Town head into this weekend’s fixture with Bury unbeaten in six (in all competitions) and looking for their third win-and-clean-sheet combination in a week.
Last Saturday against Morecambe, Elijah Adebayo’s tidy finish clinched a first away victory of the season for Phil Brown’s side.
Adebayo will go in search of his third goal in three league games against the Shakers – and his fourth of the season after his strike at Morecambe and last-minute equaliser last time out at the Energy Check County Ground; the Robins had trailed for, pretty much, a whole 90 minutes.
James Dunne and Toumani Diagouraga have both served their three-match bans after picking up a red card each against Crawley Town. However, right-back, Kyle Knoyle was sent off for a bad tackle on Aaron Wildig last weekend meaning he will miss the game.
Town left the County Ground with their defence unpenetrated on Tuesday night – League Two high-flyers, Newport County fell victim to Michael Doughty’s fifth penalty of the season (in all competitions) as Swindon won a relatively mundane affair 1-0.
The Oppo
The Shakers have started the season in a similar vein to Swindon – a mixed bag of results but they are, however, yet to win away from home so far.
Bury have won the same amount of games as Town – but have found playing away tougher than Town, losing three out of three on the road.
Bury fell victim to a last-gasp Ollie Palmer strike in their last trip away against Crawley – not quite as late as his equaliser againsy the Robins just over a fortnight ago.
After Danny Mayor put them 2-1 up on 78 minutes, Panutch Camara for Crawley equalised before Palmer struck to deny them a first point away from Greater Manchester.
Last time out they dispatched of Grimsby quite comfortably, however – Mayor (2), Will Aimson and a Danny Collins own-goal sealed a 4-0 thrashing at Gigg Lane.
Bury are yet to lose a game by more than a single goal and have conceded the highest proportion of goals in the latter stages of games – they’ve conceded five goals after 76 minutes; the same amount that Swindon have scored in that time period.
Head to Head
Swindon's post-2010 record against Bury is not the best. James Collins scored for Town the last time they beat Bury, back in 2012 - opening the scoring in the first minute of the match.
14 Apr 2007 Bury v Swindon Town W 0-1 League Two
06 Oct 2012 Bury v Swindon Town W 0-1 League One
26 Feb 2013 Swindon Town v Bury L 0-1 League One
15 Aug 2015 Bury v Swindon Town D 2-2 League One
16 Apr 2016 Swindon Town v Bury L 0-1 League One
17 Sep 2016 Swindon Town v Bury L 1-2 League One
11 Feb 2017 Bury v Swindon Town L 1-0 League One
The Gaffer
Iconic Shakers striker Ryan Lowe put pen to paper on a deal that saw him return to Gigg Lane, in January 2016, for a third spell at Gigg Lane, this time as player coach. Ryan re-joined the club after leaving Crewe Alexandra, who he had joined after leaving Bury at the end of the 2015-16 season.
Lowe made 687 appearances in total as a player, scoring 211 goals – 160 appearances and 70 goals whilst wearing a Shakers shirt.
Last season, Lowe took over as Caretaker manager following the dismissal of Lee Clark on 30 October 2017 until the appointment of Chris Lucketti on 22 November 2017, and again – following Lucketti’s departure.
He was appointed the Shakers’ 41st manager on 10 May 2018 after signing a two-year deal with the club.
