Alex Revell says Stevenage fans will recognise the ethics of his squad from the last two campaigns - but he is working each day on finding ways to improve it.

Stevenage have enjoyed two wonderful seasons, firstly winning promotion from League Two and then putting in a serious assault on the League One play-off places last time out, before slipping out of the picture in the last few weeks.

That was under Steve Evans but Revell, who was first-team coach to the now Rotherham United boss, says he will be using a lot of what brought them to the dance in his tactics, with some minor tweaks.

He said: "I think what you're seeing now is a lot of clubs that don't have set shapes anymore. It evolves and it adapts.

"The way we play, we play forward early and we want to get crosses in and we want to get into the final third. 

"I think maybe we didn’t do that and we have to improve that side of. 

"But we've had real success here for the last two-and-a-half years and we can't forget the year we stayed up. 

"We turned into 4-3-3 and all of a sudden the players were just delivering performances because of that identity.  

"We can't change that and that's what I mean by the identity of the club, but we can improve certain aspects. 

"We had 19 clean sheets last year. That’s incredible but we can still get more. 

"We need to score more goals, we know that, so how do we get that? How do we score more goals? 

"Is it more crosses into the box? Is that the way we support the play? 

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"So it’s things like that. We have got to improve them but that still doesn't take away from what we are as a club. 

"These players want to work, they want to press, they want to go onto the pitch and give absolutely everything, but they also want to do that every day in training and the minute that stops, the minute it affects the Saturday. 

"Our training's been really intense to make sure that's what we deliver, you train like you play.

"That's what I mean with identity and we can't go away from that, but we can improve."