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Fresh face in time for Cherries trip
           
           


  PAOLO Di Canio is targeting a new arrival at Swindon Town before January 12, as he looks to build a squad capable of securing promotion from League One. The Robins boss is believed to still be pursuing Sheffield Wednesday striker Gary Madine, whose services he failed to acquire on emergency loan deadline day in November, and he wants a fresh face in place in time for the trip to in-form Bournemouth next month. As of Saturday, however, the Italian had yet to hear from the County Ground money men and therefore he was unsure how substantial his financial clout will be in the January transfer window. “I don’t know what’s going on and I still haven’t received one phone call,” he said. “It’s not an accusation of the board but just because I want to do my best for the club and also for them. “Now there is more positive energy around and I want to do the best I can to keep the players I have now and why not bring in someone else? “If we can I would like to bring in a player between January 5 and January 12, and a player that I have in mind since three months ago. We will see.” One player Di Canio has been impressed by in recent weeks is on-loan midfielder Danny Hollands. The Italian is unsure whether or not he will have the chance to extend the Charlton man’s spell in Wiltshire, but he stressed that he would love to keep the 27-year-old with the Robins. He said: “Danny Hollands in the first two games I thought ‘who have we got in here, a ghost?’ “He had a little problem, now in the last two games and in the training sessions he is the player probably over my expectations but he is the player that I knew was good. “He is the one when he’s under pressure in the middle he has the time to go out on the ball with experience. I would like to keep him but I know it is hard.”

           

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The same Madine who has started 3 or the last 4 games for Wednesday and has just said this:

 "I hope I spend the rest of my life here. I really, really mean that. The support's absolutely incredible"

http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11703/8348876/Gary-Madine-wants-to-stay-at-Sheffield-Wednesday-for-rest-of-his-career (http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11703/8348876/Gary-Madine-wants-to-stay-at-Sheffield-Wednesday-for-rest-of-his-career)

Although he does say that he wants to play at a higher level in the next 2 years.

 The Bormuff game is typical of the shit fixture list we've been dealt this season....and now we face a peculiar anomaly...of the top 9 other teams, we've played them all at home, but none of them away. This will decide our season.

Which probably explains why our home form hasn't been great but our away form has been good. I'd expect a reversal in the 2nd half of the season.

I'm not really sure how it works out, as teams come into and out of form etc, which cannot be predicted. It's just on paper, it looks tough, but may not work out that way.

I was looking at the table yesterday and noticed that there aren't many teams whose home record is a lot better than there away one.

There are plenty of teams getting more away points than home ones.