The Broadhall Way (Issue 20)

August 19, 2008 Leave a Comment

Issue 20 of The Broadhall Way, the first issue of the new season, is released this Bank Holiday Monday for the home match with Crawley Town.

Another issue cramed packed with all your usual favourites: The Worrier, Away Amazed, Two Hats View, The Thinker and The Boro Judgement…

 Also in this issue… 

- The results of the 2007/2008 Fantasy Conference League 

- Boro’ Manager, Graham Westley, answers your questions 

- Interview with former Three Counties Radio and Stevenage Mercury reporter, now TalkSport presenter Adrian Durham 

- We get to know Boro’ Goalkeeper James Russell that bit better 

- Plus your chance to enter our brand new Fantasy Football for the forthcoming season

- Plus much much more and for still only a £1.00 

You can get hold of your copy of Issue 20 from WJ Rowe – The Bedwell Fish Shop on Bedwell Crescent, who will have them available from Saturday afternoon or from one of our sellers on matchday who will be in the Broadhall Suite before the game and by the turnstiles all around the ground from about 2pm. We will also have sellers by the exits at the end of the game as well as in the Broadhall Suite afterwards. Please note that the fanzine will be on sale by the turnstiles OUTSIDE THE GROUND!! 

If you can’t make the game on Monday and want to make sure you don’t miss out on Issue 20 then please e-mail The Broadhall Way at thebroadhallway@hotmail.com for details on how to reserve your copy or for details on how to subscribe to the fanzine and receive each issue sent directly to your day. They can accept payments over the internet via Paypal, again please e-mail them for more information.

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This Westcarr situation

August 19, 2008 Leave a Comment

It was confirmed this afternoon that Craig Westcarr has re-joined Kettering Town, the club he apparently left in the summer. This whole saga has been a nightmare. When the deal started Kettering chairman Imraan Ladaak accused Stevenage of “illegally approaching” Westcarr who was out of contract this summer. This was a claim that Phil Wallace and Boro strongly denied and a few weeks later the club announced that it had agreed terms with the ex Nottingham Forest striker to join Boro subject to the two clubs agreeing a compensation fee due to the player being under 24 years of age.

This fee seemed to take a long time to agree, but at the SA AGM Bob Makin told supporters that a deal should be reached within days! This though was never confirmed and I assume never happened as Westcarr didn’t make a competitive appearance for Stevenage. Westcarr played in a number of pre-season friendlies for Boro this summer, but I don’t think ever registered to play for the club in the Blue Square Premier.

It now seems that both Boro and Kettering won’t be able to come to a “sensible” solution regarding a compensation fee for Westcarr, so therefore he has moved back to the Poppies in time to face rivals Rushden & Diamonds at Rockingham Road on Saturday. In one way I’m glad it’s over and the news he has gone back to Kettering will now end the speculation over his future, but I thought he would be a good addition to the squad. It’s disappointing that both sides couldn’t agree a fee after all this time and I’m sure Westcarr himself must be a bit pissed off to say the least after spending all pre-season with Boro only to move back to Kettering anyway. What’s the betting he will score the winner against us now when we travel to Northants in a couple of weeks time!

UPDATE: The official site has now reported that Westcarr has gone back to Kettering. Classic cover up story here.

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