Southend (H) Match Thread

Dembele made 2 goals for The Posh.  A slight silver-lining.

Quoted from smokey111

Happy with a point.

I honestly believe you are !

Who says Morais is snowed in? 30 years ago perhaps but not today. Does he live in Scotland?

How about we stop looking at it as a 0-0 draw against the only team below us and look at it as our first clean sheet in a flipping age against the most in form side in the division? It's something to build on and i'm sure PH is happy with the defensive side on it. You can't win games if you concede goals at the rate we do and the fact he's managed to get us one after two weeks on the training ground with them is credit to him. He knows how poor going forward we are, he says in his interviews he's looking for a forward and a wide player. Clifton and Hewitt have to start together for me next week as Spokes offered intercourse all today and we need energy in that midfield, Hanson didn't lose a header when he came on and Morais in for Preston. 3 changes and I think we have an okay starting line up but we desperately need signings.

Quoted from ginnywings

I'm happy with a point. They may be bottom but are in great form at the moment; much better than us and they looked no better than we did. There are plenty of terrible teams this season and we don't have to improve by much to start picking up. We only need to finish 22nd and we kept them bottom. Denying them 3 points was as important as winning 1 point.

Easily pleased !

Are they playing ET at Barrow??  17 mins added on time and still playing. Brown off for Scunny after 2 yellow cards.

We didn't concede
Macca seems to his confidence back
We have a point and Southend are still below us.
The positives

11 man defence at times
Did look comfortable in any part of the pitch
Pitch what pitch another Fenty legacy
The negatives

Lets hope Hursty has stopped the rot. It was ugly and awful but they had to start from nothing so lets hope that we have witnessed small shoots optimism

We can look at the positives.

Macca looked more confident and decisive - albeit not much to deal with.
Wright, Scannell and Hanson are back.
Morais wasn't even playing.
Some grit showing.

We need someone to control the centre circle.

UTM!

Only surprise was a clean sheet. Hurst had to start at least 4 players in Williams, Preston, Green & Spokes who aren’t up to it, that shows the challenge he faces.  

We need re-enforcements quickly and they’ll need to add quality as well as the character required for what is a relegation dig fight.

Things could feel very different if we swop places in the league with the Scunts next Saturday though.

Still 22 blokes chasing a ball around a muddy field. Wright the only one to create anything, Pitch and team is embarrasing 2 shots all game against the bottom team. Only positive we didnt lose.