Where will the club be in 10 years?

[southendkid]

In League 2 with Ron relying on Tim Sherwood to get us promoted, probably with Ryan Leonard back to finish his career with us.

 

[AndyT]

Funnily enough, if this question was asked exactly 10 years ago (it may well have been), the answer probably would have been something like "Hoping to retain our current league level status at our new ground"

10 years ago yesterday we lost 2-3 at home to Coventry City in the Championship.

Ironically, two weeks later we lost 2-3 at home again, to Hull City and a month after that, PB took over their struggling side, leading them on a charge to 4th in the Premier League.

How times have changed in one sense for PB, but not in another for us.

 

[Csboy]

Climbing our way back up the football Pyramid. I predict we will do a Chester. Where the Original Chester City were relegated to the Conference and their fans were so fed up with how the owners were running the club that they got the original club disbanded and started a fan owned club from scratch and have done very well to get back to the Conference.

 

[NZamba Legend]

Premier league in a revamped Roots Hall. Tilly and Brush at the helm.

 

[Barling Magna]

Just about where we are now I reckon, hanging on in a minimally improved Roots Hall - hopefully a bit higher up League One, which will probably be called "Championship B" or something by then.

I'm a bit more worried about the state our country will be in by then.......

 

[Mick]

I'm a bit more worried about the state our country will be in by then.......

Why, is Ron Martin going in to politics ?

 

[Thor]

Dont know, were does sh*t creek end at?

 

[ozzie]

At Roots Hall,in division 3 or 4. its not great,but its a lot better than it might be

 

[borientater]

Carey street

 

[Polish_Blues]

Only if Corbyn took over as PM, we are truly ****ed as a country, for what I see it, UK did the right things to leave EU, they are so corrupt!

There will be a new League 3 in 2019, let hope Southend don't play there!! In 10 years time, we will have new owners & playing in Championship!

 

[Sherif H]

I'm going to stick my neck on the line here and suggest that I hope RM's luck runs out and the club is forced into administration - at this point, given most of the creditors are Ron's own network of companies, he is effectively out of the picture, leaving a new investor with the ability to purchase the club's only remaining asset (Roots Hall) at a knock-down price from the administrators...

 

[Another Surrey Shrimper]

Only if Corbyn took over as PM, we are truly ****ed as a country, for what I see it, UK did the right things to leave EU, they are so corrupt!

There will be a new League 3 in 2019, let hope Southend don't play there!! In 10 years time, we will have new owners & playing in Championship!

Lesson learned from 'O' Levels - always answer the question - if we just write 'Corbyn and the EU' on every thread then it's often not going to be very relevant to the question that was asked.

 

[Suffolk Shrimper In Dorset]

Yep, in line with a few others on here I firmly believe Ron's financial position will explode (I suspect within next five years) and someone new will come along with revised plans - prob for a much more modest ground but hopefully a bit better than the Col Ewe soul-less affair and we will be in that just before the tenth anniversary of this Mystic Meg post.

We will continue to bumble along in the third tier, occasionally dipping down for a refreshing plunge in tier four and once every decade will have a season in the Championship but without the financial clout to stay there. All fine by me - no delusions of the Premiersh ite and I'm not sure I'd enjoy the total money-greed trail that comes with that anyway.

Eight years from now too, managed by ye olde Neil Warnock, we will also reach the League Cup final and lose out to reigning European Champions AFC Bournemouth at Wembley. But we will have beaten Man U in the semi's to maintain our 100% record v them and manager Rooney will get the sack afterwards.

And in my garden will reside the Roots Hall West Stand, the purchase of which I funded by sussing out the club had failed to take in to account that there were 7,286 balls lying stuck between the two roof barrels which I sold off to Peter Clarke who felt guilty that at least half of them were put there by his 'passes' from the back.

Onwards and upwards

 

[E for B and Billy Best]

At Roots Hall or a memory.

Why on earth do people still mention FF?? Nothing has ever happened and there is no basis whatsoever to hope it ever will.

So, as things stand today? We can hope we have a great side, doing well at Roots Hall.

How realistic that is? Nobody knows.

Unffortunately, Kev is spot on. These are the only two credible options.

 

[Chocolardo]

New stadium, in front of 8000 people as we are not as good as people think we are

 

[SUFCStu]

Playing in the year 2026.

:unsure:

 

[Supa Shrimpa]

What club, they'll be saying !

 

[Blues Heaven]

If things continue as they are then there will definitely not be a club.

 

[buffalowolf]

Newn owner ,new ground , playing in the Premiershite and in euro ,im looking into my cracked crystal ball when i say those things but heres hoping,.

 

[The Blue Stig]

Knocking around the lower leagues after more broken promises about a ground. We will always exist in some way shape or form