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Last Updated: 28 April 2020

Match Preview – Exeter City v Stevenage (08 Feb 2020): (Not So) Great Expectations

(Not So) Great Exe-pectations

Go back just three weeks and we were cock-a-hoop after Cambridge. Then came Exeter – and four straight defeats! Fine, that trip to Sid James’ Park was only a Leasing.com Trophy tie. But it was the start of a run of results that took us back bottom of League Two, …

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Match Preview – Stevenage v Leyton Orient (01 Feb 2020): The Clock Is Ticking

The Clock Is Ticking

Let’s look at the stats and take the positives to help get us through the next three months – yeah? It’s the best idea we’ve had since five minutes ago, when we decided to take the lift instead of the stairs. No. Wait! Turns out that’s a really dumb idea. …

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Match Preview – Grimsby Town v Stevenage (28 Jan 2020): Grimnastics

Grimnastics

The League Two relegation yo-yo battle rumbles on; Boro’ looking and hoping to swap places with Morecambe. Again. So far, both us and them haven’t been able to drag anyone else into this little thing we got going at the foot of the table. That’s even when Macclesfield Town get …

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Match Preview – Stevenage v Plymouth Argyle (25 Jan 2020): Plym Plym Pler-ee

Plym Plym Pler-ee

It’s the second half of this week’s Devon double for Boro’ and it’d be good if this one went our way. After putting in the legwork to get down to Exeter on Tuesday, we were left in no doubt that our time in the Leasing.com Trophy was up. Here we …

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Match Preview – Exeter City v Stevenage (21 Jan 2020): Who Gives You Exe-tra?

Who Gives You Exe-tra?

You can clock up your first away league win of term in a boring way – or you can do it with a big bang. And it seems we chose to do it with the latter; Boro’ sweeping past Cambridge with a style and swagger not seen yet from us …

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Match Preview – Cambridge United v Stevenage (18 Jan 2020): The Bridge on the River Cam

The Bridge On The River Cam

Now stuck deeper in the brown stuff and hoping a trip up to Cambridge can give us a straw to clutch. It’s a hard knock life, innit? Let’s face it – the Us won’t be hangin’ around in trying to make things even worse for us than they are already. …

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Match Preview – Stevenage v Oldham Athletic (14 Jan 2020): Latic Be...

Latic Be

Now we find ourselves in times of trouble, BoroGuide comes to thee – but speaking words of wisdom? Hmmm, Maybe. Tom Pope’s late penalty for Port Vale, coupled with some guy called Adam Phillips levelling for Morecambe at home to Colchester, plonked us right back on the bottom of the …

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Match Preview – Stevenage v Port Vale (11 Jan 2020): Epic Vale!

Epic Vale

So, we’ve gone and done *another* win in the Leasing.com Trophy. Time we gave it a try in the league too? After hauling ourselves through 70 minutes against Colchester United with one less man on the pitch, that precious point was enough to lift us off the bottom of the …

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Match Preview – Bristol Rovers v Stevenage (08 Jan 2020): Cooking On Gas

Cooking On Gas

After a busy festive programme, it’s now back to the one competition we seem to be having some joy in! Yes, it’s the Leasing.com Trophy; everyone’s favourite tournament since we got out the group stages for the first time. Of course, we’ve always loved this great competition and have much love …

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PREVIEW – Col It What U Want: Stevenage v Colchester United (04 Jan 2020)

Col It What U Want

It turns out that old habits DO die hard if our thing for conceding late winners is much to go by. And it also turns out that we couldn’t leave that one behind in 2019 too; Boro’ starting a new year and new decade in exactly the same way that …

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