Official Match Thread Southend United vs Eastleigh

[Suomi Shrimper]

Isn't that a red card offence?

Question for the refs among us I think! No clear goalscoring opportunity prevented, just deliberate handball in the box - so penalty and yellow card might be about right?

 

[msankey]

How has Paul Mc Callum played? Having a quiet one I hope!

 

[solihullshrimper]

Morton coming of age, great interplay with moncur, husin and bridge

 

[south247]

As good as we have played at home for ages. And some decent subs still to come on.

 

[Shr1mperBlue]

A great half that. Bridge playing his best game in a long time. Popping up everywhere and full of running.

Passing has been slick and keeping possession nicely.

More in the second half please. Don’t take foot off gas as Eastleigh will punish us. We’ve kept them quiet rather than them being crap, so need to keep doing that.

 

[Chris Powell's mate]

Great by us, but the work experiencer on the camera appears to have found the short focus - and boy is he/she keen to use it!
Is it me, or is the passing crisper and more incisive?
Fingers crossed, but Eastleigh are chasing shadows.

 

[Flinty]

By the way Bonne warming up in front of us 1st half looks a complete athletic unit !

 

[Morty01]

Whyve we been playing like prime Barcelona

 

[Ricey]

Morton coming of age, great interplay with moncur, husin and bridge

Never understood some of the negative comments towards him. I think he’s a real find and is an impressive player!

 

[Pak Power]

we deserve to be 2 up and for a change are. Jack bridge is closing down really well and all of a sudden we look much fitter, looks like the fitness levels are now up to everyone else's after our catch up

 

[onceknownasrab]

Morton plays that bit further up the park than miley. It's a better intercept and springboard. Looking goid

 

[Hooly]

The take aways there are we are playing the triangles in their half rather than ours which we seem to do too much with Miley. Gubbins has played a couple of really decent balls in. At last Bridge is not taking the right sided corners. The thought was Moncur was lazy but a couple of times he was leading the press from deep. I even think Pepple got in a decent position a couple of times but the ball in just weren't all that. As for GSM well he's just GSM, although Raplh is doing a good left sided version.

Just way, way more positive, which is what most of us have been wanting. Good idea to keep the ball away from Collin as well.

 

[yogi bear up the cagire]

Nothing to say really. A half we have completely dominated and a 2-0 lead which is richly deserved. If there is a slight worry, Eastleigh will get a rocket at half-time so we'll need to be especially careful for the first 10/15 mins after the break. So far, so very, very good

 

[Hooly]

Whether he fell onto the ball I'm not sure, but he's definitely pushed it away from the goal with his hand while on the floor. Great spot from the ref.

Perhaps that was as he fell on Crowther then as it was all a bit of a mess

 

[Cricko]

Perhaps that was as he fell on Crowther then as it was all a bit of a mess

Perhaps he slipped on the multitude of soap at RH tomight

 

[Hooly]

How has Paul Mc Callum played? Having a quiet one I hope!

Apart from one ball played in when my stream decided to freeze he's be totally non-existant

 

[Booma]

Great half of football, positive, in control, and the back three look solid. Tide is turning!

 

[kentblues]

Very good- Morton in the Miley role brings a range of passing and a more natural position for him and he is making the most of it. I don’t like Bridge in the 10- or didn’t- now I might. He’s done well. Ralph very good. Moncur of course is being Moncur (which is good). Pepple isn’t bad at all- and will get better.

 

[Holy Joe]

Good save from Collin at the near post

 

[flangejackrabbit]

Excellent work from Gus winning that as a goal kick and not a bad save from Collin earlier