Tommy2holes
Life President⭐
Well here we are again. Tonight is the second game of the season and for once we dont face cheltenham town, but we do face a decent team in bristol city.
City for those who dont know ply there trade in the championsip and are tipped by some to be a dark horse in the race for the holy grail that is the premier league. They have certainly helped there cause by signing england goalkeeper david james whom as we all know played just weeks ago in the world cup.
Im sure they will have been greatly dissapointed to start the season by getting thumped by newly promoted millwall by 3 goals to nil. A wake up im sure for david james im sure.
As a point of note and one which dissapoints me personally, its only 4 years ago that we beat city to claim the league 1 title . However football kama has a way of having the last laugh and we are now in the basement division whilst city are signing england internationals.
Southend united go into this game having been given clearance to play josh simpson and chris barker from peterborough and plymouth respectively , but are still waiting on international clearance to play mohsni bilel and adam bouzid.
Ryan hall is also available having had to sit out of the first game due to suspension , but has been struggling to shake off a virus so may have to settle for coming off the bench.
Manager paul sturrock has hinted at change and for the first time a quite a while a southend manager has the options to be able change the starting line up.
Messrs Paterson sturrock zaboub and evans may very well find themselves in the starting line up and what will hopefully be a good game against higher league opposition.
Im sure city manager gary johnson will feel that changes need to be made to his city line up for tonights match and it remains to be seen wether david james will start in this game.
We may see a familiar face tonight in the shape of Jamal campbell ryce. The diminutive winger has returned to roots hall just the once since his departure to barnsley on a night were he claimed a wonder goal which we all took as a cross was deliberate.
I for one am looking forward to seeing some more of our new look team and maybe reverting to 4-4-2 with two out and out wingers.
Im sure tonights crowd will be a low one with only the east rumoured to be in use although other parts of the ground could be opened if required.
Im going to go with a crowd of just 2600 odd with blues succoming to a 2-1 defeat.
Blues will not play opposition of this quality in our own league this season and im sure having been thumped at the weekend city will not want an early exit in this competition.
Southend are still finding there feet and finding a formation and team that gets results is key in these early opening exchanges.
Please post your predicitions for score / crowd etc and whatever else . You know the drill.
City for those who dont know ply there trade in the championsip and are tipped by some to be a dark horse in the race for the holy grail that is the premier league. They have certainly helped there cause by signing england goalkeeper david james whom as we all know played just weeks ago in the world cup.
Im sure they will have been greatly dissapointed to start the season by getting thumped by newly promoted millwall by 3 goals to nil. A wake up im sure for david james im sure.
As a point of note and one which dissapoints me personally, its only 4 years ago that we beat city to claim the league 1 title . However football kama has a way of having the last laugh and we are now in the basement division whilst city are signing england internationals.
Southend united go into this game having been given clearance to play josh simpson and chris barker from peterborough and plymouth respectively , but are still waiting on international clearance to play mohsni bilel and adam bouzid.
Ryan hall is also available having had to sit out of the first game due to suspension , but has been struggling to shake off a virus so may have to settle for coming off the bench.
Manager paul sturrock has hinted at change and for the first time a quite a while a southend manager has the options to be able change the starting line up.
Messrs Paterson sturrock zaboub and evans may very well find themselves in the starting line up and what will hopefully be a good game against higher league opposition.
Im sure city manager gary johnson will feel that changes need to be made to his city line up for tonights match and it remains to be seen wether david james will start in this game.
We may see a familiar face tonight in the shape of Jamal campbell ryce. The diminutive winger has returned to roots hall just the once since his departure to barnsley on a night were he claimed a wonder goal which we all took as a cross was deliberate.
I for one am looking forward to seeing some more of our new look team and maybe reverting to 4-4-2 with two out and out wingers.
Im sure tonights crowd will be a low one with only the east rumoured to be in use although other parts of the ground could be opened if required.
Im going to go with a crowd of just 2600 odd with blues succoming to a 2-1 defeat.
Blues will not play opposition of this quality in our own league this season and im sure having been thumped at the weekend city will not want an early exit in this competition.
Southend are still finding there feet and finding a formation and team that gets results is key in these early opening exchanges.
Please post your predicitions for score / crowd etc and whatever else . You know the drill.
