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AHEAD OF THE GAME The O’s return to The Lamex Stadium!

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MATCHDAY TIMINGS… Club Shop/Ticket Office: Open from 12pm & after the final whistle Broadhall Suite Bar: Open from 12pm-3pm & from 4:45pm-6pm Hospitality: Open from 1:30pm Kids’ Zone: Open from 1pm-2:30pm Turnstiles: Home from 1:45pm, Away from 1:30pm

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people in need. To date, over £1.2m has been distributed since it was formed.

To commemorate the partnership, Stevenage FC First Team players will wear a limited edition Third Shirt, with the Trust front-and-centre of the design.

All match-worn shirts will then be signed and auctioned off to help raise funds.

There are now less than 50 shirts remaining, with all profits going to Stevenage Community Trust. Show your support and buy yours at the Club Shop or online through the link below.

CLICK HERE to visit the club online shop A Bucket Collection for the Trust will also be taking place at The Lamex Stadium, so please give generously.

Stevenage FC Captain Scott Cuthbert said, “It is important that any Club is in touch with and does as much as it can to help its local community, so I am really proud to represent Stevenage and this campaign.”

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Saturday’s match against Leyton Orient is dedicated to the club’s chosen charity for the season, Stevenage Community Trust.

Stevenage Community Trust was established in 1990 and is an independent charity that provides funding and support to local charitable organisations and

Fans can anonymously message the Matchday Control Room direct on 07565 942294 to report any signs of abuse, anti-social behaviour, foul/abusive language or discrimination within the stadium.

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ood afternoon and welcome to the players, officials and supporters of Leyton Orient.

Welcome to The Great Escape! We were all disappointed with the result at Grimsby but have to now make sure that we hit promotion form for the last 16 games of the season.

We brought in a new management team in GW and Mike Nelson and have added several new players since GW’s arrival; Dabo, Jake Cassidy, Joe Leesley (loan), Dan Kemp (loan), Simeon Jackson, Patrick Reading, Canice Carroll and Ben Folami (loan) have all joined The Great Escape…. 8 new incoming players meant that GW was not at all happy with the squad he inherited and we have backed him with a major overhaul, adding players in key positions where GW felt the need to improve or provide a stronger competition for places.

This of course comes at a huge financial cost as we’ve been unable to move as many players the other way as we’d like to pay for this activity. This is one of the problems of football – when an employee isn’t considered suitable you only have 2 options – keep him around until the end of his contract or allow him to go to another club and pay the difference in wages. At this time of year, clubs smell blood and the offers to take over players contracts are few and far between. It’s all very well to say the latter option is the right one, but the difference in wages has to be found and that’s an expensive business.

Balancing this we have the need to develop and maintain a fighting spirit in the squad. To have everyone onside. To make sure only players that are up for The Great Escape play a part in our last Stevenage FC v Leyton Orient

16 games of this season. This of course is GW’s decision. I have told him that this is his gig and The Great Escape is in his hands until the last ball is kicked this season. He was the one that got us into the EFL and it’s right that he should be the one fighting every day to keep us from falling out of it. One thing is for sure – those of us involved are giving every scrap of energy, every minute of our time, every ounce of determination and every sinew in our body to win enough matches to remain in the EFL. We can’t do anything about what’s past, but we can do something about what’s in front of us. Every one of these new lads has been recruited to fight alongside us – and fight we will!

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A warm welcome and also a happy birthday to Brooklyn Goodson who was four on Tuesday last week.

Brooklyn attends Bluebirds Pre-School and lists football, swimming and golf as his hobbies. His favourite player is Ben Kennedy.

A big Boro hello also goes to Scarlett Clark.

Scarlett, who is also four, attends Bushmead Primary School in Luton and her favourite players are Ben Kennedy and Paul Farman.

We are also pleased to welcome Isabelle Gregory and Charlie Gregory in the role of mascots today at Boro.

Isabelle, 7 attends Vincent de Paul and lists football as her main hobby with her favourite player being Kurtis Guthrie.

Charlie Gregory is also 7 and attends Vincent de Paul School. Football is his main hobby and his top Boro player is Scott Cuthbert.

If you’d like to discuss a mascot package in more detail or making a booking then please contact the Foundation on 01438 223223 (Option 6) or via community@stevenagefc.com

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oro made their debut in the Conference and after an indifferent start, the turn of the year had seen them begin their remorseless rise up the table.

With the likes of Dave Venables, Leo Fortune-West and Adam Parker all starting, Boro were on a strong run of form, but Southport got the first part of a double against the hosts that season as they won at Broadhall Way in front of 1,347.

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ON THIS DAY Saturday February 1, 1997 Welling 2 Stevenage 0 Was this the day when it all went wrong for the reigning Conference champs? In a season where there was still a bid for glory on many fronts, Boro unexpectedly came a cropper at unpleasant Welling.

Despite fielding such luminaries as Browne, Catlin, Barrowcliff, Smith and Sodje, Boro got nothing from this clash except a bad injury to Barry Hayles. Is it also 23 years ago to the day that Welling officials famously kicked out a certain BBC Three Counties Radio commentator?

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FIRSTS & LASTS…

First…

Car: Mini Cooper Football shirt you owned: FC Metz Celeb Crush: Rhianna Footballer you idolised: Fabian Barthez Music you owned: Eminem – Eminem Show Overnight roommate: Paul Farman Thing you do when you get home from training: Go back to Bed

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Thing you watched on TV: Anime – One Piece Thing you bought: Pair of Nikes Football Match you went to: France U21 match Thing you ate: Pizza on the Coach Time you lost your temper: A long time ago Good deed: Gave my gloves to a kid at Stevenage a few months ago Goal you scored: When I was really young coming up from a corner Song you listened to: Trippie Redd – 6 Kiss

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TOP 3s…

Career Moments: Debut in Ligue 1, Playing in Stade De France for Youth Cup Final, Playing against PSG in the Semi-Final Takeaways: Chinese, Fried Chicken, Nachos Players of All Time: Cristiano Ronaldo, Zidane, Neuer Players you have played with: Grzegorz Krychowiak, Sadio Mane, Aïssa Mandi Stadiums you have played in: Stade De France, Stade SaintSymphorien, Stade de Gerland TV Shows: Game of Thrones, How I Met your Mother, Power Films: Pulp Fiction, Lord of the Rings, Star Wars Sports: Football, Basketball, Tennis Musical Artists: Future, Juice WRLD, Eminem Meals: Sushi, Fried Chicken, Chinese Countries to visit: Japan, USA, Italy Breakfast Items: Avocado, Toast, Fried Eggs Desserts: Chocolate Cake Fondant, Pavalova, Chestnut Cake Apps: Snapchat, Twitter, Whatsapp Fruits: Mango, Raspberry, Pineapple Items you take everywhere: Watch, Beard, Wash Bag

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ood afternoon and welcome to the Lamex for today’s fixture with Leyton Orient.

As you may be aware, there is a lot more that goes on, just up the road, at our Shephalbury training ground than just our Academy squads.

Feeding into our academy set up, we have a detailed development pyramid which includes our Talent ID Scheme, Development Centre & our Shadow Squads. All of these groups follow the same philosophy, coaching syllabus and playing style as all the academy teams, whilst being coached by our young, enthusiastic academy coaches who understand the values of not only the academy, but the football club as a whole, to ensure that we don’t just develop players, but people for the community as well.

We pride ourselves on development of players and try to push as many players through the pathway as we can, following a strict review and report process.

Since the start of the season we have seen one of our U16 Shadow Squad players Ben Siggers earn Stevenage FC v Leyton Orient

himself a scholarship for the 2020/21 season and we have also offered an u12 Academy contract to another.

Alongside these successes, we have had over 70 appearances in our academy squads from 23 shadow squad players who have played at least some part in academy fixtures this year and we expect this number to break 100 appearances before the season finishes in late April.

Coming up our Development & Shadow groups will test themselves against professional clubs Luton Town & Reading FC in February half term which gives the players another opportunity to showcase themselves in a different environment and in game situations. We have looked to add more games to our shadow squad programme and have seen the benefits of these performing competitively against Local grassroot academies and other professional clubs such as West Brom.

I hope you enjoy the game, make some noise and COME ON BORO!

Tom Farr

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NCS is a four-week summer experience taking away 15 to 17 year olds to gain new life skills. The programme has three key phases all with different opportunities and challenges for the young people. Within this it includes a week’s adventurous activities to develop team working skills. A week’s residential at University Halls to promote independent living and life skills. Lastly two weeks based in Stevenage’s community. Two weeks away from the parents always seems a popular attraction from the young people and parents alike!

Last year 204 young people came away with us on NCS on three different programme dates. New for the year just gone was a knife awareness workshop run by Paul Hannaford with a real life story involving the dangerous consequences of drugs, gang culture and knife crime.

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workshops from Tic Box Productions, plus a You vs Trains provided by National Rail and the EFL Trust.

Currently we are looking to expand our NCS office team with the addition of NCS Business Administration Apprentice (Full Job Description online). This year we are looking to take 150 young people on the NCS programme over the Stevenage area. If you or anyone you know are interested in the NCS programme, please contact us at the Foundation and we’ll be happy to assist viancs@stevenagefc.com On NCS, you’ll mix with new people, and take on fresh challenges together.

Before you know it, you’ll be working as a team, as you tackle your own little hurdles. Along the way, you’ll also get a taste for independence and pick up skills that’ll help you smash your future goals. And if that’s not enough for you, you’ll also be given a platform to have your voice heard and pursue a passion project. The NCS experience might last just a few weeks, but the impact? That will last a LOT longer. Over 500,000 people have already done NCS – want to join them? Sign up now at wearencs.com www.stevenagefc.com | 27

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tevenage FC Women made the long trip to Plymouth in the quarter final of the WNL Plate competition on Sunday and after a brave battle fell to a 3-1 defeat.

The visitors began well and although Plymouth had the majority of possession, Stevenage always looked to counter when winning the ball back.

Plymouth got the first goal of the game, and it was disappointing as it was a free shot on goal after a corner.

Just three minutes later Plymouth made it 2-0, reacting quicker than the visitors to a second ball which was then played through for them to finish, it was a second goal which could have been avoided.

It was full credit to Stevenage though that their heads never dropped despite conceding two goals in quick succession and it seemed to raise their level as they finished the half strongly.

The second half started in the same vein and the visitors thought they had pulled a goal back, the home keeper keeping it at 2-0 after a great save from Nicole Emmings.

But it was second time lucky soon after as a ball over the top from Hannah Vandersluis was pounced upon by Nicole who this time finished in the bottom corner, 2-1.

The visitors then had the momentum and could sense an equaliser and thought it would come when Erin Pope was through only to be denied with another amazing save from their keeper.

Minutes later the game then turned as Plymouth scored a third with an unfortunate own goal. The strike seemed to put Plymouth in control and they finished the game strongly to win 3-1.

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Peterborough United Billericay Town Ipswich Town Kent Football United

1-2 6-2 2-3 5-2

Cambridge City Hoddesdon Town

2-2 H-W

Maidenhead United AFC Basildon Herts Vipers

3-2 6-4 3-4

Watford Ladies Dev Plymouth Argyle

2-0 3-1

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WELCOME This afternoon we welcome Orient back to the Lamex. It’s so good to have the “O’s” back here, and I bid a special welcome to the committee members of the Leyton Orient Supporters’ Club (LOSC).

Orient supporter Stephen Jenkins has written a book about Clapton Orient’s contribution to the Footballers’ Battalion in WW1. It’s called: “They Took The Lead” and goes into detail about the club’s former players who served and died during the conflict. Over recent years, LOSC have organised trips to Arras in France, to commemorate the sacrifice and visit the graves of former players.

Facilitated by Stephen, these trips have proven both poignant and popular.

FOOTBALL SUPPORTERS’ ASSOCIATION (FSA) The next meeting of the FSA’s Southern group will be held at Dulwich Hamlet on March 1st. It starts at noon and if anyone would like to join me there at Champion Hill, they’ll be most welcome.

One of the current topics being debated Stevenage FC v Leyton Orient

within the FSA is the price of tickets for the FA Cup. A change to the FA rules allows clubs to pretty much charge what they want. The case being highlighted is the notion that Wolves fans were being charged £55 to see their team play against Manchester United at Old Trafford, whilst Rochdale’s visit to Newcastle was just £10 a ticket.

Wolves manager, Nuno Espirito Santo, has gone on record citing the ticket price at Old Trafford as “exorbitant”.

The Premier League have recently capped ticket prices for away fans to £30.

STEVENAGE DAY A tad premature, I grant you. However, your SA is considering manning a stall at this year’s Stevenage Day, to be held at the King George V playing fields on Sunday June 14th.

If you are so inclined to come join Sarah and I to help “man the stall”, you’d be most welcome. Give it some thought.

Lloyd Briscoe

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WELCOME

JORDAN MAGUIRE-DREW

THE BASICS… Sky Bet League Two newcomers Leyton Orient were promoted from the National League after finishing last season as champions, and made their return to the league after two years away.

In recent years, Orient were enjoying more successful times fighting for promotion in League One just seven years ago. The Club unfortunately lost 4-3 to Rotherham in a penalty shoot-out in the Play-Off Final, which included Stevenage’s own Alex Revell scoring a brace to keep his team on top in the final.

A team that could have been playing in the Championship, turned into a National League side as the season after their heartache at Wembley was followed up by relegation and two seasons later they found themselves dumped out of the Football League.

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points above Boro at the bottom of the table.

Orient have lost just four games out of their last eleven, but that inconsistency means they have only been able to record two victories, as they ended a five-game winless run last Saturday when they defeated Newport 2-1 at home.

The team couldn’t build on their win in midweek when they lost away to promotion chasers Crewe Alexandra, with Charlie Kirk and David Powell on-hand to record a 2-0 victory.

STAR MAN… Josh Wright made an immediate impact in his first game back at Brisbane Road with a second-half winner on his debut and Orient’s first game back in League Two against Cheltenham; he is the club’s top scorer in the league with eight goals.

The midfielder, who started his career at Charlton, had three spells at Orient and was later signed from the O’s to Gillingham in 2015, in which he was named 2017 Player of the Season and Players’ Player of the Season.

ROSS EMBLETON

THE GAFFER… Ross Embleton was named interim head coach following the tragic passing of Justin Edinburgh in June last year. Embleton was given a 12-month contract in January.

The 38-year-old in his first managerial role with the East London club, worked as youth development manager at Orient, Tottenham, Bournemouth and Norwich, along with working as a first-team coach at Swindon Town.

by Taylor Catton

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FIXTURES & RESULTS 2019/20 DATE

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BORO SCORERS

AUGUST 2019 Sat Aug 03 Salford City Sat Aug 10 Exeter City

2-0 0-1

Tue Aug 13 Southend United

1-2

Sat Aug 17

Leyton Orient Tue Aug 20 Bradford City

0-0

Sat Aug 24 Mansfield Town Sat Aug 31 Macclesfield Town

0-0

Parrett

0-1 2-2

Guthrie, Wildin

SEPTEMBER 2019 Tue Sep 03 MK Dons

0-3

Sat Sep 07 Cheltenham Town Sat Sep 14 Carlisle United

4-2

Newton (2)

2-3

Guthrie (2)

Tue Sep 17

Northampton Town

0-1

Sat Sep 21

Forest Green Rovers Cambridge United

0-0

Sat Sep 28 OCTOBER 2019

1-1

Cowley

Sat Oct 05 Colchester United

3-1

Cowley

Tue Oct 08 Wycombe Wanderers Sat Oct 12 Grimsby Town

0-1

Cowley

2-1

Guthrie, Carter

Sat Oct 19

1-1

Guthrie

Port Vale

Tue Oct 22 Swindon Town Morecambe

1-0

Sat Oct 26

Cuthbert 1-0 1-1 (4-2) Carter

Tue Oct 29 Fulham U21 NOVEMBER 2019 Sat Nov 02 Scunthorpe United Sat Nov 09 Peterborough United

0-0 1-1

Sat Nov 19

2-0

Peterborough United

Sat Nov 23 Walsall DECEMBER 2019

0-0

Tue Dec 03 Colchester United Sat Dec 07 Crawley Town Sat Dec 14 Sat Dec 21

1-2 1-1 1-5

Thu Dec 26 Forest Green Rovers

0-0

Sun Dec 29 Plymouth Argyle JANUARY 2020

2-1

0-0

Tue Jan 07 Bristol Rovers Port Vale Sat Jan 11

0-1

Sat Jan 18

Cambridge United

0-4

Tue Jan 21 Sat Jan 25

Exeter City Plymouth Argyle

3-0

Sat Feb 01

Sonupe Cuthbert List

1-0

Sat Jan 04

Tue Jan 28 Grimsby Town FEBRUARY 2020

Cowley (2)

0-0

Newport County Crewe Alexandra

Wed Jan 01 Northampton Town Colchester United

List

Mackail-Smith

0-1 List, Cassidy, Carter, Lakin

Sat Feb 15 Sat Feb 22

LEAGUE TABLE

P

W

2 0 2 0 4 1 1 0 0 1 2 7 7 9 4 1 3 4 5 5 5 15 10 7 1 5 0 35 0 0 3 4 0 1 5 2 0 0

D

L

GD Pts

1-2

Carter

14 Walsall

30

10

6

14

-12

36

3-1

Lakin

15

Grimsby Town

28

8

9

11

-4

33

16 Scunthorpe United

30

8

9

13

-6

33

Leyton Orient

Sat Feb 08 Exeter City Tue Feb 11

APPEARANCES PAUL FARMAN............................................................35 (0) CHRIS STOKES........................................................... 30 (0) CHARLIE CARTER..................................................... 26 (5) SCOTT CUTHBERT..................................................... 23 (1) KURTIS GUTHRIE........................................................ 21 (5) ELLIOTT LIST................................................................ 21 (3) BEN NUGENT............................................................... 21 (2) LUTHER WILDLIN..................................................... 20 (0) CHARLIE LAKIN.......................................................... 19 (2) KELLAND WATTS....................................................... 18 (2) MICHAEL TIMLIN......................................................... 16 (7) TYLER DENTON.......................................................... 16 (2) TOM SOARES................................................................. 15 (1) JASON COWLEY...................................................... 14 (10) TERENCE VANCOOTEN.......................................... 14 (5) PAUL DIGBY................................................................... 14 (1) BEN KENNEDY............................................................. 13 (7) DEAN PARRETT.......................................................... 13 (4) CRAIG MACKAIL-SMITH........................................... 9 (11) EMMANUEL SONUPE.................................................9 (5) NOOR HUSIN................................................................. 8 (4) ARTHUR IONTTON......................................................7 (4) PAUL TAYLOR............................................................... 6 (6) LUIS FERNANDEZ....................................................... 6 (4) DANNY NEWTON........................................................ 6 (4) JOEL BYROM...................................................................6 (1) JOE LEESLEY................................................................ 6 (0) SACHA BASTIEN.......................................................... 4 (0) JAKE CASSIDY.............................................................. 4 (0) DIAGUELY DABO......................................................... 4 (0) JAMIE FIELDING............................................................3 (3) ADAM EL-ABD................................................................ 1 (2) SIMEON JACKSON........................................................ 1 (2) ALEX REVELL............................................................... 0 (2) JOEL ROLLINSON....................................................... 0 (2) LIAM SMYTH.................................................................. 0 (2) ANDRONICOS GEORGIOU...................................... 0 (1) DAVID PARKHOUSE.................................................... 0 (1)

Bradford City Salford City Crawley Town Walsall

17

Oldham Athletic

30

7

12

11

-13

33

18

Cambridge United

30

8

8

14

-11

32

19 Carlisle United

29

8

8

13

-16

32

20 Leyton Orient

30

7

10

13

-12

31

Sat Mar 14

Crewe Alexandra Newport County

21

30

7

9

14

-7

30

Tue Mar 17

Swindon Town

Sat Mar 21

Morecambe

22 Macclesfield Town

29

7

13

9

-4

28

23 Morecambe

30

6

8

16

-24

26

24 Stevenage

30

3

13

14

-15

22

Sat Feb 29 MARCH 2020 Sat Mar 07

Sat Mar 28 Scunthorpe United APRIL 2020 Sat Apr 04 Oldham Athletic Fri Apr 10 Mansfield Town

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Mon Apr 13 Macclesfield Town Sat Apr 18 Cheltenham Town Sat Apr 25

Mansfield Town

Carlisle United

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