If the Boro players weren't already up for the FA Cup first round replay against Port Vale tomorrow night, they will be now after Vale captain Tommy Fraser's stinging attack on the Conference side. League 2 Port Vale were outplayed by the� Hertfordshire club when they visited 9 days ago. Boro were unlucky not to win the game in the original tie, but missed several chances and had to settle for another chance to beat their League opponents.

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Boro have a break from league action this Saturday as the FA Cup campaign starts against Chelmsford City. It was only a few months ago that Boro faced Chelmsford in a pre-season friendly where Charlie Griffin and Chris Beardsley both scored Boro won by 2-1.

Chelmsford find themselves in 11th place in Conference South despite winning 3 of their last 5 league games.

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One of the more puzzling tactical decisions from Graham Westley so far this season has been his reluctance to give new midfielder� Stacy Long� a run in the team, especially as the creative side of Boro's game is not quite where it should be. It's been more� long ball than Long.�

Stacy moved to Broadhall Way in the summer after a successful spell at Ebbsfleet United.

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The Stevenage Borough Supporters Association annual meeting took place tonight at the Broadhall Suite for the 2008/2009 campaign. Again, it has been� another tough year for the SA, with subscriptions reaching their lowest level since the first season in 1994. However, another profit has been recorded, although a lot of that was down to the club reaching the FA Trophy Final last season.

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If, like me you're still trying to get to grips with the play-off semi-final second leg defeat at the Abbey Stadium on Monday then I've found the best thing to do is begin to look forward to next season. In my opinion there's a lot to be excited about. For the first time in years we should have more or less the same squad and management team in August.

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Mark Roberts has spoken out� at the disappointment of missing out on the play-off final after yesterday's dramatic collapse at Cambridge. Roberts, arguably Boro's best performer over the two legs, spoke to BBC 3 Counties about the Cambridge game and added� that it is imperative for the club to finish the season on a high with a win at Wembley against York in the FA Trophy Final.

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Mark Roberts has spoken out� at the disappointment of missing out on the play-off final after yesterday's dramatic collapse at Cambridge. Roberts, arguably Boro's best performer over the two legs, spoke to BBC 3 Counties about the Cambridge game and added� that it is imperative for the club to finish the season on a high with a win at Wembley against York in the FA Trophy Final.

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Stevenage will be making a return to Wembley Stadium in May as they reached their second FA Trophy final in the last 3 seasons with a 4-2 aggregate victory over last season's winners Ebbsfleet United. A last minute strike from Peter Vincenti confirmed that it would be the Hertfordshire side that meets York City after [. Click to continue reading...

It was another game and another win on Saturday when Boro made the trip up to Manchester to face Graham Heathcote's Altrincham side. Although the result looked unlikely for a while, a Mark Roberts strike won GW's side all 3 points and extended their winning run to 10 games. At the moment, whatever the performance is [. Click to continue reading...

Not much of a preview, just a short blog today as I don't have much time. Boro travel to Manchester this afternoon to face Altrincham as they look to extend their unbeaten run further. Last season saw PT's Boro win convincingly there, while the season before Mark Stimson's side lost on the opening day. Click to continue reading...

15 games and counting. That is all that remains of Stevenage Borough's 2008/2009 Blue Square Premier campaign. Currently Boro are 3rd in the league after a 10 league game unbeaten run, which has seen them rise from mid-table to play-off challengers. Admittedly the teams around us have games in hand to make the points up and [. Click to continue reading...

If the Cherrywood Road pitch passes a 10.30am inspection tomorrow morning, then it will be a return to the club which Boro manager Graham Westley once owned and managed. Westley infamously left the Hampshire club in 2003 just days after taking them to Highbury to face Arsenal in the FA Cup and took a lot of [. Click to continue reading...

Boro's Christmas and New Year programme begins at Broadhall Way on Boxing Day when they host Rushden & Diamonds. With Stevenage now unbeaten in the last 4 games in all competitions, there is a genuine reason for Boro to be optimistic going into the game against another one of the pre-season favourites. Click to continue reading...

After Saturday's 4-1 win over St Albans in the FA Trophy, Graham Westley has spoken to the Comet about his plans for the upcoming January transfer window. After transfer listing Daryl McMahon and John Martin recently and bringing in 3 players on loan, the Boro boss still is keen to add to his squad next month as well [. Click to continue reading...

Following several poor weeks and mind baffling interviews from the manager, players and chairman, I have decided to finally give up on promotion for this season and lower my expectations for every game I go to from now on. In May, Wallace spoke like a chairman should saying we needed someone with Conference experience who could get us [. Click to continue reading...

Just when you think things couldn't get much worse at Broadhall Way, they did this afternoon when it was discovered that Graham Westley has made both Daryl McMahon and John Martin available for transfer. I guess that's the end of the attractive and entertaining football then, with the disposal of 2 of his best passers [. Click to continue reading...

First of all sorry that this site has not been updated as much this week as I've been pretty busy. On to the football side of things and it hasn't been a great week to be a Stevenage Borough supporter. The beginning of the week saw Dino Maamria return to the club as first team [...] Click to continue reading...

I'm going to leave the report on tonight's game until tomorrow so I don't just blow off steam. All I will say is this. Is this the 'entertaining' and 'attractive' football that Phil Wallace wanted last May? Is Graham Westley delivering what he promised? Click to continue reading...

Stevenage's winning run in the league came to an end yesterday afternoon after a hardworking Northwich side held Boro to a draw at Broadhall Way. It could of been very different, had the home side taken their chances, but poor finishing again cost Boro as they dropped another 2 points as they look to push [. Click to continue reading...

Many a pre-season favourite for the title have struggled to start their campaign in the manner that the media hype would suggest, but few have done so quite as spectacularly as Stevenage Borough. Returning manager Graham Westley had made a number of eye-catching and proven signings over the summer, including Lee Boylan and Mark Albrighton from [. Click to continue reading...

Graham Westley has given his monthly view to the Comet. Westley basically makes excuses for why Boro have started poorly and are yet to deliver "attractive" football. He talks about how things take time and for the fans to be patient after a poor start to the new season. "That does not mean that we will [. Click to continue reading...

In light of Graham Westley's recent comments on the official site where he talked about his aim to get Boro to play a more expansive game that is pleasing on the eye, even though he knows that a direct game would win football matches, I thought I'd give my views on this contentious issue. This is a topic that has been talked about nationally [. Click to continue reading...