Southend match thread

If they relegated the 2 teams with the worst goal difference, then that would be us!  We would be 6 goals worst than the third worse team on GD.  Shocking indication of the team’s quality.

Quoted from golfer

One word sums that up   absolutelyfukingdisgracefulshowerofshite.

Scores well in scrabble too.

Losing tonight didn't surprise me. Have kept emotion out of it.
John Fenty has had a very long tenure but he has to get out and allow the club to recover from his control. May be too late to stave off relegation, although a few clubs may be in trouble financially. Doesn't matter. Most of the board need to go as well, and some bright honest capable people need to unite and bring this great club forward again. The paying Town fans deserve better.

UtM

Quoted from Tinymariner

How can anybody say we were awful during the first half? Seriously! We hit the woodwork twice and should have been 3-1 up at half time, we had 70% possession and scored right at the death. Granted we have been poor second half but that was due to Clifton not getting to his man tor their second and crap goalkeeping for their 3rd. It was not an overall bad performance.

But......

it was the "worst team in the league" we were playing......


and ....

we lost....

again....


Its a results business and it really isnt looking likely that we are going to get many positive ones on current form.....

Given what you have seen so far this season do you really feel you could trust IH to find the solutions in the January window and make them work almost immediately ?

Its all very worrying. We have just had a tough run of fixtures were excuses/ allowances were given.....two games into our "easy run" and we have a single point, injuries stacking up, suspensions kicking in and still no really settled first team or formation.

Ollie has not learnt anything since he arrived.

Asking players to do things they are not comfortable with.

Getting players in who are not up to the job.

Getting players in that were injured or unfit when he signed them.

Keep doing the same thing but hoping we will get it right but we dont.

I was sure he would take us out of this league if not this season next.

Now I am sure it will be this season.

We will be spending a lot more than six years in non league this time.

BUT

If he stays he needs to understand L2 players are limited that's why they are in L2.

Some decent signings required asap or this is the end of his career.

How can Southend score three passed you?? 😳😂

Tiny just give it a rest, you’re embarrassing yourself.

You can point at 20/30 minutes of a good first half performance but no truth we were ineffective overall.

Whatever happened at half time is worrying, most teams react positively to gaining back a goal, we did the opposite.

Every week we’ve been saying ‘it’ll come good, there’s green shoots’ and all that balderdash but in truth that’s not happening at time soon.

If people removed the reputation of Holloway’s early managerial career people would’ve called for his head weeks ago...may be when he started signing Sunday league players in the summer in fact.

Squeeze a positive out all you like, we’ve just lost at the bottom team comprehensively, an experienced player made two woeful challenges which saw him rightfully sent off and once again we had a disjointed, chaotic approach to the game.

Telling people to look to positives right now is just pointless.

Quoted from Lincs Iron man

How can Southend score three passed you?? 😳😂

It's PAST not PASSED but otherwise I've no flipping idea

well the sending off didn't cost us the game but terrible closing down by our midfield for two goals certainly did how can you have free shots like that , keeper got to hold hands up for third , i really don't know where to start so going to calm down & revisit in the morning

Russel is well past it his reactions are virtually nil. Most shots unless straight at him he stands motionless and not because he thinks they are going wide. Ollie was right we need a new keeper coach as Macca has not improved at all in the last few years and Russell is an emergency back up at best.