Was today the lowest point watching Southend?

[Csboy]

I've been watching Southend for over 30 years and even though i've seen even worse performances than today its hard to think of a lower point watching the Blues.

Too be as good as relegated by your Essex rivals and seeing them totally play us off the park and have their small group of sad fans taunt us was a little too much to take.

just hope the players learn from todays shameful performance and show a bit more spirit in the remaing games.
I still don't think we are a bad team and can come back up next season.

 

[JoshC]

lowest point for me was sitting there after going 3 down looking at fans almost fighting, it wasn't a happy sight

 

[Blues Trader]

I've been watching Southend for over 30 years and even though i've seen even worse performances than today its hard to think of a lower point watching the Blues.

Too be as good as relegated by your Essex rivals and seeing them totally play us off the park and have their small group of sad fans taunt us was a little too much to take.

just hope the players learn from todays shameful performance and show a bit more spirit in the remaing games.
I still don't think we are a bad team and can come back up next season.

As stated I don't mind losing as long as we try our best and have a go. Too many ****ers out there, who had no character to battle.

 

[Kent Shrimper]

As stated I don't mind losing as long as we try our best and have a go. Too many ****ers out there, who had no character to battle.

I couldnt agree more BT, there was NO pride or passion.

 

[Flinty]

no...being part of the lowest attendance for a league game at roots hall and nearly having to apply for re-election...thats a low point

 

[Boreham Shrimper]

I couldnt agree more BT, there was NO pride or passion.

I hate to accuse a team of lacking passion or not trying because 99% of the time it would be grossly unfair. Today however, it was as though the players didn't realise just how much the game meant both to our relegation fight and to the fans. :(

 

[BlueBeard]

Up to a couple of weeks ago thought we were battling well and if we did not stay up it was because we were not good enough but had given it a go not any more we just laid down and died today there were no players out there who wanted to give their all for the cause the only player who could have lifted us wanted to play and would have died for the team but brush wants him to have a reserve team match first. For goodness sake these are dire times and if you have a player who tells you he is readdy and who we all know will always give 110% put him on. It could not have got any worse. Know I will get slated for this one but in so many matches it would have been nice to have the option of bringing wayne greys pace on the pitch to run at a tired defence, but what do I know only been to over 1000 matches home and away sure someone will shoot me down

 

[silentshrimper]

Lowest point yes! Last time we went down it was my first season that I had got into football, so it didnt mean as much back then.

 

[JoshC]

dont you think that our players could be getting tired after a season of battling in a league that is too good for them

 

[BlueBeard]

Could our players be getting tired because there are not enough of them. Small squad always going to come back to haunt us

 

[A Century United]

no...being part of the lowest attendance for a league game at roots hall and nearly having to apply for re-election...thats a low point

Exactly. This is hugely disappointing, but there have been far worse times - losing 4-0 at Grimsby (also relegated) in our last game in the Championship last time, knowing that we had a poor chairman, a walking (drunken) disaster for a manager and players who REALLY had no passion or desire (because this squad does, and has proved it time and again) would be a good example. The whole of the following season as we slid straight into league two would be another. We have come so far, and even if we go down we will still be in a far better position than we could have dreamed of 3 years ago!

 

[Angell Delight]

Huddersfield at home 1997 - even more gutless than this afternoon, that defeat sent us down to Division 2.

 

[Kent Shrimper]

Its made all the more disapointing i think by the fact that we were dead and buried bottom of the league but the players did you show fight and commitment to get themselves into a position to survive.

 

[Birri]

I felt physically sick at our pathetic effort today that was the essex derby ffs!

I didnt see the 3rd left with 15 mins to go just couldnt stomach any more

For me the only players who actually tried today were Macca, Hammell, Bradbury and JCR when he came on. To me 11 of us should have been on there scrapping tooth & nail instead of the players who went out today!

 

[Blueshrimper]

The lowest point was a few years ago when we lost at home to Lincoln on a cold Tuesday night and we looked destined for the conference.

 

[Ailsa Road Shrimper]

Today was very disappointing. However, I feel far happier as a Southend fan at the moment than I did between 1997 and 2003.

Here are some names that featured heavily in that barren spell:

Alvin Martin, Alan Little, Steve Wignall, Neville Roach, Neil Campbell, Tony Richards, Mark Beard, Jamie Stuart, Keith Dublin, Gordon Connelly, Trevor Fitzpatrick, Sada N'Diaye, Daniel Webb, Mark Prudhoe, Simon Livett, Phil Whelan, David Morley, Graeme Jones, Mark Salter, Dominic Foley....

I could go on for longer with this list of shame! Although it's disturbing reading I hope it reminds people that life supporting Southend is much better now than it was during those bleak years when those and many other useless individuals were parading every other Saturday in a sparsely attended Roots Hall in England's 4th tier of football.

 

[C C Csiders]

Here are some names that featured heavily in that barren spell:

Alvin Martin, Alan Little, Steve Wignall, Neville Roach, Neil Campbell, Tony Richards, Mark Beard, Jamie Stuart, Keith Dublin, Gordon Connelly, Trevor Fitzpatrick, Sada N'Diaye, Daniel Webb, Mark Prudhoe, Simon Livett, Phil Whelan, David Morley, Graeme Jones, Mark Salter, Dominic Foley....

*reaches for the bottle of JD*

 

[Southampton Shrimper]

Alvin Martin, Alan Little, Steve Wignall, Neville Roach, Neil Campbell, Tony Richards, Mark Beard, Jamie Stuart, Keith Dublin, Gordon Connelly, Trevor Fitzpatrick, Sada N'Diaye, Daniel Webb, Mark Prudhoe, Simon Livett, Phil Whelan, David Morley, Graeme Jones, Mark Salter, Dominic Foley....

This is all the proof you need to show that this can no way be described as the lowest point as a Southend fan! Yes, we all feel low this evening, but it's not the same as with all those guys above. We still have fighters, battlers and winners at the club, even if they haven't shown it for the last week...

 

[Kent Shrimper]

Today was very disappointing. However, I feel far happier as a Southend fan at the moment than I did between 1997 and 2003.

Here are some names that featured heavily in that barren spell:

Alvin Martin, Alan Little, Steve Wignall, Neville Roach, Neil Campbell, Tony Richards, Mark Beard, Jamie Stuart, Keith Dublin, Gordon Connelly, Trevor Fitzpatrick, Sada N'Diaye, Daniel Webb, Mark Prudhoe, Simon Livett, Phil Whelan, David Morley, Graeme Jones, Mark Salter, Dominic Foley....

I could go on for longer with this list of shame! Although it's disturbing reading I hope it reminds people that life supporting Southend is much better now than it was during those bleak years when those and many other useless individuals were parading every other Saturday in a sparsely attended Roots Hall in England's 4th tier of football.

You are very right, However i think the most frustrating part is the lack of fight from the players. When i do my job i want to be the best, working in the best enviroments competing with the best people.

Either our players do not want to be working in Championship alongside the best players or they are simply not good enough?

 

[Napster]

Of those players you mentioned, at least Beardo and Stuart would have been up for the fight.