Juicy story??

[Onion_Bag_Dave]

At least the "juicy" story is player bust-ups and not something about players not being paid or a winding up order etc. etc.

Yes, and the player bust ups are mostly with opposition, which I like, A LOT!

 

[londonblue]

i think taking Ramadan into account, we are more likely to see Bil on Tuesday night games than Saturdays. Speaking to my Muslim work collegue, fast breaks at 8.27pm tonight (and gets earlier as the days get shorter), so tomorrow for example, he would be allowed to fully fluid up etc at half time, making it more likely he would have the energy to complete the game.

But would he have the energy to start the game given that he will have not eaten since sun-up?

 

[londonblue]

Not yet. Waiting to find out.
I'll tease it on my twitter when I know (I'm joking btw!)

Maybe you should also mention it on your morning radio show?

 

[sufcfed]

Usualy like and agree with what you write/report chris but im not very happy about this. The club are performing well and it seems this is just to stir things up abit.

It was obvious Bilel wasnt happy at the end of the game but ''shocked his team mates'' is abit extreme, give the guy a break

As someone said above, players with issues like this dont need fines/punishments, he needs help that the club could guide him

I always remember sturrock stating ''Bilel is the heartbeat of southend'' take him away and.......?

How about reporting the fact we have a team that looks very capable of being promoted this season

 

[HOTHShrimper]

In my opinion, I quite like the fact that we've got a bit of bite about the squad. I think its been missing since our climb through the divisions with Barrett, Bentley, Sodje etc. I for one want to see the players gutted to be beaten (especially by Orient!). Training ground bust ups happen, tunnel bust ups after late arguable decisions (either way) happen. I see this as part of the game. If PS is upset, he'll deal with it his way and we move on

As far as Mohsni is concerned I genuinely believe that it is his pure honest naivity that gets him so riled. Majority of the time he was on the pitch against Orient he was brilliant, played and acted in a controlled calm manor. It wasn't until he was put up front and typical lower division centre halves Chorley and Cuthbert started digging at him. Granted, he should learn to not react as fiercely but I think he really does just think "why are they singling me out for this treatment?" . He will learn trust me.

I also think a few superstar footballers could learn a great deal from him as well. He plays like he's still a kid having a knockabout down the park and looks like he thoroughly enjoys playing the game and he doesn't earn £150-200k a week.

"Mohsni, Mohsni, Mohsni!!"

 

[ooh-andy-ansah]

Usualy like and agree with what you write/report chris but im not very happy about this. The club are performing well and it seems this is just to stir things up abit.

It was obvious Bilel wasnt happy at the end of the game but ''shocked his team mates'' is abit extreme, give the guy a break

As someone said above, players with issues like this dont need fines/punishments, he needs help that the club could guide him

I always remember sturrock stating ''Bilel is the heartbeat of southend'' take him away and.......?

How about reporting the fact we have a team that looks very capable of being promoted this season

Agree with this 100% . These bust up's are extremely common in football.

Juicy ? all a bit :dim:

 

[ChrisP1982]

sufcfed - Shocked his team-mates was what I was told, that wasn't my line, it was a quote.
What am I supposed to do, leave it out?
What happened after the game was very serious and had to be reported. It is also likely to be reported elsewhere too.
I'll also think you'll find that behind this story in the paper today there are three pages all about how well we're doing at the moment.
There were three pages on Friday and three pages tomorrow too.
That's nine in three days (see I'm good at maths!) and they were all positive stories.
I have also often reported that we have a good team and that we're capable of promotion but I work for a newspaper not a club newsletter and you report the good with the bad.

 

[Onion_Bag_Dave]

sufcfed - Shocked his team-mates was what I was told, that wasn't my line, it was a quote.
What am I supposed to do, leave it out?
What happened after the game was very serious and had to be reported. It is also likely to be reported elsewhere too.
I'll also think you'll find that behind this story in the paper today there are three pages all about how well we're doing at the moment.
There were three pages on Friday and three pages tomorrow too.
That's nine in three days (see I'm good at maths!) and they were all positive stories.
I have also often reported that we have a good team and that we're capable of promotion but I work for a newspaper not a club newsletter and you report the good with the bad.

Some of the posters on here have got so good at :net: that even the main sports journalist, reporter and commentator is biting. Quite impressive in my opinion.

I'd like to know where the quote 'Shocked his team' came from.

I'd like to know how serious this serious incident is.

Good reports, keep them up and don't be dis heartened by that Onion_Bag_Dave and the like. :smile:

 

[IloveShrimp]

sufcfed - Shocked his team-mates was what I was told, that wasn't my line, it was a quote.
What am I supposed to do, leave it out?
What happened after the game was very serious and had to be reported. It is also likely to be reported elsewhere too.
I'll also think you'll find that behind this story in the paper today there are three pages all about how well we're doing at the moment.
There were three pages on Friday and three pages tomorrow too.
That's nine in three days (see I'm good at maths!) and they were all positive stories.
I have also often reported that we have a good team and that we're capable of promotion but I work for a newspaper not a club newsletter and you report the good with the bad.

"FULL STORY IN MONDAY'S ECHO"

errrr seeing that the article was in todays Echo (Monday) don't you mean Tuesday's or other?

Not sure if I can believe the Echo if they cant even get this correct!

 

[Angell Delight]

sufcfed - Shocked his team-mates was what I was told, that wasn't my line, it was a quote.
What am I supposed to do, leave it out?
What happened after the game was very serious and had to be reported. It is also likely to be reported elsewhere too.
I'll also think you'll find that behind this story in the paper today there are three pages all about how well we're doing at the moment.
There were three pages on Friday and three pages tomorrow too.
That's nine in three days (see I'm good at maths!) and they were all positive stories.
I have also often reported that we have a good team and that we're capable of promotion but I work for a newspaper not a club newsletter and you report the good with the bad.

I take it Chris that Mohsni's bust up was solely with the Orient players?

 

[ChrisP1982]

The incident was VERY serious. And the full story is in Monday's Echo.
The website never has the whole story on it. It prints a taster of it and then hopefully people will go and buy the paper to read more.
That's the idea anyway!
So yes it is correct that the full story is in today's paper.

 

[Matt the Shrimp]

:'(

What about us exiles who can't get a hold of the paper?

 

[londonblue]

What about us exiles who can't get a hold of the paper?

Yeah! (The clue's in my name!)

 

[ChrisP1982]

Then you won't get the full story I'm afraid.

 

[The General]

Tough luck.

:finger:

 

[bazzashrimper]

Chris - is there amyway you could arrange for the full story to be posted up, say 24 hours after the snippit story?

 

[ChrisP1982]

Could do but then it still presents the same problem of people not having to buy the paper if the whole story is online.

 

[Shrimpergonzo]

Fair enough, can someone who is not an exile and has a copy of today's echo please tell us anything substantial that is not in the online version please!

 

[jamesmut2000]

Could do but then it still presents the same problem of people not having to buy the paper if the whole story is online.

But 24 hours later you're not gonna buy yesterday's paper anyway. And us exiles won't buy a copy anyway as they don't sell it near us!

 

[Richard Hearn]

I'd be interested in Chris's views on why he thinks Bilel overeacts like he does. CP speaks to him and the players more than we do so must have an insight. I have met and spoken to Bilel as have others. I found him most polite, charming and accommodating as has everybody else who I have heard of having met him. He goes the extra mile when dealing with fans or performing his extra curricular duties and CP has said to me that he is a different class of player in this respect. So why the red mist? What arouses Mr Hyde?