Hi all,
Just thought i would give you an update for tonights match. From a blues perpective anyway.
Firstly roots hall has always had one of the finest pitches in the country. Before football was played on it , it was a landfill site during the war. Before even laying turf thousands of sea shells were laid down and as a result the drainage is fantastic. I havent seen a game postponed for waterlogged pitch for about 15 years.
On to tonights game. Well it seems strange to me that a lot of your fans seem border line suicidal. You are still in the play off shake up and you dont become a bad team over night. Im sure you will be there or there abouts but as bigger sides than you have found out , you cant just expect to walk this league. There are some good sides in it (and bad) and everyone is capable of beating any one on there day.
As for us well the season started brightly. New 22,000 seater due to begin and talk of automatic promotion. Well like most chairman ours turned out to be full of the brown stuff. We have sold everything but the kitchen sink had tranfer embargos and talk of administration. Once barnard had gone for a measily 175k we dropped like a stone. Its been the stuff of nightmares. At one point we had just 13 fit players and had to fill the bench with youth teamers.
Thankfully we have paid the tax man (for now) and Tilly has been able to welcome back some long term injury's aswell as signing some decent players on loan. The team are finally starting to gel and although we were beaten at Mk last weekend we are starting to create chances again , which unfortunately have been missed. We were deperately unlucky against Nowrich midweek. We were a goal up with just ten minutes to go and conceded twice with the second in the 94th minute.
The general feeling amongst fans is that we will stay up but we need to win home games starting with tonight against your boys. I dont much about charlton but i did watch your game against Orient and you were quite poor that night.
I am hoping that you will again be poor tonight and i for one cannot wait to give the that odious ginger fool the abuse tonight that he deserves. He is in for a hell of a lot of stick and hopefully he will be true to form and get wound up and sent off. Im sure him and our Mccormack will not be shirking any challenges.
I am really up for this game and hopefully the game will be nearly sold out as you can appreciate our support has dropped dramatically but with the return of Bailey and friday night football plus a healthy charlton support should see a good gate at the hall. Safe journey and all the best for the rest of the seaon after tonight.
Shrimperama
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He is too good for us, so (with no dis-respect) he is far too good for you.
edit.. WSS younger and quicker off the mark , great minds and all that!
Picture this newcastle come in for him for way under your estimation. You think he is worth 2million they offer you 800k and he just plain refuses to play for your club unless they sell, thus holding your club for ransom. The bloke is a prick albiet a very good player, but there was no way you should have got him for 400k
My Southend mate tells me that there has been a big pick up in performances in those last two games, so it will be the interesting to see what impact it will have if things don't work out tonight. They way things are with both our teams, i think scoring first will be crucial. I think i'm right in thinking the bulk of your run in is against sides in the bottom half so i'm confident you will stay up.
As for Bailey, can't really understand why so much abuse to be honest. Seems a bit similar to when Parker left us to be honest. He wanted to better himself and earn more money, we thought the timing was wrong and should have showed a bit more loyalty. It hurts more because its your best player.
Think there will be a cracking atmosphere tonight, i've had my fry up and i'm already looking forward to my first pint which will be happening in 1 hour and 13 minutes !
Barnard said he wanted to move but still admitted that as long as he was a southend player he would give his all and did. So did peter clarke who refused to sign a new contract at the club and pre-signed with Huddersfield , but still gave everything even though he knew he was leaving. Its called respect.
Bailey just threw his toys out of the pram and refused to play and then had the cheek to play in a game knowing full well he was just going to stroll around without making a tackle. That is not on at all. There is a massive difference and he will get so much stick tonight.
Know the feeling!
Bailey's too good for you
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Baileys too good for you
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I think he loves it people from Essex seem to be very easy to wind up it would be nice to see him do an "adebayor" stoke the fire a litlle, when he scores the winner against you tonight. Are all of your fans not West ham fans anyway must make you feel a bit shit i would hate that my friend.
you were talking sense up to that point!
I think he said on one of the posts earlier... something to do with all of them being West Ham fans
LOL Johnny i agree we had that with the Norwich wanker on here earlier however althouogh this Southend fan has been saying some silly things hes no were near as bad as the Norwich idiot who came on here earlier last year.
Yeah i know mate, just getting the spoon out you know ;o)