Is this the lowest southend have ever fallen?

[Mick]

Nope , Harlow beat in 1979, they were isthmian Prem ,we were div 3 (league1) that’s 4 divs difference

I think you'll find that back then the pyramid hadn't really started to take shape (no NLN and NLS) and it was only 3 levels difference.

 

[Gt Yarmouth Shrimper]

Tacticaly poor.
Any opposition who has a high pressure gets the better of us.
Why, when we have a corner does our 9 run towards the corner taker? He should be on the back post....

No he shouldn't. He should be on the half way line, waiting for a loose ball to be projected up field.

 

[bazzashrimper]

No he shouldn't. He should be on the half way line, waiting for a loose ball to be projected up field.

No. The number 10 should be. The big lads should be defending. Plenty of times today hopper cleared from set play balls into our box

 

[Smiffy]

As a one off game, this is definitely up there with the most embarrassing defeats in our history. Along with the likes of Dover, Aylesbury, Harlow etc.

 

[fbm]

Tacticaly poor.
Any opposition who has a high pressure gets the better of us.
Why, when we have a corner does our 9 run towards the corner taker? He should be on the back post....

Except they didn't have a high press. They just sat back and basically said "Go on then... what have you got?".

The answer was not very much

 

[Flinty]

Except they didn't have a high press. They just sat back and basically said "Go on then... what have you got?".

The answer was not very much

They didn’t even particularly sit back, we have seen teams drop to the halfway line and defend from there, but they didn’t even do that, there were massive gaps all over the pitch when we had the ball we were just too slow to do anything about it. They packed their box yes and got bodies in the way, that’s was it

 

[old leigh shrimper]

The Kingstonian defeat at home in the FA cup was another bad one........just sayin.

 

[Smiffy]

What I do know is this…

Last season I felt connected to a Southend team for the first time in years.

This season I feel more disconnected from the team, than my phone signal at Roots Hall.

They aren’t giving us the same effort and fight for the shirt and we aren’t either in return. There’s a big hangover I think and some are damaged beyond repair.

We need to find a way to “mutually agree” to terminate a number of contracts this summer I am afraid. We are overloaded with some absolutely bang average players, some of which that just don’t care like they used to.

 

[rayleigh dan]

Cup tie embarrassment wise, 100% yes.

 

[rayleigh dan]

The Kingstonian defeat at home in the FA cup was another bad one........just sayin.

That was bad, but they only one division lower than us.

I might be wrong, but I’m certain we’ve never lost to a team 3 divisions lower before. Dover were 2 divisions lower and we were away, I thought that was as bad as it gets!

 

[Strykr]

The moment we dropped out of the football league was the worst for me. And tbh its all been bad since then.

 

[Shrimperjohn]

The moment we dropped out of the football was the worst for me. And for me its all been as bad since then.

You probably mean dropping out of the football league but actually you have hit the nail on the head… we dropped out of football…. End..

 

[Strykr]

You probably mean dropping out of the football league but actually you have hit the nail on the head… we dropped out of football…. End..

Lol yes edited now. Long day for me.

 

[Mad Cyril]

I think our lowest ebb was when someone soiled themselves at a reserve game and had to borrow a pair of trackies

 

[Mad Cyril]

The worst thing about this giant killing is that won’t even be reported outside of whatever local rag serves Sittingbourne

 

[Ricey]

Yep, ****ing awful!

 

[dusterman]

What I do know is this…

Last season I felt connected to a Southend team for the first time in years.

This season I feel more disconnected from the team, than my phone signal at Roots Hall.

They aren’t giving us the same effort and fight for the shirt and we aren’t either in return. There’s a big hangover I think and some are damaged beyond repair.

We need to find a way to “mutually agree” to terminate a number of contracts this summer I am afraid. We are overloaded with some absolutely bang average players, some of which that just don’t care like they used to.

I feel Kev has suffered as much (more) as he often says the players/staff have by the whole situation of the last few years. He appears the most get on with it type bloke, but sometimes, even for the hardiest of us, what you go through can be surmountable but then sucker-punches you when you least expect it (like bereavement). It might have all been too much, even for Kev.

 

[Tommy2holes]

This is up there. We should never be losing to Sittingbourne. End of

 

[rayleigh dan]

What I do know is this…

Last season I felt connected to a Southend team for the first time in years.

This season I feel more disconnected from the team, than my phone signal at Roots Hall.

They aren’t giving us the same effort and fight for the shirt and we aren’t either in return. There’s a big hangover I think and some are damaged beyond repair.

We need to find a way to “mutually agree” to terminate a number of contracts this summer I am afraid. We are overloaded with some absolutely bang average players, some of which that just don’t care like they used to.

I agree to a large extent. I do feel that our recent recruitment has fallen way short of the quality of the early Maher signings though. This needs addressing urgently, what’s gone wrong? Whilst some of our previous top performers have been consistently below par (Bridge, Husin, Miley…), I have little faith that any replacements will be improvements right now.

 

[PIERS]

We are lower than Jeff kings Canvey team , 95/05 that team would batter us now.
they played 3 centre backs.. Bodley Ward and one other I cant remember in their glory days.
the 2 wing backs hardly ever spent any tine in their own half , mind you having Tilson and Stimpson in the middle helped