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Peterborough prediction
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Any ideas? I certainly don’t.
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We’ve only lost once this season in the league
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That’s got to be good.
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And that was against a team in the Championship last season.
With a lot of players who haven't been here long.
It's coming together slowly.
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I really do feel we are very close to clicking.
Disappointing to not win any of our matches against Burton, Donny and Peterborough (Burton and Posh both looked particularly poor offensively), but you do need to take into account that SEVEN players who played for us tonight weren't here last season, with many of them having only just signed and not even had pre-season with us. It will take time.
I am pretty happy with what we have now, and how we are approaching games.
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Were you watching at Burton? They were the best team we've played this year IMO. You may still be right that we'll struggle a bit this season, but it promises to be a lot easier on the eye. If you want to cheer yourself up watch Broggio's performances in the Scottish Prem on Youtube. We may just be moving to a team that tries to win by scoring more goals than the opposition rather than conceding fewer (if you get what I mean).
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Oh mate, Mellon isn’t going to last long here if that’s his standard work rate.
An excruciatingly poor final 15 minutes after a promising first 30.
Take the away point.
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Yeah did think that!
Has anyone seen a Peterborough side as bad as that?
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First clean sheet of the season.
Barden must be brilliant.
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He wasn’t really tested either. Nothing from Peterborough to trouble him.
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Exactly. Marschall had many clean sheet last season the same. The "clean sheet" is the work of the defence (and sometimes the whole team) not just the goalkeeper and sometimes the goalkeeper is irrelevant.
Some goalkeepers do contribute a significant number points a season, Raya at Arsenal for example, but Marschall I can only recall one game where he solely kept us in it.
So whilst you don't want a calamity in goal, keepers at this level are pretty replaceable.
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Bright first 5, but lucky not to be losing. Can see why TT hasn’t been starting.
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Decent half. Love TVC running out with the ball.
Freestone needs help. Their winger is absolutely rapid.
Unconvincing performance again from Kemp sadly.
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Shaky at the back but think there’s potential with this shape if we can tighten up. Looks to be potential to carve out chances going forward.
Kemp overplaying that chance at the end of the half is par for the course, wasn’t switched on when Magennis put a great ball in for him once, marked out the second time. As a team we’ve not put Magennis through two or three times also which is very frustrating.
Persistence could be the key with this style of play/bulk of the line up. Tighten up a little at the back, not be afraid to play the ball quickly going forward.
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Thought I was the only one that noticed that for the Magennis cross
That would have been on a plate if Kemp wasn’t on his heels
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So frustrating. Surely by putting himself in that position in the first place he should be expecting that the ball may come to him.
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Only thing I could knock Kemp for was not taking that chance. It's better overall today, but Peterborough should have scored as well.
They certainly can't handle TVCs runs!
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Downside is TvC keeps giving the ball away (either by being tackled or misplacing a pass) in dangerous positions every game. Luckily it hasn't cost us so far today.
Taylor looks a lot better today.
I really do like the look of Sanderson.
Kemp really should have scored at least once, if not twice.
0-0 at HT in all four league games this season.
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Very impressed by Sanderson so far. Don’t want to see Roberts on the team sheet again if Sanderson is available.
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I think he should be up top with JM. Hook Kemp for Roberts.
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Wouldn’t be opposed to that in theory but he looks pretty solid on that right side. Some nice defensive work there just now. Maybe stick Mellon up with Magennis and see how that looks.
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Is Sanderson a wide player? I didn't really see him as such?
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About as wide as Jake Young was.
Revs loves a winger/striker hybrid.
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Odd playing Kemp central and high and playing an actual striker wide right. Square peg round hole.
Taylor looks a bit out of his depth for me. not bad, but a bit behind play.
And we are gifting them too much space in the middle of our box from low crosses. Lucky to have not faced a shot on target. They are, as has been said, rapid on the counter.
Look good up top rho' Phoenix doing his best to get another assist.
Revs should be happy with that 45 tho'
Edited by BALDOCKBORO at 20:41:38 on 1st September 2026
Edited by BALDOCKBORO at 20:42:16 on 1st September 2026
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Barden in nets.
Luther Pidge TVC and Freestone
Tauyor and Philips
Patterson and Kemp
Sanderson and Magennis
Roberts, Mellon, Houghton, Earley and Braggio feature on a strong bench. Woodford recalled and there too.
442?
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Re: Peterborough Match sub Fred
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Roberts not playing Mellon in there is criminal. We’re so reluctant to play a progressive percentage ball even when the odds are heavily in our favour.
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He was offside - he couldn’t play him in
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That’s Rev ball.
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Safe and slow 🐌
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Good away performance.
Clean sheet.
No shots faced by Barden.
Created a few chances.
Gave away a few too many chances but away from home sometimes you have to ride your luck.
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Draws won't get us out the relegation zone though...
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We are four matches in.
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The table is irrelevant until 10 games in.
Plymouth were bottom at Christmas and ended up almost pipping us to the playoffs.
If you're looking to be champions then yes these would be valuable lost points, but if you are looking for mid table the early games are about getting sharpness and understanding.
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I'd agree if we'd played anyone decent yet, but we haven't. Not being able to win any of the games we have played, given the calibre of the sides we have come up against, is a cause for concern for me, irrespective of the point of the season.
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Good job we aren't MK Dons, who have scored the same number as us, conceded more, are below us, and just lost to an appalling Wigan side.
They must be shit and must have an awful CB 😎
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Goode is nothing special, especially as we don't have to endure his long throws anymore.
I'd take TVC, not even back to his best, all day.
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That's a crazy take.
Goode is streets ahead.
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Not streets ahead. Maybe a small cul-de-sac
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Yeah, I was never one to go OTT on Goode but comparing to TVC so far this season, he was a lot better. Not perfect though.
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But I wouldn’t actually criticise TVC though. It’s all fine margins in terms of who’s better and I’m not at all disappointed as such in what we’ve got.
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Now we have our biggest strongest centre forward on long throws.
Because you want him out wide when there's a chance to get the ball in the mixer.
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We should only be using long throws anyway as an.option.,not a default.
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But if someone said to you ‘you’ve got to go through 10 games of total dross, but will suddenly find your feet from game 11 and storm up the table’, you’d take that, right?
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Is that’s what’s going to happen for Boro?
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Nobody knows. I just thought I’d hypothesise that the whole season might not be awful just because we started badly. Some things in life look dreadful when you’re going through them but ultimately might lead to a better place. Just wondered if Rocky agreed that might be a thing.
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Pretty sure when we won all of our opening four matches last season he wasn't saying the rest of the season would continue in the same vein, yet when we start our first four poorly, that obviously means the whole season will play out in the same manner, and nothing could possibly change 🤷♂️
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Yep. There’s usually one team that starts badly but storms up the table later on. No reason why that shouldn’t be us once the new lads gel.
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Last season we hadn't played anyone good yet!
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There are no good teams in League One.
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I do hope you find joy in some other aspect of your life because you seem bloody miserable when it comes to discussing Stevenage Football Club
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Arguably it’s too early to know who is and isn’t decent.
We’re a work in progress I’d say. The signs are there that we may be trying to play a little more expansively, we absolutely cannot jeopardise our defensive qualities for that though. Winning teams are built from the back forward.
There’s probably been a little more upheaval than anticipated in this window but hopefully the signings are conducive to an improved team (long term, we’d do well to top last season position wise) and maybe even some better looking football to boot.
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No concessions at all for having seven new players (now eight), who have mostly just signed and didn't spend pre-season with us?
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I'm sure most teams will be in a similar position. I'm not saying it won't improve, but so far the season is going exactly as expected for me.
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If they keep missing sitters, we don't need a new keeper
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Or 3 CB's with Luther and phoenix as wing backs?
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Simpletons people on socials asking “WhY r We SeLiN MaRsHaL¿” Over a million reasons apparently.
Interesting to see five “new” faces for this season in the 11. Playbook well and truly ripped up. But will it be bog standard Revball (probably)?
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If we don't announce the fee then fans won't know why we've done it, just looks like selling our best assets as soon as a bid comes in.
Which tbh, is something we've always done anyway, but you can't have a go at people questioning it if we dont give context
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If we know Luton were offered 1.5 million I hope we didn't accept much less than that.
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Think it’s one of those where a little reading between the lines goes a long way. Deadline day move to a much bigger club in the league above, we almost always put in add ons in our favour and don’t just let our best assets walk away (when under contract at least). Of course we’re getting a good deal and that’s why it’s happening.
Understand what you’re saying but a step back and some consideration and it all makes perfect sense, even without being spelled out by the club.
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Particularly after losing White and Goode for nothing in the summer.
We have probably learned not to get burned again.
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Season just got even tougher without him in goal. This Barden better be a bloody good backup keeper!
Wonder the money differences between staying in League One and dropping down?
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Rejecting the bid outright would leave a very unhappy goalkeeper for the season who then might not be at their best. It's a life-changing move for Marschall, especially if he can establish himself in the Championship.
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There's no way Marschall makes the difference between staying up and going down. Unless his replacement is absolute garbage. But it shouldn't be that hard to find a keeper who can catch crosses and make saves. Bonus if he can kick the ball in play.
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He is literally Golden Glove in the league last year. I'd say not having that makes a pretty big difference!
Having horrible flashbacks of shit like Toby Savin.
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He is no better than Taye, Cooper or Cumming.
Stop being so fucking downbeat about EVERYTHING the club does.
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I still remember our greatest ever keeper.
Chris Day.
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maybe he's seen Darren Fucking Drysdale is the ref...
Apart from blowing up when they took too long over a throw-in esrlynon, (new rule says it should be reversed), and still letting thwm take it, he's done OK.
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Whenever you see a man with the shine-o-ball-o hairstyle you know he thinks he’s the main character.
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How much of that was down to Luther, Goode, Pidge, Lewis and co...?
And those shielding the defence.
we will never know.
Shots faced and shots saved is a far better stat for a goalie.
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90% of clean sheets he kept he faced zero shots on target.
95% of shots he saved you would expect any GK to make.
BUT WE ARE GOING DOWN BECAUSE WE HAVE SOLD HIM?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
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are those real or made-up stats...
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we will get domjnated for 89 minutes and come away with a win.
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Whenever I get dominated for 89 minutes I always consider it a win.
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Fucking stud.
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Certainly am!
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I predict that I will regret having spent this money.
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Peterborough 0-1 Stevenage
Magennis (90+5)
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Another 2-2.
If we have a stand-in keeper, can see us letting a couple in.
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"If we have a stand-in keeper, can see us letting a couple in."
Marschall has let in nine goals in five games this season, so let's not pretend he was some superstar keeper and Barden is to blame* if we do concede a couple.
*unless he is to blame, of course.
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I suppose what I'm getting at is he'll most likely need some time to settle in and may let a couple of goals in. If he does let some in, be it his fault or not, we really should give him some slack. To this end, as you say, he might not be too different to Marschal. Here's keeping our fingers crossed Barden has a decent game.
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Imagine if Barden turns into the next coming of Buffon
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all his hair falls out?
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I predict Reid and Marschall will not play.
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I for one am disappointed Marschall will not play. I like him.
(*Unless of course whoever plays in goal makes many outstanding saves, distributes like a demon and controls his box like Manuel Neuer).
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Reid’s contribution will not be diminished by this.
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Fewer offsides!
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Well it may be coincidence but certainly there was fewer tonight. I liked Roberts’s perfectly launched run onto that arching pass in the second half, all of which was absolutely perfect right up to the moment he tripped over the ball with only the keeper to beat. Thought Sanderson was great, a real addition to the team, and Dan Phillips’ workrate and never say die attitude in some of those difficult tackles paid off as he came away with the ball each time. The big issue for me is that Peterborough’s finishing was thankfully woeful, but we were lucky in that regard. If we let teams into our area like that time and again, we’ll get punished. They created chance after chance and attacked with speed and intent, it was purely because of a failure to hit a barn door with a banjo situation that we got away with it. I wouldn’t recommend we allow that again.
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