Thanks Kev - but is a new manager needed?

[Medway Blue]

And to answer the earlier question, there's someone claiming to speak for 'everybody' right there.

Spencer, meet Murkey Mouse.

 

[Sherif H]

Do we presume you're staying away then?

That's nobody's business but my own, but I'm not one for one upmanship and who is a better fan than who...

I've been watching largely ****e football with Southend for more than 30 years, and that won't change any time for various reasons - least of all it is the one thing I get to do with my old man, and that is more important than the football in isolation.
I just don't hesitate in telling the truth...the truth is we play crap football and Kevin Maher is totally responsible.

 

[Sherif H]

We don’t play 532 we play 352? By no stretch is Bridge a defensive wing back or Gus? Part of the reason clubs exploit the gap behind them is for the very reason they both push high up the pitch.

The issue isn’t the formation it’s having the right players to make it work. Same would apply to other formations, but we are nearer to having the right players for 352 on the basis of that being how we set up…

I don't mean to talk semantics, but 5-3-2 is 3-5-2 and vice versa.
Clearly one is deployed when defending and one is deployed when in possession of the ball....or so that is the idea. Just someone should tell our players.

 

[bluethroughandthrough]

I beg to differ.

Another fan happy with mediocrity

 

[Southend Elvis]

Let's hope the boys deliver a nice little Christmas present for us tomorrow, and possibly give us something to be positive for the future. Please don't give us more excuses of why we can't do that, or do this, and because... we have had enough of that over the last few years. That could have made a few of us happy to put up with poor results, surely we are on a different path now so things should be different!
Have a good Christmas fellow fans, onwards and upwards!!!

 

[Medway Blue]

Another fan happy with mediocrity

Again, you make the common error of mistaking patience, level-headedness and realism, for happiness with mediocrity.

I want success as much as anyone, but I don't feel entitled to it, I do not expect it yesterday, and I know that circumstances have not been conducive for it yet.

It will come, and I will enjoy the journey as much as I can. I have my limit/threshold, but it's just not as low as some people’s and hasn't been reached yet - that's not to say that it can't be reached, though.

 

[graingerroad54]

The new cosu board member has no emotional attachment to the management team like the rest of the board, so I wonder how long he will put up with the lack of success

 

[Thundersley Blue]

The new cosu board member has no emotional attachment to the management team like the rest of the board, so I wonder how long he will put up with the lack of success

You should read what he had to say on joining the COSU. He is buying into their aspirations. A Consortium is not just about money, it is an opportunity to pool skills and expertise.

 

[It'sGrimUpNorth]

You should read what he had to say on joining the COSU. He is buying into their aspirations. A Consortium is not just about money, it is an opportunity to pool skills and expertise.

A consortium is not just for Christmas.

 

[blues exile]

You should read what he had to say on joining the COSU. He is buying into their aspirations. A Consortium is not just about money, it is an opportunity to pool skills and expertise.

What happens on the pitch takes precedence over all other considerations and COSU should be addressing that issue as a priority.

 

[Roger The Alien]

And to answer the earlier question, there's someone claiming to speak for 'everybody' right there.

Majority of fans are fed up with slow, dour, unimaginative, sideway football under Maher, using an horrendous 5-3-2 formation which is not our players strength.

If you watched Southend Vs York, we never looked like scoring a goal, but look likely to give away goals at anytime. There are clubs with under 2k fans are playing better attacking football than us. I would accept defeats, if we give opponents an game and have an go at them, but I won’t accept defeats if we waved an white flags and give up, 60% of time in our 23 games so far, we given up FAR too easily when we goes behind.

 

[Holy Joe]

What happens on the pitch takes precedence over all other considerations and COSU should be addressing that issue as a priority.

It doesn't if you're coughing up £2m a year

 

[Kris]

Majority of fans are fed up with slow, dour, unimaginative, sideway football under Maher, using an horrendous 5-3-2 formation which is not our players strength.

If you watched Southend Vs York, we never looked like scoring a goal, but look likely to give away goals at anytime. There are clubs with under 2k fans are playing better attacking football than us. I would accept defeats, if we give opponents an game and have an go at them, but I won’t accept defeats if we waved an white flags and give up, 60% of time in our 23 games so far, we given up FAR too easily when we goes behind.

I didn’t see the game but the highlights suggest we actually created quite a few chances, including the sitter missed by Kendall.

 

[Roger The Alien]

I didn’t see the game but the highlights suggest we actually created quite a few chances, including the sitter missed by Kendall.

That when we are 3-0 down, York was kind enough to let us lay a glove on them (Kendall chances).

 

[blues exile]

It doesn't if you're coughing up £2m a year

That was their choice to get involved and hopefully they understand that 'sustainability' can onlty be achieved back in the EFL so success on the pitch is where it begins.

 

[Holy Joe]

That was their choice to get involved and hopefully they understand that 'sustainability' can onlty be achieved back in the EFL so success on the pitch is where it begins.

That's not their opinion.

And if I look at the finances of many EFL clubs it certainly doesn't look very sustainable for many.

Imho too many people are linking attendances to financial sustainability - it obviously helps to have high attendances but, on its own it's not enough - as we very ably demonstrated when we were EFL. I think you can be financially sustainable in the NL, it might even be easier to be.

 

[blues exile]

That's not their opinion.

And if I look at the finances of many EFL clubs it certainly doesn't look very sustainable for many.

Imho too many people are linking attendances to financial sustainability - it obviously helps to have high attendances but, on its own it's not enough - as we very ably demonstrated when we were EFL. I think you can be financially sustainable in the NL, it might even be easier to be.

If you are a glorified park team or part time the NL could be sustainable but not SUFC. Making the development of Roots Hall the priority, if indeed that is the case as you appear to contend, is a grievous error if it comes at the expense of promotion back to the EFL. Attendances will drop off if this turgid style and standard of football coupled with mid table mediocrity is allowed to continue and then you have the perfect storm - a struggling football club with dwindling crowds and a huge layout on updating Roots Hall to a multi purpose venue with no guarantee of meaningfully increased revenue.

 

[Medway Blue]

That's not their opinion.

And if I look at the finances of many EFL clubs it certainly doesn't look very sustainable for many.

Imho too many people are linking attendances to financial sustainability - it obviously helps to have high attendances but, on its own it's not enough - as we very ably demonstrated when we were EFL. I think you can be financially sustainable in the NL, it might even be easier to be.

It's concerning to me how many folks seem desperate to make the same mistakes that were made in the past, and which led to the club almost dying.

That was their choice to get involved and hopefully they understand that 'sustainability' can onlty be achieved back in the EFL so success on the pitch is where it begins.

Fortunately they know better and know that this isn't the case, which is why they won't risk the club's future by gambling even more money that they don't have going for a promotion which is not guaranteed, and make those financial losses even bigger.

 

[blues exile]

It's concerning to me how many folks seem desperate to make the same mistakes that were made in the past, and which led to the club almost dying.


Fortunately they know better and know that this isn't the case, which is why they won't risk the club's future by gambling even more money that they don't have going for a promotion which is not guaranteed, and make those financial losses even bigger.

I find that a very disturbing statement if that is indeed the Trust's position, content to languish in the NL for the foreseeable future.

 

[sufc4life21]

It's concerning to me how many folks seem desperate to make the same mistakes that were made in the past, and which led to the club almost dying.


Fortunately they know better and know that this isn't the case, which is why they won't risk the club's future by gambling even more money that they don't have going for a promotion which is not guaranteed, and make those financial losses even bigger.

Know one wants to make the same mistakes from the past but the fans want to see progression on the pitch which hasn't happened so far, the fans are going to be disgruntled, £400 a season to watch boring predictable football with 1 shot on goal isn't value for money...... I think thats bit of rip off from COSU to charge £400 to watch conference football. You seemingly forgotten Southend were EFL club for 100 years. With all iv mentioned the fans have every right to demand better.