5/1 to be relegated

[Magnum PI]

oh and spartan.. **** off you bent little ****

 

[Magnum PI]

also TTK, no offence but do you mind if I ask if you picked your avatar because you are a bit of a helmet ?

 

[TBV_Dan]

Why do you keep stalking my posts nan? oh and stop sending me private messages.I have no interest in you or your opinions whatsoever i'm affraid. Now run along please...

Erm, this is our own forum, which you are on, and getting very close to being banned from. How about you "run along" to your own forums, or are you banned from them already?

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

10/1 into 5/1 to go down (Bet365).

With the possibility of going into administration, lack of funding, a small squad, huge debts, a general lack of idea on and off the pitch, and in 19th place already in the league, the 5/1 looks top value.

Perhaps Ron has blown the warchest on the 10/1 which was on offer, and we'll storm league two next season with the winnings.

Awesome we're safe already if the bookie's best friend is tipping us for relegation.

 

[applelover]

Whilst I accept that off the field we have some serious issues and I am pretty disgusted in Mr King's comments I think talk of relegation is a little premature. We've played pretty well so far this season and with a little more luck would be in a much stronger situation. The swindon game, our only league defeat, was largely the result of three poor decisions. We also played really well at hull.

Barnard is looking good, Moussa is looking like a decent prospect, and even with the departure of white and heath the defence isn't awful. I've still got a lot of hope for laurent if he can get a few games together. Macca and JFC are a decent pairing, grant has at times looked much better and sawyer will do the business when fit. Simon Francis is a very good player if he can sort his head out and although not the finished article I have no problems with herd starting. Mildenhall used to be **** but now he's alright and Barrett is a legend.

we may not set the world alight this year but barring administration I can't see this side going down. Add a few loanees and we could weasel a playoff place. We shouldn't allow ourselves to air our dirty linen in public on friday especially in front of the O's. Win that and then use home advantage to beat a leeds side who are weaker on paper than they have been when we've beat them in the last two seasons and drew with them the one before that and things look ok again.

My worry is the finances and the stadium not the eleven we put out in the next few weeks. I'm a bit down about things myself at the moment but lets not get carried away and put extra pressure on the lads by getting on their/Tilsons/Martins back during games as that really will result in serious on field issues.

The forums should be the place for ranting at present not the stands.
Loudmouth linesman baiter in the block T of the west stand is getting even worse this year, but unlike previous years he has restrained from attacking our players thus far. If this moron can manage it then the more sensible and informed among us can surely do the same.

Enjoy Fridays super-classico everyone, hopefully a good win can ease everyones anxieties.


applelover

 

[Matt the Shrimp]

Hats off to Wiggy for highlighting the 10/1

Taking your hat off to yourself, and referring to yourself in the third person. Wow - the ego has landed.

:stunned:

 

[mickcod]

we are southend, super southend, we are southend from roots hall.

 

[wiggy]

Taking your hat off to yourself, and referring to yourself in the third person. Wow - the ego has landed.

:stunned:

One day you will stick your neck out Matt and say something controversial, but hang on, that might upset the fellow rose tinted's that are finally realising all is not so rosy in the garden. Go on dare you to break the boring mould!

 

[Matt the Shrimp]

One day you will stick your neck out Matt and say something controversial, but hang on, that might upset the fellow rose tinted's that are finally realising all is not so rosy in the garden. Go on dare you to break the boring mould!

Boring is as boring does, my dear. At least I try not to refer to myself in the third person or take my hat off to myself!

Of course I'm not happy with recent events at the club - although, objectively, I'm not going to wail unduly about jettisoning Betsy or Revell, both of whom were mediocre underperformers. I do think the club handled Revell's departure appallingly, though, and brought a great deal of embarrassment to the club as an entity and us fans - not that I expect the utterly charmless oaf King to display a scintilla of contrition for his dreadful PR.

The club also appears to have failed abysmally about two years ago to get players signed up to proper contracts, with "step-down" clauses allowing us to reduce wages significantly in the event of our relegation from the Championship. That continues to hurt us a great deal, and there is no doubt that from a cash-flow point of view, we are in dire straits.

Geoff King's comments in pre-season about the war-chest were, with the benefit of hindsight, hopelessly wide of the mark; and, uncharitably, might be seen as a naked ploy, with little substance behind them, in an attempt to get people to buy season-tickets.

No one should be happy about any of the above. Where we differ, however, is how best we should respond.

For you, it seems that another piece of bad news is a cause for celebration - you get to jump up and down, shout "look at me", and remind us all how you are possessed with the wisdom of Solomon because you have long predicted our downfall. You seem to revell (pardon the pun) in our club's misfortune. I guess you've got to find some way to dull the pain of spunking £300 on our non-relegation last year. Where was it we finished again... 8th? Maybe you missed the second half of the season - it wasn't like we saw you on here while we were winning.

As for me, I feel a bit gloomy about things. I'll certainly be asking Ken, who will be attending tomorrow's AGM on behalf of ShrimperZone.com, to ask some difficult questions of the club, and might even request that a motion of no confidence in Geoff King be tabled, given how much of an embarrassment to our club Mr. King is.

But I never delight in our club's misfortune. I never back us to lose, because that would feel like treachery. I always have faith in Tilly & Brush to get the players to play beyond their abilities, because they always did themselves as players. I am confident that we have one of the best midfields in the division with Moussa, Grant, McCormack and JFC all battling for places; and in Lee Barnard a man who will always work tirelessly and score goals.

As usual, we're down to the bare bones and desperately short of cash. But it's "as usual". It's always been like that supporting Southend United, hasn't it?

Here's hoping the management can get the players pumped up for Friday, since three points would be a particularly sweet tonic after the recent poor stewardship of the club by Ron and especially Geoff. That said, whilst I think that the latter is in no way an asset to the club and (frankly) we'd be better off without him, I happen to think that the former has, in general, tried to move us in the right direction and does ultimately have the drive and ability to get us to a new stadium and on a firmer footing for our future. He's had a lean couple of years, though - let's hope he learns from his recent mistakes and that we turn this particular corner without too many more scrapes on the SUFC bodywork.

Matt

 

[Boreham Shrimper]

What he said :support:

 

[Reg Martin]

For you, it seems that another piece of bad news is a cause for celebration - you get to jump up and down, shout "look at me", and remind us all how you are possessed with the wisdom of Solomon because you have long predicted our downfall. You seem to revell (pardon the pun) in our club's misfortune. I guess you've got to find some way to dull the pain of spunking £300 on our non-relegation last year. Where was it we finished again... 8th? Maybe you missed the second half of the season - it wasn't like we saw you on here while we were winning.

But I never delight in our club's misfortune. I never back us to lose, because that would feel like treachery.

MtS, not for the first time you have wiped the floor with Wiggy.
It's a depressing thought (fact?) that there are some Southend fans who are enjoying the current situation because they think its proved them right.