Last minute winner

[LukeK1989]

I’m with you on Bonne. He’s got that grit and fight that really fires the team up. Yeah, he’s been inconsistent, but when he does click, it’s electric. Plus, scoring that winner would totally shut up the doubters and show how much he’s grown. Would love to see him step up in that moment.

 

[Callum]

Josh walker what scenes that would be

 

[Bearded Shrimper]

Jack Bridge.

The local boy who came through the youth system all the way from a 7(?) year old and made his way into the first team squad before being discarded by Phil Brown in 2018.

In 2020 when he’s out of contract he tries to return to his home town club and has the world’s longest trial, turning down opportunities elsewhere, whilst the club tries unsuccessfully to lift the embargo. He waits so long for matters to be resolved his opportunities evaporate and ends up playing at Concord for half a season before Bromley rescue him.

Undeterred in 2021 he returns despite the manager who let him go being reappointed, despite the financial situation at the club being ever more precarious. His wages are regularly unpaid but he turns in performance after performance as our whole attacking game is funnelled down his side of the pitch.

By the summer of 2023/24 he’s out of contract again but the club is under yet another embargo so can’t offer him a new deal. He turns down a move to EFL Notts County to continue to play for the club on a non-contract basis knowing he had no injury protection and that the club could go under at any time. It’s a good job he does as the club has to play half a season with a 16 man squad. With the squad undermanned Bridge steps up and plays every game that season (the only one to do so), regularly playing through the knocks delivered by NL defenders unable to keep up with his trickery.

By 24/25 some fans have forgotten his loyalty and suggesting he needs to be replaced but he comes off the bench to rescue us in the playoff semifinals. When we need getting back on track in the penalty shootout he buries his penalty and gets us back into it.

He seems forever to be doing stuff for the Junior Blues; he’s simultaneously the face of both the local airport and the local trains.

As great as it would be for Harry Taylor to replicate Duncan Jupp or Macauley Bonne to redeem himself, the answer has to be Jack Bridge. He is Mr Southend.

I only hope he gets to celebrate the winner by somehow pulling out a Rossi ice cream with which to mime walking with Salvo the Clown and the Owl Man down the pier as his celebration.

this could be the best thing ever written on Shrimperzone. This right here is what it's all about, and why Jack Bridge is a true Southend hero. This is what supporting Southend is about

 

[Gremlin]

100% Harry Taylor.

My choice too. Understated, underrated, consistently good and has never scored for us.

It's written in the stars, I'm telling you.

 

[dusterman]

My choice too. Understated, underrated, consistently good and has never scored for us.

It's written in the stars, I'm telling you.

Hope so, squire.

 

[CrippsCorner]

Jack Bridge.

The local boy who came through the youth system all the way from a 7(?) year old and made his way into the first team squad before being discarded by Phil Brown in 2018.

In 2020 when he’s out of contract he tries to return to his home town club and has the world’s longest trial, turning down opportunities elsewhere, whilst the club tries unsuccessfully to lift the embargo. He waits so long for matters to be resolved his opportunities evaporate and ends up playing at Concord for half a season before Bromley rescue him.

Undeterred in 2021 he returns despite the manager who let him go being reappointed, despite the financial situation at the club being ever more precarious. His wages are regularly unpaid but he turns in performance after performance as our whole attacking game is funnelled down his side of the pitch.

By the summer of 2023/24 he’s out of contract again but the club is under yet another embargo so can’t offer him a new deal. He turns down a move to EFL Notts County to continue to play for the club on a non-contract basis knowing he had no injury protection and that the club could go under at any time. It’s a good job he does as the club has to play half a season with a 16 man squad. With the squad undermanned Bridge steps up and plays every game that season (the only one to do so), regularly playing through the knocks delivered by NL defenders unable to keep up with his trickery.

By 24/25 some fans have forgotten his loyalty and suggesting he needs to be replaced but he comes off the bench to rescue us in the playoff semifinals. When we need getting back on track in the penalty shootout he buries his penalty and gets us back into it.

He seems forever to be doing stuff for the Junior Blues; he’s simultaneously the face of both the local airport and the local trains.

As great as it would be for Harry Taylor to replicate Duncan Jupp or Macauley Bonne to redeem himself, the answer has to be Jack Bridge. He is Mr Southend.

I only hope he gets to celebrate the winner by somehow pulling out a Rossi ice cream with which to mime walking with Salvo the Clown and the Owl Man down the pier as his celebration.

Fantastic, and to be honest you're probably right.

My first thought though was Bonne, of maybe KAF as he's got so many man of the matches.

 

[TheSouthendUnitedRunner]

Jack Bridge.

The local boy who came through the youth system all the way from a 7(?) year old and made his way into the first team squad before being discarded by Phil Brown in 2018.

In 2020 when he’s out of contract he tries to return to his home town club and has the world’s longest trial, turning down opportunities elsewhere, whilst the club tries unsuccessfully to lift the embargo. He waits so long for matters to be resolved his opportunities evaporate and ends up playing at Concord for half a season before Bromley rescue him.

Undeterred in 2021 he returns despite the manager who let him go being reappointed, despite the financial situation at the club being ever more precarious. His wages are regularly unpaid but he turns in performance after performance as our whole attacking game is funnelled down his side of the pitch.

By the summer of 2023/24 he’s out of contract again but the club is under yet another embargo so can’t offer him a new deal. He turns down a move to EFL Notts County to continue to play for the club on a non-contract basis knowing he had no injury protection and that the club could go under at any time. It’s a good job he does as the club has to play half a season with a 16 man squad. With the squad undermanned Bridge steps up and plays every game that season (the only one to do so), regularly playing through the knocks delivered by NL defenders unable to keep up with his trickery.

By 24/25 some fans have forgotten his loyalty and suggesting he needs to be replaced but he comes off the bench to rescue us in the playoff semifinals. When we need getting back on track in the penalty shootout he buries his penalty and gets us back into it.

He seems forever to be doing stuff for the Junior Blues; he’s simultaneously the face of both the local airport and the local trains.

As great as it would be for Harry Taylor to replicate Duncan Jupp or Macauley Bonne to redeem himself, the answer has to be Jack Bridge. He is Mr Southend.

I only hope he gets to celebrate the winner by somehow pulling out a Rossi ice cream with which to mime walking with Salvo the Clown and the Owl Man down the pier as his celebration.

The only correct answer.

The only one, for me, who comes close is Nathan Ralph.

Like Jack, he played the majority of our embargo season on non-contract basis. Any form of injury and he was knackered, we could discard him at the drop of a hat if we wanted to, and you know a certain ex-owner who have had he picked up a serious injury.

So he literally put his body on the line for the club. He also, along with the 23 other captains in the division, did a lot of work regarding the new contracts that were spoken about with players only being eligible for statutory sick pay in injured too.

A fantastic player who has served us so well, and the majority of his time here has been pretty rancid as a club. He, more than most, deserves to be the one to fire us up.

 

[Dave Smiths Love Child]

For me Ron Martin scores, turns to the crowd going wild thinking “ How the hell, did I manage to **** this up “ Rats raining down from the stands

 

[Realist]

Predicting one today in normal or extra time.
No penalties please. Thanks in advance