Team news

One change for the Mariners this evening as Giles Coke replaces Scott Burgess.

Full XI: Crocombe; Efete, Waterfall, Pearson, Crookes; Jones, Coke; Sousa, McAtee, Clifton; Abrahams.

Substitutes: Smith, Burgess, Scannell, Maguire-Drew, Dieseruvwe.

Good to see Maguire-Drew back. Big game for Coke this to prove he’s still up to it. Massive game, COME ON TOWN

What's happened to Amos? Injured or dropped/rested?

Very surprising to see JMD on the bench given PH said he wasn’t close to being available.

Didn't think Burgess played very well Sat. so although not in Coke's fan club I think it was the obvious and sensible thing to do.

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What's happened to Amos? Injured or dropped/rested?

Yes.

Thought burgess was great. I would’ve started him. I guess Coke gives better shape defensively for a difficult sway game.

I’d be worried about Powell’s pace against Pearson and Waterfall.

Thought Burgess was decent on Saturday but though his form has been patchy kind of get why Coke has come in, sort of.

Avoid defeat and see what happens as on paper the bench looks like it provides a few attacking options.

Wondered if we might have seen Scannell for Sousa at some point. Sousa wasn’t great on Saturday.

What is the situation with Amos?

Good to see JMD back in the squad - just hope he is actually fit to play if needed.

Don't want him to be breaking down again with tough games still lined up.

3 points by any means tonight would be great, especially for those fans going for the 2nd time !!

Good bench tonight !

UTM !!

I’d be delighted with 4 points from the next two games, in whichever order.

Quoted from TownSNAFU5

What is the situation with Amos?

Hurst said he dropped him in favour of Crookes on Saturday because Woking were a very tall side, don’t know about tonight though.

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Wondered if we might have seen Scannell for Sousa at some point. Sousa wasn’t great on Saturday.

Hopefully he performs like he did in the home game where he ripped their right back to pieces

Anyone got the Humberside commentary working? Having to listen to radio Essex

Mines working fine on my phone

Quoted from buckstown

Anyone got the Humberside commentary working? Having to listen to radio Essex

Got it on the BBC Sounds app

Quoted from buckstown

Anyone got the Humberside commentary working? Having to listen to radio Essex

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live:bbc_radio_humberside

Solihull Moors 1-0 Notts County

Why do I always worry when we start well but not score 😂

Srexham 1- Boreham Wood 0

Ollie Palmer

Wrexham 1 up aswell

Southend getting on top

Never gonna be an easy game as long as we hold through the tough periods

Any questions you want sent to Burnsy? I was going to mention those up the road whilst the games quiet 😂

Coke sounds like the weak link , again

Quoted from supertown

Coke sounds like the weak link , again

No the midfield does. Not a single player

Ive not heard Jones Clifton or Sousa mentioned.

Loving Burnsy's commentary.

Come on Town.

Quoted from promotion plaice

Loving Burnsy's commentary.

Come on Town.

Really?? I'm struggling with him, boring c***

Boreham wood equalised

Docks beers playing well

Half-time....0-0

That'll do so far, fresh attacking options on our bench for us, non for them.

Dagenham 2-0 up at Yeovil.  A good omen hopefully.  

Gotta love BBC football. Usually they have Waterfall in the centre of midfield, tonight he is on the right wing!!! Cliftons height will be advantageous in his new position of centre half.

Theyve not won in their last 3 pressure will build on them next half

Pretty happy with results as they are right now. Would happily take this at full-time.

Bit of a nothing game with v few chances apart from 1 long range shot which was going over anyway before crocombe tipped it over.theyve hot 4 forwards missing and it shows.they try to pass the ball but just arent v good at it.we are slightly better until it gets to the decisive pass ! Midfield is v competitive.abrahams is getting nothing
Must be v frustrating. Waterfall n pearson are rock.like, but sousa n efete arent their usual threatening presence.good crowd in  small following from town

Quote from the Southend forum:
"Grimsby are knackered, they can’t handle our tempo, and are time-wasting already"

Not the impression I got from the Hullberside commentary!!

I didn’t get that impression either. Would be happy with a point tonight.

Cmon Sousa wake up

I don't actually mind Burnsy's commentary

intercourse

Penalty Southend

Penalty them  :o

FFS

1-0

Hope Efete plans on making up for this in the rest of the match

Away comebacks are always better anyway...

I’d be making subs now. Scannel on for Sousa. Mani on. Maybe even JMD on. Coke off and burgess on. Take your pick. Presumably Hurst will wait for another 10-15 mins.

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I’d be making subs now. Scannel on for Sousa. Mani on. Maybe even JMD on. Coke off and burgess on. Take your pick. Presumably Hurst will wait for another 10-15 mins.

Sousa was shite on Saturday too. I’m guessing JMD will be on first about 73 minutes in.

Come on Paul FFS, make a change

midfield non exsistant, clifton and sousa anoynmous and nothing sticking up top, wheres the change?

Jesus Christ change it man!

Typical Hurst, never likes making a sub until it's too late.

Here’s the subs

Mani and Burgess on

Interesting listening to Burns demanding changes

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Interesting listening to Burns demanding changes

It's the usual reaction to watching Hurst standing around until the 80th minute when the whole ground can see we need to make a change.

Why not vary it? Subs far too late. Why not have the balls to change it between 45-70. For once.

Usual inflated number of comments when we aren’t winning …think some folk believe we should win every game , never concede , never make a mistake … manager and players always get it right …. jeez

Doesn’t matter if you’re a Hurst fan or not, the consistency in the way he point blank refuses to ever make a sub is bizarre at best

Love all the pelters Hurst is getting when its Efete’s stupidity thats cost us a point

Quoted from pontoonlew

Doesn’t matter if you’re a Hurst fan or not, the consistency in the way he point blank refuses to ever make a sub is bizarre at best

This.

Don't think he's getting stick because Efete gave a penno away, it's because he won't respond to that mistake

Quoted from buckstown

Don't think he's getting stick because Efete gave a penno away, it's because he won't respond to that mistake

You’ve misunderstood my point

Quoted from pontoonlew

Doesn’t matter if you’re a Hurst fan or not, the consistency in the way he point blank refuses to ever make a sub is bizarre at best

100% this!!

Sounds like it's going to be yet another away game we've lost narrowly when we should have got something out of it? Too many results like this to mount a proper promotion push.

Just not good enough to go up this season

It’s always busier on here when we don’t do very well…

Sometimes it’s hard to work out what he sees. Sousa has been less influential in recent weeks and looks like a rest would do him good. Scannell has been fit for weeks and irrespective of what people think, has a pedigree above this level, so why doesn’t he give him a chance? After all, it was his decision to keep him!

Why Town Are Going To Struggle To Make The Playoffs - The Official Game™

What’s the point in putting a partially fit JMD on the bench and not bringing him on? In what regard does this make sense? If we’re losing and desperate, we would bring him on for 15,! Do it then! Nope. Surely it’d be better to put Grant on the bench if he’s fit. Or Amos. Just don’t get it. Generally behind Hurst, but the use of the squad deserves scrutiny….

The inability to grind out a 0-0. Thats what will cost us

Halifax away, Wrexham Away

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What’s the point in putting a partially fit JMD on the bench and not bringing him on? In what regard does this make sense? If we’re losing and desperate, we would bring him on for 15,! Do it then! Nope. Surely it’d be better to put Grant on the bench if he’s fit. Or Amos. Just don’t get it. Generally behind Hurst, but the use of the squad deserves scrutiny….

I wouldn’t put Grant anywhere near a football team…

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It’s always busier on here when we don’t do very well…

tbh there are overreactions if we win or lose. If we win everyone starts talking about the playoffs and how many points off the top we are and if we lose one game the season is now over.

Quoted from Hagrid

The inability to grind out a 0-0. Thats what will cost us

Halifax away, Wrexham Away

Notts County home, Chesterfield home

Full-time....Southend 1-0 Town

Ah well you can't win them all, Southend are also on a great run of form.

Let's not be too critical, fine margins and Efete has been brilliant for us recently.

Still think we missed the trick in the first half, sounded like we had the better of it but just cannot score enough from open play..
And I have to say it, Hurst really needs to make changes earlier, the one time he did (Notts County) look at the difference it made!..
Looking tougher for the next 2 Saturday's now, play offs are gone for me this season.

Poor use of the squad. Nothing more, nothing less.

We are just not ruthless enough at either end. 1 goal beats us too often.

Even if we make the play offs, I don't think we have enough to win them.

Need to strengthen in the summer.

Quoted from chaos33

Poor use of the squad. Nothing more, nothing less.

Stupidity from Efete costing us a point

Nothing more. Nothing less

Fair play to southend really, their fans probably thought they had a good chance of winning this one and they sound like theyve been pretty solid

For us I think its more about the players off the pitch than on the pitch for us, we know roughly what the starting line up had to offer, but we need JDM, scannell, taylor, rhaiky and others to be able to add something to make us playoff contenders

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Usual inflated number of comments when we aren’t winning …think some folk believe we should win every game , never concede , never make a mistake … manager and players always get it right …. jeez

We weren't even drawing, an ex professional footballer couldn't understand why he didn't change it earlier, especially as we hardly created a decent chance in the second half.

Fine margins.....always the case when you don't score enough.  Rarely threatened this evening and the subs when eventually made sounded like they had the reverse effect. Did Mani touch it more than once ?

Close on result but didn't sound like we were that close in reality.

Always a tough game tonight. Other results have gone out way; we’re never catching Wrexham.

A win on Saturday is paramount though. Yeovil are bang out of form.

Time for a reality check.
Simply nowhere near good enough.
No plan B.
Poor use of substitutes.
Will do well to finish in the top half.
Finishing below teams that we would not think twice about a couple of years ago.
Big changes are needed if they want to go back to the Football league.
Support is starting to dwindle and will continue to do so if we carry on plodding along like we are now.

Despite tonight the table still looks ok. All to play for but it is very frustrating that we cannot raise our game when needed.

Why is Scannell and JMD on the bench - surely them two on both wings for the last half hour would provide a threat?

Our form against the top sides is pretty rancid, constantly playing ‘not to lose’ in these games and so often coming out on the wrong end of a 1 goal margin

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Always a tough game tonight. Other results have gone out way; we’re never catching Wrexham.

A win on Saturday is paramount though. Yeovil are bang out of form.

Every game is tough if you make it so. We’ve dropped so many points when we’ve been level at half time and by the odd goal in most cases. We look soft.

The surprise for me isn't that we're failing to score the goals in these sorts of games so much as that we're conceding so many soft ones at the other end. I've not been to an away game this season yet but it sounds as though we're generally putting the effort in.

A combination of a slight lack of attacking threat alongside a bit of mental weakness in defence, I suppose. No doubt that Hurst has always been reticent to change things too early on which probably indicates a lack of faith in the players' ability to enact any sort of a plan B as much as anything else.

I can live with losing away, I’m eternally p1ssed off that we wait too long to make changes especially with a bench that contains 1 defender.

Still in touch but need a win on Saturday though.

7th at best this season, suspect we’ll end up in 8th 🤦‍♂️

Dagenham back in the mix after tonight.

That was an absorbing game to watch and a credit to both sides. Did we deserve to win? Probably just, and we did score, after all. Good luck for the rest of the season and remember, no one is going to want to play us based on our current form so we might do you favours yet