25/02/23) Swindon Supermarine showed yet again that they can go “toe-to-toe” with the best in the division. Against a strong Truro City team pushing for automatic promotion Marine extended their unbeaten run to nine matches with a 3-2 win. The match was an excellent…
Seven up – Marine’s unbeaten league run extends to seven matches
Harrow Borough 1 Swindon Supermarine 2 (Southern Premier League South – 19/02/23) The teams had played twice this season – once in the league and once in the FA Trophy. Each side had a victory to their name and so the portents for this contest were that it would be a close encounter. As at…
Sharp shooter Harry makes it six games unbeaten
Swindon Supermarine 1 Hartley Wintney 0 (Southern Premier League South – 14/02/23) Some matches linger in the memory for weeks, and sometimes months, other contests tend to be more remembered for the outcome rather than the football played. This match was, in reality, more a case of the latter. However, sometimes the picture is so…
Marine win a five goal thriller
Beaconsfield Town 2 Swindon Supermarine 3 (Southern League Premier South – 12/02/23) As the end of the match approached that cautionary supporter sense of foreboding engulfed me. Swindon Supermarine had given their all; they deserved a share of the spoils for their character; but football, as years of being a Southampton season ticket holder had…
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