 Laird impressed under manager Peter Taylor and signed on a permanent basis at the start of February, for an undisclosed fee.He featured regularly at left–back during the second half of the 2007–08 season, and scored his first goal for Stevenage in a 4–1 victory away at Histon, a 35-yard strike into the top right hand corner of the net.The following season, under the new management of Graham Westley, Laird featured regularly again, playing 51 games in total for the Hertfordshire side, scoring three times in total.