Is anyone actually looking forward to.....

[Southend_Lady]

If I am perfectly honest I have accepted relelgation and if I am even more honest I am looking forword to L1. I know it isnt over yet but if the team have performed this poorly so far then I dont see much chance of us suddenly picking up an amazing run of wins.
So I have now resigned myself to the fact that we will be playing L1 football next year. Which might not actually be the worst thing in the world.

I think it might actually be good for the club. Sell Freddy and use the money to strengthen the team to help us consolidate and establish ourselves in L1. Press for mid table at least and build a strong squad so if in the next couple of years we manage to get promoted again - we will be prepared hopefully with a nice shiny new ground as well.

When supoprting SUFC you always have to take the rough with the smooth. This year has been our 'rough' perhaps next year it will be our 'smooth'.

 

[Rusty Lee]

Im dreading it, back to League 1, and next year I fear we could repeat that season of freefall. Southend are not a Forest who in a year or two WILL get back to the Championship.

I would try everything we can this year to stay up, I want to see southend in the premiership so I cant understand why anybody would be looking forward to being relegated.

 

[Southend_Lady]

Well everyone wants to see their team in the championship or the premiership but there is no harm in taking a step back to strengthen the team to then push for promotion in the next couple years.

If we do survive this season in the CCC whats the chances that we wont go through exactly the same thing the next season?? Id say pretty slim.

 

[Rusty Lee]

If we stay up our chances next season would be 10x better than they are now. All this step back talk is bullsh!t, if we go down we're staying down. I wish I thought the same as you lady as then I wouldnt be so annoyed at the circus which is being played out each week at Roots Hall

 

[David Essex]

up or down its all part and parcel of football ....unless you are manu chelsea and the usual teams in their respective leagues that finish mid table year in year out. Personally being a southend fan is more than just one of those tea cup rides at a fun fayre we are roller coaster material up and down and last season we reached the top of track now we are steam rolling back down. Hopefully we shall find the track thats starts to climb again...but whatever, we shall be all blue fans again next season.....Im starting to treat this season as a year off...with the trimmings and luxuries you expect at this level...Man u , now spurs...so chin up maybe lge one next season or maybe cc football who cares lets enjoy it for what it is.....and when we next take three points what a night that will be !......

 

[ARSE!!]

does anyone no how many teams went up a div 1 champions and then relegated the next season.

 

[Skyblue]

Next season in div one would be a masive struggle, far harder than staying in this div now. Would expect us to finish well in the bottom half if not drop straight though like last time. The management must pull out all the stops... get a proven goal scorer in in January, drop this defensive negative play, and if we do..... go down with guns blazzzzzzing and our heads held high!!!..... not this pathetic whimper we're getting at the moment.

 

[Rusty Lee]

I dont mind watching us lose, just want to see some fight, and like some people on this board the players have already given up

 

[sufcintheprem]

League One's not as good as people think. All of our squad would be decent players in League One and if we can keep hold of some of the better ones, we should definitely look at being one of the better teams, should it happen.

I've not written off this season yet, what would be the point of still going if I had? We're not even halfway through the season.

What worries me is that we've had so many winnable games recently and at some point (soon, actually), we'll be playing games that don't look winnable. January, with the exception of the cup game and the League Cup semi-final, certainly doesn't look much fun at all.

 

[Suffolk Shrimper In Dorset]

who wants to go to brentford away for the umpteenth time.

not me. relgation will be cack, anyone who thinks it will be a good thing is one slice short of a loaf

 

[Skyblue]

Disagree with 'we'l be ok in div one'. Look at Millwall, with their lovely stadium and large surpport base I bet they thought that they would be straight up. Forest have found it hard and even Sheffield Wed took a few years to adjust and get back out via the playoffs.

 

[Kris]

Assuming we're in League 1 next year I think we'll consolidate. I don't believe we're as bad as we were last time we were relegated from this division and the gulf between the two leagues is much greater than it used to be - as we're currently finding out. Most of our squad is contracted for next season and I think the likes of Clarke, Harrold and Francis - all promising youngsters - will get better. As long as we re-sign the cream of those who are out of contract (Sodje, Flavs, Hooper) and add to the squad wisely we'll be OK.

 

[Mick]

Quote[/b] (Skyblue @ Dec. 03 2006,16:23)]Disagree with 'we'l be ok in div one'. Look at Millwall, with their lovely stadium

Hmmm ... lovely ? .... not too bad when it's empty, I suppose.

 

[sufcintheprem]

Quote[/b] (Skyblue @ Dec. 03 2006,16:23)]Disagree with 'we'l be ok in div one'. Look at Millwall, with their lovely stadium and large surpport base I bet they thought that they would be straight up. Forest have found it hard and even Sheffield Wed took a few years to adjust and get back out via the playoffs.

It's not your stadium and support base that get you promoted though!

All of those teams you have mentioned had drifted in to a seemingly interminable decline whereas we were up against it from the time we came up.

 

[Skyblue]

The larger clubs with a larger fan base generate more income and therefore pay higher wages for better players. If we went down and did'nt start at a cracking pace its not unreasonable to asume that our gates would soon drop back to the 4-5,000 mark and with players on championship sallaries, we could be in a lot of trouble end up having to sell of our better players to keep our headsabove water. Then the cycle begins again until another Freddy is found on the cheap to transform a medioce side into one that can compete with the big boys.

 

[KrustyTheKray]

Quote[/b] (Rusty Lee @ Dec. 03 2006,12:03)]Im dreading it, back to League 1, and next year I fear we could repeat that season of freefall. Southend are not a Forest who in a year or two WILL get back to the Championship.

I would try everything we can this year to stay up, I want to see southend in the premiership so I cant understand why anybody would be looking forward to being relegated.

Spot on.

If we get relegated, and i think we will. I think we'll get relegated again to league two.

This really could be history repeating itself in terms of a freefall into the bottome tier of the football league.

 

[Jonesy tap-in]

Quote[/b] (ARSE!! @ Dec. 03 2006,14:36)]does anyone no how many teams went up a  div  1 champions and then relegated the next season.

Just started playing a bit of Football Manager again recently (God, it's like getting back on crack, but still) and was looking at Brighton's history.

They were in Lg2 in 2000/01, then got back-to-back promotions - also fired up by a quality young striker, destined for the Prem, in the shape of Zamora - but got relegated the year after.

But, got promoted the season after.

But, have since been relegated again and currently mid-table Lg1.

But it shows it can be done (ie get promoted straight back after going down) and is probably a good club to draw comparisons with.

 

[Jonesy tap-in]

To answer the original question though, it'll mean we're back in the LDV (or whatever they call it now).

 

[Southend_Lady]

Quote[/b] (Jonesy tap-in @ Dec. 03 2006,21:24)]To answer the original question though, it'll mean we're back in the LDV (or whatever they call it now).

Ha - the johnstones paint trophy - at least there will be a chance to go to Cardiff again!!

 

[silentshrimper]

If we go down and loose eastwood then we will just be a average league one team

We would have a decent defence for that level though, so it would all be down to of hooper and paynter and harrold do the buisness in league one.