haveaguiness
Coach
NOW!!! i will be honest, this summer i have questioned the lack of investment and the lack of action in the transfer market. I do believe even now that we should have signed players at least 2 weeks ago. BUT, we are now bringing in players, that are not only very good players, but, that by what we read, do not only want to impress at southend, but impress everyone within these leagues, pundits, doubters and the likes. Which personally i think gives them much more drive than just playing for a club they have no real association to.
Tilson again, as with all managers i think, has been criticised this pre season and ill be honest i have critised him. I for one still dont agree with the fact that we let how ever many players go, and have only as now really bought in 4 players (walker and grant dont count for me becuase they were here since january and so part of our squad). I think it is nature for football fans to try and get rid of a manager, becuase, truely, deep down inside we all think we can do a better job.
now writing this i do feel happier about how the start of the season is panning out, i mean we have a subs bench now which is nice, also i forgot we need 7 subs for the gleague cup game, which we wouldnt have been able to do until now!
We have all questioned the manager, coach and chairmen in the last 2 months or so, me included and quite stongly at times but at the back of it all i always had this suspition that there was really nothing wrong,
As a country we always look to the worst solution. "we arent signing anyone therefore we have no money". I think this wouldnt have been so bad if we hadnt have let 12 players leave the club, some for quite a fair bit of money and some of our bigest earners aswell, and with tilsons previous transfer makert "FLOPS" we could have been far worse off. BUT i think he has learnt a thing or two in the time he has been manager. I mean if you sign players like harrold, foran, paynter to name a few, and im not being disrepectful to them, but they flopped! then you are clearly going to be a little more cautious in your approach to signing new players now.
I think my doubts were defiently put in place tonight after coming home from a nice birthday celebration curry! (gulshan in sutton road if anyone wants to know!) and yet again Mr Ron Martin puts a statement out like he has tonight and on so many occasions. I mean things probably are still a little tight at the club, but one thing i said tonight was i would rather finish 5th from bottom than finish bottom of the league with a 10 point deduction and being in administration becuase our management spent too much money and didnt do the maths properly!
I love this club and have done passionatly since i was 6 (i think that makes it 15 years now) and to be honest, i am a moaner! i think this club has the potential to be massive! in my first few seasons we got relegated twice and then i had to watch utter shizzle (in the words of mr "snoop dog" grant) for years. That was until tilson took over! But you look at the town we are in. i mean we have one of the biggest populations outisde of the major city's yet we can only get 9-10,000 for a home game?
We should be a big team. We have a great crowd. A great chairman which i have never doubted, and yes we have a great managerial team, even though they make some weird blooming choices now and again! i just think it has taken me some time to get used to them becuase they are so inexperienced (well tilly anyways), they are still learning and that is what i like!
Roll saturday and everything that has been said this summer will mean **** all. We will all enjoy the atmosphere! the new players! the new season, and beating the balls off of yet another ferguson!
Tilson again, as with all managers i think, has been criticised this pre season and ill be honest i have critised him. I for one still dont agree with the fact that we let how ever many players go, and have only as now really bought in 4 players (walker and grant dont count for me becuase they were here since january and so part of our squad). I think it is nature for football fans to try and get rid of a manager, becuase, truely, deep down inside we all think we can do a better job.
now writing this i do feel happier about how the start of the season is panning out, i mean we have a subs bench now which is nice, also i forgot we need 7 subs for the gleague cup game, which we wouldnt have been able to do until now!
We have all questioned the manager, coach and chairmen in the last 2 months or so, me included and quite stongly at times but at the back of it all i always had this suspition that there was really nothing wrong,
As a country we always look to the worst solution. "we arent signing anyone therefore we have no money". I think this wouldnt have been so bad if we hadnt have let 12 players leave the club, some for quite a fair bit of money and some of our bigest earners aswell, and with tilsons previous transfer makert "FLOPS" we could have been far worse off. BUT i think he has learnt a thing or two in the time he has been manager. I mean if you sign players like harrold, foran, paynter to name a few, and im not being disrepectful to them, but they flopped! then you are clearly going to be a little more cautious in your approach to signing new players now.
I think my doubts were defiently put in place tonight after coming home from a nice birthday celebration curry! (gulshan in sutton road if anyone wants to know!) and yet again Mr Ron Martin puts a statement out like he has tonight and on so many occasions. I mean things probably are still a little tight at the club, but one thing i said tonight was i would rather finish 5th from bottom than finish bottom of the league with a 10 point deduction and being in administration becuase our management spent too much money and didnt do the maths properly!
I love this club and have done passionatly since i was 6 (i think that makes it 15 years now) and to be honest, i am a moaner! i think this club has the potential to be massive! in my first few seasons we got relegated twice and then i had to watch utter shizzle (in the words of mr "snoop dog" grant) for years. That was until tilson took over! But you look at the town we are in. i mean we have one of the biggest populations outisde of the major city's yet we can only get 9-10,000 for a home game?
We should be a big team. We have a great crowd. A great chairman which i have never doubted, and yes we have a great managerial team, even though they make some weird blooming choices now and again! i just think it has taken me some time to get used to them becuase they are so inexperienced (well tilly anyways), they are still learning and that is what i like!
Roll saturday and everything that has been said this summer will mean **** all. We will all enjoy the atmosphere! the new players! the new season, and beating the balls off of yet another ferguson!
