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Freelance sports journalist now producing The Boro on Substack, blanket coverage of Stevenage FC. Exiled in Hertfordshire but a Geordie through and through.
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Thoughts on Stevenage's released and retained list

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By Neil Metcalfe 
| Substack
The end of the season is a curious thing, makes a one man weep, makes another man sing. The thing is, the off-season lasts about as long as that Huey Lewis & The News record too. The end of the play-offs on Wednesday evening signified the end of the 2025-26 campaign for Stevenage. Their announcement of the released and retained list signified the start of the 2026-27 one.
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The Boro - Stevenage release seven including promotion heroes

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By Neil Metcalfe 
| Substack
Two of the heroes from Stevenage’s League Two promotion campaign have left the club after the conclusion of their contracts. Dan Sweeney and Taye Ashby-Hammond stitched themselves into the tapestry of Stevenage history after arriving at Broadhall Way in the summer of 2022. Sweeney went on to play 135 times after his move from Forest Green Rovers, scoring nine goals, most famously just over two weeks earlier against Wigan Athletic, the goal that took Boro into the play-offs.
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Happiness is the road - even if Stevenage were beaten by Stockport

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By Neil Metcalfe 
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I used to love Top Gear and I enjoyed The Grand Tour too - but I never wanted to recreate one of their epic trips. But if someone was going to produce a budget version of Clarkson, Hammond and May then Watkins, Thompson and Metcalfe in an electric Fiat 600 going to and from Stockport is about as budget as you can get. There were stop offs to charge both ways, twice on the way back, and I’ve written most of this while in Knutsford Services at midnight and Northampton Services at 2.30am.
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