NICKY AJOSE wanted to leave Swindon Town for Championship football but has switched to newly-relegated Charlton Athletic who will be taking on Town in League One this season.

Fellow striker Michael Smith has always maintained that he wanted to leave Swindon Town to be closer to his family in the North. So he has gone permanently to Portsmouth on the South Coast.

It is hard to fathom footballers sometimes – whether they were involved in this week’s debacle in Nice or just negotiating a better future for themselves in the lower leagues.

At the moment Swindon’s strike force amounts to Jon Obika, who has refused to sign a contract extension and has posted a ‘come and get me’ highlights package on his Instagram account, and Jermaine Hylton, one of Town’s least successful plunges into the non-league market.

It is also a tad worrying that newly-promoted Oxford United have the clout to bring in Wes Thomas who was on loan at Swindon last season.

I don’t suppose Town endeared themselves to Mr Thomas when regularly leaving him out of the matchday squad because we had passed the threshold for loan players.

There are no strikers among the first quartet of triallists to come through the revolving door at the County Ground this week.

They are 22-year midfielders Conor Thomas (released by Coventry), Jack Powell (released by Millwall), a once-capped Paraguan international Ronald Huth and non-league 24-year-old Christian Nanetti, whose main claim to fame is beating everyone’s least favourite England footballer Raheem Sterling in Soccer AM’s ‘Skill Skool’ challenge when the pair were both QPR trainees.

Still no confirmation on the £400,000 transfer from Liverpool of keeper Lawrence Vigouroux who was on loan with us last season. Nor on the replacement of Steve Hale as goalkeeping coach.

But Swindon’s number two stopper Ty Belford has jumped ship and signed a season-long loan with non-league Southport for the prospect of regular first team football.

Perhaps he was also given a nod and a wink that Will Henry – so promising in the final games last term when both first choice keepers were injured – has been anointed as the deputy to Vigouroux.

Finally, hardly is the ink dry on the 2016/17 fixture list than we already have four date and time changes.

Town’s home fixture with the once-mighty Bolton Wanderers on Saturday, October 8 has been brought forward two hours to 1pm. Similarly, the home clash with AFC Wimbledon has been brought forward 24 hours to Good Friday, April 14 at 3pm.

Fans will surely appreciate that they don’t have to make the trip to meet MK Dons on New Years’ Eve. Instead they travel for a 7.45pm kick-off on Friday, December 30.

And the EFL Cup tie at Loftus Road with QPR – Massimo Luongo, Ben Gladwin, Michael Doughty and all – which was scheduled for Tuesday, August 9 has been put back 24 hours to the Wednesday.