Pre-Match

Last Updated: 01 February 2013

Game On!

Finally! After what seems like four score and seven years, the time has come for Stevenage to get back out on the pitch and get this second half of the season well and truly underway. And we’re playing catch-up. Few teams, if any, have seen their January fixture list trashed …

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Bury’d Under Snow

Surprised? Not much. The postponement of tomorrow’s match was as likely as Sir Alex moaning about this, that or indeed the other. At the time of writing, we are hearing the areas in and around Greater Manchester are completely covered in snow to the point it looks like an additional …

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Don Stop Believing!

Unless we’re mistaken, there is the hint of a feel good factor back in the air among Boro’s supporters courtesy of last week’s win at Crewe Alexandra. Now we contemplate our first home game of the New Year, and Doncaster Rovers’ first appearance at Broadhall Way in nearly nine years. …

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So Solid. Crewe.

We had to be dragged kicking and screaming out of a memorable 2012 for Boro’, but we’re now finally ready to embrace 2013 and all it (hopefully) has to offer. Did we miss anything while we were readily acclimatising to this Brave New World in the last few days? Apart …

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Tying Ourselves In Notts

Before we even had the opportunity to begin writing this epic prose, we were told that it is not certain that tomorrow’s match will be able to go ahead. Fairlands Valley Park seems to have an additional lake to offer visitors because the weather is continuing to be a right …

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The BoroGuide Christmas Special

Here it is – the long-awaited BoroGuide Christmas Special! It is second only in stature to the great Morecambe and Wise and we’re looking to draw in an audience of 18 million on BBC 1 later this evening. Granted, we’ve checked the schedules and there appears to be a mistake …

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Are You Ready For The Craw… ley?

Do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it now… we don’t often go in for electro music, but it is a simple message from Hot Chip. Our traditional November struggle now behind us, we hurtle towards the festive frolics of Christmas with a win …

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Beside The Seaside

Oh! We do like to be beside the seaside We do like to be beside the sea… Bournemouth then. Without going into too much detail about Saturday’s performance, we now look ahead and look to get back on track. Yeah, we’ve said that a couple of times in the past …

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The Single Biggest Game Ever. Maybe.

Let’s have a little bet. How far can we get into this blog post without mentioning Graham Westley? If you said “18 words”, you will be awarded some form of honour at some point and we will sigh in exasperation. But then again, were we ever going able to escape …

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Some Thoughts About Yeovil

“By 15 games it’s no fluke, it’s not lucky. They are up there for a reason…” – not our words, the words of Top Gear magazine Yeovil Town manager Gary Johnson (remember him)? A chilly Somerset is the destination for Boro’s next outing this evening and offers the perfect chance …

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