Before looking to recruit new players this summer, Swindon Town must decide precisely what is needed to make their system work.

Having looked at the retained list and what Swindon already have in the first part of this series, there is one more thing we must do before getting into the fun part of scouting specific players, and it is to figure out exactly what those players need to do.

Ian Holloway is deliberately flexible in the way that he has set up at Swindon, looking at ways to exploit the opposition to determine how exactly he should line up. However, there are a few key principles which he sticks to, and two main systems which he has used.

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