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Stevenage boss Alex Revell talking about Eli King:

"First half he still could have played forward more, we’re trying to get him to be braver on the ball.

"I think the big thing for him is to learn the nasty side of the game. That’s not smashing people but understanding the importance of winning the 50-50 duels and your headers.

"But second half at Burton we saw a much better performance, a more complete performance in terms of playing and running forward, switches of play, winning his duels.

"He is getting better and anyone that comes from a different club, no matter how far away that is, it does take time and it can be lonely.

"We've made sure that he and Ken are in the same place together so it's great for them to have each other.

"But the lads here are fantastic at welcoming people and both of them are now showing that they can be a part of the group."

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Thanks for this. It's an interesting article, good to see Revell explaining the situation. We usually assume the player is to blame when a loan goes wrong but there have to some question marks about the club too, especially in this case as King's loans seemed to go so smoothly last season. King and fellow loanee Ken Aboh were the two best players on Tuesday night so it was going to be interesting to see if they could take that form into the league game with Stockport yesterday. Well, it would've been if either of them had got on the pitch. Aboh stayed on the bench and King wasn't even in the squad. With Stevenage's injury list getting shorter and results improving, the outlook isn't too promising for Eli but hopefully he can turn it around there soon.

Not much else going on this weekend. Kieron Evans played the 90 minutes in Newport's draw at Colchester while Joel Colwill was subbed after Cheltenham scored their second in a 2-0 win against Morecambe. Malachi Fagan-Walcott played for York as they dropped points in a 1-1 draw with Tamworth while Josh Beecher made two sub appearances for Barry this week. Old boys Ryan Kavanagh and Ben Margetson each got a goal for Barry while Josh Yorwerth was red-carded yesterday in the 3-2 defeat at Caernarfon.

No pitch time for Ryan Wintle yesterday while Roko Simic and Raheem Conte missed their club's games. Ewan Griffiths was man of the match for Plymouth Parkway as they went down 2-1 at Sholing's evocatively named Mortgage Decisions Stadium. A goal up going into injury time they then went to pieces and conceded twice. The final goal was in the 5th minute of injury time as an excellently delivered free kick was headed in. It's not just us then.