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Ok so... seeing as no one else has done one.. here goes..

Little known fact: Southend is in Essex, which is actually in England.

I'm going for 1-3 today, Rodgers, Byrne & Robert.

See you all there for another 2-2 (Smudger and Williams - who owes us one).

Football!

Southend's twin town is Sopot on the Baltic coast in Poland. Town win 3-0. Stewart hat trick. 5,013. 763 from Town.

Settle for a 1-1.

I think we'll struggle for goals.

I'll be happy if we avoid giving away a fourth pen in four games.

My first game of the season. 2-1 loss.

Half hour down the road from me so I always look forward to this one. Unfortunately, poor planning means I'm in Portugal. Will spend the afternoon in the sun following Twitter. 3-1 win and no penalty conceded.

My 1st game this season as well. Travelling from Ipswich . Come on you reds!

2-0 win, first/only clean sheet of the season

2-1 loss..

Today should give a better indication where we are heading. Hoping for no penalties and less than 2 conceded.  A gentle unexciting 2-0 would do me.

They've only scored once this season, overly optimistic that we can get three points today

 Roots Hall, has historically been a bit of an STFC graveyard.....but we won there 4-1 last time. That side went on to win Div 4, so was a decent indicator.

 This current side is still very much a work in progress, so anything could happen.....

0-0 draw and a man sent off

Timlin?

Nathan Thompson has been sent off yet. Hes normally good for a couple of reds a season ;)

To be fair, tans, the game doesn't start for another 2 hours and a bit. Give him a chance :)

For a team with one fit striker,we seem to be scoring freely,eight in three is impressive. Midfield to fire again and a 2-1 win. Wonder if there will be a cameo late on from Jordan Stewart?

not registered in time

Has that been said?

Yes. International Clearance hasn't gone through.

STFC: Vigouroux, Branco, Thompson (C), Turnbull, Byrne, Williams, Kasim, Rodgers, Ormonde-Ottewill, Robert, Smith

Belford, Barry, Brophy, Traore, Marshall, K Stewart, Storey

Ahh ok, thanks.

Come on then Town - let's have 3 points.

Oh joy, player is not working at all.

There's a surprise.

Mansfield 1-0 Oxford.

Byrne injured?

no wait, Thompson

Not good.

Still nothing on player. Nothing whatsoever. I couldn't even call it a bad service..... it's no service at all.

At least you're not paying for a baad service. Every cloud.

Yeovil getting beat again. It looks like they're doing their best in trying to go back to their natural home by going for a hat-trick of relegations.

Nathan off sounds like old injury.  Traore replaces.  Scorching hot, Southend giving lots of long ball crosses.

Timlin gets yellow card

Working for me but cutting out as usual

I don't know what's more baffling, the fact that Player is still so bad or that people still subscribe to it.

 ;)

Robert has two chances

Byrne good chance but overruns ball

Byrne has no end product...

Amirite?

Just check the archives and there's no volume on any of the interviews or highlights either. My sound is definitely on as everything else works just fine.

Arse.

Working now.... on a different browser. Well that's the 1st missed, doesn't seem as though I missed much.

The former caused by the latter. While people continue to throw money at a demonstrably shite service, there's no incentive for them to improve the quality of it.

We're 6-0 up, player must be behind.

HT 0-0 .   Sounds pretty even by the radio commentary but hard to tell sometimes.

Ummmm that was dire
20 moves to get to their box yet in 3 they are knocking on ours
Good job they are shit

And they have a drum
I fucking hate drums

I have no choice. It's either that or no commentary at all.

Get him on, we'll definitely win then.

This

The latter seems like a viable option most of the time! Unless you have issues with the Thai government blocking social networks et al!

I prefer text to audio when I'm not there.

Bradshaw notches again for Walsall

Yeah and "that" Jacob Murphy has notched for Coventry!

Yes!!!

Robert....have it. 1-0 town

What a good signing Robert is looking.

Get in Robertttttttt

Ave some of that

Get in Bob!

T Fuck!

Can we keep a clean sheet?

Fuck yeah! Robert appearing to be a great signing so far, 3 goals that is now i believe?

lee power ‏@leepowerstfc  · 1 min1 minute ago 
GOAL!!!!! Another 50k on the Fee when I flog Robert in January to #QPRFC #stfc

It's sounding incredibly open.

Come on Town, pick it up.

We need him on...late pace against tired defenders...ftw.

Hockaday: ...aaannddd onto the beach...

Fucking hell. HE IS HERE.

Come on, you!

They've put him on!  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

 :yikes: :jawdrop: his pace could be useful this late on with southend pouring forward

fify

6 added minutes  :no:

6 minutes? Fuck off

Dun dun duur

Tranmere lost 2-0 at home to Boreham Wood... There's always someone in deeper shit than yourself

Sounds like Vigouroux has earned his money today

For a split second I wondered why they were playing a friendly when there is a full league fixture list.

Jesus wept.

Has to be it now?

Why is our game always one of the last to finish.

GET IN! 3 Points.

Our games are always last to finish.

Is it cos we're cheaty timewasters?

Great result and still unbeaten! More than makes up for Tuesday.

Yes, yes you doubters. How do you explain this

        Storey P 1 W 1 W% 100%

Maths don't lie.
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Clean sheet, CLEAN  SHEET.

Get in. Clean sheet. All rise Vigeroux our saviour   :pint: :pint: :pint:

And we kept a clean sheet !!

Great result.

Great win and a cleansheet. Very happy with 8 points from opening 4 games, unbeaten still as well!

I might just have a beer.

Clearly the win was due solely to the presence of our saviour from the bench, without him coming on we'd have shipped 3 in the last 4 minutes. MUST START EVERY WEEK COOPER!!!!!!!!!!

Cracking result.

On a completely unrelated note, those jackets are pretty smooth...

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I noticed this a long time ago....my theory being that because the football powers have it in for us, the refs are told to add on extra minuites when we're winning. Most games seem to get 3 or 4 mins, quite often we get 6 or 7.  Tuesday being a prime example.

Yep, the Puma training gear generally seeems quite nice. I like the quarter-zip warm-up tops too. #fashionista

I missed the fact Jordan Stewart has been called up to the Ireland U21's next month for games v Scotland (5th Sept) and Iceland (8th Sept). Not ideal.

How many to get games called off?

3 isn't it (Kassim, Luongo and Brad Smith last year).

I believe it's three.

Yes it is 3, but apparently the FL have changed the rules regarding youth call ups.

Lovely ball from Byrne for our goal.

Excellent set of results given that most of us agree we are not the finished article.

I happy enough at the minute anyway...

First half was dull but we passed the ball well without looking threatening. Neither keeper had anything to do.

Second half was better, Byrne drove forward and slipped in Robert who finished with aplomb. After that it was a bit backs to the wall, Southend missed a sitter and Vigoroux made 2 excellent saves to keep us in it. The ref played 9 minutes of injury time for some reason but we held out.

I was impressed with the work rate of the whole team in very hot conditions. The midfield were excellent, Traore probably my man of the match although Vigoroux deserves plaudits for his saves.

Sadly Nothing really came off for Smith today despite working hard. Miles came on to a here's welcome!

New songs for Robert and Vigoroux very welcome!

Looks like our number 26, is about to poke the mascot in the eye   :wink:

we dug that one out! vigoroux excellent,Traore and Kasim superb in the middle.Williams looked shaky in the first half but defended heroically in the second.Thompson not missed at all.Smith worked tirelessy and did his fair share of defensive duties but couldnt seem to hold the ball up in the later stages.Byrne surging through the middle scared the living daylights out of them and did brilliantly for the goal.Robert is class and will be the next to go after byrne,ee do manage to unearth a few gems.Turnbull was a rock.Good crowd from us but,bloody hell,they should have beaten us.

timlin should have been sent off for a 2 footed challenge on branco but showed a nice touch by applauding the town fans at the end.i remember he was always the first to acknowledge us dutring his spell at town

How many shire folk in the crowd?

I'll never forget Timlin for his inability to say the word 'philosophical' once in a pre-season interview. He tried a few times and then just gave up.

580

Will be plus 4 @ Crewe!

Robert - use the "Rupert the Bear" song. Newcastle used it for Phillipe Albert a few years ago.

Vigoroux - use the "Figaro" song. Always nice to inject a bit of opera...

Thought you meant the brotherhood of man song!
"Oh oh vigorou he does magic oh oh"!

Can't you do something with 'daddy cool' for Vigoroux?

Surely the Vindaloo song is a better fit for Vigoroux...

We got a keeper from Liver-pool
He's Swindon's num-ber one
He's eats his curry so very hot
It gives him a, sore bum..
Vigo-roux, Vigo-roux
Vigoroux, Vigoroux, nah, nah

To the tune of 'long haired lover from Liverpool':

'Weeeeee've got a loan goal-keeper from Li-verpool...'. Can't be assed to go on.

Well done to the Town fans who attended, but I thought that was a shit turnout numbers wise tbh. Southend seafront was rammed. What a beautiful day. I managed to have a paddle before the game.

I agree adje, but to be fair it did cross my mind that Kasim might see red for a similar challenge late on but he got a yellow as well so at least the ref was consistent. On reflection he was actually quite reasonable.

Also agree that Timlin acknowledging the Town fans was a nice touch.

Making up songs for players is fine and I'm all for it but some of my favourites are the spontaneous ones. Such as, leaving the ground yesterday...

"We kept a clean sheet, we kept a clean sheet, how shit must you be, we kept a clean sheet!"

Self deprecating, simple and amusing - good work  :clap:

Poor Timlin spent the summer of 2011 being publicly positive over PDC's appointment and lasted one game.

Familiar, to the point, easily implemented.

You'll rarely get anyone singing along where there is anything approaching "lyrics" or a "new tune".

Yesterday Robert got his new song. To the the tune of Living on a prayer

Haha.

Yeah I actually meant they got their new songs yesterday. The Robert one was inspired.

I can't actually remember the Vigoroux one now!

And the passengers at Liverpool Street were lucky enough to hear it from disembarking, possibly slightly sozzled, London Reds yesterday evening. They seemed to enjoy it

I bet it was like Angels in a cornfield..

Highlights

FL ones

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FHJNAJzIpGc

Sky ones

http://www.skysports.com/watch/video/sports/football/teams/swindon-town/9961993/southend-0-1-swindon#ooid=9jZGw1dzrGeRFUJ2JX8wIiVAZqMzdK9J

Fantastic ball and finish for the goal.

Even better, it shut that fucking drum up.

11+ minutes of highlights on the OS... :nod:

If you have Player  :no:

Wasn't there something for Danny Ward to the tune of that?

...and big broken Barry Corr!

The Vigoroux song was to the tune of baby give it up by kc and the sunshine band.

Simple, yet effective and LV seemed to be very happy at the end when it was belted out to him.

Now I'm confused. Weren't the Town End using that song for Nathan Byrne against Bradford?

I'm sure I heard "Na!Na!Na!Na! Na!Na!Na!Na! Na!Na!Na! Nathan Nathan Byrne, Nathan Byrne, Nathan Nathan Byrne!"

What's the Vigoroux one?

Could always do something with the tune of 'Rendezvous' by Basement Jaxx..