The Stevenage Post
Squad12 Oct 2026
Phoenix Patterson signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Phoenix Patterson commits to Stevenage for another 3 years.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Juan Esteban Franco falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Phoenix Patterson
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Looking ahead12 Oct 2026
Jay Dasilva goes back to face Luton Town
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Jay Dasilva’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Stevenage needing him to play as if none of it matters.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Jay Dasilva walks taller at Stevenage
His past walked in ahead of him. Players who have been where he has been get a hearing in a dressing room before they have earned one, and he has it for as long as his form does.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Mathaeus Roberts gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Mathaeus Roberts is on it.
Squad12 Oct 2026
A wage question at Stevenage
Jordan Roberts has done the arithmetic and does not like the answer. Nothing corrodes a squad faster, and no club has ever solved it by explaining the wage structure to a footballer.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Dan Sweeney has been promised minutes
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Dan Sweeney has written the date down.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Taye Ashby-Hammond knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Taye Ashby-Hammond trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
In brief
- Looking ahead Stevenage travel to Luton Town
- Loan watch Saxon Earley is watching from the bench at Sheffield Wednesday