📝 The Mariners' starting XI this evening:

Russell, Hendrie, Waterfall, Pollock, Preston, Clifton, Rose, Hewitt, Edwards, Jackson Jr, Windsor.

Subs: McKeown, Morais, Taylor, Bennett, Tilley, Gibson, Touray Sisay.

come on town

Blimey....is that an actual back four with players in position and Clifton maybe in a midfield three?

4-3-3 or 4-3-1-2
UTM

Ooh, a footy match. I'd forgotten that's why we come on here
Come on town, surely we can't lose to this lot???

Quoted from buckstown

Ooh, a footy match. I'd forgotten that's why we come on here
Come on town, surely we can't lose to this lot???

Famous last words.

Seems a bit of continuity to the team now. Still needs strengthening mind.

I think Hewitt will be used more of attacking midfielder than we have been used to. Hope so anyway.

This is the first time in recent weeks that a line-up hasn't made me want to vomit. Clearly Jackson Jr still has a lot to prove but that's potentially quite an exciting front three.

Quoted from Poojah

Clearly Jackson Jr still has a lot to prove .

Going be interesting to see how he does tonight. First start and chuffed for him. Hope nerves don't affect him.

Typical that Southend have just had their first win and they’ve got 2000 fans in......what could possibly go wrong?

Barrow equalise at Scunny :)

Close to our strongest XI of those who are currently fit?

Quoted from dicko995

Barrow equalise at Scunny :)

A draw would be a good result for us.

Come on Town.

Quoted from oochiad

Typical that Southend have just had their first win and they’ve got 2000 fans in......what could possibly go wrong?

I thought that area was in tier 3, oh wait that's London isn't it

Southend are in tier 3 from tomorrow.

At least we can't drop into the relegation places for a while.

Stevenage's next two games have been postponed due to another outbreak of Covid.  

According to FlashScore we are losing already FFS

Ffs   nice start lads

Blew it in 30 seconds.

24 seconds and we’re 1-0 down 🙄

FFS ..... terrible defending!!!

Game over   :-/

Ffs

Can't blame the defence it's the fans fault.

Good start  :'(

Sell it now John while its still in the FL and worth a tenner

copulated my POM in 30 seconds!

I love Grimsby town but hate this current team, manager and board

Good strike, but had so much time. Why were all of our players so deep?

Cracking start

That about caps it for me.
After 45+ years of support, I'm done...

Great start...

We are a joke team
Russell went down to late

Quoted from bawarmy

I love Grimsby town but hate this current team, manager and board

Besides that though everything is going hunky dory.

FFS, how do we keep doing it; giving away the initiative early every fooking game.

At least we've got two halves to get an equalizer

Lucky escape for that nice Mr May

Quoted from nigelh

That about caps it for me.
After 45+ years of support, I'm done...

Oh shut up, you mammary!

Wonder how much of Mr May’s affinity with town remains now we’ve copulated him off...

Quoted from aldi_01

Wonder how much of Mr May’s affinity with town remains now we’ve copulated him off...

If you listen carefully you can hear him giggling

Christ almighty, give it a rest, it was unlucky, nothing more. Get behind them and support your team. UTMM

Quoted from Mariner93er

Good strike, but had so much time. Why were all of our players so deep?

I’d suggest because they’re not coached to do so.

Didn't we have thier goalie on loan once?

Quoted from always grimsby

We are a joke team
Russell went down to late

Rubbish!

Didn't we have thier goalie on loan once?

Quoted from Tinymariner

Christ almighty, give it a rest, it was unlucky, nothing more. Get behind them and support your team. UTMM

I think it was 8 outfield Town players versus 3/4 Southend forwards that just poor play nothing to do with luck

Quoted from The_Laughing_Mariner

Didn't we have thier goalie on loan once?

Yeah

Bradford winning at Crawley   :-/

Quoted from Tinymariner

Christ almighty, give it a rest, it was unlucky, nothing more. Get behind them and support your team. UTMM

How many mirrors have we broken over the years

Damn, hit the post!

Unlucky there Jackson Jr.

The Ref isn’t giving us much.

we are actually playing pretty well

The Ref isn’t giving us much.

Quoted from The_Laughing_Mariner

Didn't we have thier goalie on loan once?

Played 3 games across 2 loan spells in the relegation season.

Same ref as at stevanage. Blew about 50 times. Been better last 10

going to win this easilly

Quoted from nigelh

That about caps it for me.
After 45+ years of support, I'm done...

Don't throw the towel in just yet. What if this really is our darkest hour?... we could win this tonight yet!

Well its certainly better to go one down in the first minute than the last but can we score two goals in one match?

danny rose off injured.Buggger, he's played well, been very involved.Morais comes on.Lets hope hes as good a she was Saturday

Southend are appalling, so if we can’t score against these, things aren’t good

Can someone turn the sound off on whatever that thing is that keeps beeping!

Quoted from nigelh

That about caps it for me.
After 45+ years of support, I'm done...

Typical part timer.

Quoted from Stadium

Typical part timer.

;D ;D ;D

One of our players does not have a clue, he runs around chasing the ball waving his arms, telling everyone else where to put the ball. It’s like watching a school boy. He makes one or two decent passes but he doesn’t have enough skill at this level. He is never in the right position and doesn’t make himself available in attacking positions. Anyone guess who?

Quoted from Tinymariner

One of our players does not have a clue, he runs around chasing the ball waving his arms, telling everyone else where to put the ball. It’s like watching a school boy. He makes one or two decent passes but he doesn’t have enough skill at this level. He is never in the right position and doesn’t make himself available in attacking positions. Anyone guess who?

Pick any one from 10

Has he got facial hair?
I love guess who!

not getting the ball to Edwards enough

hit the bar now!

Animal, mineral, or vegetable? 😉

You can see why these are propping the table up, no excuses if we lose this one Ollie.

Quoted from lee65

Animal, mineral, or vegetable? 😉

He’s certainly got minerals! He puts in some good challenges especially after he’s lost the ball but gives away a lot of free kicks.

Quoted from promotion plaice

You can see why these are propping the table up, no excuses if we lose this one Ollie.

They won’t be for much longer by playing us

So, so close. Painful!

Woodwork again

I hate football, why were we asleep at the beginning and Lady Luck is not with us so far......Morais is class

Morais can certainly deliver a cross

We need to get one before half time, as I think they can only improve 2nd half

I don’t think they’ll improve but whether we can get through an 11 man wall.....

Morais looks like he can deliver the ball, if only we had someone to pop up in the right place

morais is real class

why is clifton giving away stupid fouls when they are already timewasting?

Looks like he can? he’s putting in 3  beauties so far, he has a great touch

The ref needs to start getting a grip of their blatant time wasting.

We’ve played some lovely football but typically shooting ourselves in the first minute is going to haunt us.....

Might be a good game for Sisays debut, a big guy to get on the end of all these crosses.

Quoted from AussieMariner

Morais can certainly deliver a cross

How long until he reduces to the same level as his team mates?

Yaaaaaah

Get in there

Come on town

YAAAAAAAASSSSS

morais feeds jackson in for the equaliser

Get in!!!! Totally deserved!!!

Nice.

Morais has changed the game...putting the ball where it needs to be...

Morais looks excellent

Get in....Jackson Jr

You can't say we don't deserve it

Different team talk at HT now   :)

Goal a game striker!

Morais only been on for 20mins and already MOM

Better side. Totally deserved equaliser.

That Morais causing them all sorts of problems.

You fookin' dancer! C'mon Town! Great time to equalise.

Yeah Ira J Jr

These are absolutely excrement, praying we hammer them second half

Quoted from Tinymariner

One of our players does not have a clue, he runs around chasing the ball waving his arms, telling everyone else where to put the ball. It’s like watching a school boy. He makes one or two decent passes but he doesn’t have enough skill at this level. He is never in the right position and doesn’t make himself available in attacking positions. Anyone guess who?

Clifton

Other than the first minute we’ve been good tonight.

Early days, but Jackson Jr seems to have that knack of being in the right place at the right times. One of those natural qualities that could serve him and us very well.

Impressed by what I've seen for Morais so far, too. Absolutely imperative we get the next goal.

Morais looks the really decent, apart from the goal he’s put at least 3 balls into the right places.

I’d bring Gibson or Sisay on.

Must surely go on to win this Cmon Town, goal early in the 2nd half.please

I must ve about 3 minutes behind

Southend have been playing into our hands, defending like we are Man Utd. We're not giving the ball away in our own half as usual because they aren't challenging us. Morais has been a revelation since he came on. We should win this now.

Quoted from Poojah

Early days, but Jackson Jr seems to have that knack of being in the right place at the right times. One of those natural qualities that could serve him and us very well.

Impressed by what I've seen for Morais so far, too. Absolutely imperative we get the next goal.

Of all the strikers I’ve seen this season, Jackson looks to be our best one.

Quoted from Tinymariner

I’d bring Gibson or Sisay on.

Maybe Gibson as it's his birthday apparently. No way Sisay.

If only Hanson was there to get on the end of Morais crosses. We'd look a half alright side then  :(

get in, well deserved jackson jr woop woop

I was going to say Clifton the weak link, fouling far to much as he did on Saturday. He needs to calm down a little.... good half to watch with some classy balls being put in by Morais who’s turned out to be a good Holloway acquisition so far...

Perhaps the injury to Rose was not such a bad thing

Jackson Jr is what we've missed since Podge left, someone in the right place at the right time, who doesn't shoot over the bar.

Morais needs to start the next match....all the matches.

70% Town possession

Quoted from oochiad

I was going to say Clifton the weak link, fouling far to much as he did on Saturday. He needs to calm down a little.... good half to watch with some classy balls being put in by Morais who’s turned out to be a good Holloway acquisition so far...

Tired a long time ago of the  "we miss Clifton's energy in midfield" comments. He can only pass sideways and brings nothing else to table apart from a willingness to play anywhere!

Good performance, mix of playing from the back and a few longer passes. Edwards as always hot and cold, no one really playing badly, Morais looking good and Jackson Jr seems to be finding decent positions in the box. If we can't beat these, who look pretty short of ideas other than wanging it down the channels and hope, we are in real doodoo.

Anyone else getting no sound?

Quoted from chipsandgravy

Tired a long time ago of the  "we miss Clifton's energy in midfield" comments. He can only pass sideways and brings nothing else to table apart from a willingness to play anywhere!

Since he went on U21 duty, he got played all over the place and has gone back to his usual giving the ball away and fouling constantly. Doesn't change that he was good at the start of the season, but he's a hindrance now, as is Edwards.

Quoted from chipsandgravy

Tired a long time ago of the  "we miss Clifton's energy in midfield" comments. He can only pass sideways and brings nothing else to table apart from a willingness to play anywhere!

His best moment was backheeling the cross which Ira converted. Everything else failing to keep it simple and play easy balls to front men to feet.

Half time song

[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJA8b3esxfE[/url]

Well taken goal by Jackson Jr. was impressed by him on Saturday tbh he looks and moves  like a striker with a knack of being in the right place.....maybe....just maybe we have found our goal scorer

Quoted from promotion plaice

Anyone else getting no sound?

Back now, they turned it off at half time.

Sound just came back with a Scunthorpe goal 🤬

Quoted from Croxton

His best moment was backheeling the cross which Ira converted. Everything else failing to keep it simple and play easy balls to front men to feet.

I know he is a favourite as he is a local lad but  he is so frustrating to watch particuarly the amount of fouls he gives away!

FFS get him off, he just stands and watches everyone else.

Did he just say we signed a player today?

Was that a defender we've signed on a month contract?

Greg Halford?

Quoted from Tinymariner

Did he just say we signed a player today?

Pretty sure he did, said something about he'd been training with us, name might be Halford, though I could have heard that wrong.

Quoted from Tinymariner

Did he just say we signed a player today?

I thought I heard that.

No offence to this guy but what's happened to Tondeur?

Think he mixed the teams up.Not happening for Edwards tonight.time for Tilley?

Halford signed for Southend not us

Halford’s been training with us but signed for Southend. He’s on their bench.

Quoted from Tinymariner

FFS get him off, he just stands and watches everyone else.

Someone red crossed this yet I didn’t mention a players name, I’m gathering you like the player yet know he is rubbish.

Judas (Priest) 😂😂

Losing to Southend - this is a crisis

Quoted from Dan

Halford’s been training with us but signed for Southend. He’s on their bench.

Thought he was in the bike shed.

Also, FFS.

Bunch of useless girl privates these players

Ffs not again

oh excrement

ffs.switched off and another deflected shot

Shocking defending that guy was stood there for 2 mins without moving

Cheap corner to give away and that wasn’t happening quick and we still didn’t react...another woeful goal to concede after getting ourselves back in to it...

He’s flipping stood on his own you useless shits

Dozy *****!

Stupid corner to give away!

Absolute criminal that!!

We really are rubbish aren't we, we can't keep chasing games.

Zero organisation, people just not taking responsibility. Ragged just like the managers mental state

Absolutely shocking defending!

sodomist
And they haven't scored yet

That was poor

We could really do with avoiding defeat here its alright having more play but we need to make it count.

Edwards has been poor by his standards.

Quoted from promotion plaice

Edwards has been poor by his standards.

Has he done much since Cheltenham away?

that animal McCormack from Northampton has just come on

Southend now pressing so why do we still try to play out so slowly~?

This is dreadful

Love the fact Gritton is flipping fuming about halford going up top...I think he’s trying his hardest to diplomatically say both sides are flipping awful...

1-1 on the screen.

Score on the screen still says 1-1, I'm going with that.

Aw they've changed it.

So this halford been with us and signed for southend?


Second half we’ve been flipping dross

Can’t see us scoring twice

A club (almost) now at rock bottom on and off the field.!!

This is abysmal. Anyone got Mr May's address, I want to gift him my share

Southend look like a side that if you get at them they’ll roll over, we look like we’ve rolled over.

Camera dude zooming into the scoreboard to rub it in.

Imagine what stick Hurst would have got during this poor run, just saying.

Morris only quality player we’ve got

This is completely unacceptable

oh intercourse

speechless

russell has just let it through his legs

Goodnight all.

Wtf

Well done Russell lad...

Bring back Macca, we are in trouble.

Well that's the browser tab closed, blew it again.

Price of the club must be dropping by the minute!

We are absolute garbage.

FFS Thats Halfords first goal for 4 years!

I think he thought it would bounce

We have a defender training with us all week, he signs for the opposition and then come on and scores against us????

Quoted from promotion plaice

Bring back Macca, we are in trouble.

He'd have done the same

Wow

Who coaches these keepers?

Russell absolute dross. Gave away stupid corner for second and kindergarten error for third.

So much for the Russell experiment. :'(

What the intercourse did we do at half time?

My one and only hope town wise this season is to finish 3rd bottom
Not making amazing football memories here
I Fear for everything town if we go down again
And let’s face it , it’s a real possibility this season
Had enough of IH and his talk
It ain’t happening where it matters
Things could / should be so so much better

what to say ??)

I give up.

I’m literally counting the minutes until January.


*just had a reality check . Don’t think JF will give us any money now !!*

Holloway luckiest man in football tonight,

Still haven't scored on here yet

Wtf
Macca back next game

The amount of offsides and needless free kicks we give away is a disgrace. Rank unprofessionalism.

Russell's technique there is, well I don't even know what that is.

can he stop saying orange. ??) ??)

I'm done!....see you in 2021, new owners and a new manager!..really thought Holloway would have taken us to the next level, what I didn't expect that level to be downwards.

Well, whether we do our PR on or off the pitch, it’s excrement either way.

We’re going down

Time to go Holloway Tell the press you knew all about the May affair and you feel you can no longer stay in the job on principle and urine off reputation imtact

After mainly supporting him Holloway surely has to resign out of sheer embarrassment!!

Bringing a ducking player without a number on his shirt now...not as if he’s only just signed...

First goal in four years for Halford.
Sums it up.

Quoted from nigelh

I give up.

I remember the Mick Lyons' years;this is worse, far worse.

Quoted from Hagrid

We’re going down

Been saying this for a few weeks.

No tempo, Feckin around at the back. Play in their half!!!

Whole clubs a shambles. Needs an immediate clear out of board and management.

Maybe we have to bring Jolley back to save us from relegation!!

Laughing stock of lincolnshire  and Scunny pulling away from us .. can it get any worse

Hurst

You couldn’t make it up....player on trial.....not signed...signs to play against us and scores. What a shambles.
Hopefully we won’t be letting fans in to Blunder Park anytime soon.

Didn't put them to bed first half when on top. Can't score from good chances, can't stop conceding silly goals. We just gift the opposition the game every week.

Holloway Out.

Quoted from Ipswin

Time to go Holloway Tell the press you knew all about the May affair and you feel you can no longer stay in the job on principle and urine off reputation imtact

Wouldn't be at all surprised if it plays out this way

How come it all changed at ht

First time I've said it but I've got no confidence in Holloway anymore after this.  

He’s got to go .

Southend scored 7 goals all season before this, not good enough at all at the moment.

Racing rapidly to the bottom of the Football League does not make the Club more attractive to investors!

Can’t wait to hear his excuses here...

Quoted from chipsandgravy

Maybe we have to bring Jolley back to save us from relegation!!

Jolley Newell Slade anyone I'm past caring but Holloway, if he has any pride, must walk now. He won't have failed, he'll have left 'a legacy', only the second Town manager to take us out of the league

can see why sisay hasn't featured. he's got the first touch of  a brick wall

Quoted from The_Laughing_Mariner

How come it all changed at ht

Because their manager said “why are you giving this dross so much respect?”

Even if Holloway does go we are still left with what must be the worse squad in decades!

Looks like 1 point from the first 2 of the 6 "easy" games. If there is anyone with the authority left to sack Holloway it should be done tonight.

There you go John Fenty, you’ve even managed to shred the reputation of Ian Holloway. Quite an achievement on your roll call of fuckups.

Unbelievable, stupid mistakes by individuals, we’ve played very well overall. Give it time and we will come good.

Shambles from the lack of trust off the pitch to the pathetic shower of shite on it

Slowly starting to think this is arguably our worst squad...it’s worse than the excrement Woods was left with...

this absolutely sums up this week so far for town, DOOM. Lets hope a smile can be put on our faces come tomorrow with the investment go ahead. The futures bleak even with holloway here its not looking good one bit.

Quoted from GrimRob

Looks like 1 point from the first 2 of the 6 "easy" games. If there is anyone with the authority left to sack Holloway it should be done tonight.

Fenty should do it as one last gesture as he too leaves the club, they could go out of the door together.

WTF is Bennett gonna add?

This cannot go on. This team is appalling. It hasnt worked holloway, no legacy, go.

Quoted from MuddyWaters

There you go John Fenty, you’ve even managed to shred the reputation of Ian Holloway. Quite an achievement on your roll call of fuckups.

I do t disagree but Holloway hasn’t done himself many favours.

If being on the board is the blocker for Holloway leaving I’ll buy him out, what was it £500 of shares.

Quoted from The_Laughing_Mariner

Wtf
Macca back next game

So, next time Macca makes a mistake, we bring back Russell again?

Quoted from Tinymariner

Unbelievable, stupid mistakes by individuals, we’ve played very well overall. Give it time and we will come good.

Very well?? Seriously??

I mean there’s being optimistic and there’s being flipping stupid...

We played well for 20 minutes in the first half. Didn’t put the game to bed. Clearly did intercourse all at half time and haven’t been in it second half.

This lot won’t come good; they’d have to actually be any good in the first instance for that to happen...half this squad wouldn’t have even been given a place on the bench in the conference...

Quoted from Tinymariner

Unbelievable, stupid mistakes by individuals, we’ve played very well overall. Give it time and we will come good.

You do realise hallucinogenic mushrooms are illegal, don’t you?

Quoted from HertsGTFC

I do t disagree but Holloway hasn’t done himself many favours.

If being on the board is the blocker for Holloway leaving I’ll buy him out, what was it £500 of shares.

I will go halves

Didnt think for one minute i would be sat here looking at this score line

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.

Quoted from HertsGTFC

I do t disagree but Holloway hasn’t done himself many favours.

If being on the board is the blocker for Holloway leaving I’ll buy him out, what was it £500 of shares.

I'll chip in to that Perhaps we could have one of those 'fund me' jobs to buy Holloway out

Quoted from Tinymariner

Unbelievable, stupid mistakes by individuals, we’ve played very well overall. Give it time and we will come good.

Brilliant.
Best laugh I've had all night.
Cant wait for a bad game.

Quoted from jonnyboy82

Shambles from the lack of trust off the pitch to the pathetic shower of shite on it

Sums it up for me

First half, looked good
Second half, what a load of ****. Nothing good to say. Leaving a player unmarked at the edge of the box and the the softest header through your legs. At half time had so much faith in getting the 3 points
At nearly full time just can’t see us staying up.

Looks like there isn't only one team in the Southend then.

Even when we weren’t on a poor run, we look mentally fragile. Not enough leaders who roll up their sleeves and fight for the cause. When we concede they seem to write the game off and wait for the next one.

I’m done - I’m not spending any more money on this shite

Quoted from Tinymariner

Unbelievable, stupid mistakes by individuals, we’ve played very well overall. Give it time and we will come good.

And I thought Holloway was barmy!

they've been as bad second half as they were good first half. can't believe what ive watched

waterfall sent off just to cap it off

Quoted from aldi_01

Very well?? Seriously??

I mean there’s being optimistic and there’s being flipping stupid...

We played well for 20 minutes in the first half. Didn’t put the game to bed. Clearly did intercourse all at half time and haven’t been in it second half.

This lot won’t come good; they’d have to actually be any good in the first instance for that to happen...half this squad wouldn’t have even been given a place on the bench in the conference...

You talk some shite, we were the better side for 48 minutes of the first half and played some good football. If you cant see that it’s because your always so bloody negative.

Now a sending off in injury time - Unbelievable

and now we lose Waterfall For felicitations sake whats the point in getting sent off at 3-1 down!

Quoted from Tinymariner

You talk some shite, we were the better side for 48 minutes of the first half and played some good football. If you cant see that it’s because your always so bloody negative.

Have a word Tiny....dress this up all you flipping like, it’s flipping awful...

FFS now we lose our centre back for a few games. Two young lads at centre back for our best 3 games....should be fun

We are awful; really awful.

Waterfall being the consummate professional there...plank

Well done Waterfall, 10 seconds from full time.

Starting centre halves of Waterfall and Idehen on Saturday then, good job Holloway got rid off Ohman...

Honestly, the whole lot need to get themselves to fucck.

intercourse off waterfall. Wtf are you doing

Waterfall you absolute useless cunnt.

Holloway should go now while he still has some of his reputation intact He is becoming a joke

Quoted from ska face

Well done Waterfall, 10 seconds from full time.

Starting centre halves of Waterfall and Idehen on Saturday then, good job Holloway got rid off Ohman...

Honestly, the whole lot need to get themselves to fucck.

Don't think he got rid of Ohman, Ohman pretty much left on his own accord. Doesn't surprise me him being a Swede with the more lax COVID restrictions over there.

Appalling in the 2nd half. Our lack of quality and injuries really showing. Soundly beaten by a pub side.

Fenty out, Holloway out, clueless.

This club is a joke from top to bottom. I really thought it would come good but everything is pointing towards non league football next season....I fear we will find our level down there and never come back and the fans haven't got the heart or patience for that again!

Will Fenty be at the helm for his second relegation to the non league. Quite an achievement.

My lad and me have worked out we would get rid of 17 of the useless twatss . Yes only 17

Quoted from Ipswin

and now we lose Waterfall For felicitations sake whats the point in getting sent off at 3-1 down!

to get xmas off

Quoted from Tinymariner

Unbelievable, stupid mistakes by individuals, we’ve played very well overall. Give it time and we will come good.

We played ok in the first half probably because they were so excrement.

However we have been crap this second half and it's not surprising seeing as you are spending too much time on the Fishy Ian rather than concentrating on what's going on on the pitch.

Gritton spot on here.

The shambles that is Grimsby Town continues.

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.

What is going on with this team. We are in flipping free fall.

utter garbage, disgracful,

Please Go Ian

No excuses now...bottom of the conference who couldn't buy a goal beat us, Southend who can't but more than 1 goal put 3 past us....and I'm supposed to keep accepting the sh!te Holloway comes out with?...sorry but we are rubbish, becoming the laughing stock of the league and every team must lick their lips when they play us, gifting Southend and Stevenage league status for 2021!

Looking forward  to another hilarious  Holloway post match excuses session, this one should be really good. Lloyd Griffith might get a few tips

Quoted from Brazilnut

to get xmas off

Never thought of that but can truly believe it.

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.

Tiny, mate, we were bloody awful second half, but we were decent in the first 45

Its brilliant Waterfall gets sent off fouling a player we were looking at as cover for such a situation you couldnt make it up.(hang)

Quoted from forza ivano

Tiny, mate, we were bloody awful second half, but we were decent in the first 45

I agree.

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.

Yeah, if only football matches lasted 45 minutes.

Quoted from Ipswin

Fenty should do it as one last gesture as he too leaves the club, they could go out of the door together.

Aye, drive off into the sunset.

Honestly so sick of the same old shite,  the meeting tomorrow needs to be an emergency one, i honestly felt Holloway was the man for us but 2 wins in 15 suggests otherwise.

But the real problem is further up and until he's been dragged out and the whole club disinfected from top to bottom getting rid of holloway won't change sh! t.

Quoted from MuddyWaters

Yeah, if only football matches lasted 45 minutes.

Someone explained to their players at half time that we are actually excrement and  will fold under the slightest pressure whereas they were giving us far more respect than we actually deserve.

Quoted from Madeleymariner

Its brilliant Waterfall gets sent off fouling a player we were looking at as cover for such a situation you couldnt make it up.(hang)

It's amazing how many ways we can find to rub salt into our own gaping wounds.

Poor from Waterfall but probably frustration.All sense of normality goes out the window when you are getting dicked every week.

Quoted from aldi_01

What the intercourse did we do at half time?

Olly's team talk -somebodies gonna get gone -or effing should be. The ferrets absolutely useless - full of bullshite.We are not going to get anywhere with him -he should be the one going in the January window, Not going to listen to his after match excuses - he must take us all for mugs. Maybe we are for paying to watch this garbage, I bet that May considers himself a very lucky guy.for having the plug pulled.

Really what happened was they simply decided to start closing our defenders down in 2nd half and we all know what happens then game after game. We need a big target man for when that happens and anyone who thinks Hanson will ever be fit enough to ever play at anywhere near 100% is kidding themselves.

How about a 'Just Leaving Appeal for Ollie', WayneBJS will you run it please?

Its embarrassing how low and unprofessional we are.
Over the last few years.

Players coming on with no shirt name or number.
Coach being late to matches causing delays.
Sinking into non league.
Cost cutting on so many things and its showing.
Not offering a 37 goal striker a better contract.
Losing better players by not offering decent contracts.
Sobmany more its so frustrating at the moment.

Quoted from zorro_is_a_Mariner

Southend scored 7 goals all season before this, not good enough at all at the moment.

First time in over 2 years that they have won 2 games in a row.

Sums us up.

Well thats my mind made up  Dont think i can watch / listen on saturday , booked my peg in the xmas fishing match for saturday . Shower of sheit from top to bottom

One word sums that up   absolutelyfukingdisgracefulshowerofshite.

I turned the excrement show off with a few mins left so missed the red card. Was it a second yellow so a one match ban?

Quoted from Rodley Mariner

I turned the excrement show off with a few mins left so missed the red card. Was it a second yellow so a one match ban?

Yes

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.

I know Macca is having an indifferent season but look at the garbage in front of him. How many games have we won with Russell in goal or how many times have we said what a great game Russell had and kept us in the game.?

Quoted from GrimRob

Aye, drive off into the sunset.

Thelma and Louise, they could drive off Brighton slip at high tide

Think I’ve just reached the fifth stage of grief.

We are in big trouble.

I am as angry as I have been since the Burton game that got us relegated into the Conference. On and off the pitch we are a complete shambles. Words totally fail me.

Southend were very very poor. The standard of this game was national league north. It’s where we are heading.

Quoted from aldi_01

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.

Tell you what Rich, you stick to whinging and bleating like a child, repeating the same shite about Olllie and JF, I’ll keep embarrassing myself by supporting the team through the shite like I have done for 45 years. When we come through it and are back on the up, I’ll be able to say I stayed with them and give you a knowing nod! We can just agree to disagree mate, that’s what’s great about football. UTMM

As I saw it, the first 2 goals were from well out of the goal area, and I thought Russell was slow to respond on both occasions.
For the second goal, the defence were just watching the corner, there were miles between the goalscorer and our defence.
The 3rd. goal was ?
What is Ollie trying to prove to McKeown?
If he doesn't reinstate McKeown for the next match, then I know he's barmy.  ( Ollie that is. )

I can't see how we can sign anybody in the window without ending up with a squad of 40 odd because nobody is going to take any of this lot off us. Can we send players back if they are on season long loans.? Can't see any of the parent clubs wanting any of this lot back.