The Stevenage Post
Player ratings4 Feb 2030
Phoenix Patterson runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 59. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Boardroom4 Feb 2030
Stevenage put Interim Coach on notice
The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.
Boardroom4 Feb 2030
The Stevenage board call everybody in
Nothing has been announced and everybody understands what it means. A board that summons the whole football department on a Tuesday morning is a board that has stopped believing the problem will fix itself.
Squad4 Feb 2030
Michael Ellis says Stevenage went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Squad4 Feb 2030
Carl Piergianni signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Carl Piergianni and Stevenage agree another 2 years.
Match2 Feb 2030
Still nobody has beaten Stevenage
The unbeaten run reaches 6. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad4 Feb 2030
Words at Stevenage training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dan Kemp is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Squad4 Feb 2030
Jack Cunningham out for 20 days
The medical room confirms 20 days on the sidelines for Jack Cunningham, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Boardroom4 Feb 2030
93% of the income goes out in wages at Stevenage
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
In brief
- Player ratings The afternoon belonged to Chem Campbell
- Match Stevenage and Cambridge United cancel each other out
- The terraces Supporters make their feelings known about Soungoutou Magassa