Official Match Thread Oxford v Southend United

[dbailey3]

I just love you southend

 

[McNasty]

Tactical brilliance as it paid off. Wiggy won't like it.

 

[davewebbsbrain]

Doesn't matter whether we've heard of it before or not. Who's the player that can influence the greatest number of penalties? The keeper, because he faces (maybe) five and the takers only get one each. He's your most important player at that moment.

I make you right. No matter what we all think of Smith, Bentley is a bit of a penalty specialist for some reason. Good call by Sturrock.

 

[eastling]

AMAZING!! I wonder how Smith will react.

Indeed this is very crucial. Especially with Exeter and Brentford away.

Bring on Orient ..

 

[leeblue]

Sturrock sees smith and bentley everyday in training, its quite obvious that during training bentley saves lots of penalties and smith does not, so maybe in sturrocks mind it was an easy choice

 

[Crabby Shrimper]

Lucky lucky Sturrock.

"I have plenty of clever generals but just give me a lucky one" - some shortarse Frenchman

 

[blake]

Sturrock, genius or crazy, you decide

Aren't all geniuses crazy?

 

[wiggy]

OMG Paul Sturrock you are a god. Hope Smith takes it as meant for the team rather than a personal insult

Very lucky Sturrock....If i was Smith i'd stick up two fingers and then let everyone see what a very average keeper Bentley really is!

 

[MrB]

Leicester v Palace 1996 play off final.

The game ended 1-1 at 90 minutes and went into extra-time. The biggest talking point of extra-time came with just seconds to go; Martin O'Neill sent on his substitute goalkeeper Željko Kalac, expecting the 6 ft 7in keeper to be a better bet at saving penalties than Kevin Poole. Immediately following the resumption of play, a long free-kick was only partially cleared by the Crystal Palace defence and the ball came back out to an unmarked St*v* Cl*r*dg* on the edge of the Palace box. Cl*ridg* then volleyed home the winner from 20 yards past the hapless Nigel Martyn with just under half a minute of extra-time left to play. Some Crystal Palace players later admitted they were put off by the substitution, though O'Neill admitted that was never the intention.

 

[Strykr]

Wooo haaa!!!

10-1 smith hands in a transfer request

benyon scored, miraculous!

We hate orient, we hate orient,

UTB

 

[Beefy]

Sturrock sees smith and bentley everyday in training, its quite obvious that during training bentley saves lots of penalties and smith does not, so maybe in sturrocks mind it was an easy choice

Before the last round, Bentley said that he's not usually very good with penalties.

Either way that was a ballsy call from Paul Sturrock. Very, very ballsy.

 

[cornwall blues]

Hell, wish I could have been there!!!

 

[Maroon Blue]

In Luggy we trust, take a bow son

 

[Swiss Tony]

Can't wait for the Mockney games,especially the away leg,guess they will travel up on the train with us lot.

 

[Austin the Shrimper]

Well done lads.. These boys have got some bottle

 

[LeedsSUFC]

What an expensive year to be a Southend fan!!!!!!!!!! :stunned:

 

[Beefy]

A nice Shrimperzone shout-out from Stan Collymore as well. What a night.

 

[Billy Bests boot laces]

Anyone know the dates of the area finals?. With another 'big freeze ' looming, we dont want a fixture congestion, with 2-3 extra games to add to the calendar?.
Reckon Smith will be destroyed by this, despite us being victorious.

 

[McNasty]

Wooo haaa!!!

10-1 smith hands in a transfer request

benyon scored, miraculous!

We hate orient, we hate orient,

UTB

With the stick he gets at RH it might be better if he went.

 

[Baskerville194]

told you we would win, not 4-2 but 5-3 on pens