Do Southend always choke at the Hall -

[Interpol Shrimper]

We lost to Doncaster and Gillingham in the last two home games in 04/05 but luckily it didn't cost us in the end.

Apart from the fact, Bristol City was the last home game of that season (& the title clincher) :D

 

[SUFC_Al]

Apart from the fact, Bristol City was the last home game of that season (& the title clincher) :D

ah your spotted my deliberate mistake sir :p

 

[Mr. Benedict]

The Yeovil game really sticks in my mind, with that **** Jevons scoring the winner from an tight angle when Daryl rushed out to close him down.

Those Northampton games were great, I think we played them 5 times that year (2 x League, 2x P-offs, 1 x LDV?), beat them 4 times & drew once.

Mind you I wouldn't have missed that Play off Final for the world.

Neither would I, however, as great as the Play Off victory was I prefer the less stressful way of promotion - via the automatics!

 

[Interpol Shrimper]

Neither would I, however, as great as the Play Off victory was I prefer the less stressful way of promotion - via the automatics!

Exactly, we should & could have won L2 that year.
All the manager (& pundits who paid attention to L2) said we were by far & away the best team. It still rankles how we went from top on April 17 to 4th on May 7 and as said in the title of another recent thread, it could only happen to Southend :(

 

[stevietheshrimper]

or Stockport in 1987, Blackpool in 1988, Peterborough in 1990, Bury in 1991, Bristol City in 2006,

Are many of the 1987/88/90/91 squads still in the team?

Recently we have bottled it.

even those games quoted where we won (Northampton / BristC) were awful performances.

We clearly have no big stage players and perhaps that's not too surprising when most of them have come from L2 and below.

Perhaps it was the deafening noise created by the fans on Saturday. Seriously if we were sitting on our hands and waiting for something to happen, we are we so bl00dy surprised that the players do likewise.

 

[Ailsa Road Shrimper]

I think it's one of those myths in football that a team performs badly in bigger games or when a bigger crowd is in attendance. Normally a bigger crowd is in attendance for a tough match (eg. top of the table clash, play off or cup tie) which means the home team's chances of winning aren't as good as they would be playing a struggling team. It's the quality of opposition that's likely to affect the outcome of a match rather than the crowd/prestige of a game.

 

[South Bank Hank]

Do Southend always choke at Roots Hall in the big games?

Simple question.
Simple answer.

No, they do not..

Manchester United, blatantly a big game against perenially one of the top 3 teams in Europe in the CC.
Result: Southend 1 Moan U 0 - Southend progress.

Bristol City, in the League One nailbiter. Do Southend go up as Champions, do they finish as runners up to arch-rivals Colchester?
Result: Southend 1 Bristol City 0 - Southend promoted as Champions.

Colchester United, big game against arch-rivals to reach the LDV Cup Final.
Result: Southend 1 Colchester 1 = Southend progress

...and there's plenty of other games. FFS, we've lost two games at home that we could easily have won, by 1 goal in each game and now we're chokers!

With fans like ours, sometimes I wonder why the opposition needs to even have any.

 

[Somerset Ex-TTB]

or Stockport in 1987, Blackpool in 1988, Peterborough in 1990, Bury in 1991, Bristol City in 2006,

Stockport, Peterborough and Bury were all away from home though, so have nothing to do with this thread.

I feel we do bottle it, as all the games recently (Yeovil, Gillingham, Doncaster, Carlisle) have all been lost 1-0 after Southend having the better of the games, but being afraid to shoot.

 

[Beefy]

Tranmere and Carlisle were relatively big games but they weren't exactly massive matches. It would have been nice to go top but if that is the criteria to decide which games are big then the Nottingham Forest game at this stage two seasons ago was just as big - bigger considering that Forest are a bigger club and it was live on television.

In the past three seasons I'd say our six biggest single matches were Northampton (h), Northampton (a), Lincoln (n) in 04/05, Swansea (a), Bristol City (h) in 05/06 and Man United (h) in 06/07. So that's four wins, two draws and no defeats. Hardly chokers.

 

[Beefy]

Actually, I'd chuck Grimsby away in there too. So that is one defeat. If you really wanted to be pedantic I suppose you could chuck Spurs away in the League Cup Quarter Final last year in too but we all know that that was really a draw and the last thing you could ever say about that night was that Southend choked.

 

[Interpol Shrimper]

Actually, I'd chuck Grimsby away in there too. So that is one defeat.

Which was actually Grimsby 1 (Reddy) - Southend 1 (Eastwood), although true, it felt like a defeat!

 

[Beefy]

Which was actually Grimsby 1 (Reddy) - Southend 1 (Eastwood), although true, it felt like a defeat!

A very good point.

I try not to think about that day, to be honest.

 

[Interpol Shrimper]

A very good point.

I try not to think about that day, to be honest.

Me neither, brings me out in a cold sweat remembering anything about that day! Only highlight was MtS blanking me in the pub prior to the match :D