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SUFC: The Future SUFC up for sale

Our hopes and visions for the rebirth of Southend United, plus any plans published by the consortium for discussion
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CRATE said:
Here you go, incase anyone wants to give it a watch, what we're doing. Thank you for taking your time to do it.

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Great thing to watch, for me my first game was Jobsons last one against grimsby complete with a pitch invasion.

I spent a few seasons in the south lower as a youngster before I joined the RAF and moved away followed by my parents moving away from the area, in truth I've been to maybe 20 home games since then having eventually settled up north (about 20 mins from Grimsby weirdly).

I go to every northern away game within reasonable distance (under 3 hours drive) so I have a strange relationship with the club as every game is an away game.

This club matters far more than it should to me, I was only a regular at roots hall for 5 seasons but it feels like coming home whenever I manage to get back.

It's really my only link to the region, Sure I've got some schoolmates in Essex still but when you move away those links weaken over time.

I'm resigned to the fact that my kids won't support Southend, in all honesty they will end up supporting a local club (Grimsby, Scunny or Hull) or jumping on a premiership clubs bandwagon. I've been looking forward to the day I get to take one of my kids to watch MY team take on THEIR team.

Thanks to Ron that day may well never come.
 
ColinMorrisWalksOnWater said:
Pleasure Crate and hope it plays some small part in helping you tomorrow and the bigger picture.
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Agree with everything you said, and have been a supporter since about the same time. Joined the RN in 1981 and went to as many matches as I could, if foreign would listen out for the scores on the World Service in whatever time zone we were in.

Left the RN in 2009, and have lived in Southampton since 1996, still try and get to local away games when I can, Eastleigh, Portsmouth, Oxford, Swindon, MK Dons, etc...
Highlights, went with my dad to the Liverpool game, 0-0 on a snowy night, also was stationed out in Gibraltar from 2005-07 at Rosia Bay, my watch co-ordinator was a Man U fan, so it was a delight when we knocked them out of the cup 😂 :LoyalSupporter:

So, watching your interview rang many similarities with me, and probably lot`s of fans.

Let`s hope it turns out for the good, and we become stronger as a United club.

Good luck

Up The Blues

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Hampshire Shrimp said:
Agree with everything you said, and have been a supporter since about the same time. Joined the RN in 1981 and went to as many matches as I could, if foreign would listen out for the scores on the World Service in whatever time zone we were in.

Left the RN in 2009, and have lived in Southampton since 1996, still try and get to local away games when I can, Eastleigh, Portsmouth, Oxford, Swindon, MK Dons, etc...
Highlights, went with my dad to the Liverpool game, 0-0 on a snowy night, also was stationed out in Gibraltar from 2005-07 at Rosia Bay, my watch co-ordinator was a Man U fan, so it was a delight when we knocked them out of the cup 😂 :LoyalSupporter:

So, watching your interview rang many similarities with me, and probably lot`s of fans.

Let`s hope it turns out for the good, and we become stronger as a United club.

Good luck

Up The Blues

:LoyalSupporter::Happy::LoyalSupporter::Happy::Thank You:
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Cheers Shipmate!

Not easy to pick so many memories into such a short time, and I tried to avoid the big ones, Man U, Chelsea etc. Same as, world service, use the Comms office as much as poss at sea. I left in '91 and wanted to come back to Essex and that needed to be close enough for home games, but our little bunch of Pilgrims, Bill Cause, Tim, Mark, Robbie and I went all over in the early 90's and that carried on until the 10s. Eastleigh later in the season for a meet up possibly!
 
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Hampshire Shrimp said:
Agree with everything you said, and have been a supporter since about the same time. Joined the RN in 1981 and went to as many matches as I could, if foreign would listen out for the scores on the World Service in whatever time zone we were in.

Left the RN in 2009, and have lived in Southampton since 1996, still try and get to local away games when I can, Eastleigh, Portsmouth, Oxford, Swindon, MK Dons, etc...
Highlights, went with my dad to the Liverpool game, 0-0 on a snowy night, also was stationed out in Gibraltar from 2005-07 at Rosia Bay, my watch co-ordinator was a Man U fan, so it was a delight when we knocked them out of the cup 😂 :LoyalSupporter:

So, watching your interview rang many similarities with me, and probably lot`s of fans.

Let`s hope it turns out for the good, and we become stronger as a United club.

Good luck

Up The Blues

:LoyalSupporter::Happy::LoyalSupporter::Happy::Thank You:
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👍 To the Senior Service.
 
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