Final League Position

[Barmy Army]

We finished 17th! I for one am disgusted by that final position. We are a much better team than 17th position represents. Sod finishing above Orient, this still reads as a **** poor season in terms of final league position.

 

[Durera]

<span style='font-family:comic sans ms'>I&#39;d have taken that at Christmas though.

Next season, next season....</span>

 

[Uncle_Rons_Teapot]

Im happy with 17th it beats being relegated as we all feared earlier in the year:)

 

[Barmy Army]

I&#39;d have taken it at Christmas as well, but we know we should be better than 17th, just a shame that we seemed to take our foot off the gas when we achieved safety.

 

[chadded]

I think I am right in saying that had we won today, we would have finished 12th.

 

[Javea Shrimper]

17th does me after such a torrid start ...

WS

 

[Notts Shrimper]

you are indeed correct. I would like to see a league table from the second half of the season alone, that would give us a better indication of where we belong, but 17th isn&#39;t so bad compared to us being in 23rd for a long time. if we can keep out best players, and maybe bring in a couple of good ones, we should do well next year. i&#39;ve seen a fair few div 2 games this season, including stockport vs barnsley today, and the standard of these teams is pretty poor, stockport survived and they are a terrible team, notts county have been dire all season, wycombe are cr*p and rushden have lost all their good players. all the teams from the play-offs down we are capable of finishing above...so there&#39;s plenty to be confident about for next season.
now, bring on euro 2004&#33;

 

[Exiled Shrimper]

The table as it would stand for our last 23 games of the season:

6 Northampton Town23 48 17
3 [P]Torquay United 23 45 +21
2 [P] Hull City 22 44 +16
1 [P] Doncaster Rovers 23 43 +17
4 Huddersfield Town 23 37 +17
7 Lincoln City 24 37 +12
11 Boston United 23 34 1
23 [R] Carlisle United 23 34 1
18 Darlington 22 33 6
8 Yeovil Town 23 31 0
17 Southend United 23 30 2
14 Cheltenham Town 24 30 -1
5 Mansfield Town 23 30 -7
16 Kidderminster Harriers 23 29 -9
13 Cambridge United 23 27 -7
12 Bury             22 27 1
20 Macclesfield Town 23 26 -11
19 Leyton Orient 23 25 -13
21 Rochdale 23 24 -4
15 Bristol Rovers 23 24 -9
10 Swansea City 23 23 -9
9 Oxford United 23 23 -10
22 Sc**thorpe United 23 18 -9
24 [R] York City 22 11 -25

 

[Benfleetshrimp]

Before the start of the season when Wignall was getting rid of lots of the squad and bringing new players in I said I would be happy with anything higher than 16th which was last seasons position. We are two places below where I would have been happy with.
But and its a massive but.............. we have the nucleus of a team that seems to be gelling well and capable of playing good attractive football.
We have Mr Southend as our new manager with a two year contract.
We have beaten Col Ewe in the first competitive match in 14 years.
We beat QPR who are now a first division team 4-0
We have been on Sky against Canvey
We have had the best weekend away to Cardiff for a National Cup final.
We have recently heard that the future of our new ground has taken a turn for the better.

This makes this season all in all a success and probably one of the most enjoyable in my life as a Shrimper.

 

[Pato the Blue]

Quote[/b] (Benfleetshrimp @ May 08 2004,22:09)]Before the start of the season when Wignall was getting rid of lots of the squad and bringing new players in I said I would be happy with anything higher than 16th which was last seasons position. We are two places below where I would have been happy with.
But and its a massive but.............. we have the nucleus of a team that seems to be gelling well and capable of playing good attractive football.
We have Mr Southend as our new manager with a two year contract.
We have beaten Col Ewe in the first competitive match in 14 years.
We beat QPR who are now a first division team 4-0
We have been on Sky against Canvey
We have had the best weekend away to Cardiff for a National Cup final.
We have recently heard that the future of our new ground has taken a turn for the better.

This makes this season all in all a success and probably one of the most enjoyable in my life as a Shrimper.

this all very true, and just be taken on and improved upon next yr. i think next yr will be better than this 1. and i truely believe that southend could be up challenging for propmotion and bigger better things.

Martin