Adam Thompson

[Ricey]

Move to ex Shrimpers please, he's gone and I don't care...... We can get better players in.

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[WESTY_SUFC]

I think if you took Collymore out of that team, it wouldn't have been very good!!!

However I do believe we did play some of the best football last season than I've seen in a long while; I'm not saying it was the best, but it was certainly up there with the Webb and Fry (post Collymore) periods, which IMO are the other times we played decent football.

In terms of Thommo, it wouldn't have hurt so much if he had gone to a bigger side, and no disrespect to Bury, but their average attendance is half ours, so I can't see how that is an improvement!

Tilsons league champions were better than what we had last season and played better football.

 

[rigsby]

That's a bold statement, unless you are under 25. I rate the team that had Collymore in it a better team. What a season that was. You take Cox, Ranger, Lenny and Ferdy out, there's not much left really.

If you take out Wordsworth, McL and Coker there's even less. So apart from those 7 and some good players on the bench like Fortune Robinson and White, we are rubbish

 

[Parold]

That's a bold statement, unless you are under 25. I rate the team that had Collymore in it a better team. What a season that was. You take Cox, Ranger, Lenny and Ferdy out, there's not much left really.

When Collymore was in the team we only survived relegation on the last game of the season.

 

[davewebbsbrain]

When Collymore was in the team we only survived relegation on the last game of the season.

In the championship. Had this seasons team been in the championship we would have been murdered every week.

How about the season after, the one with Otto etc playing I think maybe they played even better football that the Collymore season if I'm honest. Maybe even our first season in the old second division where we beat Newcastle 4-0 on New Years day to go top for the afternoon. Now that was good season with a great bunch of players

 

[BriggBlue]

at this moment in time losing Thommo looks like a massive loss, however he did only have one good season, even then he had to be instructed what to do every match by an experienced pro. Will he kick on and continue improving or will he stagnate only time will tell but I wouldn't be surprised if he went backwards.

We were already looking for an upgrade on CB before Thommo went which may have played a part, there was no guarantee that he would start week in week out.

It's still very early in the window, lets see who comes in.

 

[Angell Delight]

Take Collymore out of that 1992/3 side and we'd have finished rock bottom, he made such a huge difference to us. The best Southend side I have ever seen was definitely the 1993/4 side with the likes of Otto, Angell, Mooney, Ansah, Powell etc. What a team that was, we were absolutely flying in the first half of that season. Played some great football and scored a lot of goals. We may well have reached the Premier League that year if Fry hadn't jumped ship to Birmingham and taken half the players with him....:sad:

 

[Leoblue]

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Nope, I don't give a toss.

 

[leeblue]

Take Collymore out of that 1992/3 side and we'd have finished rock bottom, he made such a huge difference to us. The best Southend side I have ever seen was definitely the 1993/4 side with the likes of Otto, Angell, Mooney, Ansah, Powell etc. What a team that was, we were absolutely flying in the first half of that season. Played some great football and scored a lot of goals. We may well have reached the Premier League that year if Fry hadn't jumped ship to Birmingham and taken half the players with him....:sad:

Ricky Otto was ridiculously good for that season... mind blowing in fact. I'm 100 percent sure if fry had stayed we would have gone up.

 

[BrettieAngell]

Take Collymore out of that 1992/3 side and we'd have finished rock bottom, he made such a huge difference to us. The best Southend side I have ever seen was definitely the 1993/4 side with the likes of Otto, Angell, Mooney, Ansah, Powell etc. What a team that was, we were absolutely flying in the first half of that season. Played some great football and scored a lot of goals. We may well have reached the Premier League that year if Fry hadn't jumped ship to Birmingham and taken half the players with him....:sad:

Yeah 100% the best team I've ever seen, such a shame the way it all ended.

 

[E for B and Billy Best]

Ricky Otto was ridiculously good for that season... mind blowing in fact. I'm 100 percent sure if fry had stayed we would have gone up.

Totally agree. Great team and really is a case of what might have been. My anger for Fry has subsided, but still can't stand Birmingham, Brady et al for knackering that season up for us.

 

[USAShrimper]

Tilsons league champions were better than what we had last season and played better football.

Agree with this, by far the "Best Team" and the best football in my 40 odd years of supporting.

 

[LCBB72]

Totally agree. Great team and really is a case of what might have been. My anger for Fry has subsided, but still can't stand Birmingham, Brady et al for knackering that season up for us.

Karen Brady is ***** ,, Karen Brady is a ***** .

 

[jaffa1]

NORTHERN Ireland international Adam Thompson says following his “gut instinct” led to him swapping Southend for Bury.
The centre-back penned a three-year deal at Gigg Lane after being wowed by manager Lee Clark and the club’s Championship ambitions.
Thompson made 121 appearances for the Blues over a four-year spell and turned down a contract extension on the Essex coast to link up with the Shakers.
The 24-year-old was away with the Northern Ireland national side when the deal was completed, but it was his chat with his new boss beforehand which swayed his decision to uproot.


“Just before I went away I heard Bury were interested so I drove up to speak to Brassy (Chris Brass), the manager and the chairman (Stewart Day),” Thompson told Bury Times.
“I had a brief look around the training ground too and as soon as I got in my car afterwards I said to my agent that this was the club I wanted to be at.
“Sometimes in football you never know how things are going to turn out but it was my gut instinct to move.
“Even though Southend tried their best to keep me, the way the manager spoke about his plans, a potential new stadium, the training facility at Carrington, the players he wanted to bring in – there was a real buzz.
“I have been to four countries over the last three weeks so to get the deal over the line was a bit hectic.
“There was a lot of sending contracts back and forth while I was in Northern Ireland.”
Thompson returned from international duty on Monday after his side recorded a friendly victory against New Zealand and a World Cup qualifying win away to Azerbaijan.
Northern Ireland sit second in Group C and are in a good position to qualify for next year’s World Cup.
The former Watford and Brentford man will now re-charge his batteries with a short break before returning for pre-season on July 26 to meet his new team-mates.
“Being away with the national side was an unbelievable experience,” he added. “It has been six years since I was last called up so it was great to be back.


“Although I didn’t play any matches it was great to be around the squad and we got two fantastic results which puts us in a good place in the group.
“I hope I did enough on the training ground to be in the manager's thoughts again and hopefully get into the squad when the next qualifiers come around.
“Now the aim is to get in the Championship.
“Every player in League One wants to play in the Championship and when you look at this league Bury has the most potential to get there.
“I am 24 years old and have never lived away from home before. I thought if there was a time in my life to do it was now.”
However, things could have turned out so different for Thompson had Bury or Southend had different outcomes when they met on the final day of last season at Roots Hall.
The Blues beat Bury 1-0 but narrowly missed out on the play-offs after waiting on the turf for result of rivals Millwall to be confirmed, while the Shakers avoided relegation by the skin of their teeth despite the defeat.
But who would have thought Bury would have had the pull back then to take key players from other promotion-chasing sides this season? Certainly not Thompson.
He said: “From the outside world you would never have known about these plans or the facilities (at Bury).
“When we played Bury on the last game of the season they were one of the in-form teams of the league (despite their position in the table) but I never imagined things would turn out like this.


“I knew about Lee Clark and of his record so I suspected when he took over at Bury that they would do well.
“The club has everything to be successful now and I want to be part of that.”

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

NORTHERN Ireland international Adam Thompson says following his “gut instinct” led to him swapping Southend for Bury.
The centre-back penned a three-year deal at Gigg Lane after being wowed by manager Lee Clark and the club’s Championship ambitions.
Thompson made 121 appearances for the Blues over a four-year spell and turned down a contract extension on the Essex coast to link up with the Shakers.
The 24-year-old was away with the Northern Ireland national side when the deal was completed, but it was his chat with his new boss beforehand which swayed his decision to uproot.


“Just before I went away I heard Bury were interested so I drove up to speak to Brassy (Chris Brass), the manager and the chairman (Stewart Day),” Thompson told Bury Times.
“I had a brief look around the training ground too and as soon as I got in my car afterwards I said to my agent that this was the club I wanted to be at.
“Sometimes in football you never know how things are going to turn out but it was my gut instinct to move.
“Even though Southend tried their best to keep me, the way the manager spoke about his plans, a potential new stadium, the training facility at Carrington, the players he wanted to bring in – there was a real buzz.
“I have been to four countries over the last three weeks so to get the deal over the line was a bit hectic.
“There was a lot of sending contracts back and forth while I was in Northern Ireland.”
Thompson returned from international duty on Monday after his side recorded a friendly victory against New Zealand and a World Cup qualifying win away to Azerbaijan.
Northern Ireland sit second in Group C and are in a good position to qualify for next year’s World Cup.
The former Watford and Brentford man will now re-charge his batteries with a short break before returning for pre-season on July 26 to meet his new team-mates.
“Being away with the national side was an unbelievable experience,” he added. “It has been six years since I was last called up so it was great to be back.


“Although I didn’t play any matches it was great to be around the squad and we got two fantastic results which puts us in a good place in the group.
“I hope I did enough on the training ground to be in the manager's thoughts again and hopefully get into the squad when the next qualifiers come around.
“Now the aim is to get in the Championship.
“Every player in League One wants to play in the Championship and when you look at this league Bury has the most potential to get there.
“I am 24 years old and have never lived away from home before. I thought if there was a time in my life to do it was now.”
However, things could have turned out so different for Thompson had Bury or Southend had different outcomes when they met on the final day of last season at Roots Hall.
The Blues beat Bury 1-0 but narrowly missed out on the play-offs after waiting on the turf for result of rivals Millwall to be confirmed, while the Shakers avoided relegation by the skin of their teeth despite the defeat.
But who would have thought Bury would have had the pull back then to take key players from other promotion-chasing sides this season? Certainly not Thompson.
He said: “From the outside world you would never have known about these plans or the facilities (at Bury).
“When we played Bury on the last game of the season they were one of the in-form teams of the league (despite their position in the table) but I never imagined things would turn out like this.


“I knew about Lee Clark and of his record so I suspected when he took over at Bury that they would do well.
“The club has everything to be successful now and I want to be part of that.”

Suspect it was the 3 year deal more than anything else that tempted him there.Having seen the Bury match on the last day of the season the idea that they have a better chance of making the Championship than SUFC next season is just laughable.

 

[Rattus Norvegicus]

Suspect it was the 3 year deal more than anything else that tempted him there.Having seen the Bury match on the last day of the season the idea that they have a better chance of making the Championship than SUFC next season is just laughable.

Well, stranger things in football happen .......... such as Blackpool getting promoted to the top division. I thought Lee Clark was a decent manager a few years ago - perhaps Lee can (like Tilly did) put together a squad that comes together and wins together.

 

[THE SEVENTIES NORTH BANK]

NORTHERN Ireland international Adam Thompson says following his “gut instinct” led to him swapping Southend for Bury.
The centre-back penned a three-year deal at Gigg Lane after being wowed by manager Lee Clark and the club’s Championship ambitions.
Thompson made 121 appearances for the Blues over a four-year spell and turned down a contract extension on the Essex coast to link up with the Shakers.
The 24-year-old was away with the Northern Ireland national side when the deal was completed, but it was his chat with his new boss beforehand which swayed his decision to uproot.


“Just before I went away I heard Bury were interested so I drove up to speak to Brassy (Chris Brass), the manager and the chairman (Stewart Day),” Thompson told Bury Times.
“I had a brief look around the training ground too and as soon as I got in my car afterwards I said to my agent that this was the club I wanted to be at.
“Sometimes in football you never know how things are going to turn out but it was my gut instinct to move.
“Even though Southend tried their best to keep me, the way the manager spoke about his plans, a potential new stadium, the training facility at Carrington, the players he wanted to bring in – there was a real buzz.
“I have been to four countries over the last three weeks so to get the deal over the line was a bit hectic.
“There was a lot of sending contracts back and forth while I was in Northern Ireland.”
Thompson returned from international duty on Monday after his side recorded a friendly victory against New Zealand and a World Cup qualifying win away to Azerbaijan.
Northern Ireland sit second in Group C and are in a good position to qualify for next year’s World Cup.
The former Watford and Brentford man will now re-charge his batteries with a short break before returning for pre-season on July 26 to meet his new team-mates.
“Being away with the national side was an unbelievable experience,” he added. “It has been six years since I was last called up so it was great to be back.


“Although I didn’t play any matches it was great to be around the squad and we got two fantastic results which puts us in a good place in the group.
“I hope I did enough on the training ground to be in the manager's thoughts again and hopefully get into the squad when the next qualifiers come around.
“Now the aim is to get in the Championship.
“Every player in League One wants to play in the Championship and when you look at this league Bury has the most potential to get there.
“I am 24 years old and have never lived away from home before. I thought if there was a time in my life to do it was now.”
However, things could have turned out so different for Thompson had Bury or Southend had different outcomes when they met on the final day of last season at Roots Hall.
The Blues beat Bury 1-0 but narrowly missed out on the play-offs after waiting on the turf for result of rivals Millwall to be confirmed, while the Shakers avoided relegation by the skin of their teeth despite the defeat.
But who would have thought Bury would have had the pull back then to take key players from other promotion-chasing sides this season? Certainly not Thompson.
He said: “From the outside world you would never have known about these plans or the facilities (at Bury).
“When we played Bury on the last game of the season they were one of the in-form teams of the league (despite their position in the table) but I never imagined things would turn out like this.


“I knew about Lee Clark and of his record so I suspected when he took over at Bury that they would do well.
“The club has everything to be successful now and I want to be part of that.”

He forgot to mention that Bury offered him more money than Southend, and that was probably the main reason to join Bury. Some players it's all about the money. Their average attendance last season was 3,845, so it wasn't the pull of a big crowd.

 

[Rattus Norvegicus]

He forgot to mention that Bury offered him more money than Southend, and that was probably the main reason to join Bury. Some players it's all about the money. Their average attendance last season was 3,845, so it wasn't the pull of a big crowd.

If they (Bury) do well this coming season, then their crowds will probably rise. And rise again if they get promoted.

I'm disappointed that Thommo moved on but I am not going to make out that he is a doughnut because he chose to leave mighty Southend. And crowd size doesn't mean success ............ there are numerous examples of that.

 

[THE SEVENTIES NORTH BANK]

If they (Bury) do well this coming season, then their crowds will probably rise. And rise again if they get promoted.

I'm disappointed that Thommo moved on but I am not going to make out that he is a doughnut because he chose to leave mighty Southend. And crowd size doesn't mean success ............ there are numerous examples of that.

I was pointing out that many players in the past have commented on playing in front of a bigger crowd, as a major reason to leave a club. Our average was about twice Bury's attendance.

 

[LennySUFC]

Before Anton signed and played alongside him, he was pretty average. Not sure who will partner him but I am certain he won't be as influential as he was down here.

Mind you, if he plays **** you won't be able to hear the 1500 boo'ing him!