The Spirit of ’69 protest group have said that Swindon Town’s upturn in form is only a good thing but does not change their message ahead of their second day of action.

Wiltshire Police estimated that more than 600 Swindon fans attended the group’s first protest in December in which they marched to Statue Park to demonstrate their dissatisfaction with the way the club is run.

Following this weekend’s game against Port Vale, SO69 will protest at the back of The Arkell’s Stand to communicate their dissatisfaction towards those running the club.

Since that protest, Swindon have lost just once but co-founder Terry Pierce said that does not change the fact that the club is not being run well enough.

He said: “Winning games is fun and we want that to happen but also having a solid League Two club is easier to sell than having a club that is fighting for its EFL status.

“From our point of view the turnaround in form is a good thing and it also doesn’t change our stance, it doesn’t appease us, and it doesn’t quieten us.

“Everything that we pointed out about Mr. [Clem] Morfuni’s incompetence remains and nothing has changed beyond the fact that for the first time in six tries, he seems to have gotten a managerial appointment correct.

“Ultimately Morfuni has a record of incompetence and dishonesty and that hasn’t suddenly been erased after four wins.

“If you look at the delta between the constantly rising unexplained operating costs and the on- and off-field performance in every department is declining rapidly and that delta is just getting wider.

“The business is broken. They cannot run that business.”

Despite this being the second protest, Pierce is not expecting the same numbers as before because of the “different vibe” on this occasion as they turn up the heat on the club hierarchy.

He said: “I don’t know if there are direct lessons that we can take from the Grimsby one because we are expecting it to be much smaller purely because of the nature of the protest.

“Before was all about a show of strength in numbers and of the community and this one is about taking our collective anger to the front door of the club.

“[On the potential of interaction with Morfuni at the protest] My instinct is that he probably will but it is a lose-lose situation.

“If he chooses not to engage then I think that plays really badly as we are pretty sure he will be at the game.

“But if he does then he is engaging in a way that will never lead to a healthy conversation – a few hundred people shouting at one person is never going to achieve anything.

“If I was him then I would probably reach out before and acknowledge it and say that he wants to have a chat but Mr. Morfuni and his colleagues have done nothing except treat our fans with contempt for three-and-a-half years and he’s not going to change that position now.”