Another season is over. It was a long, arduous and noisy campaign at points, with countless off-pitch inflection points and on-pitch defeats.

For so long, I was willing for it to end with Swindon Town above the dotted line, avoiding relegation into non-league. But we ultimately ended the season on a high, maybe even with a sense of what might have been if the season had just been that little bit longer.

Given the position Ian Holloway inherited, and indeed presided over until December, the turnaround has been equal parts surprising and impressive.

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As finding that winning knack allowed the team to fight their way out of immediate danger of relegation, it has been enjoyable to see a connection between squad and crowd forged for what feels like the first time in a long time at SN1.

Whether it’s the comeback wins or the toe-to-toe battles with the promoted teams in the second half of the season, there have been some signs that come this time next year, we might be finding ourselves at the right end of League Two, without the months of unrelenting grimness which plagued Autumn 2024.

And yet, with all those positives taken in, as the dust settles on the season, it still feels like we go into the summer break at a fragile point in our development.

Sure, Holloway’s contractual situation is sorted - with the positive outcome of him staying to continue the job he’s started........

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