Simple Poll

[Matt the Shrimp]

Most of the polls I've seen on this site concerning the thorny issue of our current league position have been full of permutations... we'll stay up if Tilly plays Collis, we'll go down if Bradders hasn't flossed his teeth... that sort of thing.

That's all far too complicated for a simple mind like mine - so, instead, mine is a simple question.

In your heart of hearts, which division do you think we will be playing in next season?

:confused:

Matt

 

[Flinty]

Championship for me...final day safety ....Southend we are always lastminute.com

 

[SUFC_Al]

my head is telling it's not over but in my heart we're down :(

 

[NZamba Legend]

My heart says Matt Harrold is trying his best but my head says where is Billy Paynter?

 

[GrimmRobes]

I take no pleasure in being defeatist, but I just can't see us staying up. The team look knackered with very little fight left in them, up front we have as much potency as a busload of eunuchs and at the back we're shipping soft goals left right and centre. What's more, it looks like the teams we were counting on getting our noses in front of are now raising their game. Quite simply, for this squad at this point in time the Championship is a bridge too far.

 

[CC51DAS]

I think we will escape by the skin of our teeth at Southampton . It was always going to go down to the wire wasn't it ?

We are due and will need a few strokes of luck along the way tho

 

[andrew_sthnd]

Championship safety.....hopefully.

BELIEVE!

 

[Uncle Leo]

There's a good reason we're currently trading at about 2/7 - i.e. a 77.78% chance - to be relegated. It's because it's bloody likely to happen I'm afraid.

 

[DTS]

Sorry to say after Saturday in my book we are down now.

 

[Flinty]

LOL

SouthendersTrueFaith.........has us in league one next season :thump:

 

[A Century United]

I think it very, very likely that we will be in League One next season, but until it is certain we have to get behind the team as if our lives depend on it, and give them every chance of turning this around. It's not over until we all give up!

 

[shrimper dan]

I am going to have to say league 1, from the way we played against barnsley. i have tried to be optimistic but i cant see it any more. were going to have to beat plymouth, try and get something from southampton and we have to hammer luton for the goal difference. and when i say hammer i mean 5-0 or higher. i have a bad feeling it will come down to goal difference. if it does we are screwed.

 

[Matt the Shrimp]

I think it very, very likely that we will be in League One next season, but until it is certain we have to get behind the team as if our lives depend on it, and give them every chance of turning this around. It's not over until we all give up!

Tom, I admire your spirit and your senitments... but I can't share them. Perhaps I'm already too cynical for my tender years, but I can't help thinking that it's not really up to us, is it? Ultimately, it's up to the players - do they want it enough, and do they believe in themselves enough?

After last Saturday's horror-show, I have to say that I sincerely doubt it...

:cry:

 

[Bielzibubz]

As much as my glass is always half full and I am to a certain extent THE eternal optimist I can't help but feel that the fight for Championship status is, and was, a fight too far.

I would love to be proved wrong but I feel that unless the players belief in themselves returns (if it ever disappeared) and returns in spades, we are very much out of it I'm afraid.

If our Championship survival is going to hinge on the outcome of the Southampton game then I for one can only guess at the amount of nervous tension I'm going to feel. So in that respect perhaps a thought should be spared for the players with so much expectation weighted upon their shoulders.

 

[The Colours Between]

id love to stay up, but i fear i will be watching leauge 1 football out of my window next season.

 

[Uncle Leo]

Perhaps I'm already too cynical for my tender years

You're not that 'tender' mate ;)

 

[Interpol Shrimper]

You're not that 'tender' mate ;)

I can feel my fingering wavering over that negative rep button!
Don't disrespect the 1973 crew!

:p

 

[Matt the Shrimp]

You're not that 'tender' mate ;)

Negative rep is on its way to Middlesex, you cheeky young whippersnapper....

:guns: :p

 

[Suffolk Blue]

Staying up if we win on Saturday!

 

[Slipperduke]

For six months I had a signature that pointed out our winnable run-in gave us a great chance.

You just can't face Leeds, Barnsley and Colchester at home, take a solitary point and hope to stay up.

Don't get me wrong, I'll be there for Luton and I'll be at St Marys, but I just can't see it happening.